Projects
~ Ongoing projects ~
Ecology of plant-animal interactions to restore highly degraded forests (InterActions) (2023–2026)
Proyectos de I+D+i» del Programa Estatal de Generación de Conocimiento (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación)
(PID2022-142421NB-I00)
RESEARCH TEAM
University of Cádiz – SPAIN: Beatriz Rumeu (PI)
University of Cádiz – SPAIN: Juan P. González-Varo (co-PI)
University of Cádiz – SPAIN: Claudio A. Bracho-Estévanez
University of Cádiz – SPAIN: Lucía Acevedo-Limón
Movement and seed-dispersal patterns of matrix- dwelling frugivores: implications for habitat formation and community dynamics (LANDSCAPERS) (2023–2025)
Proyectos de Consolidación Investigadora 2022 (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación)
(CNS2022-136037)
RESEARCH TEAM
University of Cádiz – SPAIN: Juan P. González-Varo (PI)
University of Cádiz – SPAIN: Beatriz Rumeu
University of Cádiz – SPAIN: Claudio A. Bracho-Estévanez
University of Cádiz – SPAIN: Lucía Acevedo-Limón
Migratory birds as long-distance seed dispersers of plant communities under climate change (MIGRANTSEEDS) (2020–2024)
Proyectos de I+D+i» del Programa Estatal de Generación de Conocimiento (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación)
(PID2019-104922GA-I00)
RESEARCH TEAM
University of Cádiz – SPAIN: Juan P. González-Varo (PI)
INIBIOMA-CONICET / U. Nacional del Comahue – ARGENTINA: Juan M. Morales
University of Córdoba – SPAIN: Pablo González-Moreno
Fundación MIGRES – SPAIN: Alejandro Onrubia
University of Marburg – GERMANY: Sascha Rösner
~ Past projects as PI ~
Does local fruit abundance affects body condition of facultative frugivores? (2018–2019)
Percy Sladen Memorial Fund Grant
This project aims at filling the knowledge gap on the fitness consequences of plant-frugivore mutualisms for the animal partners. We will test whether local fruit abundance affects the body condition of frugivore populations, focusing on a resident passerine as study species (the Sardinian Warbler Sylvia melanocephala). We will work in Mediterranean forest patches of the Guadalquivir Valley (south Iberia) with varying abundance of fleshy fruits due to differences in local management and successional stage.
RESEARCH TEAM
University of Cambridge – UK: Juan P. González-Varo
University of Oviedo – SPAIN: Juan Carlos Illera
Fundación MIGRES – SPAIN: Alejandro Onrubia
Mobile links in fragmented landscapes: implications for biodiversity conservation (MOBILELINKS) (2015–2017)
Marie Sklodowska-Curie project (EU H2020-MSCA-IF-2014)
This project aims at providing a large-scale and integrative assessment of seed dispersal by avian frugivores through fragmented landscapes of Europe. The project includes several study sites distributed across different European biomes. Besides, it combines field sampling and ground-breaking DNA-barcoding techniques for resolving seed dispersal networks, which will provide unprecedented information about the functional value of specific frugivore species in fragmented landscapes. Resulting knowledge can be incorporated into management and policy-making decisions for preserving woodland biodiversity in fragmented regions.
RESEARCH TEAM
University of Cambridge – UK: Juan P. González-Varo William J. Sutherland
Doñana Biological Station, CSIC – SPAIN: Pedro Jordano Juan M. Arroyo
University of Oviedo – SPAIN: Daniel García Juan Carlos Illera
University of Marburg – GERMANY: Nina Farwig Sascha Rösner
Mediterranean Institute for Advances Studies + University King Juan Carlos – SPAIN: Gema Escribano-Ávila Emilio Virgós
Adam Mickiewicz University + Polish Academy of Sciences – POLAND: Przemysław Kurek Jörg Albrecht
University of Palermo – ITALY: Rafael Da Silveira Bueno
