04Biodiversity & Bioindicators

The BiBio (Biodiversity and Bioindicators) team is based at the Granollers Natural Sciences Museum. It specializes in the development and coordination of long-term biodiversity monitoring programs, with special attention to Mediterranean ecosystems.
Through standardized protocols and extensive citizen science networks, the team promotes large-scale ecological monitoring programs that allow analyzing how fauna populations respond to environmental changes, such as climate change, landscape transformation or changes in land use.
These programs follow bioindicator groups such as butterflies, bats or small mammals, generating long-term ecological data series that are essential to detect changes in biodiversity and understand ecosystem dynamics in different landscapes.
The team also develops digital platforms for the collection, management and analysis of biodiversity data, which allow the integration of observations from monitoring networks and citizen science projects into scientific research and decision-making in matters of conservation and land management.
The main monitoring programs coordinated by the BiBio team are:

• Catalan Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (CBMS) – butterfly monitoring program
• Ratpenats.org – bat monitoring program
• SEMICE – monitoring of small European mammals
• Projecte Liró – monitoring of the grey dormouse