Publications list
Highlighted papers
Ongoing work
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In preparation/ In review
DOI: 10.1101/2024.02.02.578595
Ecological interactions in nature occur between individual partners rather than species, and their outcomes determine fitness variation. By examining among-individual variation in interaction niches, we can bridge evolutionary and ecological perspectives to understand interaction biodiversity. This study investigates individual plant variation in frugivore assemblages worldwide, exploring how individual plants “build” their interaction profiles with animal frugivores. Surprisingly, the structure of networks composed of individuals was indistinguishable from networks composed of species. Independently of species or region, interaction frequencies among frugivore partners was highly skewed, with a small subset of species providing most interactions. Additionally, within populations, only a few plants played a key role in attracting a high diversity of frugivores, making them central to the overall network structure.
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In press/Early View
Escudero, M., Arroyo, J.M., Sánchez-Ramírez, S., Jordano, P. 2023. Founder events and subsequent genetic bottlenecks underlie karyotype evolution in the Ibero - North African endemic Carex helodes. Annals of Botany 00: 000-000.
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcad087
Published work
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2024
221. Jordano, P. 2024. La biodiversidad de las interacciones ecológicas: cómo las interacciones entre especies configuran la Red de la Vida. Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Madrid. 52 pp. ISBN: 78–84-87125-89-8.
This is the Induction speech at the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of Spain, Nov 30, 2024.
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.4424
Suppl. Material and dataset: ecy4424-sup-0001-DataS1.zip
Open Access Repository at Digital CSIC: 10.20350/digitalCSIC/15623.
GitHub repository: https://github.com/PJordano-Lab/frugivory-camtrap.
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.14280
DOI: 10.1111/mec.17285
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.14260
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2023
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.2547
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06319-7
DOI: 10.1111/ele.14141
DOI: 10.32942/X2BW2F
DOI: 10.20350/digitalCSIC/15592
Protocol and tools for processing large numbers of video-recorded files generated during camera trap surveys for behavioral monitoring (i.e. plant-animal interactions, visits of animal frugivores to fruiting plants). A separate GitHub repository includes detailed scripts for these protocols.
Version 1.1. Sep 2023.
DOI: 10.20350/digitalCSIC/15623
The goal of this repository is to contain and facilitate access to the data associated to the datapaper FRUGIVORY CAMTRAPS: A dataset of plant-animal interactions recorded with camera traps.
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2022
DOI: 10.1111/btp.13065
DOI: 10.1111/ele.13939
DOI: 10.1111/oik.08387
 206. Quintero, E., Isla, J., Jordano, P. 2021. Methodological overview and data-merging approaches in the study of plant–frugivore interactions. Oikos 2022: e08379.
DOI: 10.1111/oik.08379
explained by a rainforest gradient. Oikos 2022: e08384.
DOI: 10.1111/oik.08384
204. Lucas P Martins, Daniel B Stouffer, Pedro G Blendinger, Katrin Bohning-Gaese, Galo Buitron-Jurado, Marta Correia, Jose Miguel Costa, D Matthias Dehling, Camila I Donatti, Carine Emer, Mauro Galetti, Ruben Heleno, Pedro Jordano, Icaro Menezes, Jose Carlos Morante-Filho, Marcia C Munoz, Eike Lena Neuschulz, Marco Aurelio Pizo, Marta Quitian, Roman A Ruggera, Francisco Saavedra, Vinicio Santillan, Matthias Schleuning, Luis Pascoal da Silva, Fernanda Ribeiro da Silva, Sergio Timoteo, Anna Traveset, Maximilian GR Vollstadt, Jason M Tylianakis. 2022. Global boundaries in plant-frugivore interaction networks. Nature Communications 13 (1), 6943.
Doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-34355-w
Data and code can be downloaded here.
