Publications
2025
Costa J, R Heleno, P Lopes, J Ramos, E Marchante, P Vargas & S Timóteo 2025 Seed dispersal as a backup system to resprouting and seeding during post-fire regeneration. Annals of Botany mcaf230, doi:10.1093/aob/mcaf230
Heinen J, D Drake, K McConkey, J Hume, S Albert, H Ando, C Aslan, C Baider, P Bellingham, S Case, C Chimera, F Florens, E Fricke, A Gawel, A González -Castro, R Heleno, S Hervias-Parejo, A Hruska, C Imada, R Lima, M Nogales, H Rogers, B Rumeu, D Strasberg, A Traveset, A Valido, K Watanabe, D Wotton, T Yoshikawa, C Rahbek & M Borregaard 2025 Species introductions shift seed dispersal potential more than extinctions across 120 island plant-frugivore communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122(41):e2423438122, doi:10.1073/pnas.2423438122
Fricke E, C Bello, R Chaplin-Kramer, D Dent, K Feeley, M Galetti, J González-Varo, R Heleno & J Reid 2025 Drivers and impacts of global seed disperser decline. Nature Reviews Biodiversity 1:386-400, doi: 10.1038/s44358-025-00053-w
Hervías-Parejo S, A Traveset, M Nogales, R Heleno, J Llewelyn & G Strona 2025 Sampling biases across interaction types affect the robustness of ecological multilayer networks. Ecological informatics 89:103183, doi: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2025.103183
Mendes S, J Olesen, M Nogales, P Marrero, C Nieves, J Romero & R Heleno 2025 Urbanization of seed dispersal networks. Conservation Biology 2025:e70097, doi: 0.1111/cobi.7009
Calado H, A Soares, R Heleno & P Borges 2025 Coastal grassland vegetation records from São Miguel Island (Azores) and the south-western coast of mainland Portugal. Biodiversity Data Journal 13:e173529, doi:10.3897/BDJ.13.e173529
Timóteo S, J Costa, F Covelo, J Santos, P Lopes, A Gouveia, A Matos, A Salgado, MT Girão da Cruz, J Farminhão, M Horta, G Barreto, A Marques, L Craveiro, P Pinto, M Santos, B Nunes, M Barreiro, A Dias, G Rodrigues, L Esteves, M Wanderley, I Santos, J Artiaga, J Veríssimo, I Vilhena, L Moniz, A Leão, M Couras, S Mendes, M Nereu, A Dias da Silva, F Sales, MT Gonçalves, A. Coutinho, H Freitas, J Silva, J Ramos, E Marchante & R Heleno 2025 HiDaFernPT: Historical data of spore availability for 121 fern and lycopod taxa in Portugal (1926 – 2013). Ecology 106(2):e70026, doi:10.1002/ecy.70026
Pärtel M, R Tamme, C Carmona, K Riibak, M Moora, J Bennett, A Chiarucci, M Chytrý, F de Bello, O Eriksson, S Harrison, R Lewis, A Moles, M Öpik, J Price, V Amputu, D Askarizadeh, Z Atashgahi, I Aubin, F Azcárate, M Barrett, M Bashirzadeh, Z Bátori, N Beenaerts, K Bergholz, K Birkeli, I Biurrun, J Blanco-Moreno, K Bloodworth, L Boisvert-Marsh, B Boldgiv, P Brancalion, F Brearley, C Brown, C Bueno, G Buffa, J Cahill, J Campos, G Cangelmi, M Carbognani, C Carcaillet, B Cerabolini, R Chevalier, J Clavel, J Costa, S Cousins, J Čuda, M Dairel, M Dalle Fratte, A Danilova, J Davison, B Deák, S Del Vecchio, I Dembicz, J Dengler, J Dolezal, X Domene, M Dvorsky, H Ejtehadi, L Enrico, D Epikhin, A Eskelinen, F Essl, G Fan, E Fantinato, F Fazlioglu, E Fernández-Pascual, A Ferrara, A Fidelis, M Fischer, M Flagmeier, T Forte, L Fraser, J Fujinuma, F Furquim, B Garris, H Garris, M Giorgis, G Giusso del Galdo, A González-Robles, M Good, M Guardiola, R Guarino, I Guerrero, J Guillemot, B Güler, Y Guo, S Haesen, M Hejda, R Heleno, T Høye, R Hrivnák, Y Huang, J Hunter, D Iakushenko, R Ibáñez, N Ingerpuu, S Irl, E Janíková, F Jansen, F Jeltsch, A Jentsch, B Jiménez-Alfaro, M Jõks, M Jouri, S Karami, N Katal, A Kelemen, B Khairullin, A Khuroo, K Komatsu, M Konečná, E Kook, L Korell, N Koroleva, K Korznikov, M Kozhevnikova, Ł Kozub, L Laanisto, H Lager, V Lanta, R Lasagno, J Lembrechts, L Li, A Lisner, H Liu, K Liu, X Liu, M Lucas-Borja, K Ludewig, K Lukács, J Luther-Mosebach, P Macek, M Marignani, R Michalet, T Miglécz, J Moeslund, K Moeys, D Montesinos, E Moreno-Jiménez, I Moysiyenko, L Mucina, M Muñoz-Rojas, R Murillo, S Nambahu, L Neuenkamp, S Normand, A Nowak, P Nuche, T Oja, V Onipchenko, K Pachedjieva, B Paganeli, B Peco, A Peralta, A Pérez-Haase, P Plaza Álvarez, J Plue, H Prentice, V Prokhorov, D Radujković, S Rahmanian, T Reitalu, M Ristow, A Robin, A Robles, D Rodríguez Ginart, R Román, R Roos, L Rosati, J Sádlo, K Salimbayeva, R Sánchez de Dios, K Sanchir, C Sattler, J Scasta, U Schmiedel, J Schrader, N Schultz, G Sellan, J Serra-Diaz, G Silan, H Skálová, N Skobel, J Sonkoly, K Štajerová, I Svitková, S Świerszcz, A Tanentzap, F Tanentzap, R Tarifa, P Tejero, D Tekeev, M Tholin, R Thormodsæter, Y Tian, A Tokaryuk, C Tölgyesi, M Tomaselli, E Tordoni, P Török, B Tóthmérész, A Toussaint, B Touzard, D Trindade, J Tsakalos, S Türkiş, E Valencia, M Valerio, O Valkó, K Van Meerbeek, V Vandvik, J Villellas, R Virtanen, M Vítková, M Vojík, A von Hessberg, J von Oppen, V Wagner, J Wan, C Wang, S Wani, L Weiss, T Wevill, S Xiao, O Zárate Martínez & M Zobel 2025 Global impoverishment of natural vegetation revealed by dark diversity. Nature doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08814-5
Mendes S, M Nogales, P Vargas, J Olesen, P Marrero, J Romero. B Rumeu, A González-Castro & R Heleno 2025 Climb forest, climb: Diverse disperser communities are key to assist plants tracking climate change on altitudinal gradients. New Phytologist 245(3):1315-1329 doi:10.1111/nph.20300
López-Núñez F, E Marchante, H Marchante & R Heleno 2025 Three-trophic level food webs support the safety of a biocontrol agent three years after release. Restoration Ecology 33(3):e14371 doi:10.1111/rec.14371
Nogales M, A Traveset, H López, R Heleno, S Rodríguez-Echeverría, R García & S Hervías-Parejo 2025 Disentangling small island multilayer networks: underlying ecological and evolutionary patterns. Ecology 106:e70058 doi:10.1002/ecy.70058
Mironov S & R Heleno 2025 New species and records of feather mites (Acariformes: Analgoidea) from endemic passerines (Aves: Passeriformes) in the Seychelles. Systematic and Applied Acarology 30(1):88–120 doi: 10.11158/saa30.1.7
Timóteo S, J Costa, F Covelo, J Santos, P Lopes, A Gouveia, A Matos, A Salgado, MT Girão da Cruz, J Farminhão, M Horta, G Barreto, A Marques, L Craveiro, P Pinto, M Santos, B Nunes, M Barreiro, A Dias, G Rodrigues, L Esteves, M Wanderley, I Santos, J Artiaga, J Veríssimo, I Vilhena, L Moniz, A Leão, M Couras, S Mendes, M Nereu, A Dias da Silva, F Sales, MT Gonçalves, A. Coutinho, H Freitas, J Silva, J Ramos, E Marchante & R Heleno 2025 HiDaFernPT: Historical data of spore availability for 121 fern and lycopod taxa in Portugal (1926 – 2013). Ecology 106(2):e70026 doi:10.1002/ecy.70026
Calado H, A Soares, R Heleno & P Borges 2025 Arthropod communities of insular (São Miguel Island, Azores) and mainland (Portugal) coastal grasslands. Biodiversity Data Journal 13: e1449152 doi:10.3897/BDJ.13. e144915
da Silva LP, A Coutinho, J Ramos & R Heleno 2025 Anthropogenic forests simplify seed- but not pollen-dispersal networks. Integrative Zoology 20:160-170 doi:10.1111/1749-4877.12868
González-García F, C Rega-Brodsky, M García-Arroyo, P Sittler, J Escobar-Ibáñez, J García Chávez, M Hedblom, R Heleno, P Iankov, G Malmiga, A Martínez Fernández, N McIntyre, D Pavón-Jordán, I Ruvalcaba-Ortega, I MacGregor-Fors 2025 Chirping across continents: Variation in House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) vocalizations across North America and Europe. Biological Invasions 27:68 doi:10.1007/s10530-024-03521-0
Lanuza J, T Knight, N Montes-Perez, W Glenny, P Acuña, M Albrecht, M Artamendi, I Badenhausser, J Bennett, P Biella, R Bommarco, A Cappellari, S Castro, Y Clough, P Colom, J Costa, N de Manincor, P Dominguez-Lapido, C Dominik, Y Dupont, R Feldmann, E Felten, V Ferrero, W Fiordaliso, A Fisogni, Ú Fitzpatrick, M Galloni, H Gaspar, E Gazzea, I Goia, C Gómez-Martínez, M González-Estévez, JP González-Varo, I Grass, J Hadrava, N Hautekèete, V Hederström, R Heleno, S Hervias-Parejo, J Heuschele, B Hoiss, A Holzschuh, S Hopfenmüller, JM Iriondo, B Jauker, F Jauker, J Jersáková, K Kallnik, R Karise, D Kleijn, S Klotz, T Krausl, E Kühn, C Lara-Romero, M Larkin, E Laurent, A Lázaro, F Librán-Embid, Y Liu, S Lopes, F López-Núñez, J Loureiro, A Magrach, M Mänd, L Marini, R Beltran Mas, F Massol, C Maurer, D Michez, FP Molina, J Morente-López, S Mullen, G Nakas, L Neuenkamp, A Nowak, C O’Connor, A O’Rourke, E Öckinger, J Olesen, Ø Opedal, T Petanidou, Y Piquot, S Potts, EF Power, W Proesmans, D Rakosy, S Reverte, S Roberts, M Rundlöf, L Russo, B Schatz, J Scheper, O Schweiger, P Enric Serra, C Siopa, H Smith, D Stanley, V Ştefan, I Steffan-Dewenter, J Stout, L Sutter, E Motivans Švara, S Świerszcz, A Thompson, A Traveset, A Trefflich, R Tropek, T Tscharntke, A Vanbergen, M Vilà, A Vujić, C White, J Wickens, V Wickens, M Winsa, L Zoller, I Bartomeus 2025 EuPPollNet: A European database of plant-pollinator networks. Global Ecology and Biogeography 34(2):e70000 doi:10.1111/geb.70000
2024
Mendes S, J Olesen, J Memmott, J Costa, S Timóteo, A Dengucho, L Craveiro & R Heleno 2024 Evidence of a European seed dispersal crisis. Science 386:206-211 doi:10.1126/science.ado1464
Lacasa L, S Hervías-Parejo, M Cuevas-Blanco, A Traveset, I Donoso, R Heleno, M Nogales, S Rodriguez-Echeverria, C Melián & V Eguiluz 2024 On the structure of species-function participation in multilayer ecological networks. Nature Communications 15:8910 doi:10.1038/s41467-024-53001-1
Costa, A, R Heleno, Y Dufrene, E Huckle, S Mendes, A Whittington, F van Veen & C Kaiser-Bunbury 2024 Insect seed-predator networks respond positively to restoration on a tropical island. Journal of Applied Ecology 61:2727-2738 doi:10.1111/1365-2664.14781
Heleno R, J Costa, F Covelo, J Santos, P Lopes, A Gouveia, A Matos, A Salgado, MT Girão da Cruz, J Farminhão, M Horta, G Barreto, A Marques, L Craveiro, P Pinto, M Santos, B Nunes, M Barreiro, A Dias, G Rodrigues, L Esteves, M Wanderley, I Santos, J Artiaga, J Veríssimo, I Vilhena, L Moniz, A Leão, M Couras, S Mendes, M Nereu, A Dias da Silva, F Sales, MT Gonçalves, A. Coutinho, H Freitas, J Silva, J Ramos, E Marchante & S Timóteo 2024 O armário: Fruiting phenology data for 4,462 plant taxa in Portugal (1926 – 2013). Scientific data 11:669 doi:10.1038/s41597-024-03520-9
