Néstor Pérez-Méndez
Ramón y Cajal Researcher
🌾 Focused on understanding the role of biodiversity in rice production
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📸Wildlife photography in instagram.com/raw_natura
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- Prof. Daniel García from @labbiodiversity.bsky.social is visiting our lab at IRTA La Ràpita, and he treated us to a super interesting talk about his research on the role of birds and bats in the biological control of pests in apple orchards. Great insights and great discussion
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- As part of our HERBESREG project funded by Generalitat de Catalunya we keep sampling our experimental rice fields to assess how different water management practices shape weed communities and impact rice yield.
- 🌾🕷️📝Very excited to share our last article published in @jappliedecology.bsky.social where we evaluate the cascading effects of water-saving irrigation on predator-prey interactions across the aquatic and terrestrial interface in rice agroecosystems besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- 🕷️🌾🦟 Our last article has been accepted in @jappliedecology.bsky.social and this guy here is our protagonist. More info soon! 📝
- Some guys in our experimental rice fields #WATERSCAPE
- 🚨 In case you missed the thread I publish a few weeks ago: Our paper on reconciling climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation in rice farming can be freely downloaded in AGEE. Have a look!!! 🌾🌍
- 📢 📝 Climate change mitigation strategies in rice farming reduces methane emissions but have profound negative effects on freshwater biodiversity. The new paper of the Sebastian Echeverría-Progulakis thesis if finally out in AGEE. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵⬇️
- 🕷️🌾 Looking forward to arrive Pontevedra to join @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social I'll talk Monday evening (19:15) in session TSB.8 about cascading effects of water-saving strategies in rice farming across the freshwater-terrestrial interface. Be there to know more! #SIBECOLAEET2025 #Ecology
- 📢 📝 Climate change mitigation strategies in rice farming reduces methane emissions but have profound negative effects on freshwater biodiversity. The new paper of the Sebastian Echeverría-Progulakis thesis if finally out in AGEE. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵⬇️
- 🦆🐸🐟🌾 Our #WATERSCAPE project funded by the @ageinves.bsky.social includes an exclosure experiment to assess the relative contribution of aquatic (fishes & amphibians) vs. terrestrial vertebrates (birds & bats) on provisioning of multiple ecosystem services/disservices on rice farming. Here we go!
- 🦇🌾We start a new collaboration with the bat team of the Museu Granollers to assess how changes in agricultural management of rice fields affect the populations of the smallest european bat, the Soprano pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pygmaeus). What a great team! #Bats #rice
- Rice water weevil (Lissorhoptrus oryzophylus) swimming in petri dish. Note the adaptation in the second pair of legs simulating two paddle blades that move synchronously. Video of @alexmu.bsky.social
- Weeds, especially Echinochloa spp, are among most limiting factors for rice yield in Ebro Delta. We start a new project (HERBESREG) funded by the Generalitat de Catalunya to evaluate different irrigation strategies 4 weed control while minimizing biodiversity impacts ebredigital.cat/2025/03/31/l...
- Celebrating the first accepted paper of the Sebastián Echeverría-Progulakis PhD thesis. @maitemarei.bsky.social @alexmu.bsky.social and Gema Cambero. More info soon! 📄🌾🤓
- 🌾🪲As part of the PhD thesis of Alejandro Muñoz, we are sampling overwintering rice water weevils across diferent microhabitats associated to rice fields. #WATERSCAPE
- > 200 rice growers, technicians and researchers assisted today to the ‘XVIII Jornadas Técnicas del arroz’ organized by IRTA. I was talking about the invasive rice water weevil (Lissorhoptrus oryzophylus) on rice farming #WATERSCAPE
- Explaining how we sample ground arthropods in rice fields for our projects on regenerative agriculture #Agriregencat #Agricarbonicat m.youtube.com/watch?v=D-rB...
- We are dusting off this set of Berlese traps for sampling overwintering rice water weevils (Lissorhoptrus oryzophylus) and characterize its spatial distribution during winter. This is parte of our new #WATERSCAPE project funded by @ageinves.bsky.social
- 🤯🤯🤯 I know I'm easily impressed, but advancement of AI is amazing. I fed Notebooklm with our latest paper &, in just 2 minutes, it generated a podcast discussing the results in a completely coherent way Here the podcast and the article: notebooklm.google.com/notebook/b2a... doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...
