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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 Associated Professor at the University of Coimbra and PI of the Community Ecology Lab (CFE-UC) since 2016. I have supervised 6 postdocs, 10 PhD students and 12 MSc students, and authored 88 SCI papers (35 as leading or senior author, including contributions in Nature, Nature Communic., PNAS, TREE, and Ecol. Lett.. I've participated in 17 funded projects (2 as PI, 1 as co-PI) in Galapagos, Mozambique, São Tomé, Spain, Seychelles, and Portugal, which attracted >2.6MEuros in national, Spanish, German and European funding. I've been invited as keynote speaker in 8 large international meetings (BES, EEF, SPEA/SEO, BOU, AEET/SPECO, EMAPI), acted as evaluator for French, Spanish, Dutch, Hungarian and European funding agencies, integrated 18 PhD juries, 20 MSc juries, reviewed for 42 ISI journals and became Associate Editor of Functional Ecology (British Ecological Society). I'm an elected member of the Scientific Councils of my department, member of the coordination team of the Associate Laboratory TERRA - Laboratório para a Sustentabilidade do Uso da Terra e dos Serviços dos Ecossistemas , 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, and Functional ecology. I'm currently the coordinator of the Masters in Ecology of the University of Coimbra.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ruben Heleno
Date of birth
1981/06/09
Gender
Male

Citation names

  • Heleno, Ruben
  • Ruben H. Heleno

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
A616-AB92-EA6D
ORCID iD
0000-0002-4808-4907
Google Scholar ID
PR5Wrr4AAAAJ
Researcher Id
A-5778-2011
Scopus Author Id
26326324000

Telephones

Telephone
  • 2392240700 Ext.: 262383 (Professional)

Addresses

  • Calçada Martim de Freitas, 3000-456, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Ecology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2005/01/01 - 2009/03/13
Concluded
 Community Ecology (Doctor of Philosophy)
University of Bristol, United Kingdom
"THE IMPACT OF ALIEN PLANTS ON NATIVE BIOTA IN THE AZORES: A FOOD WEB APPROACH" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 no corrections
2004
Concluded
 Biologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Aplicação de ferramentas na gestão sustentada do coelho-bravo (Oryctolagus cuniculus)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/04/17 - 2020/04/16 Principal Investigator (Research) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Portugal
2013/12/31 - 2018/12/30 Contracted Researcher (Research) Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Portugal
2012/01/01 - 2013/12/30 Postdoc (Research) Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Portugal
2010/01/01 - 2011/12/31 Contracted Researcher (Research) Instituto Mediterraneo de Estudios Avanzados, Spain

