Diego Rodríguez
@drmammals.bsky.social
Biologist working with #Mammals and #Scavengers, restoring food webs in Palearctic ecosystems of Georgia and Spain. Eng, Esp, Por, Русский.
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Check out our new paper, led by Bent Rech: we investigate space use of semi-feral water buffalo, cattle, and horses in a Danish rewilding area. We found that the three species differ markedly in their seasonal habitat selection and responses to resources and infrastructure.
doi.org/10.1007/s002...
doi.org/10.1007/s002...
April 29, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Check out our new paper, led by Bent Rech: we investigate space use of semi-feral water buffalo, cattle, and horses in a Danish rewilding area. We found that the three species differ markedly in their seasonal habitat selection and responses to resources and infrastructure.
doi.org/10.1007/s002...
doi.org/10.1007/s002...
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Most (>80%) of #forest #plant species in Europe require medium to high light & are associated to grazed #woodland - see our analysis in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... 2☀️🪻🌼🌿 An example is Early-Purple #Orchid, here seen in an ancient woodland patch close to where we live 🙂
April 28, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Most (>80%) of #forest #plant species in Europe require medium to high light & are associated to grazed #woodland - see our analysis in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... 2☀️🪻🌼🌿 An example is Early-Purple #Orchid, here seen in an ancient woodland patch close to where we live 🙂
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🚫 La falta de ""limpieza"" de los ríos: Un mito peligroso
Lo que muchos llaman ""limpieza"" es en realidad:
🏗️ Una intervención destructiva del cauce
❌ Ineficaz para reducir riesgos de inundación
⚠️ Potencialmente dañina para el ecosistema y las comunidades
Lo que muchos llaman ""limpieza"" es en realidad:
🏗️ Una intervención destructiva del cauce
❌ Ineficaz para reducir riesgos de inundación
⚠️ Potencialmente dañina para el ecosistema y las comunidades
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March 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
🚫 La falta de ""limpieza"" de los ríos: Un mito peligroso
Lo que muchos llaman ""limpieza"" es en realidad:
🏗️ Una intervención destructiva del cauce
❌ Ineficaz para reducir riesgos de inundación
⚠️ Potencialmente dañina para el ecosistema y las comunidades
Lo que muchos llaman ""limpieza"" es en realidad:
🏗️ Una intervención destructiva del cauce
❌ Ineficaz para reducir riesgos de inundación
⚠️ Potencialmente dañina para el ecosistema y las comunidades
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El "No a la guerra" en este contexto es hablar para imbéciles
¿Eres imbécil?
No pasa nada, te queremos igual, pero estás a dos pasos de compartir videos del Vito Quiles a tu familia por WhatsApp.
¿Eres imbécil?
No pasa nada, te queremos igual, pero estás a dos pasos de compartir videos del Vito Quiles a tu familia por WhatsApp.
April 24, 2025 at 12:13 AM
El "No a la guerra" en este contexto es hablar para imbéciles
¿Eres imbécil?
No pasa nada, te queremos igual, pero estás a dos pasos de compartir videos del Vito Quiles a tu familia por WhatsApp.
¿Eres imbécil?
No pasa nada, te queremos igual, pero estás a dos pasos de compartir videos del Vito Quiles a tu familia por WhatsApp.
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"The proposal that Trump, Vice President J. D. Vance, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are pushing is not a framework for peace, but a rich and bloody reward to Moscow for three years of aggression and war crimes."
The Trump 'peace' plan for #Ukraine is no such thing; it is an instrument of surrender.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Trump’s Plan to Sell Out Ukraine to Russia
His proposal to end the war isn’t a peace plan—it’s a reward for aggression.
www.theatlantic.com
April 24, 2025 at 2:45 AM
"The proposal that Trump, Vice President J. D. Vance, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are pushing is not a framework for peace, but a rich and bloody reward to Moscow for three years of aggression and war crimes."
