I just came back from the workshop Adding the temporal scale to plant-animal mutualistic networks, which I organized with Tiffany Knight. The attendees included colleagues from Germany, the USA, China and Argentina (see group photo below). Our goal was to start work…
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Exotic plants and pollination niche overlap in an agroecosystem
Post contributed by Hugo Marrero A paper on the influence of exotic plants on the pollination niche overlap among plants in an agroecosystem was just published in Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. The study, which is part of my PhD thesis,…
Diego is off to a sabbatical in Germany
I will be spending a sabbatical year (ten months, actually) at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), at the University of Freiburg, in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. I will be there thanks to the generosity of my home institutions, CONICET…
Flower diversity and the reproduction of solitary bees
Post contributed by Jimena Dorado A paper evaluating whether diverse flower communities favor pollinator reproduction just came out in PeerJ. This paper came out from my PhD thesis, in which I was mentored by Diego Vázquez. We had previously found that diverse…
Abundance and generalization in mutualistic networks: a chicken-and-egg dilemma
A paper evaluating the causal relationship between abundance and generalization in plant-animal mutualistic networks was published online today in Ecology Letters. This research was done in collaboration with Hugo Fort, a physicist in Uruguay, and Boon Leong Lan, a physicist in…
Review on ecological and evolutionary impacts of chaning climatic variablity
A paper reviewing the ecological and evolutionary impacts of chaning climatic variability was published today in Biological Reviews. The idea for this paper started as informal chats with Ernesto Gianoli and Pancho Bozinovic during a course we taught in 2012…
New grant to study structure and dynamics of ecological networks under global change
We just heard that Luciano Cagnolo (IMBIV, CONICET-UN Córdoba) and I got a grant from the National Agency for the Promotion of Science and Technology of Argentina to study the structure and dynamics of ecological networks under global change. This…
(Lack of) defensive role of ants throughout a broad latitudinal and elevational range of a cactus
Many plant species offer feeding resources (usually nectar) or nesting sites for ants, which in turn defend plants from herbivore attacks. With Marina Alma (former lab member), Rodrigo Pol (colleague at IADIZA) and Luis (Lucho) Pacheco (colleague at Universidad Mayor…
A conceptual framework for studying the strength of plant-animal mutualistic interactions
A paper presenting a conceptual framework for the study of the strength of plant-animal mutualistic interactions has been accepted for publication as a Reviews & Synthesis article in Ecology Letters. This is the result of a collaboration between Diego and…
Paper on microstructure of plant-pollinator networks
Diego has published a paper on the determinants of the microstructure of plant-pollinator networks, in collaboration with Chris Kaiser-Bunbury, Martina Stang and Jaboury Gazhoul. It uses data from the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean and applies structural equation modeling to…
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