Wetland areas have decreased by up to 33% globally over the past ten years, threatening
the biodiversity they support and essential ecosystem services they provide. Despite this, the …

Riparian zones act as ecological engineers through stream bank stabilization, pollutant
buffering, energy provision to food webs, and groundwater recharge. In the ongoing …

Simple Summary Bioindicators are organisms that react to the quality or characteristics of
the environment and their changes. They are vitally important to track environmental …

Habitat loss and forest fragmentation are currently substantially reducing the availability of
natural bat roosts worldwide. However, since bat populations have been recognized as …

Assessments of the ecological quality of riparian zones help ascertain the status of channel-
floodplain linkages, which are often affected by anthropogenic interventions, resulting in …

Bats are well known for playing an important role in several ecosystem services such as
arthropod population control, insect pest suppression in agricultural systems and vector …

Mediterranean habitats will be one of the Eurasian ecosystems more strongly affected by
Climate Change, especially their riverine systems. Monitoring these ecosystems, which are …

Background Linear transportation infrastructures (roads, railways, oil and gas pipelines,
powerlines and waterways) generate well documented fragmenting effects on species …

Marine habitat assessment using indicator species through Species Distribution Modeling
(SDM) was investigated. The bivalves: Corbula gibba and Flexopecten hyalinus were the …

The Biodiversity and Bioindicators research group (BiBIO), based at the Natural Sciences
Museum of Granollers, has coordinated four long-term faunal monitoring programmes based …