Transcontinental 2200 km migration of a Nathusius’ pipistrelle (Pipistrellus nathusii) across Europe

AbstractA male Pipistrellus nathusii ringed in Pape Natural Park (S Latvia) in August 2015 was recovered recently dead in Pitillas’ Lagoon Natural Reserve (N Spain) in March 2017. At 2224 km in SSW direction, this is the first documented bat migration between these countries and worldwide the longest migration record of a bat. We also report other observations of this species in autumn in Northern Spain, suggesting that the Iberian Peninsula may be an important wintering area for Nathusius’ pipistrelles. Conservation measures should be agreed on by countries along the migration routes to improve the protection of this species.

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Population trends of the griffon vulture Gyps fulvus in Northern Spain between 1969 and 1989 in relation to conservation measures

Biological Conservation ◽

10.1016/0006-3207(90)90001-6 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 53 (2) ◽

pp. 83-91 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

JoséA. Donázar ◽

Carmelo Fernández

Keyword(s):

Population Trends ◽

Northern Spain ◽

Griffon Vulture ◽

Gyps Fulvus ◽

Conservation Measures

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Ethnobotanical Resources Management in the Arribes del Duero Natural Park (Central Western Iberian Peninsula): Relationships between Plant Use and Plant Diversity, Ecological Analysis, and Conservation

Human Ecology ◽

10.1007/s10745-013-9603-y ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 41 (4) ◽

pp. 615-630 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

José Antonio González ◽

Mónica García-Barriuso ◽

Rubén Ramírez-Rodríguez ◽

Sonia Bernardos ◽

Francisco Amich

Keyword(s):

Iberian Peninsula ◽

Plant Diversity ◽

Ecological Analysis ◽

Resources Management ◽

Plant Use ◽

Natural Park

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Sclerophora peronella new to the Iberian Peninsula

The Lichenologist ◽

10.1017/s0024282904014288 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 36 (3-4) ◽

pp. 265-267 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Guillermo Amo ◽

Ana Rosa Burgaz

Keyword(s):

Iberian Peninsula ◽

Fagus Sylvatica ◽

Research Group ◽

Southern Europe ◽

Central Spain ◽

Beech Forests ◽

The Third ◽

Natural Reserve ◽

First Time

An interesting calicioid lichen has been collected as a consequence of the study that our research group is developing in the Iberian meridional beech forests. One of these is the forest Natural Reserve “Chaparral de Montejo” (Madrid Province), which represents one of the southern biogeographic limits of Fagus sylvatica in the Iberian Peninsula. The geological substratum is Silurian clayey slate. It is located in the Supramediterranean belt of central Spain. Sclerophora peronella has been found for the first time in the Iberian Peninsula and for the third time in southern Europe. The previous records in S Europe are from Calabria (Italy) by Puntillo (1992) and from Corse (France) by Vězda (Lich. Sel. Exs. 828).

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Potential impacts of wind farms on migratory birds crossing Spain

Bird Conservation International ◽

10.1017/s0959270908008137 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 131-136 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

JOSÉ LUIS TELLERÍA

Keyword(s):

Iberian Peninsula ◽

Preventive Measures ◽

Migratory Birds ◽

Cumulative Effect ◽

Wind Farms ◽

Main Flow ◽

Rapid Expansion ◽

Migratory Species ◽

Northern Spain ◽

Potential Impact

SummaryOver recent years, Spain has undergone a huge expansion in the number of wind farms, many of which extend across regions crossed by migratory birds that winter in the Iberian Peninsula and Africa. This paper explores the potential impact these structures have on the massive flow of birds along the western Pyrenean flyway. Ringing recoveries of migratory Wood Pigeons Columba palumbus were used in the study to depict the movements of migratory birds and these were then compared to the distribution of wind farms. The main flow of pigeons (50% of ringing recoveries) was concentrated in a belt 50 km wide. Although the wind farms were mainly distributed outside this central belt, they intercepted an adjacent sector where a considerable number of ringed pigeons (30%) were recorded. This means that the two central bands (100 km wide) accounted for around 80% of the total number of Wood Pigeons crossing the region. These results suggest the need for a scrupulous evaluation of the potential impact of wind farms on migratory birds along this flyway, particularly the cumulative effect on populations crossing the region regularly. In view of the rapid expansion of wind farms in northern Spain, enforcement of the application of EU regulations on preventive measures to protect migratory species is urgently needed.