DOI: 10.1111/geb.13452
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13942
201. Fuzessy, L., Silveira, F.A.O.,Culot, L., Jordano, P., Verdú, M. 2021. Phylogenetic congruence between Neotropical primates and plants is driven by frugivory. Ecology letters 25 (2), 320-329.
doi: 10.1111/ele.13918
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2021
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0361
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13694
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13694
197. Dáttilo, W., Serio‐Silva, J.C., Thompson, J.N., Del‐Claro, K., Guimaraes Jr, P.R., Oliveira, Jordano, P., Marquis, R.J., Koptur, S. 2021. In remembrance of Victor Rico Gray (1951‐2021): An astonishing tropical ecologist. Biotropica 53 (4), 1238-1243.
doi: 10.1111/btp.12987
196. González-Varo, J.P., Rumeu, B., Albrecht, J., Arroyo, J.M., Bueno, R.S., Burgos, T., da Silva, L.P., Escribano-Ávila, G., Farwig, N., García, D., Heleno, R-H., Illera, J.C., Jordano, P., Kurek, P., Simmons, B.I., Virgós, E., Sutherland, W.J., Traveset, A. 2021. Limited potential for bird migration to disperse plants to cooler latitudes. Nature 595 (7865): 75-79.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03665-2
Highlighted in NATURE by Barnabas H. Daru: Migratory birds aid the redistribution of plants to new climates
Highlighted in NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE by Tegan Armarego-Marriott: Bird-plant dispersal limits
(photos | left: David Chapman; right: Agustín Povedano)
195. Dallas, T.A., Jordano, P. 2021. Species-area and network-area relationships in host–helminth interactions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288 (1947), 20203143.
doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.3143
191. Finn Rehling, Bogdan Jaroszewicz, Leonie Victoria Braasch, Jörg Albrecht, Pedro Jordano, Jan Schlautmann, Nina Farwig and Dana G. Schabo. 2021. Within-species trait variation can lead to size limitations in seed dispersal of small-fruited plants. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 00: 000-000. In press.
Doi: 10.1101/2021.09.18.460873
190. I Ferreiro-Arias, J Isla, P Jordano, A Benítez-López. 2021. Temporal and trophic partitioning promote coexistence between mesocarnivores in a Mediterranean landscape. Ecology and Evolution 11 (22), 15520-15533.
bioRxiv, 2020.11. 05.370403.
Doi: 10.1101/2020.11.05.370403
189. J Valverde, CS Carvalho, P Jordano, M Galetti. 2021. Large herbivores regulate the spatial recruitment of a hyperdominant Neotropical palm. Biotropica 53: 286-295.
DOI: 10.1111/btp.12873
188. González-Varo, J.P., Rumeu, B., Albrecht, J., Arroyo, J.M., Bueno, R.S., Burgos, T., da Silva, L.P., Escribano-Ávila, G., Farwig, N., García, D., Heleno, R.H., Illera, J.C., Jordano, P., Kurek, P., Simmons, B.I., Virgós, E., Sutherland, W.J., Traveset, A. 2021. Limited potential for bird migration to disperse plants to cooler latitudes. Nature 595: 75–79.
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03665-2
Data availability
All data used in the analyses are available through the Dryad Digital Repository (https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.15dv41nx3). The dated phylogeny of seed plants (Spermatophyta) used to obtain our phylogenetic tree is available through GitHub (https://github.com/FePhyFoFum/big_seed_plant_trees/releases). Data on bird body weight used for size classification (Supplementary Fig. 2) were obtained from EltonTraits 1.0 available through Figshare (https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3306933).
Code availability
The R scripts used to generate all results and figures are available through the Dryad Digital Repository (https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.15dv41nx3).
187. Carvalho, C.S., García, C., Lucas, M.S., Jordano, P., Côrtes, M.C. 2021. Extant fruit‐eating birds promote genetically diverse seed rain, but disperse to fewer sites in defaunated tropical forests. Journal of Ecology 109:1055–1067.
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13534
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2020
186. Quintero, E., Pizo, M.A., Jordano, P. 2020. Fruit resource provisioning for avian frugivores: the overlooked side of effectiveness in seed dispersal mutualisms. Journal of Ecology 108 (4), 1358-1372.
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13352
185. Moleón, M., Sánchez-Zapata, J.A., Donázar, J.A., Revilla, E., Martín-López, B., Gutiérrez-Cánovas, C., Getz, W.M.Morales-Reyes, Z., Campos-Arceiz, A., Crowder, L.B.Galetti, M., González-Suárez, M., He, F., Jordano, P., Lewison, R., Naidoo, R., Owen-Smith, N., Selva, N., Svenning, J.C., Tella, J.L.Zarfl, C., Jähnig, S.C.Hayward, M.W.Faurby, SørenGarcía, N., Barnosky, A.D.Tockner, K. 2020. Rethinking megafauna. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287 (1922), 20192643.
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2643
184. Anjos, D.V., Leal, L.C., Jordano, P., Del-Claro, K. 2020. Ants as diaspore removers of non‐myrmecochorous plants: a meta‐analysis. Oikos 129: 775–786.
DOI: 10.1111/oik.06940
182. Valverde, J., Carvalho, C.S., Jordano, P., Galetti, M. 2020. Large herbivores regulate the spatial recruitment of a hyperdominant Neotropical palm. Biotropica 53:286–295.
DOI: 10.1111/btp.12873
181. Assis, A.P.A., Thompson, J.N., Santana, P.C., Jordano, P., Bascompte, J., Guimarães Jr., P. 2020. Genetic correlations and ecological networks shape coevolving mutualisms. Ecology Letters 23 (12), 1789-1799.
DOI: 10.1111/ele.13605
180. Jácome-Flores M.E., Pizo, M.A., Jordano P., Delibes M., Fedriani J. M. 2020. Interaction motifs variability in a Mediterranean palm under environmental disturbances: the mutualism-antagonism continuum. Oikos 129: 367-379.
Doi: 10.1111/oik.06688
179. Villar, N., Siqueira, T., Zipparro, V., Farah, F., Schmaedecke, G., Hortenci, L., Brocardo, C., Jordano, P., Galetti, M. (2020). The cryptic regulation of diversity by functionally complementary large tropical forest herbivores. J Ecol, 108, 279–290.
Doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.13257
178. Emer, C., Jordano, P., Pizo, M.A., Ribeiro, M.C., Silva, F.R. & Galetti, M. (2020). Seed dispersal networks in tropical forest fragments: Area effects, remnant species, and interaction diversity. Biotropica, 52, 81–89.
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177. San-José, M., Arroyo-Rodríguez, V., Jordano, P., Meave, J.A. & Martínez-Ramos, M. (2019). The scale of landscape effect on seed dispersal depends on both response variables and landscape predictor. Landscape Ecol, 34, 1069–1080.
Doi: 10.1007/s10980-019-00821-y
176. González-Varo, J.P., Díaz-García, S., Arroyo, J.M., Jordano, P. 2019. Seed dispersal by dispersing juvenile animals: a source of functional connectivity in fragmented landscapes. Biology Letters 15 (7), 20190264.
doi: 10.1111/brv.12481
175. Gómez, J.M., Schupp, E.W., Jordano, P. 2018. Synzoochory: the ecological and evolutionary relevance of a dual interaction. Biological Reviews 94: 874-902.
doi: 10.1111/brv.12481
174. Dáttilo, W.; Vizentin-Bugoni, J.; Debastiani, V.; Jordano, P.; Izzo, T.J. 2019. The influence of spatial sampling scales on ant-plant interaction network architecture. Journal of Animal Ecology 88: 903-914.
doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12978
 173. Valido, A.; Rodríguez-Rodríguez, M.C.; Jordano, P. 2019. Honeybees disrupt the structure and functionality of plant-pollinator networks. Scientific Reports 9: 4711.
doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-41271-5
 172. Hutchinson M., Bramon M.B., Pilosof S., Barner A., Kéfi S., Thebault E., Jordano P., Stouffer D. 2019. Seeing the forest for the trees: putting multilayer networks to work for community ecology. Functional Ecology 33: 206-217.
doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.13237
 171. González‐Varo, J.P., Arroyo, J.M. and Jordano, P. 2019. The timing of frugivore‐mediated seed dispersal effectiveness. Molecular Ecology 28: 219-231.
doi: 10.1111/mec.14850
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2018
170. Sinnott-Armstrong, M.A., Downie, A.E., Federman, S., Valido, A., Jordano, P., Donoghue, M.J. 2018. Global geographic patterns in the colors and sizes of animal-dispersed fruits. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27: 1339-1351.
doi: 10.1111/geb.12801
169. Brancalion, P.H.S., Bello, C., Chazdon, R.L., Galetti, M., Jordano, P., Lima, R.A.F., Medina, A., Pizo, M.A., Reid, J.L. 2018. Maximizing biodiversity conservation and carbon stocking in restored tropical forests. Conservation Letters 11: e12454.
doi: 10.1111/conl.12454
 168. Miguel, M.F., Jordano, P., Tabeni, S., and Campos, C.M. 2018. Context-dependency and anthropogenic effects on individual plant-frugivore networks. Oikos 127: 1045-1059.
