Presentation
The Biodiversity Research Institute (IMIB) is a mixed center that includes researchers from the Spanish National Research Council, from the University of Oviedo and from the Principality of Asturias. At IMIB we investigate how environmental changes caused by human activity affect biodiversity, the ecological and evolutionary processes that are the basis of its origin and maintenance, and the processes and ecosystemical services essential for our existence and well-being. We use different approaches -evolutionary, biogeographic, functional, ecological, and socio-economic-, and take into consideration all levels of biological organization, from genetic diversity to ecosystem, spatial and temporal scales, from continental to local scale, and from geological to contemporary.
IMIB has received two of the grants for research groups of organizations in the Principality of Asturias during the period 2021-2023:
IDI/2021/000075 y AYUD/2021/51261
Research highlights
Gomez-Cabellos, S., Toorop, P. E., Fernández-Pascual, E., Iannetta, P. P., Pritchard, H. W. & Visscher, A. M. (2022). (Epi) genetic control of secondary seed dormancy depth and germination in Capsella bursa-pastoris. Seed Science Research, 32(4): 200-221.
https://www.unioviedo.es/IMIB/wp-admin/post-new.php
Filella, J. B., Quispe Bonilla, C. C., Quispe, E., & Dalerum, F. (2023). Artificial intelligence as a potential tool for micro-histological analysis of herbivore diets. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 69(1), 1-5.
Patrones y procesos de renaturalización pasiva en la Cordillera Cantábrica. (2022). García, D., Suárez-Seoane, S., Jiménez-Alfaro, B., Álvarez, D., Álvarez-Álvarez, P., Álvarez-Martínez, J. M., Barquín, J., Calvo, L., Illera, J. C., Laiolo, P., Pérez-Silos, I., Quevedo, M., Roces-Díaz, J. V. & Santín, C. Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, España. CC-BY-NC-ND.
Dengler, J., Jansen, F., Chusova, O., Hüllbusch, E., Nobis, M. P., Van Meerbeek, K., … Jiménez-Alfaro, B., … & Gillet, F. (2023). Ecological Indicator Values for Europe (EIVE) 1.0. Vegetation Classification and Survey, 4: 7-29.
Pérez-Barbería, F. J., Gómez, J. A.& Gordon, I. J. (2023). Legislative hurdles to using traditional domestic livestock in rewilding programmes in Europe. Ambio, 52: 585–597.
Russo, L. F., Fernández-González, Á., Penteriani, V., Delgado, M. D. M., Palazón, S., Loy, A., & Di Febbraro, M. (2023). The Different Fate of the Pyrenean Desman (Galemys pyrenaicus) and the Eurasian Otter (Lutra lutra) under Climate and Land Use Changes. Animals, 13(2), 274.
Khatiwada, A. P., Wright, W., Kunkel, K., Khatiwada, M. P., Waterman, C., Bhattarai, S., … & Dalerum, F. (2022). Human influence on burrow activity of the Chinese pangolin in Nepal. Wildlife Research.
Recent news
“New animal protection law: benefit or obstacle for the survival of traditional pastoralism?” José Ángel Gómez Nieto y Javier Pérez Barbería. Agrodigital.com, 11 November, 2022.
Link to the full new (only in Spanish).
«Do animals predict their reproductive success and lifespan? The case of the deer.» Javier Pérez Barbería, Oviedo November 22, 2022.
Talk by Javier Pérez Barabería within the «Autumn Talks» of the CSIC, in the room of the Press Club of La Nueva España: C/ Federico García Lorca 7, Oviedo (in Spanish). Full information on the page of the CSIC-Asturias Delegation