Following the outbreak of war in Ukraine, the European Commision proposed a series of changes to offset expected shortages in grain imports

An European scientific group, led by the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) with the participation of the Doñana Biological Station (EBD) and other centres of the Spanish National Research Council, affirms that these changes will have a negative impact on biodiversity and intensify agricultural and livestock production

A scientific team led by a researcher at the Doñana Biological Station – CSIC, in collaboration with the Kalahari Meerkat Project, shows that ongoing climate change can increase disease outbreaks.
The study has been carried out with 22 years of weekly demographic data from more than 1000 female and 1000 male wild meerkats (Suricata suricatta) in the Kalahari Desert.

Alpine ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to climate change. For widely distributed alpine specialists, rear-edge populations are disproportionately important. The importance and effects of climatic and landscape variables was assessed for 4 alpine bird species (Pyrrhocorax graculus, Prunella collaris, Montifringilla nivalis, Tichodroma muraria).

A study with the participation of the Doñana Biological Station (CSIC) shows that most of the plants in Europe are dispersed by birds that migrate to warmer areas in autumn. Common birds that winter in Europe and North Africa distribute more seeds to cold latitudes which can be the key to move plant species and adapt to global warming

The conservation of tropical montane biodiversity requires a holistic approach, using genetic, ecological and geographic information to understand the effects of environmental changes across temporal scales and simultaneously addressing the impacts of multiple threats. This problem is especially acute in understudied and highly threatened areas like the Ethiopian Highlands, where accelerated land conversion and degradation is placing further pressures on biodiversity.