A5054372383- Plant and animal studies
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Bird parasitology and diseases
- melanin and skin pigmentation
- Mercury impact and mitigation studies
Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications
2014-2020
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2016
University of Toronto
2016
American Museum of Natural History
2015
Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona
2013
Understanding biodiversity distribution is a primary goal of community ecology. At landscape scale, bee communities are affected by habitat composition, anthropogenic land use, and fragmentation. However, little information available on local-scale spatial within habitats that uniform at the scale. We studied along with floral nesting resources over 32 km2 area uninterrupted Mediterranean scrubland. Our objectives were (i) to analyze resource composition ask whether these follow geographical...
Abstract Bergmann's rule originally described a positive relationship between body size and latitude in warm‐blooded animals. Larger animals, with smaller surface/volume ratio, are better enabled to conserve heat cooler climates (thermoregulatory hypothesis). Studies on endothermic vertebrates have provided support for rule, whereas studies ectotherms yielded conflicting results. If the thermoregulatory hypothesis is correct, negative relationships temperature should occur temporal addition...
Abstract Species assemblages and their interactions vary through space, generating diversity patterns at different spatial scales. Here, we study the local‐scale variation of a cavity‐nesting bee wasp community (hosts), nest associates (parasitoids), resulting antagonistic network over continuous homogeneous habitat. To obtain bee/wasp nests, placed trap‐nests 25 sites 32 km 2 area. We obtained 1,541 nests (4,954 cells) belonging to 40 host species containing 27 parasitoid species. The most...