Álvaro Luna
@alvaroluna87.bsky.social
PhD in Biology 🐦🌍🦅 | Urban Ecology, Plastic Pollution & Wildlife Conservation | PI of the Study and Conservation of Biodiversity Research Group.
Acabo de probar una de las marcas (en este caso una bebida) de las que se habla en esta obra que tanto me gustó. Puedo confirmar que el ginseng no es lo mío 😖
Álvaro Luna@alvaroluna87.bsky.social · 2mo agoMuy interesante, me ha gustado mucho. No tenía muy claro el argumento, pero como me gustó Blankets y me lo recomendaron lo cogí con ganas. No me ha decepcionado, e incluso me ha interesado más de lo que imaginé inicialmente.
Por cierto, me despedí de Japón observando un reptil al que tenía ganas (y mis buenos paseos por herbazales me he tenido que dar para verlo). Takydromus tachydromoides
Hoy comienza un nuevo curso, y lo hago de estancia en la Universidad de Taiwán. Van a ser unos días estimulantes, posiblemente útiles para comenzar nuevos proyectos.
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
New paper out! 🖨️ Glad to be part of this study, out in Science Advances: "Emergent patterns of island biodiversity in the Anthropocene" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Much of what looks natural in island biodiversity is a legacy of human impacts going back millennia. See main findings 👇🧵 (1/8)
Emergent patterns of island biodiversity in the Anthropocene
Human impacts substantially affect our ability to detect and understand natural biodiversity patterns.
science.org
Paper out, first one with @lizabeldm.bsky.social @averymaune.bsky.social & Ö. Maraci. Metabolic rate & body condition of🦎are similar across urban & non-urban habitats. Urban ♂️ (not ♀️) were smaller & lighter than non-urban ♂️. Let me know if you want the pdf. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Urbanization, Metabolic Rate, and Body Size Variation of a Common Urban Lizard | Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology: Vol 0, No 0
AbstractHuman-induced rapid environmental change is intensifying globally. Urbanization, a major form of human-induced rapid environmental change, alters ecosystems and exposes wildlife to environment...
journals.uchicago.edu
Very excited to see our new paper in @Nature! Conifers introduced to the Southern Hemisphere grew up to 4× faster than in their native ranges and were also more resistant and resilient to drought. I’m honored to have been part of this fantastic international team.
A Review in Nature Reviews Biodiversity examines the species and products involved, online platforms, drivers, trade routes and impacts of online illegal wildlife trade, and how these compare with those of traditional illegal wildlife trade. go.nature.com/45JEpDt 🌎🧪
Behavioural diversity of #fishes - concepts, drivers & role in #conservation and management – a new study by a large international team of authors led by Marie Prchalova now published in #FishandFisheries doi.org/10.1111/faf.... #fishsci #behavior #conservationscience #fish #fishecology #fisheries
🦎🏜️Detecting functional diversity loss under directional, stabilizing, and disruptive models of nonrandom anthropogenic extinction of species 📷Miguel Landestoy vist.ly/5gzqf #AdaptiveLandscape #Anthropocene #AnthropogenicImpact #BodySize #Caribbean #Deforestation
Having more watering holes gives more opportunities to pick up a date. Not a euphemism, but a conservation tool, as more sources increase mating opportunities and thus the genetic diversity of wild animals in arid regions. 🧪 Link: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eap.70226
Squirrels reduce post‑fire regeneration potential in a serotinous pine by 66%, despite pine cone defences against squirrels! By Guiote et al @cideinvestiga.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/aob/... | @annbot.bsky.social 🧪🌍🔥🌳🍁🐿️ #plantscience #ecoevo #plantsci #predation
Se cumplen 80 años del asesinato de Sadí de Buen a manos de tropas golpistas Fue un gran científico y un trabajador incansable contra la malaria Pero eso no debe llevar a ensalzar su enorme error: haber traido la gambusia a España @ebdonana.bsky.social theconversation.com/sadi-de-buen...
Sadí de Buen, los gambusinos y el mito de la erradicación de la malaria
La leyenda cuenta que el médico Sadí de Buen estuvo a punto de erradicar la malaria gracias a unos peces llamados gambusias, y que el golpismo franquista lo impidió. La historia real no es exactamente...