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/01/15 - Current Associate Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2020/02/01 - 2024/01/14 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2009/01/01 - 2009/12/31 Conservation officer at an environmental NGO Liga para a Protecção da Natureza, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2014/03/01 - 2015/09/30 EXPLORING BIODIVERSITY AND ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS IN GORONGOSA NATIONAL PARK - MOZAMBIQUE: A FUNCTIONAL APPROACH TO FOREST CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION
PTDC/BIA-BIC/4019/2012
Universidade de Coimbra Centre for Functional Ecology - Science for People & the Planet, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2017/01 - Current Spatio-temporal response patterns of ecological networks to anthropogenic stressors
207064213
Researcher
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 Laboratório para a Sustentabilidade do Uso da Terra e dos Serviços dos Ecossistemas
LA/P/0092/2020
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2023/12/31 LIFE AFTER FIRE - The role of animal seed dispersal on post-fire community reassembly
PTDC/BIA-ECO/1983/2020
Researcher
Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2022/09/01 - 2023/04/30 LIFE AFTER FIRE - The role of animal seed dispersal on post-fire community reassembly project
FCT PTDC/BIA -ECO/1983/2020
Universidade de Coimbra Centre for Functional Ecology - Science for People & the Planet, Portugal
Ongoing
2019/07/01 - 2022/12/31 Avaliação dos padrões de biodiversidade e interações ecológicas na fauna do solo do Parque Nacional da Gorongosa Moçambique
PTDC/BIA-CBI/29672/2017
FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2019 - 2022 COLCAN - The colonization history by key plant and animal species and formation of the Canarian biomes: phylogenies and seed dispersal networks
PGC2018-101650-B-I00
Researcher
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
 Gobierno de España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Ongoing
2018/06 - 2021/05 BatPine - Promoting the resilience of ecosystem services to climate change: a case study with pine plantations, pine processionary moth and bats
PTDC/BIA-ECO/31731/2017
Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2016/07 - 2020/07 Invader - Ferramentas INoVAdoras para Detectar Espécies invasoras e agentes de contRolo biológico
Provided by PTCRIS: PTDC/AAG-REC/4896/2014
PTDC/AAG-REC/4896/2014
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2018 - 2020 ISLET-FOODWEBS - Effects of Global Change on small island trophic meta-networks
CGL2017-88122-P
Researcher
Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats, Spain
 Gobierno de España Ministerio de Economía y Empresa
Ongoing
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Centre for Functional Ecology
UID/BIA/04004/2019
Universidade de Coimbra Centre for Functional Ecology - Science for People & the Planet, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2016/01 - 2018/12 INVADER - INnoVative Approaches to Detect invasive spEcies and biocontRol agents
Provided by PTCRIS: 143530
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2014/10 - 2018/10 SEEDS - Closing the seed dispersal loop: How does seed dispersal affect plant population structure at the global, regional and local scales?
grant.Provided by PTCRIS: 147582
Principal investigator
Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2016 - 2018 COLONIZATION - Características dispersivas: reconstrucción de la colonización de especies vegetales entre islas oceánicas
Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad
Researcher
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
 Gobierno de España Ministerio de Economía y Empresa
Concluded
2015 - 2017 VERMUTIS - Importance of single and double plant-vertebrate mutualisms on islands: Double benefits, double risks?
CGL2013-44386-P
Researcher
Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats, Spain
 Gobierno de España Ministerio de Economía y Empresa
Concluded
2016 - 2016 Alien hitchhiker’s: The role of avian seed dispersal to São Tomé forest dynamics
Alien hitchhiker’s
Researcher
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
 Rufford Foundation
Concluded
2013 - 2016 OCEIS -The colonization history in the Galapagos islands by plants: floristic, diaspore and phylogenetic analysis
CGL2012-38624-C02-01
Researcher
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
 Gobierno de España Ministerio de Economía y Empresa
Concluded
2013 - 2016 SEEDS - Closing the seed dispersal loop: How does seed dispersal affect plant population structure at the global, regional and local scales?
FP7-PEOPLE-2012-CIG-321794
Principal investigator
Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Portugal
 European Commission
Concluded
2013/07/01 - 2015/11/30 INVAsive plant species management in Portugal: from early DEtection to Remote sensing and Biocontrol of Acacia longifolia - INVADER-B
PTDC/AAG-REC/4607/2012
Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Centre for Functional Ecology - Science for People & the Planet, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Centro de Estudos de Recursos Naturais Ambiente e Sociedade, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2013/07/01 - 2015/11/30 Gestão de plantas INVasoras em Portugal: da prevenção à DEtecção Remota e controlo biológico de Acacia longifolia - INVADER-B
