Álvaro Luna
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Álvaro Luna
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PhD in Biology 🐦🌍🦅 | Urban Ecology, Plastic Pollution & Wildlife Conservation | Head of the “Study and Conservation of Biodiversity” Research Group at the European University of Madrid
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Nueva Zelanda - Aotearoa tiene unos 2,5 millones de gatos asilvestrados. En 2026 incluirá al gato en la lista de depredadores que tratará de haber erradicado por completo para 2050
Canarias necesita algo así
@miteco.gob.es
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
‘Stone-cold killers’: New Zealand to eradicate feral cats by 2050
Feral cats are already caught and killed in some areas but will now be subject to coordinated targeting, with large-scale eradication programs
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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what next!!! ---- 2025. Endangered lemurs face new threat from the luxury meat trade phys.org/news/2025-11...
Endangered lemurs face new threat from the luxury meat trade
Lemurs, the small primates with bushy tails and large, expressive eyes, are among the world's most endangered species. According to the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List, ...
phys.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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🚨 New Research Alert!
Urban air pollution harms wildlife too. A study in Journal of Hazardous Materials shows yellow-legged gull chicks in Barcelona act as sentinels for air quality. 🐦🌆

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2025.140518
#OneHealth

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@jnavarro.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Just a few of the microplastics we've been finding in the beetles and bugs eaten by hedgehogs. Great to be joined by almost 200 people for this morning's webinar about our research @emilyzoologist1.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social @biologicalrecording.co.uk 🦔🌍 #plasticpollution #hedgehogs
November 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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The new issue of Oryx explores bear conservation across North America and Asia—from black bears in Hainan to brown bears in Nepal. With insights on habitat loss, local knowledge and policy reform, it highlights the urgent need for action in fragmented landscapes🐻
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Proximity to seabird colonies and water availability shape moss distributions in Antarctica vist.ly/4fqxk #SDM #Mosses #Biogeography
November 24, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Homo sapiens and the environmental mismatch hypothesis

"It is possible that the rapid industrialisation of our habitat is outpacing our adaptive capacity & is imposing selective pressures that threaten our evolutionary fitness." Longman & Shaw
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🧪🏺 #ecoevo
November 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.

It's *scientific publishing*.

We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
November 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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November 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Little owl (Athene noctua) and long-eared owl (Asio otus) in peri-urban Madrid (Spain).
November 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Aye
November 21, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Little owl (Athene noctua) and long-eared owl (Asio otus) in peri-urban Madrid (Spain).
November 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Tree cavities water-drinking birds in Brazil: outline based on a citizen science platform | link.springer.com/ar... | Ornithology Research | #ornithology 🪶
Tree cavities water-drinking birds in Brazil: outline based on a citizen science platform
Ornithology Research - Tree cavities are valuable resources for wildlife worldwide. Cavities serve various purposes including breeding, roosting, protection, thermoregulating and foraging. Among...
link.springer.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Doñana bajo el agua es un desastre
Cuatro nasas en la llegada del La Rocina a la marisma dan esto. Cangrejo rojo, /Procambarus clarkii/, y pez gato negro, /Ameiurus melas/.
Nada de anguilas, colmillejas, salinetes, pardillas, cachuelos o espinosos (spp presentes cuando se declaró el Parque Nacional)
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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The Amazon Rainforest was shaped by people. Analysis of 262 trees species across 1,521 forest plots reveals that both pre-Columbian Indigenous peoples and European colonists enduringly influenced the forest’s relative abundance of trees. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/VAqY50XuP38
November 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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New article! Researchers GPS-tracked 349 individuals across 18 species. Result?
👉 Home range scaling is sex-driven — and we were missing it.
🐆 🦌 🐗

With NINA-researcher Bernardo Brandão Niebuhr dos Santos and many more

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Sex Drives Intraspecific Scaling of Home Range Size in Mammals
We GPS tracked 349 resident individuals across 18 mammal species to, for the first time, gain a broad understanding of how individuals' sex modulates home range scaling within species. Males showed a....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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New Comment:

A quarter of a century after its publication, the biodiversity hotspot concept remains one of the most cited and influential frameworks in conservation science, but its real-world impact is poorly documented in peer-reviewed literature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Twenty-five years of misinterpreting the biodiversity hotspot approach - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A quarter of a century after its publication, the biodiversity hotspot concept remains one of the most cited and influential frameworks in conservation science. But its real-world impact is poorly doc...
www.nature.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Leshan (China)
August 17, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Lijiang
August 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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I often miss my summer in the Himalayas, and I hope I get the chance to visit that part of the world many more times.
November 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Given the lack of trustworthy & robust peer review by #MDPI (& to a certain extent #FrontiersIn 🔽), a lot of researchers are paying (& wasting) a lot of money to essentially publish a #preprint! #ResearchEthics #SocialLicense
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
November 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM