Publications
IN PREPARATION – IN REVIEW
2024
51. González-Varo JP, Rumeu B, Bracho-Estévanez CA, Acevedo-Limón L, Baltzinger C, Lovas-Kiss Á & Green A (2024) Overlooked seed-dispersal modes and underestimated distances. GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY 00:e13835 pdf
50. Burgos T, Escribano-Ávila G, Fedriani JM, González-Varo JP, Illera JC, Cancio I, Hernández-Hernández J & Virgós E (2024) Apex predators can structure ecosystems through trophic cascades: linking the frugivorous behaviour and seed-dispersal patterns of mesocarnivores. FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY accepted
49. García D, Rumeu B, Illera JC, Miñarro M, Palomar G & González-Varo JP (2024) Common birds combine pest control and seed dispersal in apple orchards through a hybrid interaction network. AGRICULTURE, ECOSYSTEMS AND ENVIRONMENT 365 (2024) 108927 link
48. Riggi LGA, Raderschall CA, Fijen TPM, Scheper J, Smith HG, Kleijn D, Holzschuh A, Aguilera G, Badenhausser I, Bänsch S, Beyer N, Blitzer EJ, Bommarco R, Danforth B, González-Varo JP, Grab H, Le Provost G, Poveda K, Potts SG, Rundlöf M, Steffan-Dewenter I, Tscharntke T, Vilà M, Westphal C, Berggren Å & Lundin O (2024) Early-season mass-flowering crop cover dilutes wild bee abundance and species richness in temperate regions: A quantitative synthesis. JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY 61:452-464 link
47. Tarifa R, González-Varo JP, Camacho FM, Pérez AJ, Salido T & Rey PJ (2024) Woodland loss differently affects seed dispersal by resident and migratory avian frugivores in olive grove-dominated landscapes. AGRICULTURE, ECOSYSTEMS AND ENVIRONMENT 359 (2024) 108752 link
2023
46. González-Varo JP, Albrecht J, Arroyo JM, Bueno RS, Burgos T, Escribano-Ávila G, Farwig N, García D, Illera JC, Jordano P, Kurek P, Rösner S, Virgós E & Sutherland WJ (2023) Frugivore-mediated seed dispersal in fragmented landscapes: Compositional and functional turnover from forest to matrix. PNAS 120: e2302440120 pdf
45. Bracho-Estévanez CA, Acevedo-Limón L, Rumeu B & González-Varo JP (2023) Bioclimatic belts for the Mediterranean Basin as open access GIS layers. ECOSISTEMAS 32(3):2571 link
44. 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
2022
43. 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
42. 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
41. 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
40. 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
Photos: David Chapman (left) and Agustín Povedano (right)
39. 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 AND EVOLUTION 154:341–350 link
38. 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
2019
37. 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
36. 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
35. 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
34. González-Varo JP, Arroyo JM & Jordano P (2019) The timing of frugivore-mediated seed dispersal effectiveness. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY 28:219–231 pdf
photo: Miguel Montoro
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
33. 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, AND ENVIRONMENT 272:230–236 pdf
2018
32. 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 )
31. 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
photo: Saverio Gatto
A hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes) feeding on hawthorn seeds (Crataegus monogyna)
30. González-Varo JP & Geldmann J (2018) Response — "Bee conservation: Key role of managed bees" and "Bee conservation: Inclusive solutions". SCIENCE 360:389–390 pdf
29. Geldmann J & González-Varo JP (2018) Conserving honey bees does not help wildlife. SCIENCE 359:392–393 pdf
28. 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
27. 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
26. González-Varo JP & Vilà M (2017) Spillover of managed honeybees from mass-flowering crops into natural habitats. BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION 212:376–382 pdf
25. 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
24. González-Varo JP, López-Bao JV & Guitián J (2017) Seed dispersers help plants to escape global warming. OIKOS 126:1600–1606 pdf
2016
23. Amano T, González-Varo JP & Sutherland W (2016) Languages are still a major barrier to global science. PLOS BIOLOGY 14(12): e2000933 pdf
22. 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
21. González-Varo JP & Traveset A (2016) The labile limits of forbidden interactions. TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION 31:700–710 pdf
