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My main research interest is in using complex species-interactions networks to frame important conservation problems at the community level. Such trophic or mutualistic networks offer an holistic view-point to evaluate the causes and consequences of disturbances, such as the impact of biological invasions or biodiversity-loss, on important ecosystem functions, particularly seed-dispersal and pollination. A second passion is uncovering the rules guiding island colonisation and community assembling. I'm an Assistant Professor at the University of Coimbra and PI of the Community Ecology Lab (CFE-UC) since 2016. I’ve supervised 3 postdocs, 8 PhD students and 9 MSc students, and authored 66 SCI papers (11 as leading author, 19 as senior author, including contributions in Nature Communic., TREE, Ecol. Lett., Funct. Ecol., Ecology, Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr., J Biogeogr., Conserv. Biol., Divers. & Distrib., New Phytologist… (last 2 years only). I've participated in 13 funded projects (2 as PI) in Galapagos, Mozambique, São Tomé, Spain, Seychelles, and Portugal, which attracted >2.6M€ in national, Spanish, German and European funding. I’ve been invited as keynote speaker in 7 large international meetings (BES, EEF, SPEA/SEO, BOU, AEET/SPECO, EMAPI), acted as evaluator for French, Spanish, Dutch, Hungarian and European funding agencies, integrated 11 PhD juries, 12 MSc juries, reviewed for 40 ISI journals and became Associate Editor of Functional Ecology (British Ecological Society). I’m an elected member of the Scientific Councils of my department and my faculty, member of the direction board of the Portuguese Ecological Society (SPECO), and member of the IUCN Red List Authority for Birds and Species Survival Commission. I’m deeply committed with science outreach, having participated in 5 TV and 3 radio shows, 6 online communication videos, several popular media articles, and demonstrating in dozens of science engaging activities with school groups. I have participated in the organization of 5 large international congresses, with a particular emphasis for the 1st International Symposium on Ecological Networks organized by me in Coimbra in 2013. I’ve been regularly teaching on several 1st, 2nd and 3rd cycle courses since 2012, by imparting lectures on Community ecology, Island biogeography, Ecological network analysis, Functional ecology, Scientific writing and Bioinformatics. I’m currently the coordinator of the Masters in Ecology of the University of Coimbra.
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| Issue Date | Title | Author(s) | Type | Access | |
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| 1 | 2017 | Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi communities from tropical Africa reveal strong ecological structure | Rodríguez-Echeverría, Susana ; Teixeira, Helena ; Correia, Marta ; Timóteo, Sérgio ; Heleno, Ruben ; Öpik, Maarja ; Moora, Mari | article | openAccess |
| 2 | 2-Oct-2018 | Author Correction: Multilayer networks reveal the spatial structure of seed-dispersal interactions across the Great Rift landscapes | Timóteo, Sérgio ; Correia, Marta ; Rodríguez-Echeverría, Susana ; Freitas, Helena ; Heleno, Ruben | article | openAccess |
| 3 | 10-Mar-2015 | Bird-flower visitation networks in the Galápagos unveil a widespread interaction release | Traveset, Anna ; Olesen, Jens M ; Nogales, Manuel ; Vargas, Pablo ; Jaramillo, Patricia ; Antolín, Elena ; Trigo, María Mar ; Heleno, Ruben | article | openAccess |
| 4 | 2017 | Birds Make the World Go Round | Heleno, Ruben | article | openAccess |
| 5 | 2012 | Colonization of the Galápagos Islands by plants with no specific syndromes for long-distance dispersal: a new perspective | Vargas, Pablo ; Heleno, Ruben ; Traveset, A. ; Nogales, M. | article | openAccess |
