¡El Crow Team no deja de sorprendernos! www.diariodeleon.es/monograficos...

El sorprendente lenguaje de las cornejas negras al descubierto: 150 vocalizaciones identificadas

Investigadores de la Universidad de León descubren casi 150 vocalizaciones que participan en el proceso de socialización de estas aves en el norte de España

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Andrés Ordiz formará parte de la mesa REDONDA "Desmontando bulos contra el lobo" (16:15h) mañana viernes 27/06/2025 en el congreso de lo/as diputado/as. Más información acerca del programa de la Jornada parlamentaria "En defensa del lobo ibérico" en: www.apdda.es/2025/06/jorn...

Salida de campo para muestrear escarabajos acuáticos. Tuvimos el honor de contar con la ayuda del conservador de la colección de coleópteros de las Colecciones Estatales de Baviera (ZSM-SNSB). Una jornada enriquecedora de intercambio y colaboración científica. @adrianvillastrigo.bsky.social

We described 8 new aquatic beetles from New Guinea Describimos 8 nuevos escarabajos acuáticos de Nueva Guinea 👉 alpineentomology.pensoft.net/article/1478... @adrianvillastrigo.bsky.social

A review of Limbodessus Guignot, 1939 from New Guinea, with description of eight new tropical-alpine species (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Bidessini) alpineentomology.pensoft.net/articles.php...

A review of Limbodessus Guignot, 1939 from New Guinea, with description of eight new tropical-alpine species (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Bidessini)

The genus Limbodessus Guignot, 1939 from New Guinea is reviewed. Eight new species are described from the Central Mountain Range of New Guinea, from altitudes of 1,800 up to 3,500 m above sea level: L...

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And we’re off!
The III SIBECOL & XVII AEET Meeting has officially begun! A day full of workshops, reunions, first connections, and an energizing welcome cocktail.
This is just the beginning of a truly special week 🌿 #SIBECOLAEET2025 #Ecology #EcologyMeeting #AnotherScienceIsPossible

Si te interesa el estudio y conocimiento de la biodiversidad, las disciplinas asociadas y líneas de investigación en Botánica y Zoología - no te despistes: solo hay 15 plazas en el Master #InDivBZ de @unileon PREINSCRIPCIÓN 16 mayo al 23 junio 2025 ➕ ℹ️nfo: 👉🏻 www.unileon.es/estudiantes/...

Throughout the Holocene, brown bears 🐻, chamois 🐐, and wild horses 🐎 in the Cantabrian Mountains shrank in body size. New research explores how climate, vegetation, and human impact each played a role — offering insights for conservation. dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959...

Gato montés: ecología de un fantasma. Resumen de la tesis doctoral de Héctor Ruiz Villar. Diez años de seguimiento de gatos monteses 🐾 en el sector occidental de la Cordillera Cantábrica. Artículo completo en la revista Quercus. www.revistaquercus.es/noticia/9056...

Gato montés: ecología de un fantasma

Resumimos los resultados de diez años de seguimiento de gatos monteses en el sector occidental de la Cordillera Cantábrica. Un paisaje en mosaico donde se alternan las zonas boscosas bien conservadas ...

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New insights into aggregation behaviour and parent-offspring communication in amphibians: Tadpoles increase aggregation time in the presence of chemical stimuli from attending females, but not in response to those from males or non-attending females. doi.org/10.1111/aec.... @zaiortega.bsky.social

Mother Chemical Stimulus and Aggregation Behaviour of Tadpoles in a Neotropical Foam‐Nesting Frog

The tadpoles of the neotropical foam-nesting frog, Leptodactylus macrosternum, are escorted by an attending female. We found that tadpoles only increased the time of aggregation in the presence of th...

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While everyone else was hunting Easter eggs, we were out hunting beetles. Fieldwork doesn't take holidays @adrianvillastrigo.bsky.social

Interested in brown bear behavior? Look at this paper on female movement during the mating season! 👇 movementecologyjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Mating from a female perspective: Do brown bear females play an active role in mate searching? - Movement Ecology

Background Limited information exists on the active role of females during mate searching. Theory primarily focuses on male reproductive behaviours, suggesting male distribution follows that of females, while female distribution is influenced by food resources and habitat. This approach might underestimate the females’ role in shaping mating strategies. Incorporating a female perspective into mating studies can enhance our understanding of evolutionary factors. Methods Using GPS data from brown bears Ursus arctos across Finland, Romania and Slovakia, we explored female movement behaviour during the mating period. First, we estimated movement speed, total distance and net distance at a daily scale. Then, we quantitatively described when the movement peaks occur by estimating two critical points of the functions described by each of the aforementioned movement parameters: (1) the point in time when the rate of change in brown bear movement behaviour is the highest; and (2) the point in time when each aspect of brown bear movement is most pronounced. We quantified temporal variations in male and female movements throughout the year using generalized additive mixed models, while we used linear mixed models to assess the relationship between peak movement parameters, bear sex and population. Results Our findings identified two overlooked behaviours: (1) male and female movement parameters showed the highest rate of change during the mating season, challenging the notion of male roaming as the primary mating strategy; and (2) females travelled the longest distances during the mating season, potentially seeking high-quality mates. This behaviour aligns with the strategy of engaging in copulations with multiple males to avoid infanticide. Conclusions Our study reveals novel insights into the active role of female brown bears in mating strategies, challenging traditional male-centric views. These results support the need for detailed investigations into female behaviours across mammalian taxa, which offer potential to advance our understanding of mammalian social and mating systems. Local differences also underscore the importance of social and ecological conditions to explain variation in the female role in mating strategies.