20. 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
2014–2015
19. González-Varo JP, Fedriani JM, López-Bao JV, Guitián J & Suárez-Esteban A (2015) Frugivory and seed dispersal by carnivorous mammals: functional traits. ECOSISTEMAS 24:43–50 pdf
18. González-Varo JP, Albaladejo RG, Aizen MA, Arroyo J & Aparicio A (2015) Extinction debt of a common shrub in a fragmented landscape. JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY 52:580–589 pdf
17. López-Bao JV, González-Varo JP & Guitián J (2015) Mutualistic relationships under landscape change: carnivorous mammals and plants after 30 years of land abandonment. BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY 16:152–161 pdf
16. González-Varo JP, Arroyo JM & Jordano P (2014) Who dispersed the seeds? The use of DNA barcoding in frugivory and seeds dispersal studies. METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 5:806–814 pdf
See our outreach article Finding the bird that dispersed the seeds
Highligthed in Kress et al. (2015) Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30:25-35
2012–2013
15. González-Varo JP, Biesmeijer JC, Bommarco R, Potts SG, Schweiger O, Smith HG, Steffan-Dewenter I, Szentgyörgyi H, Woyciechowski M & Vilá M (2013) Combined effects of global change pressures on animal-mediated pollination. TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION 28:524–530 pdf
14. González-Varo JP, López-Bao JV & Guitián J (2013) Functional diversity among seed dispersal kernels generated by carnivorous mammals. JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY 82:562–571 pdf
13. Traveset A, González-Varo JP & Valido A (2012) Long-term demographic consequences of a seed dispersal disruption. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B 279:3298–3303 pdf
12. González-Varo JP, Aparicio A, Lavergne S, Arroyo J & Albaladejo RG (2012) Contrasting heterozygosity-fitness correlations between populations of a self-compatible shrub in a fragmented landscape. GENETICA 140:31–38 pdf
11. González-Varo JP, Nora S & Aparicio A (2012) Bottlenecks for plant recruitment in woodland remnants: an ornithochorous shrub in a Mediterranean ‘relictual’ landscape. PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY, EVOLUTION, AND SYSTEMATICS 14:111–122 pdf
2010–2011
10. López-Bao JV & González-Varo JP (2011) Frugivory and spatial patterns of seed dispersal by carnivorous mammals in anthropogenic landscapes: a multi-scale approach. PLOS ONE 6(1) e14569 pdf
9. Albaladejo RG, Sebastiani F, González-Martínez SC, González-Varo JP, Vendramin GG, Aparicio A (2010) Isolation of microsatellite markers for the common Mediterranean shrub Myrtus communis (Myrtaceae). AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY doi:10.3732/ajb.1000060 pdf
8. González-Varo JP & Traveset A (2010) Among-individual variation in pollen limitation and inbreeding depression in a mixed-mating shrub. ANNALS OF BOTANY 106:999–1008 pdf
7. González-Varo JP, Albaladejo RG, Aparicio A & Arroyo J (2010) Linking genetic diversity, mating patterns and progeny performance in fragmented populations of a Mediterranean shrub. JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY 47:1242–1252 pdf
6. González-Varo JP (2010) Fragmentation, habitat composition and the dispersal/predation balance of interactions between the Mediterranean myrtle and avian frugivores. ECOGRAPHY 33:185–197 pdf
2008–2009
5. González-Varo JP, Arroyo J & Aparicio A (2009) Effects of fragmentation on pollinator assemblage, pollen limitation and seed production of Mediterranean myrtle (Myrtus communis). BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION 142:1058–1065 pdf
4. González-Varo JP, Albaladejo RG & Aparicio A (2009) Mating patterns and spatial distribution of conspecific neighbours in the Mediterranean shrub Myrtus communis (Myrtaceae). PLANT ECOLOGY 203: 207–215 pdf
3. Albaladejo RG, Fernández-Carrillo L, Aparicio A, Fernández-Manjarrés J & González-Varo JP (2009) Population genetic structure in Myrtus communis L. across a chronically fragmented landscape in the Mediterranean: can gene flow counteract habitat perturbation? PLANT BIOLOGY 11:442–453 pdf
2. Munilla I, López-Bao JV, González-Varo JP & Guitián J (2008) Long-term changes in the breeding bird assemblages of two woodland patches in northwest Spain. ARDEOLA 55:221–227 pdf
1. González-Varo JP, López-Bao JV & Guitián J (2008) Presence and abundance of the Eurasian nuthatch Sitta europaea in relation to the size, isolation and the intensity of management of chestnut woodlands in the NW Iberian Peninsula. LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY 23:79–89 pdf
