Heleno, Ruben
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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 | 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 |
| 2 | 2009 | Effects of Alien Plants on Insect Abundance and Biomass: a Food-Web Approach | Heleno, Ruben ; Ceia, Ricardo S. ; RAMOS, JAIME A. ; Memmott, Jane | article | openAccess |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 2010 | Evaluation of restoration effectiveness: community response to the removal of alien plants | Heleno, Ruben ; Lacerda, Inês ; Ramos, Jaime A. ; Memmott, Jane | article | openAccess |
| 6 | 2014 | Flower visitation by birds in Europe | Silva, Luís P. da ; Ramos, Jaime A. ; Olesen, Jens M. ; Traveset, Anna ; Heleno, Ruben | article | openAccess |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 2012 | Integration of exotic seeds into an Azorean seed dispersal network | Heleno, Ruben ; Ramos, Jaime A. ; Memmott, Jane | article | openAccess |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | 2011 | The role of avian ‘seed predators’ as seed dispersers | Heleno, Ruben ; Ross, Georgina ; Everard, Amy ; Memmott, Jane ; Ramos, Jaime A. | article | openAccess |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | 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 |