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El Crow Team empieza el trabajo de campo en búsqueda 👀 de nidos 🪺 de corneja.

📢 No te pierdas la exposición de @zaiortega.bsky.social elaborada con las fotografías 📷 tomadas durante su expedición a la Antárcica 🚢 con el programa "Ciencia, mujeres y liderazgo". ¿Dónde? 👉 Hall de entrada de la Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales (León, España).

🥰 Amazing experience at the outreach event #Expociencia 2025 (León, Spain). Up to 12 schools and dozens of interested people of all ages came to learn at our stand about animal diversity and communication. 🐐🪳🐜🦇🪲🦋🦌 Thanks to all the organizers, volunteers and public. 🤗

Check out the opinion on the grey wolf (Canis lupus) in Kazakhstan in the latest article co-authored by Andres Ordiz. Neutral/positive opinions on wolf presence in the country change to negative due to wildlife value orientations, fear and knowledge of wolf behaviour when wolves and humans coexist.

(PDF) Drivers of human attitudes towards wolves Canis lupus in Kazakhstan

PDF | Kazakhstan is recognized as a key stronghold for the grey wolf (Canis lupus). Nonetheless, the wolf status and the dynamics of human‐wolf... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Re...

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#Bioinformatics is a powerful tool for #biologists looking to deepen their understanding of #GenomicsData. Our free online courses on bioinformatics workflows are available on demand until February 2026. From 10-30 March 2025, join our educators for a limited facilitation period in the comments 🔽

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Super proud 👏🥲 of the students who are explaining the diversity and communication of ants 🐜 at the #Expociencia outreach event (León, Spain). Thank you Claudia, Mario and Raquel. Your explanations are opening many minds! @adibeco.bsky.social

En @adibeco.bsky.social este año nos estrenamos en la #expociencia con tres días de divulgación sobre comunicación animal 🐜🐦‍⬛🦇🦎🫎🙌✨

Yesterday we had a talk at the University of León (Spain): “The sunset of the empire: Conflicting adaptations of an invasive ant”. Iago Sanmartín-Villar showed his academic career and exposed his research lines. Many thanks to all the organizers and attendees. @sanmartinvillar.bsky.social

📢 No te pierdas nuestro vídeo promocional para la Expociencia 2025! 🐺🦇🦎🐜🪲 👉 www.instagram.com/reel/DFc8_Gx...

What drives speciation in adaptive radiation? And why do patterns emerge? These questions are investigated by Rosemary Gillespie as part of our #AdaptiveRadiation special issue, considering #EcologicalChange and the initial drivers of speciation! 🧪🌍👇 academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...

Contrasting patterns of diversity emerge depending on the initial drivers of speciation during adaptive radiation

Abstract. I examine the spatial processes that shape species formation in adaptive radiation, and patterns that emerge from the different processes. I firs

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Here we look at look at genetic differentiation within arthropod species that occur on multiple islands. Perhaps not so surprisingly, many island populations are conceptually closer to single island endemic species. doi.org/10.1111/ddi....

Molecular Delimitation of Evolutionary Significant Units Reveals Hidden Geographic Drivers of Extinction Risk Within Island Arthropods

Aim Globally, arthropod biodiversity is under threat, with increased risk of species-level extinctions, and this threat is particularly acute on oceanic islands. A fundamental first step towards und...

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👋 ¿Te interesa la ecología del movimiento 🛰️ y la selección de hábitat 🗺️? Hemos publicado un artículo de divulgación sobre ello en la revista AmbioCiencias de la Universidad de León. ¡No te lo pierdas! 👉 shorturl.at/AkSHj @zaiortega.bsky.social

Our latest paper on Liodessus diving beetles from southern Colombia and northern Ecuador is now published! 🪲 Read here: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #Taxonomy #Genetics #Beetles

Recent range expansion and lineage idiosyncratic population structure of Liodessus diving beetles in the high Andes (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Bidessini)

Here, we review the taxonomy and population genetic structure of diving beetles in the genus Liodessus Guignot, 1939 from the high Andes of southern Colombia and Ecuador. Liodessus quillacinga ecuador...

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Excited to share our latest research! We explore how Gondwanan fragmentation shaped Lancetinae beetles: Cretaceous divergence, Miocene diversification, and an impressive ability to colonize remote islands. Check it out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Evolution #Biogeography #Gondwana

Plate tectonics, cold adaptation and long-distance range expansion to remote archipelagos and the high Andes as drivers of a circumantarctic freshwater arthropod radiation

Disjunct distributions, characterised by spatially separated populations of related species, offer insights into historical biogeographic patterns and…

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📢Participamos en un documental de la televisión regional de Asturias 📺 Andrés Ordíz (min 12:16) nos instruye sobre la coexistencia entre el ser humano y el oso pardo 🐻 www.rtpa.es/video:Asturi...

📢Participamos en la Cadena SER 📻 Escucha aquí 👇 a Andrés Ordíz explicando el estado de conservación del lobo 🐺 en la península Ibérica. cadenaser.com/audio/173202...

León, hacia rutas salvajes: La presencia del lobo en las tierras de León (19/11/2024)

<p class="MsoNormal">De la mano de nuestro biólogo de cabecera en "Hoy por Hoy León", Manu González, nos acercamos a una de las especies icónicas y emblemáticas de nuestra biodiversidad: el lobo ibéri...

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We’re now offering two permanent positions at the Bavarian State Collection for Zoology in Munich, those as curators for Diptera and Hymenoptera: snsb.de/kurator-ento... snsb.de/kurator-ento... Both announcements are in German, but German skills are not required at the time of application.