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Institution
The Estación Biológica de Doñana
(EBD), has currently 170 employees (of which 25 are researchers
with permanent positions). It is one of the most important Research
Institutes in the fields of Ecology, Conservation Biology and Environmental
Management of the Spanish Council for Research CSIC (for more information
see http://www.csic.es/english/).
This Institute of Research is divided in (1) the Department of Applied
Biology, (2) the Department of Evolutionary Biology and (3) the
Laboratory of Molecular Ecology. The Department of Applied Biology
performs multidisciplinary research in the fields of (1) evolutionary,
(2) molecular, (3) behavioural and (4) landscape ecology, (5) demography
and population dynamics, (6) extinction patterns and (7) speciation
in order to obtain the scientific basis necessary for the conservation
of the biological diversity in all its forms, with an orientation
towards endangered populations, species, communities and ecosystems.
Participants
The group is led by F. Palomares and belongs to
the Dept. of Applied Biology. They have been studying carnivore
ecology and behaviour during the last 20 years. They are studying
the processes and factors responsible of the current conservation
status, and their interaction with the physiology, behaviour and
resource requirements of the species (including largescale habitat
factors in the sense of landscape ecology). They have experience
in the radiotracking of five carnivore species (Iberian lynx Lynx
pardinus, European badger Meles meles, red fox Vulpes Vulpes, Egyptian
mongoose Herpestes ichneumon and common genet Genetta genetta),
and in the use of Geographical information system (GIS) and spatially
explicit modelling (see http://www.ebd.csic.es/carnivoros/
for a list of publications from 1993). The high scientific standard
of the group in carnivore ecology and behaviour is attested by numerous
recent publications in the best international journals (Ecology,
Ecological Monographs, Evolution, American Naturalist, Journal of
Animal Ecology, TREE, PNAS,Oikos, Conservation Biology, Journal
of Applied Ecology, Journal of Mammalogy, etc…).
Roles in the project
- Expertise in ecology of small carnivores (WP 2
and leader WP 4)
Publications
5 recent publications:
1. Fernández, N., Delibes, M., Palomares, F. and Mladenoff,
D.J. (in press). Identifying breeding habitat for the Iberian lynx:
inferences from a fine-scale spatial analysis. Ecological Applications
2. Ferreras, P., M. Delibes, F. Palomares, J.M.
Fedriani, J. Calzada & E. Revilla. (in press) Proximate and
ultimate causes of dispersal in the Iberian lynx Lynx pardinus.
Behavioral Ecology
3. Palomares F. and Delibes M. (1994). Spatio-temporal
ecology and behaviour of European genets in southwestern Spain.
Journal of Mammalogy, 75(3), 714-724.
4. Palomares, F.; Godoy, J. A.; Piriz, A.; O'Brien,
S. J.; Johnson, W. E. (2002). Fecal genetic analysis to determine
the presence and distribution of elusive carnivores: design and
feasibility for the Iberian Lynx.
Molecular Ecology 11: 2171-2182.
5. Wiegand, T., E. Revilla, and F. Knauer. (in
press) Dealing with vagueness and uncertainty in spatially explicit
population models. Biodiversity and Conservation.
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