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Un nuevo proyecto pide colaboración ciudadana para el seguimiento de tortugas marinas

Citizen sea science platform Observadores del Mar, with the scientific lead by the Doñana Biological Station – CSIC, launches the project “Sea turtles”. Anyone can send information and images of turtle sighting to help know their distribution and reproduction, as well as, study their threats and improve their conservation

Citizen science to study five common spider species

Nowadays there is a significant lack of information on the distribution of the Iberian spider species. In the case of common spiders, this insufficiency is due to the fact that these species are considered minor and therefore, not well studied. Aiming to address these gaps, ARGIOPEOPLE, a citizen science project, is created to get to know the distirbution of the three tiger spider species (Argiope) and two species of the genre Araneus living in the Iberian Peninsula. This project is a result...

A research study explores the role of parrots in the dispersal of seeds that get attached to their beaks and feathers

The Doñana Biological Station, along with other institutions, has recorded epizoochory events (seed dispersal via transportation on the outside of animals), involving 116 parrot species
The plants that parrots eat don’t have specialized structures for epizoochory, but their seeds could disperse long distances

The educational value of bird pellets

El Programa Espacio Protegido 73 (Canal Sur TV Andalucía) del 20 de septiembre 2017 nos enseña como especialistas de la Universidad de Huelva y la Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC) estudian las egagrópilas para elaborar material educativo que ayude a conocer mejor a los micromamíferos de una determinada zona.

Historical citizen science to understand and predict climate-driven trout decline

Historical species records offer an excellent opportunity to test the predictive ability of range forecasts under climate change, but researchers often consider that historical records are scarce and unreliable, besides the datasets collected by renowned naturalists. This study demonstrates the relevance of biodiversity records generated through citizen science initiatives generated outside the natural sciences academia.
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