Joan Casanelles Abella

🚨🐝 When honeybees come to town: Critical aspects of urban beekeeping and opportunities for regulation

@joancasnelles.bsky.social @apiculturalLdn.bsky.social @katherinebaldock.bsky.social

📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/Wv5MatG

Space-for-time substitution approaches in ecology do work! (at least in temperate grasslands)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Urban bumblebees diversify their foraging strategy to maintain nutrient intake | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Anthropogenic ecosystems can alter individual functions and ecological processes such as resource use and species interactions. While variability of morphological traits involved in diet and resource ...

Perusing the list of all 2025 research projects that used iNaturalist- there are over 700. This one is quite interesting and right up my alley.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

IGUE - Gema Trigos Peral: Background mechanisms shaping ant communities in urban ecosystems YouTube video by Iberian Group of Urban Ecology

You can already watch (or watch again) the seminar given by @trigos-peral.bsky.social from @mizpas.bsky.social in our #UrbanEcology seminar series.
Would you like to know more about how urbanization (♨️💡) shapes ant 🐜 performance and behaviour?
Have a look here: youtu.be/G8N-bkMA-oA?...

The next IGUE #UrbanEcology seminar will take place in three weeks' time, on 20 November at 16:30 CET. It will be delivered by @trigos-peral.bsky.social 🐜🌇 from @mizpas.bsky.social

Scan the QR to save the event in your calendar or save the link:
teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

It's tomorrow at 16:30! @manudelbaq.bsky.social ( @irnase.bsky.social ) will inaugurate the Iberian Group of Urban Ecology's (AEET) online seminar series here:
teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

Excited to participate tomorrow in the Weihenstephaner Forum 2025 on Shared Landscapes :) If you’re in Freising, come!

www.acl-tum.de/forum/weifo25/

Our @igue-aeet.bsky.social is organizing a seminar series, starting with Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo @irnasa.bsky.social talk entitled "The fate of soil biodiversity and function under global environmental change".

23rd of October at 16:30 (Madrid time, CET)
LINK drive.google.com/file/d/18Bk2...

Joining the lab 2-year Postdoctoral position on VALOR EU-project: We are offering a 2-year postdoctoral position to join the Horizon EU project: Values and dependence of society on pollinators (VALOR; The candidat…

We are offering a 2-year postdoctoral position to join the @valor-project.eu Horizon EU project: Values and dependence of society on pollinators bartomeuslab.com/joining-the-...

🌍 New publication alert!

In our latest piece in Nature Cities, we highlight how biodiversity modeling can support urban planning by balancing human well-being with nature. This helps cities meet biodiversity targets while ensuring access to healthy ecosystems.

Read the article: buff.ly/zeRBrYh

In exactly one month (23 October), the Iberian Group of Urban Ecology kicks off a series of #UrbanEcology seminars!

We have the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo from @irnase.bsky.social for the first session.

Add the event to your calendar: drive.google.com/file/d/18Bk2...

Nuevo grupo de trabajo AEET

Se constituye el grupo de Trabajo sobre Ecología Urbana

@igue-aeet.bsky.social

Synthesis presentation by legendary Marco Moretti at #gfoe2025 on urban densification and biodiversity 🏙️🦇🐝🐌🪲🦕

Presenting our work on the foraging strategies of urban and rural #bunblebee indivifuals at the #gfoe2025 🐝
#urbanecooogy #individualbasedecology

See paper ar: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

The astonishing superpowers of nature’s most unloved animals From their odd appendages to their unsavory hygiene, certain animals suffer an image problem. But their awkward attributes can be their biggest advantages.

Did you know that "ugly-cute" animals like vultures, sloths, and aye-ayes play key roles in ecosystems? From cleaning up carcasses to preventing disease spread & pollination, these misunderstood creatures are vital to #biodiversity.🌏🧪

Find out more:

New research in #RESInsectConsDiv

Increased urbanisation promotes winner-loser species replacement & shifts in foraging #behaviour among #ant species in a large neotropical metropolis
doi.org/10.1111/icad.70010

#UrbanInsects #Ecosystems #EcologicalInteractions
@manusaunders.bsky.social @wiley.com

Examining Honeybee (Apis mellifera) Dominance Patterns Within Urban Bee Communities Worldwide We examine if and to what degree honeybees are dominant in urban bee communities worldwide. We found honeybees to be the most abundant organisms and highly dominant in most of the studies, although t...

🚨🚨paper out 🚨🚨
Our paper on honeybee dominance in cities is published in @ecol-evol.bsky.social #bees #urbanecology
#urbanbeekeeping

🐝🐝

👉🏻 dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Trends in background mortality in unmanaged forests across Europe over the last century In contrast to previous studies, dominant tree species in European strict forest reserves have not consistently experienced increasing background mortality. Conversely, forest reserves dominated by c...

🚨Paper alert 🚨Congelats to Jokin Idoate for leading this paper on tree mortalitat in European forest reserves

👉🏻 dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365...

The end of another field round in our urban gardens in Berlin for project #CityBees at UPE-TUM

No one-size-fits-all: trait-dependent effects of local plant diversity on pollinators and pollination service in a densifying city The densification of urban landscapes reshuffles plant--pollinator interactions and affects the provisioning of pollination services. Improving local-scale habitat quality, e.g. planting more flowers ...

🏵️ Preprint alert! 🐝

In an #urban garden experiment along independent #densification🏙️ × local garden floral richness🌷 gradients, floral richness maintains #pollination success under densification, but only for plants with higher floral specificity.

🔎 doi.org/10.22541/au....

#Traits #Pollinators

Can plants keep up with fire regime changes through evolution?

Our new paper is out in the July issue of @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social

📖 www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

with Hoffmann, Nitschke & @jgpausas.bsky.social
#fireecology #PlantBiology #ecoevo 🔥🌿🧬

🚨Paper alert🚨 Thanks @merinrejichacko.bsky.social for leading this amazing project!

Biodiversity modeling to manage urban ecosystems for people and nature - Nature Cities Cities are home to many species, so managing urban ecosystems accordingly is important. This Perspective argues for better integration of widely used biodiversity modeling frameworks and tools into ur...

After almost 4 years of intermittent work, our perspective on biodiversity modelling in urban ecosystems is finally out in @natcities.nature.com

👉🏻 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

New from #BiologyLetters: Pollinator Cognition in a Plant Network buff.ly/I01sNGu | #Ecology

After few months of emails, shared documents and video calls, the foundation of the Iberian Group of Urban Ecology has finally started at #Sibecol25! Thanks @hernandezaguero.com and @jjimenezpenuela.bsky.social and to all presenters and participants of the #urbanecology sessions, it’s been great 🌆

IGUE has just been presented into society in the @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social. Thank you to everyone who has come today and who has participate in the debate about what we want to do in the near future within this group. Up to the date, we have just received more than 60 requests!!

The third and final paper of my PhD is now out! @foxnat.bsky.social

We had a great session yesterday with @hernandezaguero.com and @jjimenezpenuela.bsky.social at #Sibecol25 on urban ecology with very interesting research topics including herbivory, butterflies, bees, pollutants, urban agriculture and salamanders 🏙️🌇

It is today!

Here you can find some urban ecology posters!