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