doi: 10.1111/oik.04978
doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12831
 165. Galetti, M., Moleón, M., Jordano, P., Pires, M., Guimarães Jr., P.R., Pape, T., Nichols, E., Hansen, D., Olesen, J.M., Munk, M., de Mattos, J.S., Schweiger, A.H., Owen-Smith, N., Johnson, C.N., Marquis, R.J., Svenning, J.C. 2018. Ecological and evolutionary legacy of megafauna extinction. Biological Reviews 93: 845–862.
doi: 10.1111/brv.12374
 164.Emer, C., Galetti, M., Pizo, M.A., Guimarães Jr., P.R., Moraes, S., Piratelli, A., Jordano, P. 2018. Seed-dispersal in a fragmented hotspot of biodiversity - a metanetwork approach. Ecology Letters, 21, 484–493.
doi: 10.1111/ele.12909
Our paper was highlighted in the issue cover. Photo (by Pedro Jordano): Black-fronted guan (Abrurria jacutinga) feeding on juçara palm (Euterpe edulis) fruits.
 162.Moracho, E., Jordano, P., and Hampe, A. 2018. Drivers of tree fecundity in Pedunculate oak (Quercus robur) refugial populations at the species’ southwestern range margin. Plant Biology 20: 195–202.
doi: 10.1111/plb.12578
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2016/2017
2017
 161. Guimarães Jr., P.R., Pires, M.M., Jordano, P., Bascompte, J., Thompson, J.N. 2017. Indirect effects drive coevolution in mutualistic networks. Nature 550: 511-515.
doi:10.1038/nature24273
 160. Fontúrbel, F., Jordano, P. and Medel, R. 2017. Plant-animal mutualism effectiveness in native and transformed habitats: Assessing the coupled outcomes of pollination and seed dispersal. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics
Volume 28: 87-95.
doi: 10.1016/j.ppees.2017.09.003
 159. Fagundes, R., Dáttilo, W., Ribeiro, S.P., Rico-Gray, V., Jordano, P. and Del-Claro, K. 2017. Differences among ant species in plant protection are related to production of extrafloral nectar and degree of leaf herbivory. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 122: 71–83.
doi: 10.1093/biolinnean/blx059
 158. González-Varo, J.P., Carvalho, C.S., Arroyo, J.M. and Jordano, P. 2017. Unravelling seed dispersal through fragmented landscapes: Frugivore species operate unevenly as mobile links. Molecular Ecology 26: 4309–4321.
doi: 10.1111/mec.14181
The art by @equinoxgraphics, highlighted in Molecular Ecology journal cover. The illustration represents the empirical trajectories of animal-mediated seed dispersal events in a real, complex landscape in SW Spain.
doi: 10.1111/ele.12764
dos: 10.1002/ecy.1756
doi: 10.1002/ecy.1818
doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12705
doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12690
GitHub repo here.
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2016
Lay summary is here.
GitHub repo here.
doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12763
doi: 10.1080/09524622.2016.1233513
Photo: courtesy Andrea Cocucci.
doi:10.1111/1365-2656.12584
doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002559
doi:10.1038/srep31957
doi: 10.1111/mec.13692
doi: 10.1038/srep24820 
doi: 10.1111/oik.02629
doi: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2444
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2015
doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1501105
See commentaries in The Guardian, Mongabay, and The Washington Post.

doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12356 Here is an extended, general summary of the paper.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.2925
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2014
[A recension of the book: T.H. Fleming & W.J. Kress (2013) The Ornaments of Life. Coevolution and Conservation in the Tropics. Chicago University Press, Chicago, IL. ISBN: 9780226253404]
126. Bascompte, J. and Jordano, P. 2014. Mutualistic networks. Monographs in Population Biology Series, no. 53. Princeton University Press, Princeton, USA. ISBN: 9780691131269
Link to PUP web page.
The preface [] and Chapter 1 [] are available. In Amazon.
Nominated by the British Ecological Society for the BES Marsh Ecology Book of the Year Award, 2016. Honored sharing this with three other titles.Mutualistic interactions among plants and animals have played a paramount role in shaping biodiversity. Yet the majority of studies on mutualistic interactions have involved only a few species, as opposed to broader mutual connections between communities of organisms. Mutualistic Networks is the first book to comprehensively explore this burgeoning field. Integrating different approaches, from the statistical description of network structures to the development of new analytical frameworks, we describe the architecture of these mutualistic networks and show their importance for the robustness of biodiversity and the coevolutionary process.
