Research projects

2015-2022

• Experimental design to obtain prototypes of selective traps for the control of the California kingsnake in Gran Canarias. Funded by TRAGSA and MITECO. IP: Marta López-Darias

• Fighting against the invasive California kingsnake in the Canary Islands: applying science to management. Funded by Fundación BBVA to IPNA-CSIC. IP: Marta López-Darias

• Essays for searching effective control methods to figth againts invasive plants in Tenerife. Funded by Cabildo de Tenerife to IPNA-CSIC. IP: Marta López-Darias

• Impacts of rats and mice upon the endemic Tenerife speckled lizard. Funded by Cabildo de Tenerife to IPNA-CSIC. IP: Marta López-Darias

• Analysis of the interaction between Opuntia species and Gallotia galloti. Funded by Cabildo de Tenerife to IPNA-CSIC. IP: Marta López-Darias

• Research to improve efectivity and selectivity of trap methods for Lampropeltis californiae in Gran Canaria. Funded by GESPLAN S.A. to IPNA-CSIC. IP: Marta López-Darias

• Analysis of the induced dispersion pathways of the California kingsnake (Lampropeltis californiae) in Gran Canaria. Funded by Canary Islands Government to IPNA-CSIC. IP: Marta López-Darias

• Scientific advise and research regarding invasive species in Gran Canaria, in particular, impact of Lampropeltis californiae upon the endemic lizard of Gran Canaria (Gallotia stehlini). Funded by Cabildo de Gran Canaria to IPNA-CSIC. IP: Marta López-Darias

• Phenology of the plant species at the Special Natural Reserve of Malpaís de Güímar, pollen sampling collected by Apis mellifera and preliminary study of present pollinators. Funded by Tenerife Island Government to Island Conservation. IP: Marta López-Darias

• Feral cat control Plan for La Graciosa. Lanzarote Insular Government. Amigos de las Pardelas. IP: Marta López-Darias

• Determination of spectral footprint of plant species in the Malpaís de Güímar Special Natural Reserve. Tenerife Island Government. Island Conservation. IP: Marta López-Darias

• Cats in La Graciosa: social evaluation of the problem. Funded by Lanzarote Insular Government to Amigos de las Pardelas. IP: Marta López-Darias

• Pilot study for the analysis of beekeeping load in the Malpaís de Güímar Special Natural Reserve. Funded by Tenerife Island Government to Island Conservation. IP: Marta López-Darias

• Pilot experience: inhibition of fertility in the Barbary ground squirrel as a tool to control the invasive population in Fuerteventura. Funded by Canary Islands Government to Island Conservation. IP: Marta López-Darias

• Diet analysis of feral cats in La Graciosa. Funded by Canary Islands Government to Island Conservation. IP: Marta López-Darias

• Distribution, population size and prevention of impacts derived from the presence of the invasive species Atlantoxerus getulus on the island of Gran Canaria. Funded by Canary Islands Government to Island Conservation. IP: Marta López-Darias

• Study of invasive rabbit impacts on the main ecosystems of the island of Tenerife. Funded by Canary Islands Government to University of La Laguna. IP: Juana María González-Mancebo

• Fragility and complexity of the montain systems: pollinators network, microhabitats and vulnerability to climate change of a key plant species in the Teide volcano community. Funded by the Spanish National Parks Agency to IMEDEA-CSIC. IP: Anna Traveset

2010-2015

• Study of soil nitrification caused by herbivores in the Fasnia volcano sector within the El Teide National Park. Funded by Teide's National Park to University of La Laguna. IP: Juana María González-Mancebo

• Census of feral cats in the island of La Graciosa. Funded by Lanzarote Insular Government to Amigos de las Pardelas. IP: Marta López-Darias

• Reproductive biology of El Teide's broom. Funded by Teide's National Park to University of La Laguna. IP: Marta López-Darias

• Report on animal-plant interaction in three spaces of the Natura 2000 Network in the south of Tenerife. Funded by Gobierno de Canarias to University of La Laguna. IP: Juana María González-Mancebo

• Seed dispersal systems of endemic cedar (Juniperus cedrus) in Teide National Park: an ecological and molecular approach. Funded by the Spanish National Parks Agency to IPNA-CSIC. IP: Manuel Nogales

• Dissemination of the results of the pilot project to avoid the use of poisons for crop protection on the island of Tenerife. Funded by SEO BirdLife to IPNA-CSIC. IP: Marta López-Darias, Manuel Nogales

• Pilot study to avoid the use of poisons for crop protection on the island of Tenerife. Funded by SEO BirdLife to IPNA-CSIC. IP: Marta López-Darias, Manuel Nogales

• Evolution of gigantism in islands: the role of interspecific competition in the evolution of the giant lizards of the Canary Islands. Funded by Bilateral projects CSIC to IPNA-CSIC and CNRS. IP: Marta López-Darias

2005-2010

• Interaction between seagulls and beetles: biogeographical implications in islands. Funded by Canary Islands Government to IPNA-CSIC. IP: Manuel Nogales

• Pollination and dispersion patterns in mountain systems in two Spanish archipelagos. Funded by the Spanish Science and Innovation Ministry to IMEDEA-CSIC. IP: Anna Traveset

• Contributions to the conservation of Cory's shearwaters and Bulwer's petrels in the Canary Islands. Funded by Obra Social de La Caja de Canarias to Amigos de las pardelas. IPs: Marta López-Darias, Javier Luzardo

• Island Selection and lizard Ecology. Marie Curie Outgoing Fellowship. UCDavis, Harvard University and IPNA-CSIC. IP: Marta López-Darias, Thomas W. Schoener, Jonathan B. Losos and Manuel Nogales. 

• The Barbary ground squirrels: the history of an invasive species. Funded by Obra Social de La Caja de Canarias to Marta López-Darias

• Monitoring and conservation of Cory's shearwaters and Bulwer's Petrels in Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura. Funded by Obra Social de La Caja de Canarias to Amigos de las pardelas. IPs: Marta López-Darias, Javier Luzardo

• Advances in the conservation of Cory's shearwaters and Bulwer's petrels in the oriental Canarian islands. Funded by Obra Social de La Caja de Canarias to Amigos de las pardelas. IPs: Marta López-Darias, Javier Luzardo 

• Distribution and zoonotic analysis of the invasive population of European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) in Fuerteventura. Funded by Obra Social de La Caja de Canarias to Marta López-Darias

2000-2005

• Preliminary study of the current status of the invasive population of Barbary ground squirrels (Atlantoxerus getulus) in Fuerteventura. Funded by Obra Social de La Caja de Canarias to Amigos de las pardelas. IP: Marta López-Darias 

• Advances for the conservation of Cory's shearwaters and Bulwer's petrels populations in Gran Canaria. Funded by Obra Social de La Caja de Canarias to Amigos de las pardelas. IPs: Marta López-Darias, Javier Luzardo

• The populations of Cory's shearwaters and Bulwer's petrels in Gran Canaria; first analyses on their conservation status. Funded by Obra Social de La Caja de Canarias to Amigos de las pardelas. IPs: Marta López-Darias, Javier Luzardo 

• Restauration of Islets and Risco de Famara. Funded by LIFE 99 NAT/E/006392 to University of La Laguna. IPs: Aurelio Martín, Manuel Nogales