"High-affinity forest plants associated with higher herbivory and lower herbaceous biomass face higher extinction risk, indicating that low large-herbivore densities drive extinctions in present-day forests. These results align with palaeoecological evidence..." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Temperate forest plants are associated with heterogeneous semi-open canopy conditions shaped by large herbivores - Nature Plants
Temperate forest plants favour heterogeneous semi-open woodlands associated with high herbivore densities, rather than uniform closed-canopy forests. Herbivore loss is therefore a probable driver of e...
www.nature.com
April 23, 2025 at 8:27 AM
"High-affinity forest plants associated with higher herbivory and lower herbaceous biomass face higher extinction risk, indicating that low large-herbivore densities drive extinctions in present-day forests. These results align with palaeoecological evidence..." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Que lleva a que un buitre decida bajar a una carroña y no a otra??? Esa es la pregunta que nos hicimos en el último articulo que hemos publicado 👇🧵https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.250085
April 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Que lleva a que un buitre decida bajar a una carroña y no a otra??? Esa es la pregunta que nos hicimos en el último articulo que hemos publicado 👇🧵https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.250085
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Learning the history of the Theory of Evolution will help you realize how complex and interesting it is
Darwin was one of the steps of this ladder. And set the incredible concept of Natural Selection, as it was ground (and faith) breaking at his time.
(Not criticizing Thomas, I just love the topic)
Darwin was one of the steps of this ladder. And set the incredible concept of Natural Selection, as it was ground (and faith) breaking at his time.
(Not criticizing Thomas, I just love the topic)
I know that saying this (virtually) out loud will summon this into existence, but...
It seems like it has been a longer-than-normal interval from a team of young biologists re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-rediscovering ecophenotypes &/or epigenetics and declaring "Darwin was wrong".
It seems like it has been a longer-than-normal interval from a team of young biologists re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-rediscovering ecophenotypes &/or epigenetics and declaring "Darwin was wrong".
April 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Learning the history of the Theory of Evolution will help you realize how complex and interesting it is
Darwin was one of the steps of this ladder. And set the incredible concept of Natural Selection, as it was ground (and faith) breaking at his time.
(Not criticizing Thomas, I just love the topic)
Darwin was one of the steps of this ladder. And set the incredible concept of Natural Selection, as it was ground (and faith) breaking at his time.
(Not criticizing Thomas, I just love the topic)
Magnífico hilo sobre el tema del estudio del genoma de Aenocyon y el desbarre ridículo de Colossal sobre su falsa desextinción.
Bueno, pues ayer salió por fin el preprint sobre los lobos gigantes (Aenocyon dirus) detrás de la "desextinción" de Colossal. Y tenemos de todo: cosas que ya se sabían, cosas que son muy interesantes, y cosas muy raras. Así que vamos a echarle un ojo. Os parece?
April 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Magnífico hilo sobre el tema del estudio del genoma de Aenocyon y el desbarre ridículo de Colossal sobre su falsa desextinción.
Who runs Colossal's communications department? Trump?
April 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Who runs Colossal's communications department? Trump?
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Wildlife photo of the week: storks at the Knepp estate, West Sussex, UK. Storks went extinct in the UK in the early 15th century, but are now making a comeback on rewilded land.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
March 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Wildlife photo of the week: storks at the Knepp estate, West Sussex, UK. Storks went extinct in the UK in the early 15th century, but are now making a comeback on rewilded land.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
@bsky.app do you know that the European Union forbade this far-right propaganda channel 3 years ago? This is how seriously you take moderation? @ec.europa.eu es.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
March 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
@bsky.app do you know that the European Union forbade this far-right propaganda channel 3 years ago? This is how seriously you take moderation? @ec.europa.eu es.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
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We have published this paper where we state that Iberian hunters are becoming extinct like sturgeons. There are many left but there is no juvenile recruitment. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
February 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
We have published this paper where we state that Iberian hunters are becoming extinct like sturgeons. There are many left but there is no juvenile recruitment. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Hoy se ha publicado un preprint que sugiere que en China estuvieron a punto de domesticar a otra especie de gato, pero que al final no pudieron. Queréis saber más? Dentro hilo.
February 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Hoy se ha publicado un preprint que sugiere que en China estuvieron a punto de domesticar a otra especie de gato, pero que al final no pudieron. Queréis saber más? Dentro hilo.
"Temperate Europe had high local vegetation heterogeneity, on average consisting of 17% open vegetation, 21% closed forest, and 63% light woodland. The findings challenge the closed forest paradigm offering insights into biodiversity and ecosystem functionality" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Beyond the closed-forest paradigm: Cross-scale vegetation structure in temperate Europe before the late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions
The Last Interglacial (∼129,000–116,000 years ago) provides key insights into temperate European vegetation dynamics before significant anthropogenic …
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February 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"Temperate Europe had high local vegetation heterogeneity, on average consisting of 17% open vegetation, 21% closed forest, and 63% light woodland. The findings challenge the closed forest paradigm offering insights into biodiversity and ecosystem functionality" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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¿Te has preguntado alguna vez por qué hay más razas de perros que de gatos? Bueno, yo sí, y por eso tenéis este artículo hoy jaja
#Animaleros20m
www.20minutos.es/noticia/5681...