| 6 | 2012 | Connectance of species interaction networks and conservation value: Is it any good to be well connected? | Heleno, Ruben ; Devoto, Mariano ; Pocock, Michael | article | openAccess |
| 7 | 2017 | Contribution by vertebrates to seed dispersal effectiveness in the Galápagos Islands: a community-wide approach | Nogales, M. ; González-Castro, A. ; Rumeu, B. ; Traveset, A. ; Vargas, P. ; Jaramillo, P. ; Olesen, J. M. ; Heleno, Ruben | article | openAccess |
| 8 | 2018 | Disclosing the double mutualist role of birds on Galápagos | Olesen, Jens M. ; Damgaard, Christian F; Fuster, Francisco; Heleno, Ruben H ; Nogales, Manuel ; Rumeu, Beatriz ; Trøjelsgaard, Kristian ; Vargas, Pablo ; Traveset, Anna | article | openAccess |
| 9 | 2019 | Dispersal of fern spores by Galápagos finches | Hervías-Parejo, Sandra ; Olesen, Jens M. ; Nogales, Manuel ; Traveset, Anna ; Heleno, Ruben | article | openAccess |
| 10 | 2016 | Dispersal of fungi spores by non-specialized flower-visiting birds | Silva, Luís P. da ; Pereira Coutinho, António ; Heleno, Ruben ; Tenreiro, Paulo Q. ; Ramos, Jaime A. | article | openAccess |
| 11 | 2019 | Divergence in floral trait preferences between nonflower-specialized birds and insects on the Galápagos | Hervías-Parejo, Sandra ; Heleno, Ruben ; Nogales, Manuel ; Olesen, Jens M. ; Traveset, Anna | article | openAccess |
| 12 | 2014 | Ecological networks: delving into the architecture of biodiversity | Heleno, Ruben ; Garcia, Cristina ; Jordano, Pedro ; Traveset, Anna ; Gómez, José Maria ; Bluthgen, Nico ; Memmott, Jane ; Moora, Mari ; Cerdeira, Jorge ; Rodríguez-Echeverría, Susana ; Freitas, Helena ; Olesen, Jens M. | article | openAccess |
| 13 | 2018 | Effects of native biodiversity on grape loss of four castes: testing the biotic resistance hypothesis | Nereu, Mauro Guilherme Pereira ; Heleno, Ruben H. ; López-Núñez, Francisco A. ; Agostinho, Mário; Ramos, Jaime | article | openAccess |
| 14 | 2014 | Endozoochory largely outweighs epizoochory in migrating passerines | Costa, José M. ; Ramos, Jaime A. ; Silva, Luís P. da ; Timóteo, Sérgio ; Araújo, Pedro M. ; Felgueiras, Marcial S. ; Rosa, António ; Matos, Cláudia ; Encarnação, Paulo ; Tenreiro, Paulo Q. ; Heleno, Ruben | article | openAccess |
| 15 | 2010 | Evaluation of restoration effectiveness: community response to the removal of alien plants | Heleno, Ruben ; Lacerda, Inês ; Ramos, Jaime A. ; Memmott, Jane | article | openAccess |
| 16 | 2012 | Evidence for overlooked mechanisms of long-distance seed dispersal to and between oceanic islands | Nogales, Manuel ; Heleno, Ruben ; Traveset, Anna ; Vargas, Pablo | article | openAccess |
| 17 | 2017 | Evolutionary history of the endangered shrub snapdragon (Galvezia leucantha) of the Galápagos Islands | Guzmán, Beatriz ; Heleno, Ruben ; Nogales, Manuel ; Simbaña, Walter ; Traveset, Anna ; Vargas, Pablo | article | openAccess |
| 18 | 2019 | Fine‐tuning the nested structure of pollination networks by adaptive interaction switching, biogeography and sampling effect in the Galápagos Islands | Nnakenyi, Chinenye A.; Traveset, Anna ; Heleno, Ruben ; Minoarivelo, Henintsoa O.; Hui, Cang | article | openAccess |
| 19 | 2019 | First evidence for the joint dispersal of mycorrhizal fungi and plant diaspores by birds | Correia, Marta ; Heleno, Ruben ; Silva, Luís Pascoal da; Costa, José Miguel ; Rodríguez-Echeverría, Susana | article | openAccess |
| 20 | 2014 | Flower visitation by birds in Europe | Silva, Luís P. da ; Ramos, Jaime A. ; Olesen, Jens M. ; Traveset, Anna ; Heleno, Ruben | article | openAccess |
| 21 | 2017 | Flower visitation by European birds offers the first evidence of interaction release in continents | Silva, Luís P. da ; Ramos, Jaime A. ; Coutinho, António Pereira ; Tenreiro, Paulo Q. ; Heleno, Ruben | article | openAccess |
