Jornadas
María Capa, coordinator of the Balearic Biodiversity Center (CBB), spoke about the center at the Presentación de la Red de Centros para el estudio y gestión de la Biodiversidad during the Jornadas de Presentación: Plan complementario de I+D+i en el área de biodiversidad.
06/10/24
Round table
Anna Díaz, manager of the CBB collections, moderated the round table in the XLII Fira del llibre de Palma: “Llibres i naturalesa, un binomi amb història” in which Cristina Bibiloni, Tomeu Bonet, Joan Mayol and Nivola Uyà participated.
06/01/24
Seminar
The CBB has made a presentation at the Centre Oceanogràfic de les Balears (IEO-CSIC) with the aim of continuing with current scientific collaborations and promoting new ones.
03/25/24
Talk
María Capa has given a talk framed in the calendar of activities for women’s month.
03/14/24
Seminar
The CBB has made a presentation at the Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB) with the aim of continuing with current scientific collaborations and promoting new ones.
02/02/24
Seminar
The CBB has made a presentation at the Institut Mediterrani d’Estudis Avançats (IMEDEA) with the aim of continuing with current scientific collaborations and promoting new ones.
01/19/24
VI Jornada de Recerca al Parc Nacional de Cabrera
María Capa and Claudio Padua, invited to participate in the VI Jornada de Recerca al Parc Nacional de Cabrera, organized by the Parc Nacional Maritim Terrestre de Cabera.
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They presented the preliminary results of their project “Analysis of the vulnerability of marine invertebrates protected from the Sea Balearic Islands through genetic analysis”. This day took place on December 14, 2023 of Centre Flassaders in Palma.
12/15/23
I Jornada de Ciència Oberta a la UIB
María Capa, coordinator of the CBB, was invited to the I Jornada de Ciència Oberta a la UIB: Impulsant la recerca responsable, transparent i col·laborativa and presented a presentation titled: “Col·leccionsBiològiques@UIB: més enllà dels armaris”.
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It was made emphasis on the need to generate public and quality natural history collections at the service of science in Baleares, which are a reference and example of collaborative and open science and presented the initiative of the Balearic Biodiversity Center. This event was held on November 24 of 2023 at the UIB.
11/27/23
Animal Classification: the order of natural chaos
Anna Díaz gave a talk at Ciencia a tot tren about natural classification on the emblematic Sóller train.
11/14/23
Oral communication
María Capa presented the oral communication: Mallorcan anchialine caves provide new discoveries of enigmatic annelids, as well as insights on coastal cave adaptations and connectivity at the V Congreso Ibérico de Sistemática Biológica in Madrid.
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Two species of annelids new to science were presented from the caves of Mallorca. The new “Knowledge Generation 2022” project was also introduced, aimed at continuing to explore these environments in search of new discoveries, the evolutionary relationships of cave-dwelling organisms with those of the open sea, and the adaptations that have allowed them to survive in these extreme environments.
10/25/23
Oral communication
María Capa presented the oral communication: Hidden diversity in a common Mediterranean marine annelid at the V Congreso Ibérico de Sistemática Biológica in Madrid.
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The results regarded the species delimitation of the genus Amphiglena species in the eastern Mediterranean and the consequences that the discovery of cryptic species may have in the management of marine species or communities.
10/25/23
Oral communication
Enrique Arboleda presented the oral communication: Identifying the need of having molecular data to better characterize the biodiversity of the Balearic Islands at the V Congreso Ibérico de Sistemática Biológica in Madrid.
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The BBC seeks to identify information gaps and to generate criteria to prioritize genomes to be sequenced by elaborating detailed lists of the animal biodiversity present in the ecosystems of the Balearic Islands, based on public databases and artificial intelligence tools to extract information from scientific publications.
10/25/23
Oral communication
Tommaso Cancellario presented the oral communication: Ecological niche and spatial evolution of two Balearic endemic lizards under potential climate change scenarios at the V Congreso Ibérico de Sistemática Biológica in Madrid.
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In this study, we estimated the current ecological niche and the probable future distribution of two species of endemic lizards (Podarcis lilfordi (Günther, 1874) and Podarcis pityusensis (Boscá, 1883)) of the Balearic Islands under climate change scenarios.
10/25/23
CBB presentation
On September 4, Anna Díaz presented the Balearic Biodiversity Center at the XXV Bienal de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural in Málaga.
09/05/23