Fernando Ojeda
@ojedacopete.bsky.social
Professor of Botany at the University of Cádiz (Spain). Love spearfishing and mountain hiking.
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Fernando Ojeda
@ojedacopete.bsky.social
· Jul 10
Hi there. This is Fernando Ojeda. Just landed from X where I left everything behind (posts, the few followers I had, and what have you. My interests are ecology, biodiversity and conservation of Mediterranean heathlands (herriza, fynbos), fire ecology and biotic interactions in carnivorous plants
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Dense and continuous pine plantations fuel severe wildfires and hinder recovery 🔥
Reducing tree density can lower impacts, guiding more resilient afforestation and fire management strategies in Mediterranean ecosystems 🌲
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Reducing tree density can lower impacts, guiding more resilient afforestation and fire management strategies in Mediterranean ecosystems 🌲
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
October 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Dense and continuous pine plantations fuel severe wildfires and hinder recovery 🔥
Reducing tree density can lower impacts, guiding more resilient afforestation and fire management strategies in Mediterranean ecosystems 🌲
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Reducing tree density can lower impacts, guiding more resilient afforestation and fire management strategies in Mediterranean ecosystems 🌲
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Álvaro Pérez Gómez defendió ayer su tesis doctoral en la UCA. Ha sido fácil y fascinante trabajar con él; entre otras cosas, por su formación naturalista, que traía ya de su mentor desde pequeño: Íñigo Sánchez. Álvaro ha realizado este breve documental de su tesis:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=kjpp...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=kjpp...
Vídeo presentación Tesis Doctoral Álvaro Pérez Gómez
YouTube video by Álvaro Pérez Gómez
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October 4, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Álvaro Pérez Gómez defendió ayer su tesis doctoral en la UCA. Ha sido fácil y fascinante trabajar con él; entre otras cosas, por su formación naturalista, que traía ya de su mentor desde pequeño: Íñigo Sánchez. Álvaro ha realizado este breve documental de su tesis:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=kjpp...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=kjpp...
When wildfires offer opportunities to native species, fire is part of the ecosystem. Drosera cuneifolia, a sundew species endemic to the western Cape mountains in South Africa. Very abundant in recently burnt patches of wet fynbos.
September 21, 2025 at 7:13 AM
When wildfires offer opportunities to native species, fire is part of the ecosystem. Drosera cuneifolia, a sundew species endemic to the western Cape mountains in South Africa. Very abundant in recently burnt patches of wet fynbos.
Summer blooming in the Mediterranean offers cooling stopovers to pollinators, as @cmhmaliani.bsky.social convincingly suggested (esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....). I wonder whether plants also benefit from enhanced flower showiness in a summer-whithered landscape.
August 12, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Summer blooming in the Mediterranean offers cooling stopovers to pollinators, as @cmhmaliani.bsky.social convincingly suggested (esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....). I wonder whether plants also benefit from enhanced flower showiness in a summer-whithered landscape.
El Levante en verano deja estas imágenes en el campo de Gibraltar. Las “barbas de Levante” (nubes de estancamiento) alivian la sequía estival en las sierras y contribuyen a explicar la riqueza y singularidad botánica del área del estrecho de Gibraltar.
August 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
El Levante en verano deja estas imágenes en el campo de Gibraltar. Las “barbas de Levante” (nubes de estancamiento) alivian la sequía estival en las sierras y contribuyen a explicar la riqueza y singularidad botánica del área del estrecho de Gibraltar.
In summer, Drosophyllum plants display their dry, open capsules upright on their stalks. Winds shake the stalks, helping to spread the seeds. We have also seen goats eating the stalks with the capsules (never the leaves!), suggesting the potential for ungulates as effective seed dispersers.
August 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
In summer, Drosophyllum plants display their dry, open capsules upright on their stalks. Winds shake the stalks, helping to spread the seeds. We have also seen goats eating the stalks with the capsules (never the leaves!), suggesting the potential for ungulates as effective seed dispersers.
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This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered
July 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered
Although not often, we have seen spiders crawling up and down Drosophyllum leaves and presumed the existence of kleptoparasitism (slide from a presentation in 2019).
July 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Although not often, we have seen spiders crawling up and down Drosophyllum leaves and presumed the existence of kleptoparasitism (slide from a presentation in 2019).
Comparto un breve documental que ha realizado mi hijo como TFM de su máster en Comunicación Científica y Medioambiental de la UPF. Ha contado con el asesoramiento científico de investigadores reconocidos (y amables!!) Espero que os guste.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=emk2...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=emk2...
He visto un lindo asesino
YouTube video by Guillermo Ojeda Muñoz
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July 22, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Comparto un breve documental que ha realizado mi hijo como TFM de su máster en Comunicación Científica y Medioambiental de la UPF. Ha contado con el asesoramiento científico de investigadores reconocidos (y amables!!) Espero que os guste.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=emk2...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=emk2...
Drosophyllum plants with leaf-traps fully covered with mucilage in a summer day (10 july) on bare, dry soils. How do they manage? We’re working on it.
July 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Drosophyllum plants with leaf-traps fully covered with mucilage in a summer day (10 july) on bare, dry soils. How do they manage? We’re working on it.
Drosophyllum lusitanicum is one of the rarest plants on earth. Find out more here:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=vy-f...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=vy-f...
Our carnivorous plant Drosophyllum lusitanicum - one of the rarest plants on Earth
YouTube video by Cultura Científica · UCA
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July 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Drosophyllum lusitanicum is one of the rarest plants on earth. Find out more here:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=vy-f...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=vy-f...
Hi there. This is Fernando Ojeda. Just landed from X where I left everything behind (posts, the few followers I had, and what have you. My interests are ecology, biodiversity and conservation of Mediterranean heathlands (herriza, fynbos), fire ecology and biotic interactions in carnivorous plants
July 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Hi there. This is Fernando Ojeda. Just landed from X where I left everything behind (posts, the few followers I had, and what have you. My interests are ecology, biodiversity and conservation of Mediterranean heathlands (herriza, fynbos), fire ecology and biotic interactions in carnivorous plants