Calado R, P Borges, R Heleno & A Soares 2024 A comparative analysis of island vs. mainland arthropod communities in coastal grasslands belonging to two distinct regions: São Miguel Island (Azores) and Mainland Portugal. Diversity 16:10 doi:10.3390/d16100624
Martins L, D Stouffer, P Blendinger, K BöhningGaese, J Costa, M Dehling, C Donatti, C Emer, M Galetti, R Heleno, Í Menezes, J Morante-Filho, M Muñoz, E Neuschulz, M Pizo, M Quitián, R Ruggera, F Saavedra, V Santillán, M Schleuning, L da Silva, F Ribeiro da Silva, J Tobias, A Traveset, M Vollstädt, J Tylianakis 2024 Birds optimize fruit size consumed near their geographic range limits. Science 385:331-336 doi:10.1126/science.adj1856
da Silva P, V Mata, P Lopes, C Pinho, C Chaves, E Correia, J Pinto, R Heleno, S Timoteo & P Beja 2024 Dietary metabarcoding reveals the simplification of bird-pest interaction networks across a gradient of agricultural cover. Molecular Ecology 33:e17324 doi:10.1111/mec.17324
Nogales M, K McConkey, T Carlo, D Wotton, P Bellingham, A Traveset, A González-Castro, R Heleno, K Watanabe, H Ando, H Rogers, J Heinen & D Drake 2024 A review on the state of the art in frugivory and seed dispersal on islands and the implications of global change? Botanical Review doi:10.1007/s12229-023-09296-8
Vasconcelos S, S Pina, M Jonsson, R Heleno, J Herrera, F Moreira, B Silva, N Melguizo-Ruiz, E Daouti, G Jiménez-Navarro & P Beja 2023 Mixed effects of oak woodlands on biocontrol potential and pest pressure in olive orchards under management intensification. Journal of Pest Science 97:355-368 doi:10.1007/s10340-023-01634-4
Nereu M, JS Silva & S Timóteo 2024 Site and landscape scale drivers of bird and insect diversity in Native and novel forest ecosystems of Central Portugal. Forest Ecology and Management 553:121634 doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2023.121634
Nereu M, JS Silva & S Timóteo 2024 The disruption of birds’ double mutualistic interactions in novel ecosystems. Proceedings Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 291:20241872 doi:10.1098/rspb.2024.1872
Chaves P, Schaafsma M, Dabo D, Lomba JZ, Mane F, Lima R, Palmeirim J, Rocha R, Seck S, Biai J, Timóteo S, Meyer C & Rainho A 2024 Friend or foe? Attitudes of rice farmers toward wild animals in West Africa. Ecology and Society 29 doi:10.5751/ES-15486-290424
Baptista M, R Carvalho, M Boieiro, M Bartz, S Mendes, S Timóteo, H Azevedo-Pereira, J Alves, A Alves da Silva, M Briones, A Serrano, JP Sousa & P Martins da Silva 2024 The role of sheltered habitats in biodiversity conservation of species sensitive to drought: A case study using ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in the Gorongosa National Park. Biodiversity and Conservation 33:2345–2361 doi:10.1007/s10531-024-02853-6
Dupont Y, M Greve, H Madsen, C Rasmussen, S Timóteo & J Olesen 2024 Structure of a metacommunity of urban bees: Species diversity and spatio-temporal modularity. Basic and Applied Ecology 77:45–56 doi:10.1016/j.baae.2024.04.004
Royuela J, J Costa, R Heleno, J Silva, H Freitas, P Lopes, S Mendes & S Timóteo 2024 What is the value of biotic seed dispersal in post-fire forest regeneration? Conservation Letters 17:e12990 doi:10.1111/conl.12990
2023
Timoteo S, J Albrecht, B Rumeu, A Norte, A Traveset, C Frost, E Marchante, F López-Núñez, G Peralta, J Memmott, J Olesen, J Costa, L da Silva, L Carvalheiro, M Correia, M Staab, N Blüthgen, N Farwig, S Parejo, S Mironov, S Rodriguez-Echeverria & R Heleno 2023 Tripartite networks show that keystone species can multitask. Functional Ecology 37(2):274-286 doi:10.1111/1365-2435.14206
Guerrero-Campos M, Mendes S, Marrero P, Romero J, Nieves C, Hervías-Parejo S, González-Mancebo J, Nogales M. 2023. Introduced rabbits as seed-dispersing frugivores: a study case on a environmentally diverse oceanic island (Tenerife, Canaries). Biological Invasions 25:2117-2129 doi:10.1007/s10530-023-03026-2
Martins da Silva P, Bartz M, Mendes S, Boieiro M, Timóteo S, Azevedo-Pereira H, Alves da Silva A, Alves J, Serrano A & Sousa JP 2023 Tree canopy enhances Collembola functional richness and diversity across typical habitats of the Gorongosa National Park (Mozambique). Applied Soil Ecology 190:105010 doi:10.1016/j.apsoil.2023.105010
Costa T, Gil A, Timóteo S, Ceia R, Coelho R & de la Cruz A 2023 How Many Azores Bullfinches (Pyrrhula murina) Are There in the World? Case Study of a Threatened Species. Diversity 15:685 doi:10.3390/d15050685
Serrano A, M Baptista, R Carvalho, M Boieiro, S Mendes, M Bartz, S Timóteo, H Azevedo-Pereira, C Aguiar, A Alves da Silva, J Alves, M Briones, P Borges, JP Sousa & P Martins da Silva 2023 Inventory of tiger- and ground-beetles (Coleoptera, Caraboidea, Cicindelidae and Carabidae) in two sampling seasons of the Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. Biodiversity Data Journal 11:e101280 doi:10.3897/BDJ.11.e101280
