Raquel Muñoz Gallego

@raquelmuga.bsky.social

JdC postdoc at Plant & Animal Ecology Lab (UPM, Madrid) | Plant-animal interactions and global change🌴🍒🌷🐝 | Amateur painter and percussionist 🎨🥁 | Murcianica🍋 #ecology #seeddispersal #herbivory #invasivespecies 🖥️raquelmuñozgallego.weebly.com

En estos días de agitación nacional, cuidaico con llamar «buitre» a cualquiera!😬 Los buitres prestan servicios ecosistémicos clave y son esenciales para la salud del planeta. No ensucies su nombre. No se lo merecen!🦅💚 👇 ecomandanga.wordpress.com/2026/10/07/n...

No insultéis a los buitres

Por Eneko Arrondo. En el mundo existen 23 especies de buitres divididas en dos grupos alejados evolutivamente. Por un lado, tenemos a los cóndores, jotes y zopilotes americanos, que son comúnmente …

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Quote: "Biological invasions are not merely about losing species; they are also about the silent rewriting of ecosystems. From the chemistry of the soil to the rhythms of wildfires, their impacts ripple through the environment long after their arrival." theconversation.com/how-biologic...

How biological invasions are silently remodelling ecosystems

Invasive alien species don’t only drive out other native species, they also dramatically transform soils, water and ecosystems. A new assessment tool aims to pinpoint the negative environmental impact...

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One of the biggest challenges facing ecologists today is understanding ecosystems that have never existed before. England and Wales have just experienced their driest July on record, wildfires have swept across Europe and species are on the move. We are living in a novel future,

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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.

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Para entender esta ola de calor y para comprender lo que será 2027 hay que levantar la mirada regional y ver lo que está pasando en el Pacífico. Toca acelerar la adaptación que pasa ineludiblemente por desacelerar la economía. ctxt.es/es/20260701/... #cambioclimatico #oladecalor #fernandovalladares

Tsunami de calor

El Ártico se está calentando entre tres y cuatro veces más rápido que el resto del planeta, lo que altera el chorro polar y hace más frecuentes y prolongados los episodios de altas temperaturas

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A world full of colour is a world full of life. 🌈 This Pride Month, we're celebrating the many colours that make our world richer, both in nature and in our communities. 🐦 💫 Together, we can create a future where birds, nature and people all have the chance to thrive. 🌿

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Now in summer, we can confirm that a large part of the beech (Fagus sylvatica) forests that burned in low‑intensity understory fires have died. This constitutes a clear case of a low‑intensity, high‑severity fire (I had expected bsky.app/profile/jgpa...) 🧪🌍🔥🌳🍁🪴 wildfires Picos de Europa, N Spain

A mosaic of patches of beech forests that survived the fire (in green), and patches that did not (in brown).
juli g pausas@jgpausas.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Another novel disturbance: fire affecting beech (Fagus sylvatica) forests. It burned at low intensity (surface fire), but it is likely to have high-severity effects. Barniedo fire 8/2025, Riaño, León, Spain 🧪🌍🔥🌳🍁🪴🌱 wildfire

Burned landscape: The shrublands (left) burned at high intensity but became low intensity (surface fire) when reaching the beech forest (right) due to its lower flammability.

Mayo fue el mes con más muertes por calor desde que hay registros, 101. La mayoría no se producen por golpes de calor, sino por el deterioro de las funciones del organismo cuando el termómetro sube, normalmente en personas muy vulnerables

Mayo fue el mes con más muertes por calor desde que hay registros

El plan de prevención por altas temperaturas de Sanidad calcula que ha aumentado medio grado el umbral a partir del cual se dispara la mortalidad

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