Research Group BiBio
Biodiversity and Bioindicators
Biodiversity and Bioindicators
Research Group BiBio

About us

As biodiversity is becoming increasingly threatened by global change, robust methods for measuring current trends of wildlife populations are urgently needed. Monitoring programmes based on citizen science have become a central part in the conservation of biodiversity worldwide. These programmes allow to collect a wealth of data covering large spatial and temporal scales that, otherwise, would be impractical to obtain due to economic constraints. In parallel, new analytical tools have made these data robust and very useful for estimating population trends of a large number of species. Our group has a long tradition on coordinating successful biodiversity monitoring programmes and working in coordination with the administrative bodies responsible for the conservation of biodiversity in our country. We coordinate four monitoring programmes based on citizen science, covering a wide range of taxa, from butterflies to small mammals and bats. Data from these monitoring programmes forms the core of the BiBio research group.

More particularly, we investigate population trends of common and endangered species, and how are they affected by climate change and landscape change (including the impact of land abandonment and infrastructures). Data from our studied groups is also used to evaluate the ecosystem services they provide, especially in relation to sustainable agriculture and integrated pest-management. In addition, BiBio has a working line on the ecology and conservation of tropical biodiversity

Research Lines

Conservation of biological diversity in Catalonia: the role of monitoring programmes

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Responses of animal populations to climate change
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Landscape change, fragmentation, and connectivity
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Mutualistic and antagonistic relationships among species
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Ecosystem services, integrated pest management and sustainable agriculture
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Ecology and Conservation of Tropical Biodiversity
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Ecology and Conservation of endangered species
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Infrastructure impact

Monitoring programmes

As biodiversity is becoming increasingly threatened by global change, robust methods for measuring current trends of wild faunal populations are urgently needed. Monitoring programmes aimed at recording biodiversity changes over time have become indispensable tools for biodiversity conservation. The research group BiBio coordinates four monitoring programmes based on citizen science, covering a wide range of taxa, from butterflies to small mammals and bats. Data from these monitoring programmes forms the core of the BiBio research group.

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Catalan Butterfly Monitoring Scheme

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Bat Monitoring Programme

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Common Small Mammals Monitoring Programme

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Dormouse Project

Services

 

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Chiroptera Query Tool

Chiroptera distribution query tool
for public administrations

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Explore Monitoring Sites

All the sites are integrated in a single map
in order to easily access the results
of various montoring schemes

Contact Us

Natural Sciences Museum of Granollers
Francesc Macià 51 Granollers 08402
Phone number: 0034 938 709 651 ext. 2230

cbms@catalanbms.org
info@batmonitoring.org
info@semice.org
info@lirons.org

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