A chat with the Botánico: Urban flora to transform Gijón/Xixón

About the series

One afternoon a month, the Botánico moves to the city center with this series of informative talks. A new environment for dialogue with society to address, in a simple and enjoyable way, our links with plants, the environment, and biodiversity through literature, art, science, and gardening.

Urban flora to transform Gijón/Xixón

On the walls, ditches, and vacant lots of our city live hundreds of native plant species. This biodiversity, often ignored, can become our ally in creating healthier cities. We will explore urban habitats and the findings of the Gijón Ecoresiliente project, which reveal the richness of plants, fungi, and bacteria in our neighborhoods.

We will present how, using local seeds, we design mixtures to restore degraded spaces and curb invasive plants, as well as the keys to the pilot project in the Parque Fluvial and the SeedAnthropic initiative, which expands this model to all of Atlantic Spain. All this, in a context of citizen science in which you can participate.

Speaker: Eduardo Fernández Pascual

PhD in Biology and Professor in the area of Botany at the Universidad de Oviedo and researcher at the Instituto Mixto de Investigación en Biodiversidad (IMIB). He leads global studies on seed germination and is currently developing the SeedAnthropic project, which investigates how plants adapt to urban and humanized habitats.