SEMICE is a large-scale, long-term monitoring project of the most common species of small mammals (eulipotyphlas and rodents weighing less than 150 g) supported by a network of stations and collaborators.
The project began in 2008, with 12 monitoring stations located within the Natural Parks of the Barcelona Provincial Council and also in Andorra, and has been growing and spreading throughout the rest of the country where it is currently a reference and consolidated project. Read more →

A fifteen-year investigation, coordinated by the BiBio Research Group (Natural Sciences Museum of Granollers) in the province of Barcelona, has revealed the fascinating dependence of the common buzzard (Buteo buteo) on the abundance of small mammals registrated by the small mammal... →

2025 Season Summary Once again, we're bringing you a summary of the project's results from last year! 2025 stands out as the year with the highest number of small mammals recorded in the history of the monitoring (for the first time since 2008, more than 3,000 individuals were... →

The study was based on observations made in a nest box located in a periurban forest in the province of Barcelona, using an infrared camera to continuously monitor the breeding period of a pair of scops... →