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/
Joshua Borràs
@joshuaborras.bsky.social
#IamABotanist Biologist(UIB). PhD student. 🌸🌺🌿🌱🍀 Treasurer Jovenes por la Botanica Española (JxBE). Endemism | Global Change | Soil Microbiota | Conservation Tweets in ESP, CAT, EN💜🔻
🌿 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.
🌸 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
An unrequited love story between an Andrena bee and Ophrys fusca 💔🌸 A classic case of sexual deception, where the orchid mimics female cues to attract pollinators, not always successfully.
🌿✨ 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...
Claves determinación. Entrada. | Genially
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
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
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.
🌍 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...
The 2025 global data is now available: CO₂ continues to accumulate in the atmosphere, and temperatures keep rising relentlessly More: jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2026/01/06/r... Data: @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social & GML-NOAA 🧪🌎🌐 #climatechange climatesky envsci
🚨🚨🚨 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...
Fita a Fita
El joc de la serra de Tramuntana
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Let's gooooo. New project (and new species) steaming on!!!
BOTLAND@botland-uib.bsky.social · 9mo ago🌿 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.
My predoc stay at Lund Uni is coming to its end 🌿 Grateful for an amazing journey—learning from inspiring researchers, growing personally & professionally, and diving deeper into floral ecology, evolution & plant reproduction 🌸🌹🪻 Thanks to @oysteinopedal.bsky.social , Yedra, Magne & co ❤️🥲
BOTLAND@botland-uib.bsky.social · 10mo agoOver the past months, Joshua Borràs has undertaken a research stay at Lund University (Sweden) ✈️🇸🇪 as part of his doctoral training, funded by the Conselleria de Fons Europeus, Universitat i Cultura (CAIB) through their research mobility grants.
Over the past months, Joshua Borràs has undertaken a research stay at Lund University (Sweden) ✈️🇸🇪 as part of his doctoral training, funded by the Conselleria de Fons Europeus, Universitat i Cultura (CAIB) through their research mobility grants.
🌿 Femeniasia balearica is an endemic species of the Balearic Islands that, until recently, was considered the same in both Mallorca and Menorca. However, it has now been divided into two different subspecies: one for each island.
This year, a research study has been published on cryptogams (bryophytes and lichens) inhabiting dune systems and their potential use as bioindicators to assess human impacts or define specific habitats.
🌿 This year we concluded the two-year project “BioLitoral”, led by Joana Cursach with the participation of numerous researchers from BOTLAND. The goal was to deepen the study of two unique coastal species: the dune endemic Silene migjornensis and the micro-area coastal species Diplotaxis ibicensis.
On October 2nd, Miquel Capó attended, on behalf of BOTLAND, the PIM Initiative – Small Islands of the Mediterranean Board of Directors meeting, to present our research work and future projects on the Balearic islets. 🌿
This year we have worked on the project Femeniasia balearica: conservation status of an endemic species of the Balearic Islands (FeMen), led by Joshua Borràs and Joana Cursach, with the support of members of BOTLAND and the Marimurtra Botanical Garden, and funded by the Consell Insular de Menorca.
These last three months, our colleague Pere Miquel Mir Rosselló @petermikeler.bsky.social is carrying out a research stay at the Università di Catania in Sicily, as part of his doctoral training funded by the University Teaching Training Grant (FPU).
This thesis evaluated the role of floral volatiles, nectar production, and pollen germinability in the reproductive biology of this endemic species.
Last May, we had the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Alba Cuena, a researcher from the Università degli Studi di Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy), through the Erasmus+ Staff Mobility for Teaching program.
🌿 We are BOTLAND – Research Group in Botany on Mediterranean Islands at the University of the Balearic Islands @uib.cat
📣 🌿Nuevo artículo en #ConservaciónVegetal 28 ‘Seguimiento y evaluación del estado de conservación de la flora en España’ 🔗Descubre todos los detalles en el artículo completo 👉🏻 doi.org/10.15366/cv2...
Completamos el calendario 2024 de #SEBICOP sobre Conservación Vegetal con la #Calenda diciembre: el Grupo de Investigación sobre Botánica en Islas Mediterráneas (UIB), Institut Menorquí d’Estudis y Jardí Botànic Marimurtra alertan sobre un endemismo balear en riesgo de extinción: más ℹ️nfo en 👇🏻
Femeniasia balearica: estado de conservación de un endemismo amenazado de las Islas Baleares - SEBiCoP
Las Islas Baleares constituyen un importante centro de biodiversidad vegetal, albergando algunas de las plantas más amenazadas del Mediterráneo según la UICN
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Queréis conocer mejor uno de los endemismos baleares más amenazados que tenemos? 👇🏻👇🏻
SEBICOP@sebicop.bsky.social · 2y agoCompletamos el calendario 2024 de #SEBICOP sobre Conservación Vegetal con la #Calenda diciembre: el Grupo de Investigación sobre Botánica en Islas Mediterráneas (UIB), Institut Menorquí d’Estudis y Jardí Botànic Marimurtra alertan sobre un endemismo balear en riesgo de extinción: más ℹ️nfo en 👇🏻