Team
Ruben Heleno
PI
Associate Professor in Ecology
Seed dispersal, Ecological networks, Island Biogeography, Biotic Invasions
Sergio Timóteo
Senior Researcher
Multilayer Networks, Plant Phenology, Tropical Ecology, Fire ecology
José Miguel Costa
Senior researcher
Botany, Seed dispersal, Biodiversity, Fire ecology, Ecological networks
Sara Mendes
Postdoc researcher
Ecological Networks, Island Biogeography, Climate Change, Macroecology
Helena Raposeira
PhD student
Bat ecology, Altitudinal gradients, Conservation Biology
(Universidade do Porto)
Patrícia Chaves
PhD student
Ecological networks, Pest control, Human-Wildlife interactions
(Universidade de Lisboa)
Renato Calado
PhD student
Island Biogeography, Plant-Aphid-Predator food webs, Evolution
(Universidade dos Açores)
Master Students
Leonardo Craveiro
MSc student
Biological Invasions, Fruiting Phenology
Paula Feldman
MSc student
Plant-epyphyte networks, Galapagos, Restoration
Miguel Andrade
MSc student
Entomology, Plant-Lepidoptera networks, Galapagos, Restoration
André Branquinho
MSc student
Environmental Impact Assesment, Ornithology
Previous PhD students
Luis Pascoal da Silva
on to a postdoc position at CIBIO-UP, Portugal
Thesis: Consequences of monospecific alien forests on biodiversity and ecosystem function and possible strategies to minimize their impact
Marta Correia
on to a postdoc position at IMEDEA-CSIC, Spain
Thesis: Bridging the roles of seed dispersal and plant mycorrhizal interactions as drivers of ecosystem structure and function
José Miguel Costa
on to a research technitian position at CFE-UC, Coimbra
Thesis: The disruption of mutualistic networks
Francisco (Paco) López Núñez
on to a postdoc position at CFE-UC and ESAC, Coimbra
Thesis: Disentangling the ecological impacts of Acacia longifolia and monitoring its biological control: a multi-network approach
Sasha Vasconcelos
on to a postdoc position at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Thesis: Linking agricultural management, host-parasitoid interactions and natural pest control in Mediterranean olive farms: a molecular-based food web approach
Alba Costa
on to a postdoc position at IMEDEA-CSIC, Spain
Thesis: Spatio‐temporal responses of ecosystem functions to ecological restoration in the Seychelles
Visiting scientists
Adrian González Chaves
Guadalupe Peralta
Cecília Andreazi
Patricia Mateo-Tomás
Beatriz Rumeu Ruiz
Alberto Coelho
Lucia Grundmann
Felipe Monzón
Kathryn Dix
Catherine O’Connor
Carolina Esteves
Alban Mazars-Simón
Previous MSc students
Andreia Murta
Joana Dias
Cátia Gamito
Inês Lacerda
Gonçalo Fino
João Ribeiro
Patrícia Chaves
Alexandre Fuster-Calvo
Francisco López Núñez
Filipa Mendes
Ana Coelho
Mauro Nereu
Mariana Valente
Sérgio Ribeiro
Sanjay Sonet
Joana Cruz