Making a case for why we should care about mutualisms and their complex networks, this book offers a new perspective on the study and synthesis of this growing area for ecologists and evolutionary biologists. -
2013
doi: 10.1126/science.1233774.
Photo: Guto Balieiro. Black-billed toucan Ramphastos vitellinus ssp. ariel on Euterpe edulis fruits.
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2011
doi:10.1016/j.actao.2011.09.008
This is the preface to the AO special volume of the 5th International Symposium-Workshop on Frugivores and Seed Dispersal (1985-2010), Montpellier, France.
A commentary in Science Editor's Choice section (Sept 2, 2011; vol. 333: 1201) is here.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017395
doi: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1371
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0016143
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2010
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2009
Comment in Faculty1000.
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2007
A sample of chapter (including the book table of contents) is here.
A sample of chapter (including the book table of contents) is here.
A sample of chapter (including the book table of contents) is here.
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2006
The accompanying technical comment by Holland et al. is here. The pdf file includes Supplementary Material.
The pdf file includes Supplementary Material. The acompanying comment by John N. Thompson in 'Perspectives in Science' is here.
This paper received the Mercer Award of the Ecological Society of America, 2007.
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Earlier work (1984-1994)1990-1994
Note: also available in: Vegetatio 107/108 (1993).
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Criterios de valoración de zonas húmedas de importancia nacional y regional en función de las aves acuáticas. Monografías ICONA, núm. 35, Madrid. 79 pages.
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Very early work (1980-1983)These papers were written during graduation (except #1-3).
12. López-Jurado L.F., Jordano, P., Ruiz, M. 1978. Ecología de una población insular mediterránea del Eslizón Ibérico, Chalcides bedriagai (Sauria, Scincidae). Doñana Acta Vertebrata 5: 19-34.
11. Jordano P., López-Jurado, L.F., Ruiz, M. 1980. Mecanismos de regulación de la temperatura corporal en el Eslizón Ibérico (Chalcides bedriagai). Actas I Reunión Iberoamericana de Zoología de Vertebrados, pages 379-384.
10. Torres J.A., Jordano, P., Villasante, J. 1980. Estructura y dinámica temporal de una colonia de Buitre Negro, Aegypius monachus, en Sierra Morena central (Córdoba). Boletín de la Estación Central de Ecología 9: 67-72.
9. Jordano, P. 1981. Relaciones interespecíficas y coexistencia entre el Aguila Real (Aquila chrysaetos) y el Aguila Perdicera (Hieraaetus fasciatus) en Sierra Morena central. Ardeola 28: 67-88.
8. Jordano, P. y Torres, J.A. 1981. Importancia de la estructura de la vegetación en la selección del hábitat para la nidificación en una comunidad de rapaces diurnas mediterráneas Ardeola 28: 51-66.
7. Jordano, P. 1981. Alimentación y relaciones tróficas entre los paseriformes en paso otoñal por una localidad de Andalucía central.Doñana Acta Vertebrata 8: 103-124.
6. Torres, J.A., Jordano, P., León, A. 1981. Aves de presa diurnas de la provincia de Córdoba. Publ. Monte de Piedad y Caja de Ahorros de Córdoba. 130 pages.
5. Jordano, P. 1983. Correlaciones ecológicas del consumo de frutos por los paseriformes durante la migración otoñal. Alytes 1: 55-70.
4. Torres, J.A., Jordano, P., y León, A. 1984. Aves acuáticas de las lagunas y embalses de la provincia de Córdoba. Axerquía 12: 281-284.
3. Jordano, P. 1985. El ciclo anual de los paseriformes frugívoros en el matorral mediterráneo del sur de España: importancia de su invernada y variaciones interanuales. Ardeola 32: 69-94.
2. Jordano, P. 1984. Relaciones entre plantas y aves frugívoras en el matorral mediterráneo del área de Doñana. PhD Thesis. Publicaciones Tesis Doctorales y Tesinas, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla. Accesible here: idUS, Univ. Sevilla Repository.
1. Jordano, P. 1987. Notas sobre la dieta no-insectívora de algunos Muscicapidae. Ardeola 34: 89-98. -