🍂 Last autumn we launched the CREPIS project 🔬, coordinated by Maria Mayol and Arántzazu Molins, with the participation of Miquel Riba, Laura Botigué, Carles Cardona, Toni Llabrés, Bruno Colas and Santiago González-Martínez.

🌿 Early July, BOTLAND members attended the XIII Congress of the Spanish Society for Plant Conservation Biology @sebicop.bsky.social in Aranjuez. 🤝 Miquel Capó @miquelcapo.bsky.social and Joshua Borràs organized a session on the study of endemic and threatened island flora, focused on conservation

🌍 This week, our colleague Iván Cortés-Fernández attended the final meeting of the COST SMILES - CA21158 This initiative focuses on assessing the environmental uniqueness of European islands 🏝️ and promoting management strategies tailored to their specific challenges.

🌿 New paper from the BOTLAND group in Plant Biology! We studied the evolutionary history and genetic diversity of Diplotaxis ibicensis, a protected coastal plant distributed across the Balearic Islands and a small area of eastern Iberia. 📖 doi.org/10.1111/plb.... @wileylifesci.bsky.social

🌿 Back on May, our colleague Pere Miquel Mir-Rosselló participated in the 11th European Committee for the Conservation of Bryophytes Conference, held in Cagliari. #ECCB2025

📢 New group publication! 🌵📚 A few weeks ago, a new study was published in Bradleya by Miquel Rodríguez and other members of BOTLAND, under the supervision of Marcello Cerrato. 🌿 🔗 Read the paper here: doi.org/10.25223/bra...

Ahir i avui som a la Fira de la #CiènciaperaTothom de la UIB, i #BOTLAND hi ha participat amb tres activitats dedicades al món vegetal, amb la inestimable ajuda de l’alumnat del grau de #Biologia. També hi serem aquesta horabaixa i dissabte. Us hi esperam!

Arriba el #VIBiomaratón ! Del 15 al 18 de maig, les Illes Balears se sumen a aquest esdeveniment estatal de #ciència_ciutadana per conèixer, fotografiar i registrar la flora del nostre entorn. biomaratonflora.com/participa/

🌿 These days we’ve been out in the field as part of María Juan Sánchez-M.’s final degree project. She is a Biology student at @uib.cat working on her bachelor's thesis in Botany under the supervision of Joana Cursach, member of BOTLAND.

We’re delighted to share that Arantxa Molins has been appointed Deputy Director of the Multidisciplinary Center for the Balearic Biodiversity #CMBB at the University of the Balearic Islands @uib.cat 🌿 As a member of #BOTLAND, we couldn’t be prouder!

🌸 Spring is here and orchids are in full bloom! We’re in the field working on Rubén Arco’s Bachelor’s thesis, a Botany project exploring orchid diversity in the Balearic Islands 🌿👇 #Botany #Orchids #PlantScience #Evolution #Biodiversity #BalearicIslands #SomUIB #BOTLAND

🌿✨ Presentam la primera versió online de les claus de determinació de la flora vascular de les Illes Balears, desenvolupada amb l’eina digital Genially! uibuniversitat.genially.com/6724af505c9f...

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Claves de determinación de plantas vasculares de Baleares.

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🚨📷NEW PAPER ALERT📢🌿 Dr. Joana Cursach and Dr. @miquelcapo.bsky.social, together with Dr. Theodora Petanidou #UniAthens and Dr. Amparo Lázaro (@imedea.bsky.social ), published a new study in #BiodiversityAndConservation (@springernature.com) doi.org/10.1007/s105...

🚨📷NEW PAPER ALERT📷 Group member Dr. @miquelcapo.bsky.social has collaborated in a new study presenting a database of plant–pollinator interactions in the Mediterranean 🐝🌼 doi.org/10.26786/192... @jpollecol.bsky.social

🚨🚨 Han entrevistado a @raquelmuga.bsky.social junto con Ana Traveset sobre el efecto de especies invasoras en las islas. 🌱🐐🌷🐍🦜🏝️ Échale un ojo! 👇 www.diariodemallorca.es/mallorca/202...

