Manuel B. Morales
manuelbmorales.bsky.social
Manuel B. Morales
@manuelbmorales.bsky.social
Ecology, ornithology, conservation biology. Profesor at @UAM. Other interests, too.
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Breaking News: Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most revered conservationists, died at 91. Her discoveries in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behaved in the wild broke new ground and represented what was called “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.” nyti.ms/42kpGxt
October 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Range contractions of farmland and steppe birds over two decades in relation to agricultural management in Spain | www.sciencedirect.co... | Biological Conservation | #ornithology 🪶
September 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Alarming conservation status of Western European steppe birds and their habitats: An expert-based review of current threats, traits and knowledge gaps | www.sciencedirect.co... | Biological Conservation | #ornithology 🪶
September 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Phylogenetic patterns of beta-diversity in the response of weed communities to intensification across Europe. Article led by Rafa Molina

Agricultural intensification degrades arable weed diversity into phylogenetically unstructured subsets of tolerant species | Landscape Ecology
September 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Here we identify the management practices associated with long-term declines (20 yeras) of farmland birds in Spain. From Diego Chamizo M Sc Thesis

Range contractions of farmland and steppe birds over two decades in re... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Range contractions of farmland and steppe birds over two decades in relation to agricultural management in Spain
Farmland birds have experienced severe declines across Europe and other world regions because of agricultural intensification. We assessed changes in …
www.sciencedirect.com
September 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Exhaustiva revisión encabezada por Julia Gómez Catasús sobre los factores de declive de las aves esteparias en el mundo, en la que he tenido la suerte de colaborar

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Alarming conservation status of Western European steppe birds and their habitats: An expert-based review of current threats, traits and knowledge gaps
European steppe birds are facing unprecedented declines, positioning among the most threatened bird groups. We provide a comprehensive review and synt…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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¿Por qué la región entre Zamora, León y Ourense arde tanto?
No, no es para construir aerogeneradores, ni por ninguna de las teorías conspiranoicas que estamos leyendo. La explicación es más compleja… y menos cómoda para quienes buscan respuestas simples. 1/13
August 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Hembra de Lucanus cervus. Años hacía. Esta es de Normandía, Francia.
August 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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El ectoparasitismo en las propias carnes
Mi pequeña aportación, HISTORIA NATURAL PIOJOSA: ecomandanga.wordpress.com/2021/04/21/h...
... en ecomandanga
July 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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The animal kingdom, arranged according to its organization, serving as a foundation for the natural history of animals. v.1 plates. London: G. Henderson, 1834-1837. (source: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/89321) #nature #illustration #art
July 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Ya disponibles, abtracts del congreso internacional sobre aves esteparias, Ciudad Real 2025
steppebirds.com
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PALEARCTIC STEPPE BIRDS
steppebirds.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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🫱 "La respuesta automática es echarle mano, cogerlo y llevárnoslo a casa ‘para cuidarlo’. 
❌ Sin embargo así comienza una cadena de errores que, casi con total seguridad,.."

No, ese pajarillo no está solo y abandonado: no lo cojas (y mucho menos lo atiborres a pan)
Cada año por estas fechas aparecen en las calles muchas crías de pájaro en apariencia solas y desvalidas. No lo están. Una campaña llama a no capturarlas, aunque sea con la buena intención de salvarlas
www.elconfidencial.com
June 16, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Countries must cooperate to seize a once-in-a-generation opportunity to become the top destination for scientists, says Maria M. Mota

https://go.nature.com/43KTTGV
Europe can capture the US brain drain — if it acts fast
Countries must cooperate to seize a once-in-a-generation opportunity to become the top destination for scientists.
go.nature.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Hay administraciones públicas supuestamente ecologistas fomentando este daño a la fauna autóctona.

Aquí también hay un fuerte negacionismo en contra del criterio científico más sólido que tenemos a mano.
⚠️ Se suspenden las actividades científicas en el parque del Alamillo por la depredación de gatos en libertad
🐈 Ha hecho inviable la participación de una de las estaciones ornitológicas más veteranas
La depredación de gatos domésticos causa la suspensión de actividades científicas - SEO/BirdLife
SEO/BirdLife urge a las administraciones a actuar ante el grave impacto de los gatos asilvestrados en la biodiversidad
seo.org
May 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
No importa lo bueno que pueda ser el año para plantas adventicias e insectos, siempre pasa "el triste segador" por el campus sostenible de @uam.es
May 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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🔎Un estudio liderado por un grupo de investigación de la Facultad de Ciencias y la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, pone a prueba la idea del origen del vuelo y los “módulos locomotores” en dinosaurios avianos desde otra perspectiva: el desarrollo embrionario.
🔗Lee la noticia: tinyurl.com/2876est3
May 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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El Parque del Alamillo, un magnífico espacio natural en Sevilla, tiene cada vez más gatos, hasta el punto de no ser viable seguir anillando aves allí
La liberación de fochas cornudas, una especie críticamente amenazada, puede quedar en comida de gatos
Lo cuenta GOSUR: www.gosur.net/index.php/ac...
May 13, 2025 at 10:20 AM
This amazingly rainy spring in central Spain has prevented fallows to be ploughed and herbicide-spread. The cereal steppes around Madrid look gorgeous!!
May 9, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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41 days since #ICPSB2025 and we’re still thinking about it… Already counting down to Mongolia 2027!
May 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Great PhD Thesis defense by David González del Portillo yesterday at @cienciasuam.bsky.social, @uam.es. Congrats to the new Doctor in Ecology for his great work and thanks to jury members
May 6, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Avutardas, 1925.
Art: Archibald Thorburn.
May 1, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Check out our new article❗

We compared non-invasive monitoring methods to estimate #abundance of the #threatened Pin-tailed sandgrouse

👉We obtained a high identification success 💩🧬
👉Genetic-Mark Recapture is promising for elusive 🐦species aggregating in winter

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
April 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Important mesocosm experiment from the Netherlands demonstrates adverse effects of the neonicotinoid, thiacloprid at realistic environmental concentrations: degraded food web structure, large changes in primary production and reduced organic matter processing onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Networks in Aquatic Communities Collapse Upon Neonicotinoid‐Induced Stress
We employed an experimental approach with 36 naturally established freshwater ecosystems exposed to increasing field realistic concentrations of the neonicotinoid thiacloprid. Upon exposure, we found....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 27, 2025 at 11:58 AM