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Silvia Matesanz
@smatesanz.bsky.social
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Associate Professor @urjc 🎓
Working on evolutionary ecology of edaphic endemic plants in the Mediterranean. 🌱
Setting in motion an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master in Global Change and Biodiversity Management 🌎 https://globe-master.eu/
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revistaquercus.bsky.social
Dos documentales dedicados a las dehesas ibéricas son este mes las recomendaciones de nuestro colaborador Jonathan Gil Muñoz, director de El Guadarramista: "Dehesa en el oeste ibérico", de Francisco Márquez y "Grullas y dehesas", de José-Elías Rodríguez www.revistaquercus.es/noticia/9179...
Mares de encinas habitados por grullas
Dos documentales en formato de corta duración, dedicados a la dehesas ibéricas, son este mes los protagonistas de nuestra sección. Creadas por la acción humana ancestral para su aprovechamiento agríco...
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October 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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asundelosriosbsky.bsky.social
Happy to share our upcoming paper on pioneer microbial communities, including viruses, establishing after glacier retreat, result of a great collaboration @ua.es @mncn-csic.bsky.social @univgirona.bsky.social @pepa-anton.bsky.social @estherrubioport.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
Short-term virus-host interactions and functional dynamics in recently deglaciated Antarctic tundra soils
Abstract. Long-term chronosequence studies have shown that, as glaciers retreat, newly exposed soils become colonized through primary succession. To determ
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September 11, 2025 at 8:05 AM
smatesanz.bsky.social
So happy to see this paper out, a result from a great collaboration!
asunrdgz.bsky.social Asun Rodríguez @asunrdgz.bsky.social · Sep 11
If you want to learn more about how tree nutrient uptake🌳mediated by ectomycorrhizal fungi🍄 could be compromised under increasing drought💧🌡️, take a look at our paper
@Oikos_Journal here
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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September 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Does plasticity change when environments become more complex? Check out our paper to find out!!
globalchangebio.bsky.social Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · Aug 11
Interactive Effects of Warming and Competition Do Not Limit the Adaptive Plastic Response to Drought in Populations of a Mediterranean Plant

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@iicg-urjc.bsky.social @marinirm.bsky.social @smatesanz.bsky.social @marioblancosanchez.bsky.social @biodiversosurjc.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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gismau.bsky.social
El cambio climático ya ha blanqueado el 84 % de los corales del mundo, ¿todavía se pueden salvar? .

theconversation.com/el-cambio-cl...
El cambio climático ya ha blanqueado el 84 % de los corales del mundo, ¿todavía se pueden salvar?
Con el calentamiento de las aguas, los corales están sufriendo un nuevo episodio de blanqueamiento, lo que los pone en peligro si la situación se prolonga. Pero aún no es demasiado tarde.
theconversation.com
June 16, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Julio Díaz y Cristina Linares, investigadores: "La contaminación es mucho más peligrosa que el calor".

Entrevista al 100 % de @gismau.bsky.social

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Julio Díaz y Cristina Linares, investigadores: "La contaminación es mucho más peligrosa que el calor"
Los mayores expertos en salud y cambio climático acaban de publicar un extenso estudio sobre el daño de la contaminación del aire
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June 16, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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biodiversosurjc.bsky.social
Un gran grupo de #biodiversos han estado esta semana en Pontevedra en #SIBECOL2025 Especial mención a Adrián Escudero por su premio Luis Balaguer, a Silvia Matesanz por impartir una de las plenarias y a Ester Hernández por su premio al mejor póster @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social @sibecol.bsky.social
June 6, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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txaverius.bsky.social
La fabulosa esfinge colibrí bebiendo néctar de Verbena hoy bajo un sol cruel en el RJB-CSIC.
June 15, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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bjesseshapiro.bsky.social
Are you a recent PhD (or soon to be PhD) from outside Canada looking to do a postdoc in Quebec?

