PAISAJE lab

Research group

Publications

2023

  • Rumeu B, González-Varo JP, de Castro C, López-Orta A, Illera JC, Miñarro M & García D (2023) Increasing efficiency and reducing bias in the sampling of seed-dispersal interactions based on mist-netted birds. OIKOS 2023:e09261 pdf
  • Timóteo S, Albrecht J, Rumeu B, Norte AC, Traveset A, Frost CM, Marchante E, López-Núñez FA, Peralta G, Jane Memmott, Olesen JM, Costa JM, da Silva LP, Carvalheiro LG, Correia M, Staab M, Blüthgen N, Farwig N, Hervías-Parejo S, Mironov S, Rodríguez-Echeverría S & Heleno R (2023) Tripartite networks show that keystone species can multitask. FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY 37:274–286 pdf

2022

  • Pérez-Méndez N, Alcaraz C, Bertolero A, Català-Forner M, Garibaldi LA, González-Varo JP, Rivaes S & Martínez-Eixarch M (2022) Agricultural policies against invasive species generate contrasting outcomes for climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B 289:20221081 link
  • González-Varo JP, Rumeu B, Traveset A & Illera JC (2022) Identifying avian seed dispersers through DNA barcoding after rapid field sampling. ARDEOLA 69:179-190 pdf
  • González-Varo JP, Onrubia A, Pérez-Méndez N, Tarifa R & Illera JC (2022) Fruit abundance and trait matching determine diet type and body condition across frugivorous bird populations. OIKOS 2022:e08106 pdf

2021

  • González-Varo JP, Rumeu B, Albrecht J, Arroyo JM, Bueno RS, Burgos T, da Silva LP, Escribano-Ávila G, Farwig N, García D, Heleno RH, Illera JC, Jordano P, Kurek P, Simmons BI, Virgós E, Sutherland WJ, Traveset A (2021) Limited potential for bird migration to disperse plants to cooler latitudes. NATURE 595:75-79 link

Highlighted in NATURE by Barnabas H. Daru: Migratory birds aid the redistribution of plants to new climates

Highlighted in NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE by Tegan Armarego-Marriott: Bird-plant dispersal limits

Song thrush (Turdus philomelos) eating holly berries (Ilex aquifolium) and blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) eating lentisc fruits (Pistacia lentiscus). The long fruiting period of hollies and lentiscs, from autumn to late winter, overlaps with the northward migration, therefore, song thrushes and blackcaps have the potential to disperse holly and lentisc seeds at long distances towards cooler latitudes
(photos | left: David Chapman; right: Agustín Povedano)
  • Rumeu B & Nogales M (2021) Los bosques de cedros en el Parque Nacional del Teide. In: CIENCIA EN EL PARQUE NACIONAL DEL TEIDE 2009-2019. Durbán M & Martín-Esquivel JL (eds). Ed. Turquesa, pp. 217-230 pdf
  • Herbertsson L, Ekroos J, Albrecht M, Bartomeus I, Batáry P, Bommarco R, Caplat P, Diekötter T, Eikestam JM, Entling MH, Farbu S, Farwig N, González-Varo JP, Hass AL, Holzschuh A, Hopfenmüller A, Jakobsson A, Jauker B, Kovács-Hostyánszki A, Kleve W, Kunin WE, Lindström SAM, Mullen S, Öckinger E, Petanidou T, Potts SG, Power EF, Rundlöf M, Seibel K, Sõber V, Söderman A, Steffan-Dewenter I, Stout JC, Teder T, Tscharntke T & Smith HG (2021) Bees increase seed set of wild plants while the proportion of arable land has a variable effect on pollination in European agricultural landscapes. PLANT ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION 154:341-350 link
  • Tarifa R, Martínez-Núñez C, Valera F, González-Varo JP, Salido T & Rey P (2021) Agricultural intensification erodes taxonomic and functional diversity in Mediterranean olive groves by filtering out rare species. JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY 58:2266-2276 link
Low-intensity ground cover management
(photo: Samuel Galiano)

  • Bracho Estévanez CA (2021) Census, spatial distribution, habitat selection and conservation of iconic avian species in a Mediterranean coastal massif: the case of El Garraf Park. REVISTA CATALANA D’ORNITOLOGIA 37:10–24 pdf
  • Bracho Estévanez CA (2021) A case of spatial coexistence among Black Wheatear Oenanthe leucura, Black-eared Wheatear Oenanthe hispanica and Blue Rock Thrush Monticola solitarius in the Western Mediterranean. AVOCETTA 45: 95-103 link

2020

  • Rumeu B, Donoso I, J Rodríguez‐Pérez J & García D (2020) Frugivore species maintain their structural role in the trophic and spatial networks of seed dispersal interactions. JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY 89:2168-2180 link