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All across Africa: highly individual migration routes of Eleonora's falcon

Proceedings of The Royal Society B Biological Sciences ◽

10.1098/rspb.2008.0575 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 275 (1653) ◽

pp. 2887-2896 ◽

Cited By ~ 63

Author(s):

Marion Gschweng ◽

Elisabeth K.V Kalko ◽

Ulrich Querner ◽

Wolfgang Fiedler ◽

Peter Berthold

Keyword(s):

West Africa ◽

Satellite Telemetry ◽

Late Summer ◽

Breeding Period ◽

Migration Route ◽

Migration Routes ◽

Long Distance ◽

Wintering Area ◽

Eleonora’S Falcon ◽

Falco Eleonorae

Eleonora's falcon ( Falco eleonorae ) is a rare raptor species that delays its breeding period until late summer to feed its young with passerines at the peak of autumn migration. Since the 1950s, this slender winged falcon has been believed to migrate along a historical route via the Red Sea to its main wintering area in Madagascar. In our study, we used satellite telemetry to investigate the real migration route of Eleonora's falcons and found that the species displayed a highly individual migration pattern. Furthermore, juvenile falcons migrated via West Africa to Madagascar and two juveniles could be tracked during spring migration and to their summering areas in East and West Africa. As juveniles migrated independently of adults, we discuss inherited navigation strategies forming part of a complex navigation system. We propose the idea of an orientation mechanism that naive falcons could apply during their long-distance migration towards their faraway wintering area located in the open ocean.

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The genus Uroseius Berlese (Acari: Mesostigmata: Uropodina: Trachytidae) in the Iberian Peninsula with description of a new species associated with animal remains

Systematic and Applied Acarology ◽

10.11158/saa.24.5.14 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 24 (5) ◽

pp. 929

Author(s):

Maria L. Moraza ◽

Sandra Pérez-Martínez

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Iberian Peninsula ◽

New Record ◽

Northern Spain ◽

Adult Females ◽

Animal Remains ◽

The World ◽

Biological Aspects ◽

First Time ◽

A New Species

Description of a new species of Uroseius Berlese based on deutonymph and female specimens from northern Spain is presented. Observations of some cuticular organs on idiosoma and legs are described for the first time for the genus. An attempt to notate idiosomal setae as in Gamasina mesostigmatid mites is made based on complete dorsal chaetome of larval and pronymphal instars of Uroseius and Apionoseius Berlese species. Uroseius acuminatus (C.L. Koch) is a new record for the Iberian Peninsula. General morphological and biological aspects of Uroseius are presented. A tentative key, provided for separation of the 15 deutonymphs and nine adult females of the world species of Uroseius, is given.

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New species of aquatic oligochaetes (Annelida: Clitellata) from groundwaters in karstic areas of northern Spain, with taxonomic remarks on Lophochaeta ignota Štolc, 1886

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.2332.1.2 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 2332 (1) ◽

pp. 21 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

PILAR RODRIGUEZ ◽

AINARA ACHURRA

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Iberian Peninsula ◽

Reproductive Organs ◽

Northern Spain ◽

Aquatic Oligochaetes ◽

Two New Species

We describe two new species: Gianius navarroi n. sp. (Phallodrilinae) and Isochaetides gianii n. sp. (Tubificinae), which were discovered during investigations on the groundwater oligochaete fauna in northern Spain. The present study contributes to the knowledge of the stygobiont oligochaete species in the Iberian Peninsula, which includes 21 species so far. Mature specimens of Lophochaeta ignota Štolc, 1886 were also collected at some sites, and are used to supplement the limited description of the reproductive organs known for the species to date. Taxonomy of the genus Lophochaeta Štolc, 1886 is discussed.

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Oceanic Commerce and Platine Merchants, 1796-1806: The Challenge of War

The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History ◽

10.2307/1007310 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 45 (4) ◽

pp. 509-524 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Jerry W. Cooney

Keyword(s):

South America ◽

Iberian Peninsula ◽

Buenos Aires ◽

South Atlantic ◽

Port Cities ◽

Northern Spain ◽

Old World ◽

The Real ◽

La Plata ◽

The Creation

The creation of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata in 1776 by Charles III of Spain and his Edict of Free Commerce two years later brought unprecedented commercial prosperity to the port cities of Buenos Aires and Montevideo. Unlimited trade was now allowed between this region of South America and Spain. Exports—mainly silver from Alto Perú and pastoral products from the pampas—flowed in ever greater volume to the Iberian Peninsula. In return, merchants of the estuary received from Spanish commercial houses European manufactures and luxury items. This trade which spanned the South Atlantic depended upon a complex web of credit and merchant associations between the Old World and the New, and also upon the unobstructed traffic of Spain's merchant marine. In the 1780s and early 1790s with the Empire at peace Platine commerce contributed to both government revenues and the growth of a dynamic immigrant merchant community recently arrived from northern Spain. By 1794 the booming trade of the new viceroyalty justified the creation of the Real Consulado de Buenos Aires, essentially an official merchants guild to regulate the business affairs of this region.