Get in touch if you are excited about microbes, evolution, ecology, genomics (or all of the above!) and I'd be happy to help develop a project together!

www.mcgill.ca/gps/funding/...
PBEEE/Quebec Merit Scholarship for Foreign Postdocs and Visiting Research Student and Visiting Researchers
**Note that the FRQ is in the process of revamping their webpages. We will update links soon as we can with the current 2025 year's information. Be sure to check back to see if any eligibility or docu...
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June 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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cmcclune.bsky.social
Today in Nature we report a systematic strategy to activate & identify gene sets in plants. We identify 8 new genes from the yew tree's Taxol biosynthetic pathway, enabling us to engineer tobacco with 17- & 20-gene pathways to Taxol precursors baccatin III & deBz-deoxy-Taxol #SingleCell #secmet 🧬🧪🌾
Discovery of FoTO1 and Taxol genes enables biosynthesis of baccatin III - Nature
An approach that combines single-nucleus RNA sequencing and multiplexed perturbation identifies genes that enable the biosynthesis of direct precursors of the anti-cancer drug Taxol, whose curren...
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June 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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biologiaurjc.bsky.social
¡Oferta de #trabajo con plantas rupícolas!
biodiversosurjc.bsky.social Biodiversos URJC @biodiversosurjc.bsky.social · Mar 17
Oferta de #trabajo como técnico en ecología experimental con plantas rupícolas con Martí March del @iicg-urjc.bsky.social .
Más info y contacto:
✉️ [email protected]
🌍 www.martimarchsalas.com

Seguro que entre @jovenesbotanica.bsky.social interesa
March 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
smatesanz.bsky.social
Check out our last study, brilliantly lead by @ramirezval.bsky.social. If your are interested in adaptive intraspecific variation and wanna learn more about how selection acts on unexplored functional traits related to plant hydraulics, don't miss out!
ramirezval.bsky.social Jose A Ramirez-Valiente @ramirezval.bsky.social · Mar 11
Strong intraspecific variation🌳and coordination of growth, gas exchange and hydraulics as a result of adaptation to temperature and precipitation gradients. Check out our new paper👇 @smatesanz.bsky.social @albaanadon.bsky.social @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
March 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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antonelli-lab.bsky.social
Join us! Exciting three-year postdoc opportunity integrating the latest techniques to estimate current levels of biodiversity and carbon storage and predict the recovery potential of rainforest restoration sites. Deadline: 17 March 2025. More details here: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
View of rainforest with distant mountains in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil.
March 5, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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rbgkew.bsky.social
JOB: Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Biodiversity Genomics & help unlock the genetic secrets of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest 🌿

From microbial diversity to bioactive compounds, your work will help shape conservation & bioeconomy research

📅 Apply by 13 April

👉 careers.kew.org/vacancy/post...
An aerial shot of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest
March 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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ana-sl-rodrigues.bsky.social
The Ecology & Behaviour annual conference is organised BY and FOR young researchers. In 2025 it comes back to Montpellier @ the Center for Functional & Evolutionary Ecology.
Highly recommended to PhD students & postdocs - come to share your science, make new friends & meet your future collaborators!
ecobhvr2025.bsky.social Ecology & Behaviour 2025 @ecobhvr2025.bsky.social · Nov 22
🚨SAVE THE DATE 🚨 The 17th Ecology & Behaviour is back at the CEFE!
Join us from August 11-15, 2025. Don't miss out!

Sign up here for updates: listes.services.cnrs.fr/wws/subscrib...
And, of course, follow us here! #ecobhvr2025
Logo for the 17th Ecology & Behaviour conference that will be hosted in Montpellier, France from August 11-15, 2025. The logo includes a black and white flamingo made up of other animals.
December 18, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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🆕 in Ecological Monographs: Summer-blooming plants in a hot setting cool their flower heads, creating a "refrigerated floral layer" that aids pollination

