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Catarina Lopes

@catarinalopes90.bsky.social
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PhD | Seabird Ecology | Plastic Pollution | Global Change Researcher @ EBD-CSIC

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Catarina Lopes @catarinalopes90.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Opportunism has a price! ⚖️ Our new paper reveals that the same gull behavior carries different energetic costs across habitats. ⚠️ Spoiler alert: anthropogenic food subsidies aren't as "cheap" as they seem... 👇 @ebdonana.bsky.social @manuelagforero.bsky.social @jnavarro.bsky.social
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The price of opportunism: Habitat- and behaviour-specific energy costs in an opportunistic predator inhabiting anthropogenic environments
Understanding the energetic costs associated with foraging is essential for assessing how wildlife exploit heterogenous environments and cope with hum…
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Marta I Sanchez @sanchezmarta.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I'm happy to share our new paper showing that gulls transport during the winter 270 kg of plastics (>8 million plastic particles!) @ebdonana.bsky.social @victormartinvel.bsky.social @drandygreen.bsky.social @juliancap.bsky.social @catarinalopes90.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Plastic biovectoring by two closely-related gull species to coastal marshes
Plastic pollution is a global threat to biodiversity. While physical factors are well known, the role of animals in the spread of plastic is less unde…
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Marta I Sanchez @sanchezmarta.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Nueva inauguracion de “Plastisfera: vida y muerte en el antropoceno” en Menorca, donde mostramos como las aves conviven y conmueren con el plastico. Libre acc @csic.es #fecyt #IsoPlastic #miciu #PID-2022-140057NB-100 @ebdonana.bsky.social @casacienciasevcsic.bsky.social @catarinalopes90.bsky.social
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Catarina Lopes @catarinalopes90.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Yesterday at the European Researchers' Night we shared a marine Jenga game 🐟🌊🐳 Bit by bit, balance is lost... until the tower falls. A fun way to show kids how fragile ecosystems are! @ebdonana.bsky.social @manuelagforero.bsky.social
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Manuela G Forero @manuelagforero.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Our poster contribution to the 2025 CONSERBIO conference in Sevilla @jnavarro.bsky.social @catarinalopes90.bsky.social
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Catarina Lopes @catarinalopes90.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
On our final morning in the Chafarinas Islands, we cleaned a tiny plastic-choked beach near a Shearwater colony. Limited time, limited space, but 7 bags of litter removed. A small act, but every gesture counts... @ebdonana.bsky.social @manuelagforero.bsky.social @sanchezmarta.bsky.social
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Manuela G Forero @manuelagforero.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
2025 shearwater team at Chafarinas island: Letizia Championi and @catarinalopes90.bsky.social (marine biologist, conservation, human impact) working for #PlanComplementarioBiodiversidadAndaluz; Fernando Ibáñez, field technician at @ebdonana.bsky.social
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Manuela G Forero @manuelagforero.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Shearwater team working at Chafarinas Islands to deploy GPS and taking blood and feather samples to study foraging and interaction with fisheries in the project #PlanComplementarioBiodiversidadAndaluz @catarinalopes90.bsky.social @jnavarro.bsky.social
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Catarina Lopes @catarinalopes90.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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Marta I Sanchez @sanchezmarta.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Our gratitude to @csic.es for this prize to the Art and Science FECYT project #Plastisfera about #plastic impact in birds. #IsoPlastic (PID 2022-140057NB-100) MICIU @juliancap.bsky.social @victormartinvel.bsky.social @catarinalopes90.bsky.social @casacienciasevcsic.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social
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Marta I Sanchez @sanchezmarta.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Today, World #Ocean Day, we want to remember that more than 90% of seabirds contain plastic in their stomachs and thousands of them die every year because of it. #IsoPlastic PID 2022-140057NB-100 MICIU @ebdonana.bsky.social @juliancap.bsky.social @catarinalopes90.bsky.social
Pellet of a yellow legged gull full of plastics. #IsoPlastic project (PID 2022-140057NB-100) AEI @ageinves.bsky.social MICIU
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Marta I Sanchez @sanchezmarta.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
This cattle egret, photographed and GPS-tagged by @juanma-pg.bsky.social travels every day from the breeding colony to a landfill #IsoPlastic @ebdonana.bsky.social @catarinalopes90.bsky.social @juliancap.bsky.social @manuelagforero.bsky.social @drandygreen.bsky.social @victormartinvel.bsky.social
