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Scientists from the University of Girona, CSIC and University of Barcelona in Spain warn of the "serious impacts" that these facilities may have on marine biodiversity, the landscape/seascape, fishing and tourism.

According to the work, they could have arrived in this remote area through the discharge of wastewater from washing machines at Antarctic bases and ships visiting the area.

Only 10% of the data collected to date in different campaigns is available on open access platforms, a scarcity of data that makes it difficult to correctly assess the conservation status of ecosystems and to implement protection measures.

The paper assesses whether women and men were equally represented, participative and visible at the 1st Congress of the Iberian Society of Ecology (SIBECOL), held in Barcelona in 2019.

A study led by researchers from the ICM-CSIC and the EBD-CSIC has estimated the seeds dispersed both inside and outside Barcelona based on the movement of gulls monitored by GPS telemetry and seeds detected in their diet.

Researchers at the Barcelona Expert Center (BEC) have contributed to obtaining the first results of the MOSAiC campaign, which have been published today and offer a global picture of climate processes in the central Arctic, an area particularly vulnerable.