Partner of the POLINISLA project

Evaluation of the impact of anthropogenic factors on the evolutionary history of pollinators in the Canary Islands

In this project we aim to assess the main impacts of pollinator decline in the Canary Islands on the coastal xerophytic scrub (cardonal-tabaibal), one of the ecosystems most affected by global change in the archipelago, by characterising the loss of evolutionary history in different lineages of bees and flies. This powerful and efficient tool makes it possible to quantify the effect of different anthropogenic impacts over millions of years and therefore offers the possibility of comparing the effects of a decline factor between regions or clades in a standardised way.

This project receives funding from the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (AEI-Spanish State Research Agency) under grant agreement PID2020-117758GA-I00.