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On the Wings of a Dove

When God Was a Bird ◽

10.5422/fordham/9780823281329.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 141-172

Author(s):

Mark I. Wallace

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

Feral Pigeon ◽

Biblical Exegesis ◽

Human Beings ◽

Northern Spain ◽

Camino De Santiago ◽

Natural Park ◽

Sacred Land ◽

Relational Capacities ◽

Whole Earth

Using James Lovelock’s Gaia theory and biblical exegesis, chapter 5 maintains that Earth is a sentient organism with its own moods, relational capacities, and vulnerability to suffering. This “living Earth” theme is further explored in case studies of two sacred land-sites in Northern Spain visited by the author: The Cape of the Crosses natural park, and the El Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route. Both sites are heralded as “thin places”—landscapes where divinity and materiality comfortably intersect—in which errant wandering and purposeful travel are valued equally. Currently, such sites are cruciform: as Jesus was sacrificed at Calvary, so today we crucify afresh God’s winged Spirit in nature through toxic impacts against plants, animals, and human beings. The scars of Golgotha mark the whole Earth. The chapter concludes with hope symbolized by the feral pigeon—the dovey cousin of Jesus’ baptismal bird—amidst the contemporary loss of embodied deity through ecocidal, even deicidal, practices.

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Northern Spain temperature constrained by fluid inclusion water isotopes in speleothems during the abrupt oscillations of the last deglaciation period

10.5194/egusphere-egu21-10772 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Juan Luis Bernal Wormull ◽

Ana Moreno Caballud ◽

Yuri Dubliansky ◽

Christoph Spötl ◽

Carlos Pérez-Mejías ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Fluid Inclusion ◽

Iberian Peninsula ◽

Meridional Overturning Circulation ◽

Water Isotopes ◽

Temperature Record ◽

Southern Europe ◽

Last Deglaciation ◽

Northern Spain ◽

The Last Deglaciation ◽

Western Pyrenees

The last deglaciation (from &#8776;19 kyr BP to the onset of the Holocene) is a time interval characterized by major and abrupt climate changes mostly caused by the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) which is responsible for redistributing heat on a planetary scale, including the Iberian Peninsula. This study is focused in the Western Pyrenees, northern Spain, a southern European region key to understand Northern Hemisphere climate teleconnections associated to several warming and cooling events that took place abruptly. It is especially important to know when precisely these events occurred and what their amplitude was to better understand their causes and impacts on the regional environment.The climatic events mentioned above are recorded in lake and marine sediments in the central and southern Europe denoting the importance of these records in the transitional zone between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean climatic realms. The glacial-interglacial transition was also identified in isotopic values of speleothems at this latitude, where differences and similarities with the patterns identified in the Greenland record during the last deglaciation are analysed. Even so, there is still no continental record of temperature reconstruction during part of the last deglaciation in the Iberian Peninsula that can be compared with the latest record of fluid inclusions in speleothems in central Europe (Affolter et al., 2019).In this new study, three stalagmites from Ostolo Cave in the Western Pyrenees were analysed to identify and characterize the timing of the climate variability along the abrupt changes that punctuated the last deglaciation and subsequently generate a reconstruction of the past temperature with the help of fluid inclusion water isotopes. The samples were dated at high precision and cover almost continuously the same period (16.5-10 kyr BP) with a high degree of replication. The speleothem &#948;18O and fluid inclusion water isotopes (&#948;D) records follow closely the well-known changes from high latitudes showing more negative values during GS-1 and H1, related to colder climates, while more positive values were reached during GI-1 and the Early Holocene, pointing towards warmer temperatures. Our Ostolo Cave fluid inclusion temperature record resembles Greenland and Mediterranean sea surface temperature trends and allows for the first time and from a continental record, a continuous reconstruction of temperature throughout the last deglaciation in southern Europe.

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