Antonio Zamora López

• Doctorando at University of Murcia

Global biodiversity is currently facing an unprecedented extinction rate because of increased anthropogenic pressures, which often cause local or regional extirpations of wildlife populations. Once extinct from a given region, wildlife populations might be officially reintroduced upon the cessation of the threats that caused past declines. However,...

Anticoagulant rodenticides (ARs) are widely used for pest control, resulting in their pervasive presence in the environment and posing significant toxicological risks to a range of predatory and scavenging species. Our study mainly aimed to evaluate AR exposure and effects in nestlings of eagle owl (Bubo bubo) from the Region of Murcia (southeaster...

Coastal lagoons, as transitional ecosystems, are crucial for providing ecosystem services and preserving fish communities, yet they face increasing pressures from anthropogenic activities. The Mar Menor coastal lagoon in the western Mediterranean exemplifies this challenge, as it suffers from severe eutrophication driven by agricultural and urban i...

Second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARs) are commonly used for rodent control, affecting various non-target wildlife species. Here, blood samples from common kestrels (Falco tinnunculus, n = 70 chicks) and barn owls (Tyto alba, n = 54 chicks and 12 adults) from Southeastern Spain were analysed using HPLC-TQ. SGAR prevalence was 68.6% in...

Aquatic ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to the introduction of non-indigenous species (NIS), leading to multi-faceted ecological, economic and health impacts worldwide. The Iberian Peninsula comprises an exceptionally biodiverse Mediterranean region with a high number of threatened and endemic aquatic species, most of them strongly impacted...

Agricultural intensification has caused a rapid loss of singular landscape elements worldwide, such as farmland ponds, hedgerows and field margins, leading to a steep decline in farmland bird populations. Farmland ponds and traditional small waterbodies (SWB) have been recently reported to support species-rich bird communities at landscape scale in...

Eutrophication is a major driver of the degradation of transitional waters worldwide, especially in environments with a restricted connection to the sea, such as coastal lagoons. In recent decades, intensive agriculture and urban water inputs around the Mar Menor coastal lagoon (Western Mediterranean) have disturbed this originally oligotrophic aqu...

El proyecto LIFE Salinas ha trabajado en el Parque Regional de las Salinas y Arenales de San Pedro del Pinatar, en la Región de Murcia, para demostrar que la mejora del estado de conservación de hábitats y especies es compatible con el aumento de la producción y de la calidad de la sal que se extrae en este espacio protegido.

Aim Over the last decades, the study of movement through tracking data has grown exceeding the expectations of movement ecologists. This has posed new challenges, specifically when using individual tracking data to infer higher‐level distributions (e.g. population and species). Sources of variability such as individual site fidelity (ISF), environm...

The LIFE SALINAS project, co-financed by the European Union, aims for the conservation and improvement of the protected area named the Regional Park of Las Salinas and Arenales de San Pedro del Pinatar (Region of Murcia, Spain). The main objectives are, among others, to stop the erosion of the dunes in front of a 500 m long beach and to expand the...

Farmland bird populations are declining worldwide as a consequence of agricultural intensifi-cation, and the loss of singular landscape elements has been suggested as one of the main drivers. This scenario of agroecosystem simplification is even more exacerbated in arid and semiarid regions, where traditional small waterbodies (SWB) are rapidly van...

Recoge los resultados de los censos de aves acuáticas invernantes y reproductoras entre 1972 y 2020, con el objetivo principal de dar a conocer la tendencia de las poblaciones, la evolución en la distribución y abundancia de las aves acuáticas que pasan el invierno, que se reproducen y que en sus movimientos migratorios atraviesan el conjunto de hu...

An updated checklist of YOY fish in shallow areas of the Mar Menor (Western Mediterranean) The Mar Menor is one of the largest coastal lagoons in the Mediterranean basin. This study provides an updated checklist of the fish species inhabiting its shallow areas as young of the year in the period 2018-2019. A total of 43 taxa in 19 families were dete...

Se presenta una lista actualizada de las especies exóticas que se encuentran en etapa de establecimiento o de propagación de la invasión en aguas continentales de la península ibérica. La lista está basada en la evaluación sistemática de los datos en colaboración con un amplio equipo de expertos de España y Portugal. Esta lista de actualización es...

An updated list is presented of the alien species in the establishment or spread invasion stage in in-land waters at the Iberian Peninsula. The list is based on a systematic assessment of information in collaboration with a wide expert team from Spain and Portugal. This updated list is an important tool supporting the implementation of the IAS Regu...

An updated list is presented of the alien species in the transport or introduction invasion stage in inland waters of the Iberian Peninsula. The list is based on a systematic assessment of information in collaboration with a wide expert team from Spain and Portugal. This list is an important tool to support the implementation of the IAS Regulation,...

Ponds are among the world’s most endangered freshwater ecosystems. A comprehensive knowledge of pond biodiversity is urgently required to inform effective pond management and conservation actions. Most studies about pond biodiversity focus on aquatic taxa, while the terrestrial biodiversity, especially of birds, has been little studied. Moreover, t...

A robust knowledge of biodiversity distribution is essential for designing and developing effective conservation actions. The choice of a suitable sampling method is key to obtaining sufficiently accurate information of species distribution and consequently to improve biodiversity conservation. This study applies multi-method occupancy models to 36...

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Nightjars are considered human-tolerant species due to the population densities reached in strongly managed landscapes. However, no studies have been done evaluating metal-related effects on physiology, condition or fitness in any nightjar species. The main aim of this study was to evaluate how metal exposure affects physiology and condition in red...

We report observations of nest visitation of multiple males to three nests of European Nightjars Caprimulgus europeaus. In one case, we report the direct observation of two males apparently exhibiting parental behaviour at the same nest. In two other cases, second males visited nests. We consider the potential functions of nest visits by extra-pair...

Robust knowledge of biodiversity distribution is essential for designing and developing effective conservation actions. However, monitoring programmes have historically assumed all species are detected equally with no spatial or temporal differences in their detection rates. However, recently, interest in accounting for imperfect detection has grea...

La fauna de peces de la cuenca del río Segura está compuesta, principalmente, por las especies que habitan ambientes dulceacuícolas como ríos, arroyos, humedales, embalses y otros sistemas artificiales. A nivel peninsular, esta fauna piscícola alberga un conjunto de especies muy rico y variado con un nivel de exclusividad o endemicidad altísimo. So...

La lechuza común (Tyto alba) es considerada la rapaz nocturna más ampliamente distribuida y estudiada a nivel mundial. Sin embargo, pese a su carácter cosmopolita, sus poblaciones sufren un fuerte declive generalizado, llegando incluso a perderse el 50 % de los efectivos durante la última década en la región sur mediterránea de España. La situación...

Coastal lagoons host important values and provide irreplaceable services to society. Communication areas with the sea (gullets, 'golas' in Spanish) are dynamic environments with a key role in their overall functioning, often representing also strongholds of biodiversity, which increases their conservation value and social demand for nature-based ac...

SUPLEMENTARY INFORMATION to "Zamora-Marín et al., 2018. Establecimiento de la almeja asiática Corbicula fluminea (Müller, 1774) en la cuenca del río Segura (SE Península Ibérica)". Limnetica 37 (1): 1-7 (2018)

Establecimiento de la almeja asiática Corbicula fluminea (Müller, 1774) en la cuenca del río Segura (SE Península Ibérica) En este trabajo se confirma el establecimiento de la especie exótica invasora Corbicula fluminea (Müller, 1774) en la cuenca del río Segura, ampliando la distribución geográfica de la especie en la Península Ibérica. Se aporta...

Los pequeños cuerpos de agua (abrevaderos, albercas y charcas) desempeñan un importante papel para la conservación de la biodiversidad en ambientes semiáridos, especialmente en el sureste ibérico. Numerosos estudios han analizado su contribución al mantenimiento de grupos animales con fases eminentemente acuáticas (p.e. anfibios e invertebrados), p...

El río Segura supone en la Región de Murcia un eje vertebrador en un entorno semiárido atosigado por el desarrollo agrícola y urbano. Sus sotos y bosques de ribera, aunque en muchos casos degradados y fragmentados, conforman un auténtico corredor verde para la fauna silvestre y en especial para las aves. El grupo de anillamiento de ANSE puso en mar...

Isla Grosa es una isla de origen volcánico de 18,72 ha, situada en el Mediterráneo a 2,5 km de la costa murciana de La Manga (figura 1). Declarada ZEPA en 2000, el Grupo de Anillamiento de ANSE desarrolla periódicamente en ella campañas de anillamiento durante ambos pasos migratorios, cuyo objetivo es determinar la composición y abundancia de las c...

El río Segura alberga muchos de los parajes naturales de mayor riqueza ambiental de la Región de Murcia, producto de los grandes contrastes climáticos que lo caracterizan, su topografía desigual y la compleja historia geológica que subyace a sus aguas. Nace en Pontones (Jaén) y, antes de desembocar al mar Mediterráneo a la altura de Guardamar, reco...

Desde 2007, y prácticamente de forma ininterrumpida (2007; 2009-2017), la Asociación de Naturalistas del Sureste (ANSE) desarrolla en Isla Grosa una campaña de anillamiento durante la migración prenupcial. En las 10 campañas realizadas hasta la fecha se han llevado a cabo de forma estandarizada 456 sesiones de anillamiento, distribuidas entre los m...

Conservation policies for the protection of marine biodiversity are being implemented in many international management treaties worldwide. The process of identification of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) is often based on the spatial preference of threatened species, such as many marine predators. Multi-colony tracking studies comprising a wide geogr...

The LIFE+ Segura-Riverlink is a project which aims to validate management measures for the development of a Green Infrastructure (GI) approach into the context of Mediterranean river basins characterized by high impacts. The project will recover the longitudinal connectivity in a sector of 54 km long in the Segura River implementing fish passes ove...

The avifauna component is one of most important and of greatest conservation concern as regards the biodiversity of the province of Murcia. The present catalogue consists of a total of 339 species belonging to 69 families and 24 orders, of which 78 are principally considered winter visitors, 51 passage migrants, 41 summer visitors, 85 resident, 82...

Se detecta por primera vez en noviembre de 2015 la presencia del cangrejo señal, Pacifastacus leniusculus (Dana, 1852), en la Cuenca del río Segura. Esta introducción, probablemente, es resultado de una liberación intencionada o negligente realizada por particulares. La expansión de la especie podría tener serias implicaciones medioambientales, a t...

El proyecto europeo LIFE+ Segura-Riverlink tiene como objetivo validar el correcto de-sarrollo de la implementación de una infraestructura verde (GI) en el contexto de cuencas hidrográficas mediterráneas caracterizadas por su alto grado de impacto. La aplicación de este proyecto incrementará la conectividad longitudinal en un tramo de 54 km del cau...

The Spanish toothcarp Aphanius iberus (Valenciennes) is an endemic cyprinodontid of the Iberian Peninsula which is currently catalogued as Endangered (EN) by International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and protected by national and international laws. The species is restricted to a few populations along the Spanish Mediterranean coastline...

In September 2013 the Regional Assembly of the Autonomous Community of Murcia adopted unanimously the creation of a pedestrian walkway to promote ecotourism, environmental education and research in the area of the ‘Encañizadas del Mar Menor’, a space between the aforementioned lagoon and the Mediterranean Sea. The regional representatives condition...

Las salinas litorales constituyen hábitats salinos muy característicos con extensas y heterogéneas áreas inundadas, por lo que resultan humedales clave para la conservación de la biodiversidad y los procesos ecológicos. El empleo de indicadores ambientales para la caracterización y seguimiento de los ecosistemas es por tanto de gran interés para la...