| 22 | Mar-2017 | Four-trophic level food webs reveal the cascading impacts of an invasive plant targeted for biocontrol | López-Núñez, Francisco A. ; Heleno, Ruben ; Ribeiro, Sérgio ; Marchante, Hélia ; Marchante, Elizabete | article | openAccess |
| 23 | 2011 | Frugivory and seed dispersal in the Galápagos: what is the state of the art? | Heleno, Ruben ; Blake, Stephen ; Jaramillo, Patricia ; Traveset, Anna ; Vargas, Pablo ; Nogales, Manuel | article | openAccess |
| 24 | 2016 | Galápagos land iguana (Conolophus subcristatus) as a seed disperser | Traveset, Anna ; Nogales, Manuel ; Vargas, Pablo ; Rumeu, Beatriz ; Olesen, Jens M. ; Jaramillo, Patricia ; Heleno, Ruben | article | openAccess |
| 25 | 2016 | Global patterns of mainland and insular pollination networks | Traveset, Anna ; Tur, Cristina ; Trøjelsgaard, Kristian ; Heleno, Ruben ; Castro-Urgal, Rocío ; Olesen, Jens M. | article | openAccess |
| 26 | 2010 | High survival rate of a critically endangered species, the Azores Bullfinch Pyrrhula murina, as a contribution to population recovery | Monticelli, David ; Ceia, Ricardo ; Heleno, Ruben ; Laborda, Hugo ; Timóteo, Sérgio ; Jareño, Daniel ; Hilton, Geoff M. ; Ramos, Jaime A. | article | openAccess |
| 27 | 2015 | Historical isolation of the Galápagos carpenter bee (Xylocopa darwini) despite strong flight capability and ecological amplitude | Vargas, Pablo ; Rumeu, Beatriz ; Heleno, Ruben ; Traveset, Anna ; Nogales, Manuel | article | openAccess |
| 28 | 2015 | How do islands become green? | Heleno, Ruben ; Vargas, Pablo | article | openAccess |
| 29 | 2019 | Integrating plant species contribution to mycorrhizal and seed dispersal mutualistic networks | Correia, Marta ; Rodríguez-Echeverría, Susana ; Timóteo, Sérgio ; Freitas, Helena ; Heleno, Ruben | article | openAccess |
| 30 | 2012 | Integration of exotic seeds into an Azorean seed dispersal network | Heleno, Ruben ; Ramos, Jaime A. ; Memmott, Jane | article | openAccess |
| 31 | 2013 | Invaders of pollination networks in the Galapagos Islands: emergence of novel communities | Traveset, A. ; Heleno, Ruben ; Chamorro, S. ; Vargas, P. ; McMullen, C. K. ; Castro-Urgal, R. ; Nogales, M. ; Herrera, H. W. ; Olesen, J. M. | article | openAccess |
| 32 | 2018 | Life inside a gall: diversity, phenology and structure of Portuguese gall communities, their hosts, parasitoids and inquilines | López-Núñez, Francisco A. ; Ribeiro, Sérgio; Marchante, Hélia ; Ruben H. Heleno ; Marchante, Elizabete M. | article | openAccess |
| 33 | 2018 | Long-distance dispersal syndromes matter: diaspore-trait effect on shaping plant distribution across the Canary Islands | Arjona, Yurena ; Nogales, Manuel ; Heleno, Ruben ; Vargas, Pablo | article | openAccess |
| 34 | 2015 | Long-distance dispersal to oceanic islands: success of plants with multiple diaspore specializations | Vargas, Pablo ; Arjona, Yurena ; Nogales, Manuel ; Heleno, Ruben | article | openAccess |
| 35 | 2014 | Meta-analyses and the "editorial love of controversy" | Heleno, Ruben | article | openAccess |
| 36 | 2018 | Multilayer networks reveal the spatial structure of seed-dispersal interactions across the Great Rift landscapes | Timóteo, Sérgio ; Correia, Marta ; Rodríguez-Echeverría, Susana ; Freitas, Helena ; Heleno, Ruben | article | openAccess |
| 37 | Aug-2019 | Native and alien flower visitors differ in partner fidelity and network integration | Trøjelsgaard, Kristian ; Heleno, Ruben ; Traveset, Anna | article | openAccess |
| 38 | 2019 | Natural woodlands hold more diverse, abundant, and unique biota than novel anthropogenic forests: a multi-group assessment | Silva, Luís P. da ; Heleno, Ruben H. ; Costa, Jose M. ; Valente, Mariana Morais ; Mata, Vanessa A.; Gonçalves, Susana C. ; Silva, António Alves da; Alves, Joana ; Ramos, Jaime | article | openAccess |