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Aprovechando el día de la trucha, recupero este documental sobre la trucha del Dades (Salmo multipunctata), un endemismo de las cabeceras del río Draa, en el Alto Atlas 9:20 min, castellano (ENG and FR subtitles) @ebdonana.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-Im...
Sin lugar hacia el que nadar / Nowhere to swim to
YouTube video by peces desierto
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Era Republicana@erarepublicana.eurosky.social · 3d agoHoy es quíntidi 15 de fructidor del año CCXXXIV día de la trucha, truita, amuarraina o troita. Salmo trutta
🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm
Eric Schares@eschares.bsky.social · 2y ago🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years. A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD) $2.5B in 2023 alone. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci
25 turtle figurines dating back 16,500 years found in Türkiye🏺🧪 www.reutersconnect.com/item/25-turt... The objects were uncovered at the Gedikkaya Hill and In Cave Archaeological Excavation Site in the Inhisar district of Bilecik province.
Acabo de probar una de las marcas (en este caso una bebida) de las que se habla en esta obra que tanto me gustó. Puedo confirmar que el ginseng no es lo mío 😖
Álvaro Luna@alvaroluna87.bsky.social · 2mo agoMuy interesante, me ha gustado mucho. No tenía muy claro el argumento, pero como me gustó Blankets y me lo recomendaron lo cogí con ganas. No me ha decepcionado, e incluso me ha interesado más de lo que imaginé inicialmente.
Me resulta llamativa la frecuencia con la que se ven roqueros solitarios (subespecie distinta a la de España, por si no os cuadra) en templos y otras construcciones históricas japonesas.
Por cierto, me despedí de Japón observando un reptil al que tenía ganas (y mis buenos paseos por herbazales me he tenido que dar para verlo). Takydromus tachydromoides
Hoy comienza un nuevo curso, y lo hago de estancia en la Universidad de Taiwán. Van a ser unos días estimulantes, posiblemente útiles para comenzar nuevos proyectos.
Hoy finaliza CRAYMAP, proyecto financiado por @ageinves.bsky.social sobre invasiones de cangrejos (de río y en ríos) en el que hemos trabajado los últimos 5 años Va hilo resumiendo logros alcanzados gracias a los 154000 euros (+ costes indirectos) de inversión pública @ebdonana.bsky.social
There are over 18,000 types of lichen in existence. My personal favourite is ‘village bench lichen’, which devotes its entire existence selflessly to gradually making communal public seating more furry and comfortable.
This article, written by Morgan Morris in response to our new review on 'iOrnithology' led by @connorpanter.bsky.social in ibis ( lnkd.in/dW3QAkTD ), covers the backstory on how I came upon the idea of using web-sourced photos for ornithological research www.nature.com/articles/d44... #iOrnithology
How online images are giving ornithologists a bird’s-eye view
From Google Images to social media, web-sourced photographs and videos are opening new ways to study where birds live, what they eat and how they behave.
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Fascinating work described by my colleagues Prof Nicholas Williams & A/Prof Amy Hahs "Maps were produced by Dr Emily Fitzgerald & Dr Noel Faux using data from the Public Record Office Victoria & the Victorian Department of Energy Environment & Climate Action digitised by Dr Patricia Torquato"
We’ve reconstructed Melbourne’s 200-year-old forests
Before it was streets and suburbs, Melbourne was a rich landscape of forests, swamps and grasslands. The new Map of the Month from University of Melbourne researchers is rebuilding it for the first ti...
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🚶♂️🌳Humans acting as ‘super predators' in Central African forests: trophic downgrading and disruption of predator–prey dynamics vist.ly/5g7zi #Carnivore #CommunityEcology #Defaunation #Felid #LandscapeOfFear #TrophicCascade
Fascinating world of ancient #glass ! A small-scale but colourful mosaic glass inlay depicting an Ibis. This inlay, originating from a workshop in Roman-era Egypt, was discovered in Tawern, near Trier, Germany. The ibis was considered a sacred animal of Thoth, the Egyptian deity...🧵1/2 📷️ me