Semillas en nuevas manos: el giro silencioso de los ecosistemas insulares

Aves, mamíferos y reptiles se desplazan escondidos entre ramas, cajas o rincones y alteran, a su llegada, el ecosistema que los acoge

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🚨📄NEW PAPER ALERT📄🚨 This month, Dr. Joana Cursach and Dr. Llorenç Gil have published a study on Silene migjornensis, an endemic plant from Mallorca with only one known population in the dune systems of the island’s south.

Last week, Joshua Borràs, PhD candidate at BOTLAND, presented his research at the XXIII EcoFlor Meeting in Tortosa — an annual congress from the Spanish Association of Terrestrial Ecology @eco-aeet.bsky.social, focused on floral ecology. #EcoFlor26 @ecoflor.bsky.social

Yesterday, PhD students from the #BOTLAND research group took part in the I Science Meeting at the @uib.cat, an event aimed at 3rd- and 4th-year undergraduate Science students. 🧪🌿 #Research #Science #PhD

Last Friday, members of BOTLAND visited the Centre Multidisciplinari per a la Biodiversitat Balear (#CMB), a newly established centre created to strengthen biodiversity research, management and conservation in the Balearic Islands.

Recentment, membres de #BOTLAND han publicat una nova edició de les claus de determinació de la flora balear: 📘 “Noves claus de determinació per a la Flora vascular de les Illes Balears” @uib.cat #EdicionsUIB #FloraBalear #Botànica #Biodiversitat

🌍 New contribution from BOTLAND! Researcher and group member Pere Miquel Mir Rosselló is a co-author of the article “New national and regional bryophyte records, 83”, published in the #JournalOfBryology 📚 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨📄 NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨📄 Why are some Mediterranean plants more prone to extinction than others? A new international study, coauthored by Dr. Joana Cursach, analyzed nearly 3,000 rare and threatened plant species across the Mediterranean, following IUCN criteria. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Today, Pere Miquel Mir Rosselló defended his PhD dissertation: “Interdisciplinary Approach to the Biology of Mediterranean Bryophytes,” supervised by Dr. Llorenç Gil, Dr. Jaume Flexas, and Dr. Marc Carriquí. We now have a new doctor in BOTLAND! Congratulations, Dr. Mir! 🌿🎓🎉

🌿 At the IX Jornades de Medi Ambient, we presented several research projects by bachelor’s and master’s students. ✨ We highlight the Bachelor’s Thesis by Lluna Jordà on the bryoflora of the UIB campus, awarded the first commendation of the BIODIBAL/REDEIA Prize 2025.

🎓 This Friday the 12th at 10:00 h, Pere Miquel Mir-Rosselló defends his thesis: “Interdisciplinary approach to the biology of Mediterranean bryophytes” 📺 Live stream: postgrau.uib.es/doctorado_de... #PhD #BOTLAND #Bryophyte #Botany #Science

🚨🚨🚨 Nou joc sobre la #SerradeTramuntana a Kickstarter, amb la flora, fauna i patrimoni com a protagonistes. Hem pogut col·laborar en l’assessorament científic @carlosbarcelo.bsky.social (ZAP) i jo des de @botland-uib.bsky.social Podeu donar-hi suport aquí: 👉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/mon...

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El joc de la serra de Tramuntana

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🌿 New article on wetland plant conservation in Mediterranean islands. doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

🌿 We’ve started work on Project #MalMen, funded by the Institut d’Estudis Menorquins (IME) and coordinated by @joshuaborras.bsky.social and Marcello Cerrat, with contributions from other #BOTLAND members.

A recent update on the park’s flora of es Trenc-Salobrar de Campos has been published, carried out by #BOTLAND member Dr. Llorenç Gil #EsTrenc #Science #Biodiversity #Conservation