| 39 | 2015 | On the Limited Potential of Azorean Fleshy Fruits for Oceanic Dispersal | Esteves, Carolina Franco ; Costa, José Miguel ; Vargas, Pablo ; Freitas, Helena ; Heleno, Ruben | article | openAccess |
| 40 | Jan-2018 | Phylogenetic evidence for a Miocene origin of Mediterranean lineages: species diversity, reproductive traits and geographical isolation | Vargas, P. ; Fernández-Mazuecos, M; Heleno, R | article | openAccess |
| 41 | 2014 | Plant colonization across the Galápagos Islands: success of the sea dispersal syndrome | Vargas, Pablo ; Nogales, Manuel ; Jaramillo, Patricia ; Olesen, Jens M. ; Traveset, Anna ; Heleno, Ruben | article | openAccess |
| 42 | Dec-2018 | Pollination networks from natural and anthropogenic-novel communities show high structural similarity | Timóteo, Sérgio ; O'Connor, Catherine J; López-Núñez, Francisco A. ; Costa, Jose M. ; Gouveia, António C; Heleno, Ruben H | article | openAccess |
| 43 | 2012 | Pollination patterns and plant breeding systems in the Galápagos: a review | Chamorro, Susana ; Heleno, Ruben ; Olesen, Jens M. ; McMullen, Conley K. ; Traveset, Anna | article | openAccess |
| 44 | Mar-2020 | Potential role of lava lizards as pollinators across the Galápagos Islands | Hervías-Parejo, Sandra ; Nogales, Manuel ; Guzmán, Beatriz ; Trigo, María Del Mar ; Olesen, Jens M. ; Vargas, Pablo ; Heleno, Ruben ; Traveset, Anna | article | openAccess |
| 45 | 2017 | Predicting the consequences of disperser extinction: richness matters the most when abundance is low | Rumeu, Beatriz ; Devoto, Mariano ; Traveset, Anna ; Olesen, Jens M. ; Vargas, Pablo ; Nogales, Manuel ; Heleno, Ruben | article | openAccess |
| 46 | 2017 | Refaunation and the reinstatement of the seed-dispersal function in Gorongosa National Park | Correia, Marta ; Timóteo, Sérgio ; Rodríguez-Echeverría, Susana ; Mazars-Simon, Alban ; Heleno, Ruben | article | openAccess |
| 47 | 2018 | Rewiring of experimentally disturbed seed dispersal networks might lead to unexpected network configurations | Costa, Jose M. ; Ramos, Jaime ; Silva, Luís P. da ; Timóteo, Sérgio ; Andrade, Pedro; Araújo, Pedro M. ; Carneiro, Camilo; Correia, Edna; Cortez, Paulo ; Felgueiras, Marcial S. ; Godinho, Carlos Alberto da Graça ; Lopes, Ricardo Jorge ; Matos, Cláudia ; Norte, Ana Cláudia ; Pereira, Pedro F.; Rosa, António; Heleno, Ruben H. | article | openAccess |
| 48 | 2017 | A roadmap for island biology: 50 fundamental questions after 50 years of The Theory of Island Biogeography | Patiño, Jairo ; Whittaker, Robert J. ; Borges, Paulo A. V. ; Fernández-Palacios, José María ; Ah-Peng, Claudine ; Araújo, Miguel B. ; Ávila, Sergio P. ; Cardoso, Pedro ; Cornuault, Josselin ; de Boer, Erik J. ; de Nascimento, Lea ; Gil, Artur ; González-Castro, Aarón ; Gruner, Daniel S. ; Heleno, Ruben ; Hortal, Joaquín ; Illera, Juan Carlos ; Kaiser-Bunbury, Christopher N. ; Matthews, Thomas J. ; Papadopoulou, Anna ; Pettorelli, Nathalie ; Price, Jonathan P. ; Santos, Ana M. C. ; Steinbauer, Manuel J. ; Triantis, Kostas A. ; Valente, Luis ; Vargas, Pablo ; Weigelt, Patrick ; Emerson, Brent C. | article | openAccess |
| 49 | 2016 | Sampling completeness in seed dispersal networks: When enough is enough | Costa, José M. ; Silva, Luís P. da ; Ramos, Jaime A. ; Heleno, Ruben | article | openAccess |
| 50 | 2020 | Scientists' warning on endangered food webs | Heleno, Ruben H. ; Ripple, William J.; Traveset, Anna | article | openAccess |
| 51 | 2013 | Seed dispersal networks in an urban novel ecosystem | Cruz, Joana Costa ; Ramos, J. A. ; Silva, Luís P. ; Tenreiro, Paulo Q. ; Heleno, Ruben | article | openAccess |
| 52 | 2012 | Seed dispersal networks in the Galapagos and the consequences of alien plant invasions | Heleno, Ruben ; Olesen, J. M. ; Nogales, M. ; Vargas, P. ; Traveset, A. | article | openAccess |
