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Páramo Sastre Ferran

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0034 938 709 651

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Francesc Macià 51 Granollers
08402 Granollers
Barcelona
España

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Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Granollers

Description

The Natural Sciences Museum of Granollers is a natural history museum located in the city of Granollers, in the Vallés Oriental region (Catalonia, Spain) whose thematic areas are paleontology, geology, botany and, especially, zoology. In the field of zoology, in addition to the management and documentation of the heritage fund, the Museum coordinates, through the BiBio Research Group (Biodiversity and Bioindicators), different monitoring programs based on citizen science which annually collects thousands of observations, feeding one of the most important biodiversity databases in southern Europe. The origin of the Museum dates back to 1982, with the creation of the Natural Sciences Area of ​​the Granollers Museum and it obtained its own entity in 1987 with the inauguration of the headquarters of the La Tela building, a modernist tower built in 1912 by the architect J. Batlle i Anfres, with two floors and an attic and surrounded by a garden that houses a small sample of plant communities from the region, accompanied by some of the most common rocks and some live animals. Since 2012, the Museum has occupied two buildings, the aforementioned La Tela building, and a new building built behind it, with an auditorium, collection warehouses, exhibition rooms and a planetarium. The Museum has a library with more than 8,000 items and is also the headquarters of the Natural Sciences Section of the Documentation Center of the Montseny Natural Park with around 5,500 cataloged documents.

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Goals

In the area of ​​research, the Museum coordinates four large monitoring programs based on citizen science, covering a wide range of taxa, from butterflies to small mammals and bats. More particularly, population trends of common and endangered species are investigated, and how they are affected by climate change and landscape change (including the impact of land abandonment and infrastructure development). These data are also used to evaluate the ecosystem services provided by different groups, especially in relation to sustainable agriculture and integrated pest management. In addition, there is a line of work on ecology and conservation of tropical biodiversity. In the field of heritage conservation, work is being done on the cataloging and computerization of the collections housed in the Museum, making this information accessible to scientists, students and the general public through the online collections catalogue, answering queries and lending pieces for both scientific and artistic projects. The dissemination of natural sciences and the environment is a priority objective that is pursued through educational programs for school children, workshops for the general public, permanent and temporary exhibitions and conferences.

Strengths

Responses of animal populations to climate change; Landscape change, fragmentation, and connectivity; Mutualistic and antagonistic relationships among species; Ecosystem services, integrated pest management and sustainable agriculture; Ecology and Conservation of Tropical Biodiversity; Ecology and Conservation of endangered species; Infrastructure impact