Pedro Jordano

The paper examines plant-frugivore mutualisms, their functional diversity, and how interactions with other biotic factors influence seed dispersal and ecosystem regeneration.

This study examines how ecomorphological and digestive traits influence fruit feeding behavior and seed dispersal effectiveness in Mediterranean passerine birds.

This paper develops a machine learning approach using camera traps and computer vision to create robust ecological interaction datasets for analyzing mutualistic networks, finding that CV methods can miss up to 10% of pairwise interactions but remain valuable for community-level studies.

The paper integrates intraspecific variation into population dynamics to show how mutualistic species persist, finding that specialized individuals promote persistence without competitors, but heterogeneous mixtures are better with competitors.

The paper downscaling mutualistic networks from species to individuals reveals consistent interaction niches and roles within plant populations, showing individual-based networks are structurally similar to species-based ones.