Costa A, R Heleno, E Freide, Y Dufrene, E Huckle & C Kaiser-Bunbury 2023 Impacts of invasive ants on pollination of native plants are similar in invaded and restored plant communities. Global Ecology and Conservation 42:e02413 doi:10.1016/j.gecco.2023.e02413
Martín-Hernanz S, M Nogales, L Valente, M Fernández-Mazuecos, F Pomeda-Gutiérrez, J Olesen, R Heleno & P Vargas 2023 Time-calibrated phylogenies reveal mediterranean and pre-mediterranean origin of the thermophilous vegetation of the Canary Islands. Annals of Botany 131(4):667-684 doi:10.1093/aob/mcac160
Mendes S, J Olesen, S Timoteo & R Heleno 2023 Fruiting phenology matters. Plants, People, Planet 5(3): 324-328 doi:10.1002/ppp3.10359
Vargas P, R Heleno & J Costa 2023 EuDiS - A comprehensive database of the seed dispersal syndromes of the European flora. Biodiversity Data Journal 11:e104079 doi:10.3897/BDJ.11.e104079
Raposeira H, P Horta, R Heleno & H Rebelo 2023 Changing with the times: Seasonal environmental gradients unveil dynamic bat assemblages and vulnerability. Ecology and Evolution 13(7):e10246 doi:10.1002/ece3.10246
Garcia F, A da Silva, R Heleno, J Sousa & J Alves 2023 Red deer as a disperser of native, but not invasive plant’s seeds. Integrative Zoology 18:859-866 doi:10.1111/1749-4877.12729
2022
Vasconcelos S, S Pina, J Herrera, B Silva, P Sousa, M Porto, N Melguizo-Ruiz, G Jiménez-Navarro, S Ferreira, F Moreira, R Heleno, M Jonsson & P Beja 2022 Canopy arthropod declines along a gradient of olive farming intensification. Scientific Reports 12:17273 doi:10.1038/s41598-022-21480-1
Martins L, D Stouffer, P Blendinger, K Böhning-Gaese, G Buitrón-Jurado, M Correia, J Costa, D Dehling, C Donatti, C Emer, M Galetti, R Heleno, P Jordano, Í Menezes, J Morante-Filho, M Muñoz, E Neuschulz, M Pizo, M Quitián, R Ruggera, F Saavedra, V Santillán, V D’Angelo, M Schleuning, L da Silva, F da Silva, S Timóteo, A Traveset, M Vollstädt & J Tylianakis 2022 Global and regional ecological boundaries drive abrupt spatial discontinuities in avian frugivory interactions. Nature Communications 13:6943 doi:10.1038/s41467-022-34355-w
Moyano J, F Essl, R Heleno, P Vargas, M Nuñez & M Rodriguez-Cabal 2022 Diaspore traits specialized to animal adhesion and sea current dispersal are positively associated with the naturalization of European plants across the World. Ecography e06423 doi:10.1111/ecog.06423
Costa A, R Heleno, Y Dufrene, E Huckle, R Gabriel, X Harrison, D Schabo, N Farwig & C Kaiser-Bunbury 2022 Seasonal variation in impact of non-native species on tropical seed dispersal networks. Functional Ecology 36:2713–2726 doi:10.1111/1365-2435.14171
Heleno R, F Mendes, A Coelho, J Ramos, J Palmeirim, A Rainho & R de Lima 2022 The upsizing of the São Tomé seed dispersal network by introduced animals. Oikos 2022: e08279 doi:10.1111/oik.08279
Vasconcelos S, M Jonsson, R Heleno, F Moreira & P Beja 2022 A meta-analysis of biocontrol potential and herbivore pressure in olive crops: does integrated pest management make a difference? Basic and Applied Ecology 63:115-124 doi:10.1016/j.baae.2022.05.009
Bartomeus I, J Lanuza, T Wood, L Carvalheiro, F Molina, Miguel Aliaño, Luis Aguado-Martín, D Alomar, M Fidalgo, P Fidalgo, M Arista, B Arroyo-Correa, J Asís, C Azpiazu, Laura Baños-Picón, P Beja, M Boieiro, P Borges, G Bornay, R Carvalho, R Casimiro-Soriguer, S Castro, J Costa, I Cross, P De la Rúa, L Pablos, V Paz, J Díaz-Calafa, V Ferrrero, H Gaspar, G Ghisbain, J Gómez, C Gómez-Martínez, M González-Estévez, R Heleno, J Herrera, J Hormaza, J Iriondo, M Kuhlmann, P Laiolo, C Lara-Romero, A Lázaro, J López-Angulo, F López-Núñez, J Loureiro, A Magrach, V Martínez-López, C Martínez-Núñez, D Michez, M Miñarro, A Montero-Castaño, B Moreira, J Morente-López, N Fonseca, A Carbajal, J Obeso, C Ornosa, F Ortiz-Sánchez, D Bonilla, S Patiny, A Penado, A Picanço, E Ploquin, C Rego, P Rey, E Ribas-Marquès, S Roberts, M Rodriguez, N Rosas-Ramos, A Sánchez, S Santamaría, E Tobajas, J Tormos, F Torres, A Trillo, J Valverde, M Vilà & E Viñuela 2022 Iberian bees database. Ecossistemas 31:2380. doi:10.7818/ECOS.2380
Chaves P, S Timóteo, S Gomes & A Rainho 2022 Response of avian and mammal seed dispersal networks to human-induced forest edges in a sub-humid tropical forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology 38:199-209 doi:10.1017/S0266467422000062
Mendes S, S Timóteo, J Loureiro & S Castro 2022 The impact of habitat loss on pollination services for a threatened dune endemic plant. Oecologia 198:279-293 doi:10.1007/s00442-021-05070-y
Costa A, R Heleno, Y Dufrene, E Huckle, R Gabriel, D Doudee & C Kaiser-Bunbury 2022 Seed dispersal by frugivores from forest remnants promotes the regeneration of adjacent invaded forests in an oceanic island. Restoration Ecology 30:e13654 doi:10.1111/rec.13654