#Animaleros20m
www.20minutos.es/noticia/5681...
¿Por qué hay muchas más razas de perros que de gatos?
La diferencia en el número de razas se debe a una combinación de factores históricos, funcionales y genéticos.
www.20minutos.es
February 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
¿Te has preguntado alguna vez por qué hay más razas de perros que de gatos? Bueno, yo sí, y por eso tenéis este artículo hoy jaja
#Animaleros20m
www.20minutos.es/noticia/5681...
#Animaleros20m
www.20minutos.es/noticia/5681...
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👇👇 We have trace evidence from N England of wolves scavenging human kill-sites in Late Upper Pthc. I suggest this gave wolves access to larger prey (aurochs) than they could successfully hunt themselves. 🐕🐕🐂🐂🦴🦴
Maybe dogs didn't need us at all to domesticate themselves.
They may have been drawn to the discarded remains from ancient human meals, and a new model shows tame wolves could have become dogs in as little as 8,000 years www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
They may have been drawn to the discarded remains from ancient human meals, and a new model shows tame wolves could have become dogs in as little as 8,000 years www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
New model shows dogs could have domesticated themselves
They may have been drawn to the discarded remains from ancient human meals, and a new model shows tame wolves could have become dogs in as little as 8,000 years.
www.nationalgeographic.com
February 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
👇👇 We have trace evidence from N England of wolves scavenging human kill-sites in Late Upper Pthc. I suggest this gave wolves access to larger prey (aurochs) than they could successfully hunt themselves. 🐕🐕🐂🐂🦴🦴
"...due to the shifting baseline syndrome, ecologists omit the now-missing effects of extinct, large herbivores when designing experiments and theoretical models, despite evidence that large herbivores shaped [...] the studied systems." nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Shifting baselines and the forgotten giants: integrating megafauna into plant community ecology
The extensive, prehistoric loss of megafauna during the last 50 000 years led early naturalists to build the founding theories of ecology based on already-degraded ecosystems. In this article, we out...
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
"...due to the shifting baseline syndrome, ecologists omit the now-missing effects of extinct, large herbivores when designing experiments and theoretical models, despite evidence that large herbivores shaped [...] the studied systems." nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
"Habitat specialists became less represented. The spread of trees, shrubs, tall herbaceous and nutrient-demanding species in all non-forest habitats suggests an effect of eutrophication and succession following the abandonment of traditional management." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Half a Century of Temperate Non‐Forest Vegetation Changes: No Net Loss in Species Richness, but Considerable Shifts in Taxonomic and Functional Composition
We present a comprehensive, large-scale analysis of long-term changes in plant communities of various non-forest habitat types in the Czech Republic based on repeatedly sampled vegetation plots. Spec....
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January 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
"Habitat specialists became less represented. The spread of trees, shrubs, tall herbaceous and nutrient-demanding species in all non-forest habitats suggests an effect of eutrophication and succession following the abandonment of traditional management." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
"Mutual recognition and participation of local stakeholders seems an unavoidable step in developing more collaborative approaches that respect the needs and aspirations of rural communities while contributing to the EU's restoration goals." besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Unveiling human–wildlife interactions in the context of livestock grazing abandonment and the return of large carnivores, ungulates and vultures: A stakeholder perspective
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
"Mutual recognition and participation of local stakeholders seems an unavoidable step in developing more collaborative approaches that respect the needs and aspirations of rural communities while contributing to the EU's restoration goals." besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Snow leopards in Portugal. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Insights on the evolution and adaptation toward high-altitude and cold environments in the snow leopard lineage
Integrated morphology, fossil records, and SDM reveal the evolution and adaptation in the snow leopard lineage.
www.science.org
January 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Snow leopards in Portugal. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Important paper. It seems that there is ancient DNA of Bison bonasus or something that looks much more like Bison bonasus than anything else in the Iberian Pleistocene www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A sedimentary ancient DNA perspective on human and carnivore persistence through the Late Pleistocene in El Mirón Cave, Spain - Nature Communications
Archaeological contexts in caves provide an opportunity to examine human and animal dynamics through climatic events. Here, the authors present sedaDNA of 28 taxa from El Mirón Cave, Spain, including ...
www.nature.com
January 3, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Important paper. It seems that there is ancient DNA of Bison bonasus or something that looks much more like Bison bonasus than anything else in the Iberian Pleistocene www.nature.com/articles/s41...