The blue crab colonized the Ebro Delta and surrounding waters in only two years of an exponential expansion, which started five years after the first detection. A study led by the Doñana Biological Station – CSIC and the Ebro Delta Natural Park shows that the expansion and the abundance increase of the blue crab have caused multiple, rapid and severe declines, including some affecting endangered species. The blue crab has rapidly become a keystone species in the Ebro Delta and can have...

A team led by the Doñana Biological Station – CSIC has compared the deleterious mutation burden in Iberian and Eurasian lynxes. The study shows that populations that have been small their whole history, such as that of the Iberian lynx, may be more tolerant to the genetic effects of the increasing kinship between progenitors after a sudden reduction in population size. The team has also created a catalog of deleterious variants in the Iberian lynx that will help to minimize the...

A study from the Ecological Pyrenean Institute (IPE-CSIC) and the Doñana Biological Station shows that some birds’ feathers turn white with the age.
? The study was carried out in natural conditions. The team monitored the birds since their birth to an advanced age.

A new study from the Doñana Biological Station – CSIC shows that the ecological degradation of freshwater ecosystems is caused by two or more human pressures in three out of four cases.

The ICTS-RBD collaborates with the University of Helsinki since April 2021 with the European Project LIFEPLAN – A Planetary Inventory of Life funded by the European Commission through the ERC Synergy Grant.