Projects

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

Description
  • El pastoreo es una actividad milenaria de cuidado del ganado en el medio natural.
  • El pastoreo no sólo nos provee de carne, leche, pieles y lana, sino de servicios ecosistémicos beneficiosos para el medio ambiente y en condiciones de alto bienestar animal.
  • Pero una incorrecta gestión del pastoreo puede repercutir sobre el suelo, la vegetación y la fauna.
  • ECOSPAS tiene por objetivo estudiar cómo la gestión del pastoreo puede favorecer la biodiversidad, minimizar la huella de carbono, y asegurar su sostenibilidad socio-económica.
  • ECOSPAS está liderado por el Instituto de Investigación en Biodiversidad IMIB (CSIC), y reúne a 16 instituciones nacionales e internacionales.
  • ECOSPAS es un proyecto Estratégico Orientado a la Transición Ecológica, financiado por el Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación y fondos europeos NextGeneration.
    • Funding entity
    Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. Proyectos estratégicos de transición ecológica y digital.
    Duration
    1/12/22 to 30/11/24
    Principal investigator and contact
    Francisco Javier Pérez Barbería

    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.

    Funding entity
    EU – NextGenerationEU and supported by Fundación Biodiversidad, Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico (MITECO, Spain).
    Duration
    15/07/22 to 14/07/2025
    Principal investigator
    Patricia Mateo Tomás

    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.

    Funding entity
    Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. Proyectos estratégicos de transición ecológica y digital.
    Duration
    1/12/22 to 30/11/24
    Principal investigator
    Jose Vicente López Bao

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

    Funding entity
    Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. Plan Nacional (Spain)
    Duration
    1/1/22 to 31/12/24
    Principal investigator
    Cristina Santín Nuño

    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.

    Funding entity
    Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico, Organismo Autónomo Parques Nacionales (Spain)
    Duration
    2023 to 2025
    Principal investigator
    Alfredo G. Nicieza

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

    Funding entity
    Principado de Asturias (Spain)
    Duration
    2021 a 2023
    Principal investigator
    Paola Laiolo

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

    Funding entity
    Principado de Asturias (Spain)
    Duration
    2021 a 2023
    Principal investigator
    Susana Suárez Seoane

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

    Funding entity
    Dirección General de Patrimonio Natural y Política Forestal de la JCYL
    Duration
    2021 to 2022
    Principal investigator
    Vincenzo Penteriani

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

    Funding entity
    Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (Spain)
    Duration
    2021 a 2024
    Principal investigator
    Paola Laiolo

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

    Funding entity
    Mininsterio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (Spain)
    Duration
    2021 to 2024
    Principal investigator
    Vincenzo Penteriani

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

    Funding entity
    Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (Spain)
    Duration
    2020 to 2023
    Principal investigator
    Borja Jiménez-Alfaro

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

    Funding entity
    Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (Spain)
    Duration
    2020 to 2023
    Principal investigator
    Fredrik Dalerum

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

    Funding entity
    International Association for Bear Conservation and Management (IBA, USA)
    Duration
    2020 to 2021
    Principal investigator
    Vincenzo Penteriani

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

    Funding entity
    British Ecological Society
    Duration
    2020
    Principal investigator
    Germán Orizaola

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

    Funding entity
    Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (Spain)
    Duration
    2019 to 2022
    Principal investigator
    Juan Carlos Illera

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

    Funding entity
    Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico-Fundación Biodiversidad (Spain)
    Duration
    2019
    Principal investigator
    Mario Quevedo

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

    Funding entity
    BBVA foundation
    Duration
    2019 to 2021
    Principal investigator
    Daniel García García

    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).

    Funding entity
    Principado de Asturias
    Duration
    2018 to 2021
    Principal investigator
    Juan Carlos Illera

    Improving the effectiveness of wildlife damage compensation programs.

    Funding entity
    Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (Spain)
    Duration
    2018 to 2020
    Principal investigator
    José Vicente López Bao

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

    Funding entity
    Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (Spain)
    Duration
    2018 to 2020
    Principal investigator
    Paola Laiolo

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

    Funding entity
    Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (Spain)
    Duration
    2018 to 2020
    Principal investigators
    Miguel Tejedo Madueño and Alfredo González Nicieza
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    The brown bear in the Cantabrian Mountains as an example of the coexistence of humans and large carnivores in human-modified environment.

    Funding entity
    Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) and Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER, EU)
    Duration
    2018 to 2020
    Principal investigator
    Vincenzo Penteriani

    Biogeografía de ensamblaje de comunidades en islas de montaña.

    Funding entity
    Clarín COFUND program, Principado de Asturias, Marie Curie Actions
    Duration
    2018 to 2020
    Principal investigator
    Borja Jiménez-Alfaro

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

    Funding entity
    Principado de Asturias
    Duration
    2017
    Principal investigator
    Jesús Martínez Padilla

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

    Funding entity
    Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Spain)
    Duration
    2017 to 2020
    Principal investigator
    María del Mar Delgado

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

    Funding entity
    Principado de Asturias
    Duration
    2017
    Principal investigator
    Fredrik Dalerum and Vincenzo Penteriani

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

    Funding entity
    International Association for Bear Research and Management (IBA)
    Duration
    2017
    Principal investigator
    Vincenzo Penteriani

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

    Funding entity
    BBVA foundation
    Duration
    2016 to 2018
    Principal investigator
    Alfredo G. Nicieza

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

    Funding entity
    Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Spain)
    Duration
    2016 to 2019
    Principal investigator
    Daniel García

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

    Funding entity
    Principado de Asturias
    Duration
    2016
    Principal investigator
    Vincenzo Penteriani

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

    Funding entity
    British Ecological Society
    Duration
    2016
    Principal investigator
    María del Mar Delgado

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

    Funding entity
    BBVA foundation
    Duration
    2015 to 2017
    Principal investigator
    José Vicente López-Bao

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

    Funding entity
    Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (Spain)
    Duration
    2015 to 2018
    Principal investigators
    Paola Laiolo and Juan Carlos Illera

    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.

    Funding entity
    Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Spain)
    Duration
    2013 to 2015
    Principal investigator
    Alfredo G. Nicieza

    LICHENS

    Funding entity
    Fundación para el Fomento en Asturias de la Investigación Científica Aplicada y la Tecnología and EDP-HC
    Duration
    2013 to 2014
    Principal investigator
    José Ramón Obeso

    Thermal niches and adaptations of alpine endemic grasshoppers.

    Funding entity
    British Ecological Society – Small Research Grant
    Duration
    2013 to 2014
    Principal investigator
    Paola Laiolo

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

    Funding entity
    Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (Spain)
    Duration
    2012 to 2014
    Principal investigator
    Paola Laiolo

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

    Funding entity
    Autonomous Organisation of National Parks (Spain)
    Duration
    2012 to 2014
    Principal investigator
    Jose Manuel Cano

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

    Funding entity
    Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (Spain)
    Duration
    2012 to 2014
    Principal investigator
    Daniel García

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

    Funding entity
    Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (Spain)
    Duration
    2012 to 2014
    Principal investigator
    Jose Manuel Cano

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

    Funding entity
    Autonomous Organisation of National Parks (Spain)
    Duration
    2011 to 2014
    Principal investigator
    Juan Carlos Illera

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

    Funding entity
    Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (Spain)
    Duration
    2011 to 2013
    Principal investigator
    Mª José M. Bañueles and Mario Quevedo

    Bumblebees on mountain ecosystems would indicators of global change?

    Funding entity
    Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (Spain)
    Duration
    2010 to 2012
    Principal investigator
    José Ramón Obeso