Incorporating the effects of generalist seed predators into plant community theory

L Larios, DE Pearson, JL Maron - Functional Ecology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Post‐dispersal seed predators contribute substantially to seed loss across many
ecosystems. Most research has focused on understanding sources of variation in seed loss …

Ecological functions of parrots: an integrative perspective from plant life cycle to ecosystem functioning

G Blanco, F Hiraldo, JL Tella - Emu-Austral Ornithology, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Parrots (Psittaciformes) have been viewed as efficient consumers of the reproductive
structures of plants. Consequently, parrots have been excluded from studies focusing on …

Seed‐dispersal interactions in fragmented landscapes–a metanetwork approach

C Emer, M Galetti, MA Pizo, PR Guimaraes Jr… - Ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Mutualistic interactions repeatedly preserved across fragmented landscapes can scale‐up
to form a spatial metanetwork describing the distribution of interactions across patches. We …

Network structure embracing mutualism–antagonism continuums increases community robustness

A Montesinos-Navarro, F Hiraldo, JL Tella… - Nature ecology & …, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Theory predicts that contrasting properties of mutualistic and antagonistic networks
differentially promote community resilience to species loss. However, the outcome of most …

Integrating citizen‐science and planned‐survey data improves species distribution estimates

V Zulian, DAW Miller, G Ferraz - Diversity and Distributions, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Mapping species distributions is a crucial but challenging requirement of wildlife
management. The frequent need to sample vast expanses of potential habitat increases the …

[HTML][HTML] Opportunistic or non-random wildlife crime? Attractiveness rather than abundance in the wild leads to selective parrot poaching

P Romero-Vidal, F Hiraldo, F Rosseto, G Blanco… - Diversity, 2020 - mdpi.com
Illegal wildlife trade, which mostly focuses on high-demand species, constitutes a major
threat to biodiversity. However, whether poaching is an opportunistic crime within high …

Changes in parrot diversity after human arrival to the Caribbean

JA Oswald, BT Smith, JM Allen… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Humans did not arrive on most of the world's islands until relatively recently, making islands
favorable places for disentangling the timing and magnitude of natural and anthropogenic …

Seed dispersal networks in tropical forest fragments: Area effects, remnant species, and interaction diversity

C Emer, P Jordano, MA Pizo, MC Ribeiro… - Biotropica, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Seed dispersal interactions involve key ecological processes in tropical forests that help to
maintain ecosystem functioning. Yet this functionality may be threatened by increasing …

[HTML][HTML] Seed dispersal by macaws shapes the landscape of an Amazonian ecosystem

A Baños-Villalba, G Blanco, JA Díaz-Luque… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Seed dispersal is one of the most studied plant–animal mutualisms. It has been proposed
that the dispersal of many large-seeded plants from Neotropical forests was primarily …

[HTML][HTML] Cities may save some threatened species but not their ecological functions

A Luna, P Romero-Vidal, F Hiraldo, JL Tella - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
Background Urbanization is one of the main causes of biodiversity loss worldwide. Wildlife
responses to urbanization, however, are greatly variable and, paradoxically, some …