Coello A, M Fernández-Mazuecos, R Heleno & P Vargas 2022 PAICE: a new R package to estimate the number of inter-island colonization events considering haplotype data and sample size. Journal of Biogeography 49:577-589 doi:10.1111/jbi.14341
2021
Fristoe T, M Chytrý, W Dawson, F Essl, R Heleno, H Kreft, N Maurel, J Pergl, P Pyšek, H Seebens, P Weigelt, P Vargas, Q Yang, F Attorre, E Bergmeier, M Bernhardt-Römermann, I Biurrun, S Boch, G Bonari, Z Botta-Dukát, H Bruun, C Byun, A Čarni, M Carranza, J Catford, B Cerabolini, E Chacón-Madrigal, D Ciccarelli, R Ćušterevska, I Ronde, J Dengler, V Golub, R Haveman, N Hough-Snee, U Jandt, F Jansen, A Kuzemko, F Küzmič, J Lenoir, A Macanović, C Marcenò, A Martin, S Michaletz, A Mori, Ü Niinemets, T Peterka, R Pielech, V Rašomavičius, S Rūsiņa, A Dias, M Šibíková, U Šilc, A Stanisci, S Jansen, J-C Svenning, G Swacha, F Plas, K Vassilev & M Kleunen 2021 Dimensions of invasiveness: links between abundance, geographic range size, and habitat breadth in Europe’s alien and native floras. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118:e2021173118 doi:10.1073/pnas.2021173118
López-Núñez F, E Marchante, R Heleno, L Duarte, J Palhas, F Impson, H Freitas & H Marchante 2021 Establishment, spread and early impacts of the first biocontrol agent against an invasive plant in continental Europe. Journal of Environmental Management 290:112545 doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112545
González-Varo J, B Rumeu, J Albrecht, J Arroyo, R Bueno, T Burgos, L Silva, G Escribano-Ávila, N Farwig, D García, R Heleno, J Illera, P Jordano, P Kurek, B Simmons, E Virgós, W Sutherland & A Traveset, 2021 Limited potential for bird migration to disperse plants to cooler latitudes. Nature 595:75-76 doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03665-2
Fuster-Calvo A, M Nogales, R Heleno, C Vera & P Vargas 2021 Sea dispersal potential and colonization of the Galápagos littoral flora. Journal of Biogeography 48:1904-1916 doi:10.1111/jbi.14120
Carvalheiro L, I Bartomeus, O Rollin, S Timóteo & C Tinoco 2021 The role of soils on pollination and seed dispersal. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - B 376: 20200171 doi:10.1098/rstb.2020.0171
2020
Heleno R 2020 The Effect of Non-native Plant Invasions on Seed Dispersal of Native Plants. in Plant Invasions: the role of biotic interactions. Traveset A and Richardson D (eds), CABI. doi:10.1079/9781789242171.0014
Hervías-Parejo S, C Tur, R Heleno, M Nogales, S Timóteo & A Traveset 2020 Species functional traits and abundance as drivers of multiplex ecological networks: first empirical quantification of inter-layer edge weights. Proceedings of the Royal Society - B 287(1939):2020-2127 doi:10.1098/rspb.2020.2127
Costa J, J Ramos, S Timóteo, L da Silva, R Ceia & R Heleno 2020 Species temporal persistence promotes the stability of fruit‐frugivore interactions across a 5‐year multilayer network. Journal of Ecology 108:1888-1898 doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13391
Heleno R, W Ripple & A Traveset 2020 Scientists’ Warning on Endangered Food Webs. Web Ecology 20:0-10 doi:10.5194/we-20-1-2020
Hervías-Parejo S, M Nogales, B Guzmán, M Trigo, J Olesen, P Vargas, R Heleno & A Traveset 2020 The potential role of lava lizards as pollinators across the Galápagos islands. Integrative Zoology 15:144-148 doi:10.1111/1749-4877.12386
Emer C & S Timóteo 2020 How a network approach has advanced the field of plant invasion ecology. in A. Traveset & D. M. Richardson (Eds.), Plant invasions: The role of biotic interactions (pp. 324-339). CABI doi:10.1079/9781789242171.0324
2019
Trøjelsgaard K, R Heleno & A Traveset 2019 Native and alien flower visitors differ in partner fidelity and network integration. Ecology Letters 22:1264-1273 doi:10.1111/ele.13287
Correia M, S Rodríguez-Echeverría, S Timóteo, H Freitas & R Heleno 2019 Integrating plant species contribution to mycorrhizal and seed dispersal mutualistic networks. Biology Letters 15:20180770 doi:10.1098/rsbl.2018.0770
Nnakenyi C, A Traveset, R Heleno, H Minoarivelo & C Hui 2019 Fine-tuning the nested structure of pollination networks by adaptive interaction switching, biogeography and sampling effect in the Galápagos Islands. Oikos 128:1413-1423 doi:10.1111/oik.06053
Hervías-Parejo S, J Olesen, M Nogales, A Traveset & R Heleno 2019 Dispersal of fern spores by Galápagos Finches. Journal of Ornithology 160:831-833 doi:10.1007/s10336-019-01656-9
da Silva L, R Heleno, J Costa, M Valente, V Mata, S Gonçalves, A Silva, J Alves & J Ramos 2019 Natural woodlands hold more diverse, abundant, and unique biota than novel anthropogenic forests: a multi-group assessment. European Journal of Forest Research 138:461-472 doi:10.1007/s10342-019-01183-5
Hervías-Parejo S, R Heleno, M Nogales, J Olesen & A Traveset 2019 The divergence in floral trait preferences between non-flower specialized birds and insects on the Galápagos. American Journal of Botany 106:1-7 doi:10.1002/ajb2.1270
