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Marta Miñarro
@stinkymarta.bsky.social
PhD student at Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales - CSIC 🌿
Trying to discover everything I can about Barbourula busuangensis
HERpetologist 𓆏
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New year, new publication 🔈

This time, by applying capture-mark-recapture methods we describe in detail the demography and potential homing behavior of Barbourula busuangensis.

Read the full paper here:
peerj.com/articles/186...

📷 by Javier Aznar
Reposted by Marta Miñarro
Notes to myself on biogeography and its biggest hits:

A timeline of how we figured out why life is where it is.

Let’s dive in some milestones I like for whatever reasons 🧵👇
January 28, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Reposted by Marta Miñarro
Presentación oficial: próximo jueves 30 de enero, en el @mncn-csic.bsky.social
January 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Reposted by Marta Miñarro
January 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM
New year, new publication 🔈

This time, by applying capture-mark-recapture methods we describe in detail the demography and potential homing behavior of Barbourula busuangensis.

Read the full paper here:
peerj.com/articles/186...

📷 by Javier Aznar
January 15, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Reposted by Marta Miñarro
Happy to share a list of people from the MNCN to follow them in just one click!

Let me know if I'm missing someone already on BlueSky!

go.bsky.app/TX5Umqv
December 4, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Reposted by Marta Miñarro
The stripes in this image are the #BiodiversityStripes representing the change in biodiversity, the richness of life on Planet Earth, over time. The highest level of biodiversity is coloured bright green. Lower levels move through yellow and fade to grey
#ExtinctionIsForever
#RebelForLife
November 21, 2024 at 7:40 AM
Reposted by Marta Miñarro
Last year, @armandrm.bsky.social , @jmvidalcordero.bsky.social , and I published this note showing that #ants can get entangled in plastic. It would be interesting to carry out more studies with other insects.

resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#plasticpollution #insects 🌎
Plastics and insects: Records of ants entangled in synthetic fibres
Although the global issue of plastic pollution has gained scientific significance, its impact on terrestrial ecosystems continues to be overlooked. We found ants entangled in plastic fibres on the i.....
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 18, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Check out our new paper describing the tadpole of Barbourula busuangensis! 📢✨ 

After lots of hard fieldwork we finally unraveled a century-old mystery 🌿

Read the full paper here: www.salamandra-journal.com/index.php/co...
November 19, 2024 at 2:23 PM