A new study with a multidimensional approach has assessed whether women and men were equally represented, participative and visible at the 1st Congress of the Iberian Society of Ecology (SIBECOL).
Men gave the majority of the keynote presentations (67%) and were more participative (68% of the questions). However, the number of questions asked by women increased when the speaker or moderator was a woman.
One of the most troubling findings was that the majority of respondents,...

A study leaded by researchers from the Doñana Biological Station (EBD-CSIC) and the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) estimated the seeds dispersed and beyond Barcelona based on the movement of gulls monitored by GPS telemetry and seeds detected in their diet.
Modelling shows that around 30% of the seeds (including native plants but also alien species) were dispersed by gulls within green urban areas, concentrated in two main hotspots (Ciutadella Park and Montjuic), with important...

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.

M52, uno de los buitres de Ruppell marcados y liberados en el Centro de Recuperación de Buitres de Jbel Moussa, se encuentra hoy en Guinea-Bisáu tras abandonar el centro de recuperación e iniciar su retorno hacia tierras subsaharianas,. Hasta ahora, este ejemplar ha recorrido más de 3.500 kilómetros y ha atravesado cinco países (Marruecos, Argelia, Mauritania, Senegal y Gambia).

? Doñana has a species-rich fauna and a great bee biodiversity but poorly studied, so new bee species may be discovered.