2019

  • Rose DC, Amano T, González-Varo JP, Mukherjee N, Robertson RJ, Simmons BI, Wauchope HS & Sutherland WJ (2019) Calling for a new agenda for conservation science to create evidence-informed policy. BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION 238:108222 pdf
  • González-Varo JP, Díaz-García S, Arroyo JM & Jordano P (2019) Seed dispersal by dispersing juvenile animals: a source of functional connectivity in fragmented landscapes. BIOLOGY LETTERS 15:20190264 pdf
(bird drawing: Daniel García)
  • Rumeu B, Álvarez-Villanueva M, Arroyo JM & González-Varo JP (2019) Interspecific competition for frugivores: population-level seed dispersal in contrasting fruiting communities. OECOLOGIA 190:605-617 pdf
  • González-Varo JP, Arroyo JM & Jordano P (2019) The timing of frugivore-mediated seed dispersal effectiveness. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY 28:219-231 pdf
Sub-Saharan migrants like Ficedula hypoleuca only use the lowland woodlands of south Spain as stopover sites during their autumn migration, which confines their seed dispersal services to the early fruiting period of Pistacia lentiscus shrubs
(photo: Miguel Montoro).
  • Trillo A, Montero-Castaño A, González-Varo JP, González-Moreno P, Ortiz-Sánchez FJ & Vilà M (2019) Contrasting occurrence patterns of managed and native bumble bees in natural habitats across a greenhouse landscape gradient. AGRICULTURE, ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT 272:230-236 pdf

2018

  • Rose DC, Sutherland WJ, Amano T, González-Varo JP, Robertson RJ, Simmons BI, Wauchope HS, Kovacs E, Durán AP, Vadrot ABM, Wu W, Dias MP, Di Fonzo MMI, Ivory S, Norris L, Nunes MH, Nyumba TO, Steiner N, Vickery J & Mukherjee N (2018) The major barriers and their solutions for evidence-informed conservation policy. CONSERVATION LETTERS 11:e12564 pdf( blog post by David Rose )
  • Simmons BI, Sutherland WJ, Dicks LV, Albrecht J, Farwig N, García D, Jordano P & González-Varo JP (2018) Moving from frugivory to seed dispersal: incorporating the functional outcomes of interactions in plant-frugivore networks. JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY 87:995-1007 pdf
A hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes) feeding on hawthorn seeds (Crataegus monogyna)
(photo: Saverio Gatto)
  • González-Varo JP & Geldmann J (2018) Response — «Bee conservation: Key role of managed bees« and «Bee conservation: Inclusive solutions«. SCIENCE 360:389-390 pdf
  • Geldmann J & González-Varo JP (2018) Conserving honey bees does not help wildlife. SCIENCE 359:392-393 pdf
Honeybee hives placed within the Teide National Park (Tenerife, Canary Islands)
(photo: Alfredo Valido)
  • Magrach A, Holzschuh A, Bartomeus I, Riedinger V, Roberts SPM, Rundlöf M, Vujić A, Wickens JB, Wickens VJ, Bommarco R, González-Varo JP, Potts SG, Smith HG, Steffan-Dewenter I & Vilà M (2018) Plant-pollinator networks in semi-natural grasslands are resistant to the loss of pollinators during blooming of mass-flowering crops. ECOGRAPHY 41:62-74 link

2017

  • Magrach A, González-Varo JP, Boiffier M, Vilà M & Bartomeus I (2017) Honeybee spillover reshuffles pollinator diets and affects plant reproductive success. NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION 1:1299-1307 link
  • González-Varo JP & Vilà M (2017) Spillover of managed honeybees from mass-flowering crops into natural habitats. BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION 212:376-382 pdf
  • González-Varo JP, Carvalho CS, Arroyo JM & Jordano P (2017) Unravelling seed dispersal through fragmented landscapes: Frugivore species operate unevenly as mobile links. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY 26:4309-4321 pdf
Illustration: Jon Heras.
Artistic representation of seed dispersal events as flight paths of different bird species through a fragmented landscape
  • González-Varo JP, López-Bao JV & Guitián J (2017) Seed dispersers help plants to escape global warming. OIKOS 126:1600-1606 pdf

2016

  • Amano T, González-Varo JP & Sutherland W (2016) Languages are still a major barrier to global science. PLOS BIOLOGY 14(12):e2000933 pdf
Pieter Bruegel’s Tower of Babel
news University of Cambridge
news EL PAÍS
radio Principio de Incertidumbre
blog post by Tatsuya Amano
  • González-Varo JP, Ortiz-Sánchez FJ & Vilà M (2016) Total bee dependence on one flower species despite available congeners of similar floral shape. PLOS ONE 11(9):e0163122 pdf
posted in The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
See our outreach article in Quercus
  • González-Varo JP & Traveset A (2016) The labile limits of forbidden interactions. TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION 31:700-710 pdf
  • Holzschuh A, Dainese M, González-Varo JP, Stojnić SM, Riedinger V, Rundlöf M, Scheper J, Wickens JB, Wickens VJ, Bommarco R, Kleijn D, Potts SG, Roberts SPM, Smith HG, Vilà M, Vujić A & Steffan-Dewenter I (2016) Mass-flowering crops dilute pollinator abundance in agricultural landscapes across Europe. ECOLOGY LETTERS 19:1228-1236 link
photos: Juan P. González-Varo

2015 and before

For older publications visit the personal websites of PAISAJE lab members.