{"id":240886,"date":"2024-02-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/sin-categoria\/phone-data-helps-identify-humans-impact-on-biodiversity\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T09:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T08:48:06","slug":"phone-data-helps-identify-humans-impact-on-biodiversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/phone-data-helps-identify-humans-impact-on-biodiversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Phone data helps identify human\u00b4s impact on biodiversity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Researchers from the <\/span>Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications<\/strong><\/span><\/a> (CREAF), the <\/span>International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering<\/span><\/a><\/strong> (CIMNE) and other Catalan and Spanish institutions have developed a novel methodology to identify threats to biodiversity.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a <\/span>study<\/span><\/a><\/strong> released in the journal <\/span>Heliyon<\/span><\/a><\/strong> (<\/span>Cell Publishing<\/span><\/i>), the multidisciplinary team, including former head of CIMNE’s Natura, Dr. Pedro Arnau<\/strong>, overlapped drivers of change maps with distribution maps of threatened species to assess the impact of high human frequencyin highly sensitive ecological areas<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Experts, led by Dr. <\/span>Lluís Brotons<\/span><\/a> at CREAF, used two types of geolocated mobile phone information from a commercially available physical exercise platform to accurately identify the impact of human activity<\/strong> on the Kentish plover (<\/span>Charadrius alexandrinus<\/span><\/i>) and Posidonia meadows (<\/span>Posidonia oceanica<\/span><\/i>).<\/p>\n

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Number of visitors (pedestrians and riders) on an area of Aiguamolls de l’Empordà<\/em> Natural Park in June 2021, coloured from yellow to dark brown indicating 0 to 3000 visitors respectively. 
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By assessing the breeding behaviour of Kentish Plovers and studying nests, nestlings and adults in the Cap de Creus<\/em> Natural Park, experts have found that young birds are “generally less sensitive”<\/strong> to human presence than adults. Their research shows that groups of 250 to 700 people pose a low risk to Kentish plovers, while groups of 1,200 or more people “appear to prevent” these ground-nesting birds from breeding.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Similarly, researchers found even a reduced human presence disturbed Posidonia meadows<\/strong>. By scaling the risk from 0 to 1, results showed human marine activities over 0.1 exposed this endemic Mediterranean plant to a high ecological risk. <\/p>\n

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Posidonia Oceanica<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This research, supported by the Catalan Department of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda, used CIMNE's PIKSEL platform<\/strong><\/a> to gather multi-layered data that will enable “concrete, spatially explicit actions” to minimise the ecological impact of human activities on biodiversity. <\/p>\n

The study collected data from 2018 until 2021 and involved the work from eleven researchers at <\/span>CERCA institutions<\/span><\/a><\/strong> (Research Centres in Catalonia), and Catalan and Spanish universities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Researchers from the Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) and other Catalan and Spanish institutions have developed a novel methodology to identify threats to biodiversity. In a study released in the journal Heliyon (Cell Publishing), the multidisciplinary team, including former head of CIMNE’s Natura, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Phone data helps identify human\u00b4s impact on biodiversity - CIMNE","description":"Researchers from the Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) and"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,273,274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-news","category-structural-particle-mechanics","category-structural-mechanics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}