Projects – Biodiversity Research Institute

Sentinel network of the impact of wind energy on fauna and their habitat: Vertebrate remote monitoring technologies to improve the effectiveness of environmental impact assessment, WindWildNET.

Sentinel network of impacts of wind energy on fauna and their habitat: Remote monitoring of vertebrates to improve the effectiveness of environmental impact assessment. TED2021-132519B-I00.

Ecosystem services of traditional grazing: Biodiversity, carbon footprint and socio-economic sustainability. TED2021-131388B-I00

New methods for estimating carbon emissions in fires using artificial intelligence applied to 3D terrestrial point clouds.

Impact of climate change on the viability of fish and amphibians in mountain parks: evaluation of risks and climate refuges in horizons 2040, 2060 and 2080.

Ayudas para grupos de investigación consolidados de organismos del Principado de Asturias durante el período 2021-2023 (Referencia: IDI/2021/000075)

Ayudas para grupos de investigación consolidados de organismos del Principado de Asturias durante el período 2021-2023 (Referencia: AYUD/2021/51261)

Technical support for the realisation of the brown bear telemetry project in Castile and León.

Feedback between phenotypic variation and species, communities and ecosystems properties (SCALING).

A step forward for the conservation of threatened species in Spain: brown bear telemetry in the Cantabrian Mountains (bearMOVE).

The seed ecological spectrum of alpine plant communities (SEEDALP).

Effects of community assembly processes for trophic network structures in the high arctic: Implications for understanding the ecological consequences of climate change.

First telemetry project to study subadult dispersal in the small, isolated and endangered brown bear population in the Cantabrian Mountains.

Drivers of gut microbiome and parasite community assemblage in Chernobyl’s Przewalski horses.

Deciphering the causes of a recent avian radiation in Macaronesia. (Referencia: PGC2018-097575-B-I00).

Study of the loss of genetic variability as a determinant of demographic decline.

Especies clave para servicios ecosistémicos retroalimentados en agroecosistemas. Modalidad Grupos de Investigación Consolidados (Referencia: ECO/0026).

Ayuda económica a organismos públicos de investigación para apoyar las actividades que desarrollen sus grupos de investigación en el Principado de Asturias. Modalidad Grupos de Investigación Consolidados (Referencia: IDI/2018/000151).

Improving the effectiveness of wildlife damage compensation programs.

Interspecific information transfer as a mechanism of facilitation in animal communities.

Predicción ecofisiológica y evolutiva de los efectos del calentamiento global análisis de vulnerabilidad en anfibios a lo largo de gradientes altitudinales y latitudinales.

The brown bear in the Cantabrian Mountains as an example of the coexistence of humans and large carnivores in human-modified environment.

Biogeografía de ensamblaje de comunidades en islas de montaña.

Influence of physiological stress on the population decline of cantabrian capercaillie.

Abiotic and biotic influences on spatio-temporal population dynamics in Alpine environmental conditions: the snowfinches as a case study.

Identification of potential areas of brown bear range expansion in the Cantabrian Mountains.

Brown bear behaviour in human-dominated landscapes: the effect of human density and ecotourism.

Exploring the amphibian skin microbiome: ecological correlates and probiotic use to enhance disease resistance.

Disentangling the link between biodiversity and ecosystem services in Cantabrian agroecosystems: Taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic effects.

Testing for a protocol to monitor stress hormone metabolites in brown bear scats.

Melanin-based colour responses to climate change. A case study with snowfinches (genus Montifringilla and Pyrgilauda).

Testing ancient tools for human-large carnivore conflict mitigation: Effectiveness and costs of livestock guarding dogs to prevent wolf attacks.

The diversity beyond species richness to understand the structure of communities.

The role of thermal physiology in the assessment of vulnerability to the global warming. Integrating ecological, genetic, and phylogeographic factors into mechanistic models of response to climate change.

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Thermal niches and adaptations of alpine endemic grasshoppers.

Biotic and abiotic mechanisms determining species ranges and coexistence along elevational gradients.

Intraspecific biodiversity in amphibians – evolutionary and conservation implications in the National Park of Picos de Europa.

Ecosystem services under global change: linking plant-assemblies with dispersing frugívoro anthropogenic gradients seeds.

Looking for selection traces caused by pathogenic and thermal conditions in the genome of amphibians.

Genetic characterization, distribution and prevalence of emerging diseases in birds in a latitudinal and altitudinal gradient of the National Parks Network.

Dynamics and ecology movement in small and scattered populations: the Cantabrian capercaillie.

Bumblebees on mountain ecosystems would indicators of global change?