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Plant-Animal Interactions Lab Daniel García Associate Professor Depto. Biología de Organismos y Sistemas, Universidad de Oviedo Instituto Cantábrico de Biodiversidad (CSIC-UO-PA) C/ Rodrigo Uría s/n, Oviedo 33006, Asturias, Spain Phone: 34 985 104784 E-mail: danielgarcia[at]uniovi.es |
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| Ongoing projects | ICAB |
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Two papers
from J M Herrera's PhD recently
accepted, in Landscape Ecology, and Ecography, evaluating the effects of habitat
fragmentation on the functioning of frugivory by birds and seed
predation by rodents in Cantabrian forests. |
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We recently attended to the FSD 2010 (Frugivores and Seed Dispersal Symposium) at Montpellier (France), presenting lab recent work in several talks (including a plenary speech and a plenary symposium) and posters. Dani Martínez got a David W. Snow award with his poster. |
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The Lab Tour Have a look on our current core research project and some recent results |
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Research We study the ecological and evolutionary consequences of plant-animal interactions, such as pollination, frugivory, seed dispersal, seed predation and herbivory, from two major approaches: 1. Plant-animal interactions are processes with effects across different levels of biological organization, from population to ecosystems 2. Plant-animal interactions are processes dependent on the landscape configuration and on the spatial scale UP |
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Study systems We carry out our research in secondary and mature forests of the Cantabrian range (Asturias, N Spain). Our study systems are fleshy-fruited trees like Crataegus monogyna, Ilex aquifolium, and Taxus baccata, mostly dispersed by frugivorous birds (thrushes and blackbirds, Turdus sp.), and whose dispersed seeds are preyed upon by small rodents (Apodemus sp.). We also study several forest perennial herbs like Primula vulgaris, wich is pollinated by flies and bumblebees and dispersed by ants. Occasionally, we also work in temperate forests of Austral South America (Patagonia, Argentina), studying also frugivory and seed dispersal of understorey fleshy-fruited woody plants like Aristotelia chilensis by birds like Elaenia albiceps, as well as the peculiar mutualism between the mistletoe Tristerix corymbosus and the endemic marsupial Dromiciops gliroides. UP |
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Ongoing and recent projects
Climate change and spatio-temporal disruptions of life-cycles in the Cantabrian range. IB08-039 (FICYT). Participants: Daniel García (LR), Alfredo Glez. Nicieza, David Álvarez, Magdalena Choda, José Manuel Herrera, Alicia Valdés, Daniel Martínez. Plant-animal interactions
in fragmented habitats II: the role of matrix on seed dispersal.
CGL2006-272872/E (MEC). 2007-2008. Participants: Daniel García
(LR), José
Manuel Herrera, Juan
Manuel Morales, Alicia
Valdés, Daniel Martínez.
Plant-animal interactions
in fragmented habitats: from individual to landscape.
CGL2004-02936
(MEC). 2004-2007. Participants: Daniel García (LR), José
Manuel Herrera, Isabel Martínez, José
Ramón Obeso.
Habitat degradation and conservation of plant-animal interactions: a comparative geographic and multi-scaled analysis. BIOCON03-162 (Fundación BBVA). 2004-2007. Participants: Daniel García (LR), Alicia Valdés, Daniel Martínez, Diego Vázquez, Valeria Aschero, Natacha P. Chacoff, Guillermo Amico, Mariano Rodríguez-Cabal, Marcelo Aizen, Regino Zamora, Luis Matías |
García D, Zamora R & Amico GC (2010) Birds as suppliers of seed dispersal in temperate ecosystems: conservation guidelines from real-world landscapes. Conservation Biology 24: 1070-1079.
García D
&
Chacoff NP (2007) Scale-dependent
effects of habitat fragmentation on hawthorn pollination, frugivory and
seed
predation. Conservation Biology
21: 400-411.
García D, Obeso JR
& Martínez I (2005)
Spatial concordance between seed rain and seedling establishment in
bird-dispersed trees: does the scale matter? Journal of Ecology 93:
693-704
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The
lab Alicia Valdés (M Sc, Ph D student, FPU Programme) Daniel Martínez (M Sc, Ph D student, FPI Programme) Vanesa Rivera (Technician) Juan Rodríguez (Technician, PTA Programme) Other students Valeria Aschero (Ph D, co-supervised with D Vázquez) Rocío Jaña (Ph D, co-supervised with D Kelly at Canterbury University NZ) Former people José Manuel Herrera (Ph D) Javier Rodríguez-Pérez (Post-doc) Isabel Martínez (Ph D, co-supervised with JR Obeso) Luis Matías (M Sc, co-supervised with R Zamora) Susana García (Technician) Carlos Guardado (Technician) René Pérez (Technician) UP |