Pablo Quiles Tundidor

Complutense University of Madrid | UCM · Biodiversity Ecology and Evolution

Roads have pervasive impacts on wildlife, including habitat loss and fragmentation, road mortality, habitat pollution and increased human use of habitats surrounding them. However, the effects of roads on interspecific interactions are less understood. Here we provide a synthesis of the existing literature on how species interactions may be disrupt...

Volunteer‐based roadkill monitoring schemes, including road carcass sampling, can represent considerable advances with respect to classical methods employed in conservation biology. We studied the genetic diversity, structure, and dynamics of the European polecat ( Mustela putorius ) across the Iberian Peninsula. We used samples of road carcasses c...

El turón europeo (Mustela putorius) es uno de los carnívoros menos estudiados de la fauna europea. Según la UICN, sus poblaciones han disminuido en varias regiones, incluyendo algunas en España y Portugal, aunque desconocemos la tendencia actual. En relación con esto, el estudio de la genética de poblaciones debe ser una prioridad en la conservació...

Data on SARS-CoV-2 infection in wildlife species is limited. The high prevalences found in mustelid species such as free-ranging American minks (Neovison vison) and domestic ferrets (Mustela putorius furo) justify the study of this virus in the closely related autochthonous free-ranging European polecat (Mustela putorius). We analysed lung samples...

In their normal color morph, polecats have black guard hair and light-yellow wool hair, except on the face, which is white with a black mask. This gives them a characteristic body appearance, generally very dark or contrasted with yellow where the guard is sparser like in the loin and belly. However, some polecats suffer erythrism, a pigmentation a...

Anticoagulant rodenticides can help to reduce rodent overpopulations in agricultural areas, but they also produce harmful effects on natural predators when ingested directly or by consuming poisoned preys. We aimed to study the presence of rodenticides in the European polecat (Mustela putorius), a renowned rodent consumer. Forty livers of roadkille...

El comportamiento de los animales cuando almacenan semillas determina el patrón espacial de la dispersión de muchas especies de plantas. Este trabajo evalúa el efecto de la territorialidad, la distancia recorrida desde la fuente de semillas y las preferencias espaciales a distintas escalas en el patrón espacial de dispersión de semillas y de plántu...

OBJETIVO: ¿Qué se sabe sobre los efectos que las carreteras pueden tener en los cinco principales tipos de interacciones interespecíficas? • Faltan estudios específicos que traten el efecto directo de la carretera sobre estas interacciones. • Faltan estudios con antes y después de la infraestructura que ayuden a cuantificar el efecto. • Se sabe muy...

Systematic road-kill surveys are useful to study the impact of roads on wildlife. However, they are time- and budget-consuming, so the use of non-systematic data in road ecology is currently gaining popularity (for instance, by environmental consultants). Some data sources such as atlases (i.e., compilations of species records from a given region),...

Oak regeneration and the expansion of forested sites in Eurasia rely on acorn dispersal by animals, especially the Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius). However, in open agroforestry systems where jays are absent, such as old-fields far from acorn sources, oak recruitment still occurs. We hypothesize that the Eurasian magpie (Pica pica), an abundant...

Las carreteras son una de las infraestructuras humanas que generan un mayor impacto, siendo los atropellos de fauna su consecuencia más visible y estudiada. La ciencia ciudadana está ganando popularidad como una fuente de datos (también en la Ecología de Carreteras) que permite estudios a una escala de otra forma inabarcable. Existe un debate sobre...

Introduction. The magpie is the most common corvid in Eurasia, which distribution overlaps with the distribution of many Quercus species. We assessed acorn dispersal of the magpie in a woodland and farmland mosaic. Methods. The study was conducted in Central Spain in a Q.ilex plantation surrounded by old-fields dominated by annual herbs. We used bi...