This blog tracks the scientific activity of the Animal Demography and Ecology Unit of the IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB). Contents on animal demography, capture-recapture, APHIS, upcoming workshop, publications
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Sunday 18 July 2021
GEDA-i and "SPOT THE MONK" project!
Photo: P. Henry at IUCN
The increasing
sightings of the Monk Seal Monachus monachus in Italy and central Mediterranean indicate a possible
increase of the Atlantic (here) as well as Eastern Mediterranean populations. As
part of the Med for Med project (more here), Prof E. Valsecchi has developed a novel
technique to reveal Monk Seal traces of DNA in the environment (eDNA, here and here). “Spot the Monk”
is the new initiative to assess Monk seals presence in the Central and Western
Mediterranean. The first results are very promising (here). D.Ramella, the GEDA-i and
several collaborators are collecting samples around Mallorca from sites originally
used by the seals. Stay tuned to know the results!
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