A study led by the Doñana Biological Station – CSIC shows that land-use diversity predicts bird species and functional richness worldwide
This relationship is independent of habitat quality and is a widespread pattern on all continents

A study led by the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), with the collaboration of the Doñana Biological Station – CSIC, has concluded that more diverse agricultural landscapes with smaller field sizes, practices that favour biodiversity, provide higher yields.

A study of the Doñana Biological Station – CSIC and the University of Cadiz shows that the spatial configuration of a territory is essential to explain the number of species that it can have, regardless of environmental conditions.
It is the first time that interactions between species are studied to explain the spacies-area relationship.

Organisms interact with each other in very different ways. These interactions include, among many others, those established between prey and predators, hosts and parasites, and plant roots and beneficial mycorrhizal fungi. Plants also interact among them, competing for resources (e.g., water, light or nutrients) or creating a favorable environment (e.g., shade) that facilitates the establishment and survival of seedlings from other species. Although classic ecological studies have profoundly...

Ecological network studies are providing important advances about the organization, stability and dynamics of ecological systems. However, the ecological networks approach is being integrated very slowly in plant community ecology, even though the first studies on plant facilitation networks were published more than a decade ago. The study of interaction networks between established plants and plants recruiting beneath them, which are called Recruitment Networks (RNs), can provide new...