Institucions culturals
La recerca científica és una part important de l’activitat del Museu des dels seus orígens, amb l’objectiu d’estudiar i interpretar la diversitat de la vida i de les estructures geològiques que li donen suport, amb especial atenció als medis mediterranis.En aquesta tasca, el Museu se centra tant en la recerca basada en les col·leccions com en l’estudi de les espècies en el seu medi natural i avalua les interaccions amb l’entorn i entre elles.
Si sou personal o col·laborador del Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona, i heu publicat un article científic o document de recerca, si us plau contacteu amb bibmuseuciencies@bcn.cat per dipositar-lo a RECERCAT.
Obituario a Mike Conroy
Understanding the impact of climate change on species’ demography is essential for assessing their vulnerability to environmental shifts. We analysed a dataset of 6,967 citril finches Carduelis citrinella captured at a ...
Social organization and contributions to reproduction vary widely within and between species that breed in groups. Such variation often arises from the process of group formation, which drives patterns of relatedness and ...
European water frogs from the genus Pelophylax are particular among amphibians as they can produce hybrids (named kleptons) reproducing by hybridogenesis. Four klepton species have been described in Europe: Pelophylax ...
Obituario a Mike Conroy
Obituario a Luis Arias de Reyna
Quaternary glacial cycles have been key drivers of diversification for Holarctic species, promoting divergence, isolation, and extinction processes in numerous taxa. These cycles facilitated evolutionary radiations in some ...
Individual variation among and within natural populations can have eco-evolutionary implications by, for example, affecting species interactions or evolutionary potential. Urban systems present a unique opportunity to ...
De vegades, quan anem d’excursió podem veure alguna serp. Per això cal que sapiguem com hem d’actuar, tant per respectar-les com si, per inadvertència nostra, les molestem i ens mosseguen per defensar-se.
Snake genomes attract significant attention from multiple disciplines, including medicine, drug bioprospection, and evolutionary biology. However, genomic research within the Viperidae family has mostly focused on the ...
Venoms have traditionally been studied from a proteomic and/or transcriptomic perspective, often overlooking the true genetic com- plexity underlying venom production. The recent surge in genome-based venom resear c h ...
The social complexity hypothesis argues that communicative complexity arises as a result of social complexity, with this occurring through mechanisms including plasticity and selection. Most research to date has focused ...
We explored adaptive factors affecting the preformative molt in the passerine family Cardinalidae, and concluded that the ancestor inhabited forest habitats and underwent a partial preformative molt that included wing ...
Según un reciente estudio llevado a cabo en colaboración entre el Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Barcelona y la Agencia de Salud Pública y ejecutado por los científicos Juan Carlos Senar, Helena Navalpotro, Jordi Pascual ...
In studies investigating heavy metal contamination in the bodies of coleopterans and lepidopterans preserved in museum collections, questions often arise about whether the source of contamination is environmental or related ...
Age determination of the invasive monk parakeet Myiopsitta monachus has been hampered by its juvenile plumage showing only subtle differences from subsequent plumages, and little is known about its moult. Here we examined ...
In the arid landscapes of the Arabian Peninsula, high levels of cryptic diversity among reptiles, and especially in geckos, have recently been revealed. Mountain ranges within the peninsula were shown to contain the ...
Variation in age structure influences population dynamics, yet we have limited understanding of the spatial scale at which its fluctuations are synchronised between populations. Using 32 great tit populations, spanning ...
Symbionts are key elements of ecosystems, by playing important roles in shaping the biology and ecology of their hosts. However, the factors determining symbiont loads across host species are still unclear. Nowadays, we ...