Correia M, R Heleno, L da Silva, J Costa & S Rodriguez-Echeverría 2019 First evidence for the joint dispersal of mycorrhizal fungi and plant diaspores by birds. New Phytologist 222:1054-1060 doi:10.1111/nph.15571
López-Núñez F, S Ribeiro, H Marchante, R Heleno & E Marchante 2019 Life inside a gall: diversity, phenology and structure of Portuguese gall communities, their hosts, parasitoids and inquilines. Arthropod-Plant Interactions 13:477-488 doi:10.1007/s11829-018-9655-4
Hervías-Parejo S, R Heleno, B Rumeu, B Guzmán, P Vargas, J Olesen, A Traveset, C Vera, E Benavides & M Nogales, 2019 Small size does not restrain frugivory and seed dispersal across the evolutionary radiation of Galápagos lava lizards. Current Zoology 65:353-361 doi:10.1093/cz/zoy066
Dugger P, P Blendinger, K Böhning-Gaese, L Chama, M Correia, M Dehling, C Emer, N Farwig, E Fricke, M Galetti, D García, I Grass, R Heleno, F Jacomassa, S Moraes, C Moran, M Muñoz, E Neuschulz, L Nowak, A Piratelli, M Pizo, M Quitián, H Rogers, R Ruggera, F Saavedra, M Sánchez, R Sánchez, V Santillán, D Schabo, F da Silva, S Timóteo, A Traveset, M Vollstädt & M Schleuning 2019 Seed-dispersal networks are more specialized in the Neotropics than in the Afrotropics. Global Ecology and Biogeography 28:248-261 doi:10.1111/geb.12833
2018
Escribano-Avila G, C Lara-Romero, R Heleno, A Traveset 2018 Tropical Seed dispersal Networks: emerging patterns, biases and keystone species traits. in Ecological Networks in the Tropics. W Dattilo &V Rico-Gray (eds), Springer, 93-110 ISBN-13:9783319682273.
Correia M, R Heleno, P Vargas & S Rodriguez-Echeverría 2018 Should I stay or should I go? Mycorrhizal plants are more likely to invest in long-distance seed dispersal than non-mycorrhizal plants. Ecology Letters 21:683-691 doi:10.1111/ele.12936
Olesen J, C Damgaard, F Fuster, R Heleno, M Nogales, B Rumeu, K Trøjelsgaard, P Vargas & A Traveset 2018 Disclosing the double mutualist role of birds on Galápagos. Scientific Reports 8:57 doi:10.1038/s41598-017-17592-8
Souza A, M Ilarri, S Timóteo, JC Marques & I Martins 2018 Assessing the effects of temperature and salinity oscillations on a key mesopredator fish from European coastal systems. Science of The Total Environment 640-641:1332–1345 doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.05.348
Timóteo S, M Correia, S Rodríguez-Echeverría, H Freitas & R Heleno 2018 Multilayer networks reveal the spatial structure of seed-dispersal interactions across the Great Rift landscapes. Nature Communications 9:140 doi:10.1038/s41467-017-02658-y
Arjona Y, M Nogales, R Heleno & P Vargas 2018 Long-distance dispersal syndromes matter: diaspore-trait effect on shaping plant distribution across the Canary Islands. Ecography 41:805-814 doi:10.1111/ecog.02624
Timóteo S, C O’Connor, F López-Núñez, J Costa, A Gouveia & R Heleno 2018 Pollination networks from natural and anthropogenic-novel communities show high structural similarity. Oecologia 188:1155-1165 doi:10.1007/s00442-018-4281-5
Costa J, J Ramos, L Silva, S Timóteo, P Andrade, P Araújo, C Carneiro, E Correia, P Cortez, M Felgueiras, C Godinho, R Lopes, C Matos, A Norte, P Pereira, A Rosa & R Heleno 2018 Rewiring of experimentally disturbed seed dispersal networks might lead to unexpected network configurations. Basic and Applied Ecology 30:11-22 doi:10.1016/j.baae.2018.05.011
Vargas P, M Fernández-Mazuecos & R Heleno 2018 Phylogenetic evidence for Miocene origin of Mediterranean lineages: species diversity, reproductive traits and geography. Plant Biology 20:157-165 doi:10.1111/plb.12626
Nereu M, R Heleno, F López-Núñez, M Agostinho & J Ramos 2018 Effects of native biodiversity and spatial dynamics on four grape castes: testing the biotic resistance hypothesis. Web Ecology 18:15-27 doi:10.5194/we-18-15-2018
2017
Rumeu B, M Devoto, A Traveset, J Olesen, P Vargas, M Nogales & R Heleno 2017 Predicting the consequences of disperser extinction: richness matters the most when abundance is low. Functional Ecology 31: 1910-1920, doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12897
Nogales M, A González-Castro, B Rumeu, A Traveset, P Vargas, P Jaramillo, J Olesen & R Heleno 2017 Contribution by vertebrates to seed dispersal effectiveness in the Galápagos islands: a community‐wide approach. Ecology 98:2049-2058, doi:10.1002/ecy.1816
Patiño J, R Whittaker, P Borges, J Fernández-Palacios, C Ah-Peng, M Araújo, S Ávila, P Cardoso, J Cornuault, E de Boer, L de Nascimento, A Gil, A González-Castro, D Gruner, R Heleno, J Hortal, J Illera, C Kaiser-Bunbury, T Matthews, A Papadopoulou, N Pettorelli, J Price, A Santos, M Steinbauer, K Triantis, L Valente, P Vargas, P Weigelt & B Emerson 2017 A roadmap for island biology: 50 fundamental questions after 50 years of The Theory of Island Biogeography. Journal of Biogeography 44:963-983, doi:10.1111/jbi.12986