| 53 | 2019 | Seed-dispersal networks are more specialized in the Neotropics than in the Afrotropics | Dugger, Phillip J.; Blendinger, Pedro G.; Böhning-Gaese, Katrin; Chama, Lackson; Correia, Marta ; Dehling, D. Matthias; Emer, Carine; Farwig, Nina; Fricke, Evan C.; Galetti, Mauro; García, Daniel; Grass, Ingo; Heleno, Ruben ; Jacomassa, Fábio A. F.; Moraes, Suelen; Moran, Catherine; Muñoz, Marcia C.; Neuschulz, Eike Lena; Nowak, Larissa; Piratelli, Augusto; Pizo, Marco A.; Quitián, Marta; Rogers, Haldre S.; Ruggera, Román A.; Saavedra, Francisco; Sánchez, Mariano S.; Sánchez, Rocío; Santillán, Vinicio; Schabo, Dana G.; Silva, Fernanda Ribeiro da; Timóteo, Sérgio ; Traveset, Anna ; Vollstädt, Maximilian G. R.; Schleuning, Matthias | article | openAccess |
| 54 | 2016 | Seed-dispersal networks on the Canaries and the Galápagos archipelagos: interaction modules as biogeographical entities | Nogales, M. ; Heleno, Ruben ; Rumeu, B. ; González-Castro, A. ; Traveset, A. ; Vargas, P. ; Olesen, J. M. | article | openAccess |
| 55 | 2018 | Should I stay or should I go? Mycorrhizal plants are more likely to invest in long-distance seed dispersal than non-mycorrhizal plants | Correia, Marta ; Heleno, Ruben ; Vargas, Pablo ; Rodríguez-Echeverría, Susana | article | openAccess |
| 56 | Aug-2019 | Small size does not restrain frugivory and seed dispersal across the evolutionary radiation of Galápagos lava lizards | Hervías-Parejo, Sandra ; Heleno, Ruben ; Rumeu, Beatriz ; Guzmán, Beatriz ; Vargas, Pablo ; Olesen, Jens M. ; Traveset, Anna ; Vera, Carlos; Benavides, Edgar; Nogales, Manuel | article | openAccess |
| 57 | 2015 | Space, time and aliens: charting the dynamic structure of Galápagos pollination networks | Traveset, Anna ; Chamorro, Susana ; Olesen, Jens M. ; Heleno, Ruben | article | openAccess |
| 58 | 23-Jun-2015 | Space, time and aliens: charting the dynamic structure of Galápagos pollination networks | Traveset, Anna ; Chamorro, Susana ; Olesen, Jens M. ; Heleno, Ruben | article | openAccess |
| 59 | 25-Nov-2020 | Species functional traits and abundance as drivers of multiplex ecological networks: first empirical quantification of inter-layer edge weights | Hervías-Parejo, S. ; Tur, C.; Heleno, R. ; Nogales, M. ; Timóteo, S. ; Traveset, A. | article | openAccess |
| 60 | 2020 | Species temporal persistence promotes the stability of fruit–frugivore interactions across a 5‐year multilayer network | Costa, Jose M. ; Ramos, Jaime ; Timóteo, Sérgio ; Silva, Luís P.; Ceia, Ricardo S. ; Heleno, Ruben H. | article | openAccess |
| 61 | 2011 | Status assessment of the Critically Endangered Azores Bullfinch Pyrrhula murina | Ceia, Ricardo S. ; Ramos, Jaime A. ; Heleno, Ruben ; Hilton, Geoff M. ; Marques, Tiago A. | article | openAccess |
| 62 | 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) | Gil, Artur ; Ceia, Ricardo ; Coelho, Rúben ; Teodósio, Joaquim ; Sampaio, Hugo ; Veríssimo, Carla ; Heleno, Ruben ; Ramos, Jaime ; Timóteo, Sérgio | article | openAccess |
| 63 | 2011 | The role of avian ‘seed predators’ as seed dispersers | Heleno, Ruben ; Ross, Georgina ; Everard, Amy ; Memmott, Jane ; Ramos, Jaime A. | article | openAccess |
| 64 | 2010 | Throwing the baby out with the bathwater: does laurel forest restoration remove a critical winter food supply for the critically endangered Azores bullfinch? | Ceia, Ricardo S. ; Sampaio, Hugo L. ; Parejo, Sandra H. ; Heleno, Ruben ; Arosa, Maria L. ; Ramos, Jaime A. ; Hilton, Geoff M. | article | openAccess |
| 65 | 2013 | Tiptoeing between restoration and invasion: seed rain into natural gaps within a highly invaded relic forest in the Azores | Parejo, Sandra Hervías ; Ceia, Ricardo S. ; Ramos, Jaime A. ; Sampaio, Hugo L. ; Heleno, Ruben | article | openAccess |