📄Flowers that cool themselves: Thermal ecology of summer-blooming thistles in hot Mediterranean environments
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Capitula of the 15 species of summer-flowering Asteraceae, tribe Cardueae, from the southern Iberian Peninsula considered in this study. In parentheses following species names are average dry mass of individual capitula, and abbreviations for the study site(s) where each species was investigated (SC, Sierra de Cazorla; SM, Sierra Morena; LG, lowlands of Guadalquivir River valley): 1, Carduus granatensis (2.68 g, SC); 2, Carlina gummifera (6.20 g, LG); 3, Carlina hispanica (0.52 g, SC, SM); 4, Carlina racemosa (0.26 g, SC, SM); 5, Carlina vulgaris (0.54 g, SC); 6, Carthamus lanatus (0.70 g, SC); 7, Centaurea calcitrapa (0.18 g, SC); 8, Centaurea ornata (0.45 g, SM); 9, Cirsium acaule (0.33 g, SC); 10, Cirsium odontolepis (5.98 g, SC); 11, Cirsium pyrenaicum (0.11 g, SC); 12, Cirsium vulgare (1.07 g, SC); 13, Mantisalca salmantica (0.10 g, SC); 14, Picnomon acarna (0.29 g, SC); 15, Ptilostemon hispanicus (1.23 g, SC). Species are depicted at different scales, black bar = 10 mm
March 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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iicg-urjc.bsky.social
The new article co-authored by Angela Illuminati,
@smatesanz.bsky.social , Ana María Sánchez, Marcelino de la Cruz, Marina Ramos Muñoz, Jesús López Angulo and Adrián Escudero, IICG researchers.
👀You can read it now👇
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February 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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biodiversosurjc.bsky.social
Ya tienen preparadas las mallas antipolinizadores en los experimentos de #EvolCrop. Las Brassica rapa a punto de florecer y dentro de cada malla, cajas con sírfidos para garantizar la polinización entre los individuos aislados en cada bandeja @ruben-milla.bsky.social @smatesanz.bsky.social
February 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
smatesanz.bsky.social
Interesad@ en pedir una ERC Grant? Hemos preparado una jornada informativa muy interesante. Apúntate!!
iicg-urjc.bsky.social Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · Jan 17
🚨Organizamos una Jornada Informativa sobre las ERC Grants.

🗓️¿Cuándo? 3 de febrero a las 10:00
📍¿Dónde? Departamental II, Campus de Móstoles URJC

❗Aún tenemos plazas libres

Inscríbete👇
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January 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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iicg-urjc.bsky.social
🌱You can now read the research study by IICG researchers Christian Schöb and Jesús López Angulo👇
January 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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miteco.gob.es
🌡️ En 2023, la temperatura media del mar que rodea a España fue la más alta desde que se tienen registros

► Aumentan las temperaturas en las zonas costeras
► Sube el nivel del mar

El cambio climático no admite prórrogas
January 10, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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fernadovalladares.bsky.social
Los fuegos de Los Angeles en este enero nos recuerda que de California podemos hablar de un "cambio climático con esterorides" al reunir uno de los cocteles climáticos mas letales: sequía, viento, largos meses con vegetacion desecada...

#CambioClimatico
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Climate change: What role is it playing in the California fires
Experts say that rising global temperatures are making wild fires more likely in California.
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January 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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aberron.bsky.social
‼️ El año 2024 reventó los registros: fue el más cálido desde 1850 y el primero en superar el límite de 1,5 grados sobre la media preindustrial
El año 2024 reventó los registros: fue el más cálido desde 1850 y el primero en superar el límite de 1,5 grados
El servicio climático Copernicus confirma la ascensión sin precedentes de la temperatura del planeta: cada año de la última década es uno de los diez más cálidos registrados y todos los indicadores es...
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January 10, 2025 at 7:03 AM
smatesanz.bsky.social
🎉 New Year, New Goals! 🎯 Is starting a Master's programme on your 2025 resolution list? 🌍 Look no further! Applications for the GLOBE Erasmus Mundus Master in Global Change Ecology & Biodiversity Management are STILL OPEN! 🦋🌱
January 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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newphyt.bsky.social
Explore inspiring talks and sessions from our recent New Phytologist next generation scientists #npnextgen meetings: https://cassyni.com/s/npnextgen

Applications for New Phytologist next generation scientists 2025 are open! https://www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevents/2025
New Phytologist next generation scientists - seminars · Cassyni
New Phytologist next generation scientists symposia are free events with the unique aim of providing the next generation of plant scientists a chance to share their work with their peers and…
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January 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM