Clara Pladevall

Andorra Recerca + Innovació

Poster presenting the project PHYLOPYR at the 4th Syposium of the Spanish Botanic Society (SEBOT), hosted in León, 2023

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Climate change has been associated with both latitudinal and elevational shifts in species’ ranges. The extent, however, to which climate change has driven recent range shifts alongside other putative drivers remains uncertain. Here, we use the changing distributions of 378 European breeding bird species over 30 years to explore the putative driver...

High mountain habitats are globally important for biodiversity. At least 12% of birds worldwide breed at or above the treeline, many of which are endemic species or species of conservation concern. However, due to the challenges of studying mountain birds in difficult-to-access habitats, little is known about their status and trends. This book prov...

Declines in European bird populations are reported for decades but the direct effect of major anthropogenic pressures on such declines remains unquantified. Causal relationships between pressures and bird population responses are difficult to identify as pressures interact at different spatial scales and responses vary among species. Here, we uncov...

Here we provide the ‘Global Spectrum of Plant Form and Function Dataset’, containing species mean values for six vascular plant traits. Together, these traits –plant height, stem specific density, leaf area, leaf mass per area, leaf nitrogen content per dry mass, and diaspore (seed or spore) mass – define the primary axes of variation in plant form...

Wetland bird species have been declining in population size worldwide as climate warming and land-use change affect their suitable habitats. We used species distribution models (SDMs) to predict changes in range dynamics for 64 non-passerine wetland birds breeding in Europe, including range size, position of centroid, and margins. We fitted the SDM...

Species diversity may be underestimated even in well-explored mountain regions due to the lack of in-depth research in taxonomically intricate groups. Filling such knowledge gap is necessary to optimize conservation management, specially for species occurring in vulnerable ecosystems such as Southern European mountains. Campanula sect. Heterophylla...

The level of threat of 502 fungi from Andorra has been evaluated according to the data obtained from the bibliography and field observations. The information from these works has been compared with the biodiversity databases and the red lists of neighbouring countries. Subsequently, the different taxa were determined with the IUCN methodology in or...

Mountain areas often hold special species communities, and they are high on the list of conservation concern. Global warming and changes in human land use, such as grazing pressure and afforestation, have been suggested to be major threats for biodiversity in the mountain areas, affecting species abundance and causing distribution shifts towards mo...

Desde la publicación en el año 2008 de la Check-list i Llista vermella de la flora d’Andorra, el Centre d’Estudis de la Neu i de la Muntanya d’Andorra (CENMA) ha ido realizando un seguimiento anual por ambientes de algunos de los taxones más amenazados a nivel nacional. Durante este estudio también se han recogido datos poblacionales y su estado de...

RESUMEN: Se actualiza el listado de la flora vascular de Andorra. Con la in-formación de publicaciones externas y trabajos propios del CENMA, se añaden 57 nue-vos taxones para el Principado a la checklist vigente desde 2008, siendo el total actual de 1.594 taxones. ABSTRACT: New taxa for the checklist of vascular plants of Andorra. We update the ch...

We update the checklist of vascular plants of Andorra. With external publications or own CENMA's studies, 57 new taxon have been added for the Principality of Andorra to the current checklist, published in 2008, being 1.594 taxon at present.

Snowbed habitats are home to plant species that have adapted to particular environmental conditions (i.e. long-lasting snow cover and short growing seasons). The presence of most of these species is dependent on a long period of snow cover and so their conservation may well depend in the future on their ability to adapt to the effects of climate ch...

QuestionsHumans are altering land use and impacting grazing intensities worldwide in alpine and sub-alpine grasslands, and functional diversity (FD) is a useful tool for predicting changes in these grassland communities and for improving biodiversity conservation. We asked: (1) how does functional richness (FRic) differ between the five predominant...

Resumen A principios del año 2010, paleontólogos del Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP) empezaron la exploración de la cueva de Vida Tripa, localidad recientemente descubierta en los Pirineos franceses. Este yacimiento ha proporcionado hasta la fecha una excelente colección de fósi-les de las especies Ursus deningeri, Panthera...

Messor bouvieri is a seed-harvesting ant species in which workers forage in trails from the nest to a search area. A previous observation of seed transfer events between workers returning to the nest suggested potential task partitioning. In this study, we describe seed transportation and analyze the role of task partitioning in the foraging strate...