Heleno R 2017 Birds make the World go round. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 32:154-155, doi:10.1016/j.tree.2017.01.001
López-Núñez F, R Heleno, S Ribeiro, H Marchante & E Marchante 2017 Four-trophic level food webs reveal the cascading impacts of an invasive plant targeted for biocontrol. Ecology 98:782-793, doi:10.1002/ecy.1701
Guzmán B, R Heleno, M Nogales, W Simbaña, A Traveset & P Vargas 2017 Evolutionary history of the endangered shrub snapdragon (Galvezia leucantha) of the Galápagos Islands. Diversity and Distributions 23:247-260, doi:10.1111/ddi.12521
da Silva L, J Ramos, A Coutinho, P Tenreiro & R Heleno 2017 Flower visitation by European birds offers the first evidence of interaction release in continents. Journal of Biogeography 44:687-695, doi:10.1111/jbi.12915
Rodríguez-Echeverría S, H Teixeira, M Correia, S Timóteo, R Heleno, M Öpik & M Moora 2017 Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi communities from tropical Africa reveal strong ecological structure. New Phytologist 213:380–390, doi:10.1111/nph.14122
Correia M, S Timóteo, S Rodríguez-Echeverría, A Mazars-Simón & R Heleno 2017 The refaunation of Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique and the reinstatement of the seed dispersal function. Conservation Biology 31:76-85, doi:10.1111/cobi.12782
2016
Traveset A, C Tur, K Trøjelsgaard, R Heleno, R Castro-Urgal & J Olesen 2016 Global patterns of mainland and insular pollination networks. Global Ecology and Biogeography 25:880-890, doi:10.1111/geb.12362
Costa J, L da Silva, J Ramos & R Heleno 2016 Sampling completeness in seed dispersal networks: When enough is enough. Basic and Applied Ecology 17:155-164, doi:10.1016/j.baae.2015.09.008
Nogales M, R Heleno, B Rumeu, A González-Castro, A Traveset, P Vargas & J Olesen 2016 Seed-dispersal networks on the Canaries and the Galápagos archipelagos: Interaction modules as biogeographical entities. Global Ecology and Biogeography 25:912-922, doi:10.1111/geb.12315
Gil A, R Ceia, R Coelho, J Teodósio, H Sampaio, C Veríssimo, R Heleno, J Ramos & S Timóteo 2016 The Priolo Atlas: a citizen science-based census initiative for supporting Pyrrhula murina habitat conservation and restoration policies in São Miguel Island (Azores, Portugal). Ecological Engineering 86:45-52, doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2015.10.028
da Silva L, A Coutinho, R Heleno, P Tenreiro & J Ramos 2016 Dispersal of fungi spores by non-specialized flower-visiting birds. Journal of Avian Biology 47:438–442, doi:10.1111/jav.00806
Traveset A, M Nogales, P Vargas, J Olesen, P Jaramillo & R Heleno 2016 The Galápagos land iguana (Conolophus subcristatus) as a seed disperser. Integrative Zoology 11:207-213, doi:10.1111/1749-4877.12187
2015
Traveset A, J Olesen, M Nogales, P Vargas, P Jaramillo, E Antolín, M Trigo & R Heleno 2015 Bird-flower visitation networks in the Galápagos unveil a widespread interaction release. Nature Communications 6:6376, doi:10.1038/ncomms7376
Esteves C, J Costa, P Vargas, H Freitas & R Heleno 2015 On the limited potential of Azorean fleshy fruits for oceanic dispersal. PLoS one 10:e0138882, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0138882
Heleno R & P Vargas 2015 How do islands become green? Global Ecology and Biogeography 24:518-526, doi:10.1111/geb.12273
Traveset A, S Chamorro, J Olesen & R Heleno 2015 Space, Time and Aliens: charting the dynamic structure of Galápagos pollination networks. AoB Plants 7:plv068, doi:10.1093/aobpla/plv068
Vargas P, Y Arjona, M Nogales & R Heleno 2015 Long-distance dispersal to oceanic islands: success of plants with multiple diaspore specializations. AoB Plants 7:plv073, doi:10.1093/aobpla/plv073
Vargas P, B Rumeu, R Heleno, A Traveset & M Nogales 2015 Historical isolation of the Galápagos carpenter bee (Xylocopa darwini) despite strong flight capability and ecological amplitude PLoS one 10:e0120597, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0120597
2014
Traveset A, R Heleno, M Nogales 2014 The ecology of seed dispersal. in Seeds: The ecology of regeneration in plant communities. R Gallagher (ed), Oxon, UK, CABI 62-93. ISBN: 978-1-78064-183-6
Heleno R, C Garcia, P Jordano, A Traveset, JM Gómez, N Blüthgen, J Memmott, M Moora, J Cerdeira, S Rodríguez-Echeverría, H Freitas & J Olesen 2014 Ecological networks: Delving into the architecture of biodiversity. Biology Letters 10:20131000, doi:10.1098/rsbl.2013.1000
da Silva L, J Ramos, J Olesen, A Traveset & R Heleno 2014 Flower visitation by birds in Europe. Oikos 123:1377-1383, doi:10.1111/oik.01347
Heleno R 2014 Meta-analyses and the “editorial love of controversy”. Web Ecology, 14:23-25, doi:10.5194/we-14-23-2014
Vargas P, M Nogales, P Jaramillo, J Olesen, A Traveset & R Heleno 2014 Plant colonization across the Galápagos Islands: success of the sea dispersal syndrome. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 174:349-358, doi:10.1111/boj.12142
