Miquel Capó

🌸 Spring is here and orchids are in full bloom! We’re in the field working on Rubén Arco’s Bachelor’s thesis, a Botany project exploring orchid diversity in the Balearic Islands 🌿👇 #Botany #Orchids #PlantScience #Evolution #Biodiversity #BalearicIslands #SomUIB #BOTLAND

🚨📷NEW PAPER ALERT📢🌿 Dr. Joana Cursach and Dr. @Miq_Capo, together with Dr. Theodora Petanidou (@uoaofficial) and Dr. Amparo Lázaro (@IMEDEA_UIB_CSIC), published a new study in #BiodiversityAndConservation (@SpringerNature) doi.org/10.1007/s10531-026-0…

Yesterday, PhD students from the #BOTLAND research group took part in the I Science Meeting at the University of the Balearic Islands #UIB, an event aimed at 3rd- and 4th-year undergraduate Science students. 🧪🌿 #Research #Science #PhD

Last Friday, members of BOTLAND visited the Centre Multidisciplinari per a la Biodiversitat Balear (#CMB), a newly established centre created to strengthen biodiversity research, management and conservation in the Balearic Islands.

Recentment, membres de #BOTLAND han publicat una nova edició de les claus de determinació de la flora balear: 📘 “Noves claus de determinació per a la Flora vascular de les Illes Balears” #EdicionsUIB #FloraBalear #Botànica #Biodiversitat

🌿 New article on wetland plant conservation in Mediterranean islands. doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.202…

🌿 We’ve started work on Project MalMen, funded by the Institut d’Estudis Menorquins (IME) and coordinated by Joshua Borràs and Marcello Cerrato, with contributions from other BOTLAND members.

🌿 This year we concluded the two-year project “BioLitoral”, led by Joana Cursach with the participation of numerous researchers from BOTLAND.

A recent update on the park’s flora of es Trenc-Salobrar de Campos has been published, carried out by BOTLAND member Dr. Llorenç Gil.

Today we share the latest publication from the BOTLAND research group, where researchers Pere Miquel Mir-Rosselló and Marcello Cerrato report, for the first time in Menorca, the moss Fissidens gracilifolius Brugg.-Nann. & Nyholm, a bryophyte previously unknown on the island.

Last week, the Aptenia Foundation Awards ceremony took place, celebrating achievements in biodiversity and natural heritage conservation. This non-profit organization is dedicated to the preservation of the natural environment.

🌿✨ Last September, part of the BOTLAND team participated in the second congress of the Spanish Botanical Society (SEBOT) in Seville! ✈📚 We presented our latest work on biodiversity and the conservation of flora in the Balearic Islands 🌸🍀

Over the past months, Joshua Borràs has undertaken a research stay at Lund University (Sweden) ✈🇸🇪 as part of his doctoral training, funded by the Conselleria de Fons Europeus, Universitat i Cultura (CAIB) through their research mobility grants.

On October 2nd, Miquel Capó attended, on behalf of BOTLAND, the PIM Initiative – Small Islands of the Mediterranean Board of Directors meeting, to present our research work and future projects on the Balearic islets. 🌱

This year, a research study has been published on cryptogams (bryophytes and lichens) inhabiting dune systems and their potential use as bioindicators to assess human impacts or define specific habitats.

🌿 Femeniasia balearica is an endemic species of the Balearic Islands that, until recently, was considered the same in both Mallorca and Menorca. However, it has now been divided into two different subspecies: one for each island.

This year we have worked on the project Femeniasia balearica: conservation status of an endemic species of the Balearic Islands (FeMen).

During the 2024–2025 academic year, Francesco Marra, a student from the University of Bologna, completed his master’s internship by participating in various fieldwork activities with the Botland team.

These last three months, our colleague Pere Miquel Mir Rosselló is carrying out a research stay at the Università di Catania in Sicily, as part of his doctoral training funded by the University Teaching Training Grant (FPU).