Fernando Ojeda
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Professor of Botany at the University of Cádiz (Spain). Love spearfishing and mountain hiking. https://fernandoojedacopete.wixsite.com/fojeda
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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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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:

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Vídeo presentación Tesis Doctoral Álvaro Pérez Gómez
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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.
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Esa Amegilla sale enamorada. Flor de Toloache. Por cierto, un mariachi de mujeres fantástico que le canta a esa flor (m.youtube.com/watch?v=t147...). Pero tristemente conocida por como se ha abusado con ella (burundanga).
2. Flor de Toloache - Toloache (Audio Oficial)
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Huge, severe fires roasting the soil’s life, and the pine plantation self-perpetuating. Someone is making a lot of money with everyone’s biodiversity. Sad and outrageous.
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Una barbaridad difícilmente explicable sin tener en cuenta el paisaje forestal.
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Qué raro. Science Media Centre está asociado a la FECYT. Es un sitio oficial del Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades.
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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.
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Así las he visto yo casi siempre. Y yo soy de los que va con pantalón corto 🤦🏼‍♂️
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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.
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Although diptera constitute their prevalent prey, moths are a frequent capture in summer. The aldehyde nonanal, a potent atttrating semiochemical for moths, is one of the most abundant VOCs emitted by Drosophyllum leaf-traps. See more here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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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
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They meant C4 grasses.
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Today, my student (María Salces) has recorded this fascinating scene of a spider (likely Euryopis episinoides) stealing a prey ant (likely Aphaenogaster). Thanks to @biolvaro.bsky.social for identifications. Although not seen, the spider succeeded!
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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).
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Gracias, Profesor. Por empezar por algo: ¿Hay mayor presencia de elaiosomas en semillas de plantas rupícolas que en las de plantas de comunidades adyacentes no rupícolas? ¿Y en plantas de floración veraniega que en primaverales?
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Muchas de estas plantas rupícolas son mirmecócoras (dispersión por hormigas). Ahí puede estar la clave: producirán semillas cuando la actividad de hormigas es elevada (final del verano). Por eso florecen ahora.
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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.

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He visto un lindo asesino
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My pleasure! And many thanks to you for your comment.
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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.
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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