#IsoPlastic project (PID 2022-140057NB-100) AEI @ageinves.bsky.social MICIU
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Manuela G Forero @manuelagforero.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Some picture of the feeding travels of Audouin gulls tagged with GPS at Culatra Island (Portugal). They followed us to Doñana coast….!!! @sanchezmarta.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social @catarinalopes90.bsky.social @jnavarro.bsky.social
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Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC @ebdonana.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Estas campañas se han llevado a cabo dentro del proyecto #IsoPlastic del Plan Nacional de Investigación y del #PlanComplementarioBiodiversidadAndaluz, financiado por la UE a través de los fondos #NextGenerationEU, el @cienciagob.bsky.social y la Junta de Andalucía. @manuelagforero.bsky.social
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Manuela G Forero @manuelagforero.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Tagging with GPSs Audouin gulls at Cullatra Island (Portugal) with Vitor H Pavia (U. Coimbra), will give us good data on the interaction with fisheries, during breeding, migration and wintering @ebdonana.bsky.social @catarinalopes90.bsky.social @jnavarro.bsky.social @joangimenez.bsky.social
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Marta I Sanchez @sanchezmarta.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
We continue with GPS tagging of cattle egrets to understand their interaction with plastic #IsoPlastic project (PID 2022-140057NB-100) AEI @ageinves.bsky.social MICIU @ebdonana.bsky.social @catarinalopes90.bsky.social @victormartinvel.bsky.social @manuelagforero.bsky.social @drandygreen.bsky.social
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Marta I Sanchez @sanchezmarta.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
A stark reminder of how deeply #plastic pollution has embedded itself into #seabird breeding sites. A #yellowLeggedGull nest in Cadiz bay. #IsoPlastic (PID 2022-140057NB-100) @ebdonana.bsky.social @juliancap.bsky.social @catarinalopes90.bsky.social @drandygreen.bsky.social @pacohortas.bsky.social
Photo by Paco Hortas (@pacohortas.bsky.social)
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Catarina Lopes @catarinalopes90.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Back from fieldwork on the Chafarinas Islands! Sampling and GPS-tracking of yellow-legged #gulls for #PCBio and #IsoPlastic projects. Grateful to the amazing team! @ebdonana.bsky.social @victormartinvel.bsky.social @jnavarro.bsky.social @sanchezmarta.bsky.social
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Marta I Sanchez @sanchezmarta.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Por la boca muere el pez. Y las aves también. Esta gaviota patiamarilla murió enredada en un anzuelo con forma de pez, en las Islas Chafarinas. Encontrada durante una campaña de muestreo y marcaje del proyecto #IsoPlastic @ebdonana.bsky.social @catarinalopes90.bsky.social
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Marta I Sanchez @sanchezmarta.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Great talk of our phd student Manuel Serrano about #seabirds as biovectors of #plastics for the @seobirdlife.bsky.social congress 👏🏼👏🏼 #IsoPlastic project @drandygreen.bsky.social @victormartinvel.bsky.social @juliancap.bsky.social @catarinalopes90.bsky.social
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Marta I Sanchez @sanchezmarta.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Yellow-legged gulls are ingesting huge amounts of plastics because it is mixed with organic waste in landfills and other anthropogenic areas. Let’s recycle! #IsoPlastic @ebdonana.bsky.social @catarinalopes90.bsky.social @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social @juliancap.bsky.social @drandygreen.bsky.social
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Marta I Sanchez @sanchezmarta.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Are plastics ingested by yellow-legged gulls impacting digestive system at histological level? We are exploring this and other related questions in the #IsoPlastic project @catarinalopes90.bsky.social @drandygreen.bsky.social @seobirdlife.bsky.social @juliancap.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social
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Catarina Lopes @catarinalopes90.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
A gut punch for anyone working in wildlife ecology: this is a white stork's regurgitate, collected today in SW Spain, filled with rubber bands. Seeing this impact on animals firsthand is devastating, and far too common #IsoPlastic #PlasticPollution @sanchezmarta.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social
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Marta I Sanchez @sanchezmarta.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
When #plastic travels to the wrong place. This is not a dump but a white stork nest 😕 #IsoPlastic project @ebdonana.bsky.social @catarinalopes90.bsky.social @victormartinvel.bsky.social @juliancap.bsky.social @drandygreen.bsky.social
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Catarina Lopes @catarinalopes90.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
After a little 10km stroll, let's just appreciate how beautiful Seville is... 🇪🇸😊
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