Hervías-Parejo S, R Ceia, J Ramos, H Sampaio & R Heleno 2014 Tiptoeing between restoration and invasion: Seed rain into natural gaps within a highly invaded relic forest in the Azores. European Journal of Forest Research 133:383-390, doi:10.1007/s10342-013-0769-z
Costa J, J Ramos, L da Silva, S Timóteo, P Araújo, M Felgueiras, A Rosa, C Matos, P Encarnação, P Tenreiro & R Heleno 2014 Endozoochory largely outweighs epizoochory in migrating passerines. Journal of Avian Biology 45:59-64, doi:10.1111/j.1600-048X.2013.00271.x
2013
Traveset A, R Heleno, S Chamorro, P Vargas, C McMullen, R Castro-Urgal, M Nogales, H Herrera & J Olesen 2013Invaders of pollination networks in the Galápagos Islands: emergence of novel communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society - B 280:2012-3040, doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.3040
Heleno R, J Ramos & J Memmott 2013 Integration of exotic seeds into an Azorean seed dispersal network. Biological Invasions 15:1143-1154, doi:10.1007/s10530-012-0357-z
Heleno R, J Olesen, M Nogales, P Vargas & A Traveset 2013 Seed dispersal networks in the Galápagos and the consequences of alien plant invasions. Proceedings of the Royal Society - B 280:2012-2112, doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.2112
Cruz J, J Ramos, L da Silva, P Tenreiro & R Heleno 2013 Seed dispersal networks in an urban novel ecosystem. European Journal of Forest Research 132:887-897, doi:10.1007/s10342-013-0722-1
Gardener M, M Trueman, C Buddenhagen, R Atkinson, R Heleno, H Jäger, A Tye 2013 A pragmatic approach to management of plant invasions in Galapagos. In Plant Invasions in Protected Areas: Patterns, Problems and Challenges, Invading Nature - Springer Series in Invasion Ecology 7. C Llewellyn, D Richardson, P Pyšek, P Genovesi (eds) Springer 349-374.
2012
Nogales M, R Heleno, A Traveset & P Vargas 2012 Evidence for overlooked mechanisms of long-distance seed dispersal to and between oceanic islands. New Phytologist 194:313-317, doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.04051.x
Vargas P, R Heleno, M Nogales & A Traveset 2012 Colonization of the Galápagos Islands by plants with no specific syndromes for long-distance dispersal: a new perspective. Ecography 35:33-43, doi:10.1111/j.1600-0587.2011.06980.x
Chamorro S, R Heleno, J Olesen, C McMullen & A Traveset 2012 Pollination patterns and plant breeding systems in the Galápagos: a review. Annals of Botany 110:1489-1501, doi:10.1093/aob/mcs132
Heleno R, M Devoto & M Pocock 2012 Connectance of ecological networks and conservation value. Ecological Indicators 14:7-10, doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.06.032
Bastos R, M Santos, J Ramos, J Vicente, C Guerra, J Alonso, J Honrado, R Ceia, S Timóteo & J Cabral 2012 Testing a novel spatially-explicit dynamic modelling approach in the scope of the laurel forest management for the endangered Azores bullfinch (Pyrrhula murina) conservation. Biological Conservation 147:243–254 doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2012.01.009
2011
Heleno R, S Blake, P Jaramillo, A Traveset, P Vargas & M Nogales 2011 Frugivory and seed dispersal in the Galápagos: What is the state of the art? Integrative Zoology 6:110-119, doi:10.1111/j.1749-4877.2011.00236.x
Heleno R, G Ross, A Everard, J Memmott & J Ramos 2011 On the role of avian seed predators as seed dispersers. Ibis 153:199-203, doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.2010.01088.x
Ceia R, H Sampaio, S Parejo, R Heleno, M Arosa, J Ramos & G Hilton 2010 Throwing the baby out with the bathwater: does laurel forest restoration remove a critical winter food supply for the critically endangered Azores bullfinch? Biological Invasions 13:93-104, doi:10.1007/s10530-010-9792-x
Ceia R, J Ramos, R Heleno, G Hilton & T Marques 2011 Status assessment of the critically endangered Azores Bullfinch. Bird Conservation International 21:477-489, doi:10.1017/S0959270911000025
2010
Heleno R, I Lacerda, J Ramos & J Memmott 2010 Evaluation of restoration effectiveness: community response to the removal of alien plants. Ecological Applications 20:1191-1203, doi:10.1890/09-1384.1
Monticelli D, R Ceia, R Heleno, H Sampaio, S Timóteo, D Jareño, G Hilton & J Ramos 2010 High survival rate of a critically endangered species, the Azores Bullfinch as a contribution to population recovery. Journal of Ornithology 151:627-636, doi:10.1007/s10336-010-0501-4
2009
Ceia R, R Heleno & J Ramos 2009 Summer abundance and ecological distribution of passerines in native and exotic forests in São Miguel, Azores. Ardeola 56:25-39
Arosa M, J Ramos, T Valkenburg, R Ceia, H Sampaio, L Quintanilla & R Heleno 2009 Fern feeding ecology of the Azores bullfinch: the selection of fern species and the influence of nutritional composition in fern choice. Ardeola 56:71-84
Heleno R, R Ceia, J Ramos & J Memmott 2009 The effect of alien plants on insect abundance and biomass: a food web approach. Conservation Biology 23:410-419, doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01129.x