PTDC/AAG-REC/4607/2012
Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Centre for Functional Ecology - Science for People & the Planet, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Centro de Estudos de Recursos Naturais Ambiente e Sociedade, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2013/07 - 2015/06 GORONGOSA - Exploring biodiversity and Ecological Networks in Gorongosa National Park - Mozambique: A Functional approach to forest conservation and restoration
Provided by PTCRIS: 130679
130679
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra
Concluded
2013/07 - 2015/06 INVADER-B - INVAsive plant species management in Portugal: from early DEtection to Remote sensing and Biocontrol of Acacia longifolia
Provided by PTCRIS: 131547
131547
Researcher
Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2010 - 2012 REDGAL - Redes mutualistas en las islas Galápagos: Impactos directos e indirectos de especies invasoras sobre plantas amenazadas
REDGAL
Post-doc Fellow
Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats, Spain
 Fundación BBVA
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Borges, Paulo A. V.; Vieira, Virgílio; Amorim, Isabel R.; Bicudo, Nuno; Fritzén, Niclas; Gaspar, Clara; Heleno, Ruben; et al. "List of arthropods (Arthropoda)". Portugal: Principia,
  2. Heleno, Ruben. "The effect of plant invasions on native seed dispersal interactions". In Plant Invasions: the role of biotic interactions, edited by Anna Traveset; Dave Richardson. Australia: CABI, 2020.
    Accepted
  3. Anna Traveset; Heleno, Ruben; Manuel Nogales. "The ecology of seed dispersal". In Seeds: The ecology of regeneration in plant communities, edited by R Gallagher, 62-93. Oxon, United Kingdom: CABI, 2014.
    Published
  4. Memmott, J.; Gibson, R.; Carvalheiro, L.G.; Henson, K.; Heleno, R.H.; Mikel, M.L.; Pearce, S.. "The conservation of ecological interactions". In Plant Invasions: the role of biotic interactions. 2007.
Conference abstract
  1. Costa, José M.; Ramos, Jaime A.; da Silva, Luís P.; Timóteo, Sérgio; Araújo, Pedro M.; Felgueiras, Marcial; Rosa, António; et al. "Dispersão interna e externa de sementes por passeriformes migradores". Paper presented in IX Congresso de Ornitologia da SPEA / VI Congresso Ibérico de Ornitologia, Vila Real, 2016.
    Published
  2. Correia, Marta; Timóteo, Sérgio; Rodríguez-Echeverría, Susana; Heleno, Ruben; Mazars-Simon, Alban. "Refaunation and the reinstatement of the seed dispersal function in Gorongosa National Park (Oral presentation)". Paper presented in Community Ecology for the 21st Century: From Genes to Ecosystems, Évora, 2016.
    Published
  3. Azevedo-Pereira, Henrique; Sonet, Sanjay; Costa, José Miguel; Heleno, Ruben; Gonçalves, Susana; Sousa, José Paulo. "Do hyper-accumulator plants make good neighbours?". Paper presented in 4º Congresso Ibérico de Ecologia, Coimbra, 2015.
    Published
  4. Marchante, Elizabete; López-Núñez, Francisco; Ribeiro, S.; Heleno, Ruben; Marchante, H.. "Using ecological networks to evaluate impacts of an invasive plant and planning biocontrol". Paper presented in 13th International Conference on Ecology and Management of Alien Plant Invasions, Waikoloa, 2015.
    Published
  5. López-Núñez, Francisco; Ribeiro, S.; Heleno, Ruben; Marchante, H.; Marchante, Elizabete; Ribeiro, Sérgio. "Acacia longifolia and plant-gall networks in Portugal: Evaluating the impacts and planning biocontrol". Paper presented in 4th Iberian Congress in Ecology, Coimbra, 2015.
    Published
  6. Rodríguez-Echeverría, Susana; Teixeira, Helena; Correia, Marta; Timóteo, Sérgio; Ferrero, Victoria; Heleno, Ruben. "The biodiversity right beneath our eyes: Using above and belowground approaches to understand the ecological units of the Gorongosa National Park - Mozambique". Paper presented in 4º Congresso Ibérico de Ecologia, Coimbra, 2015.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. López-Núñez, Francisco; Heleno, Ruben; Marchante, Hélia; Marchante, Elizabete. Corresponding author: López-Núñez, Francisco. "Post-release monitoring shows no non-target effects of a biocontrol agent against an invasive plant". Paper presented in ECONET2021: V Symposium on ecological networks, 2021.
  2. López-Núñez, Francisco; Marchante, Elizabete; Marchante, Hélia; Heleno, Ruben. Corresponding author: López-Núñez, Francisco. "So far so good: Species interaction networks confirm the safely of biocontrol agent four years after release". Paper presented in XIX Congresso Ibérico de Entomologia, 2021.
  3. Correia, Marta; Rodríguez-Echeverría, Susana; Timóteo, Sérgio; Freitas, Helena; Heleno, Ruben. "Do biotically- and abiotically-dispersed plants rely equally on mycorrhizal associations? A case study in Gorongosa-Mozambique". Paper presented in 9th International Conference on Mycorrhiza (ICOM 9), 2017.
  4. Freitas, Helena; Timóteo, Sérgio; Correia, M; Rodríguez-Echeverría, Susana; Heleno, Ruben. "Seed-dispersal networks spanning across the landscape of Gorongosa National Park: a spatial multilayer network approach". Paper presented in British Ecological Society Annual Meeting, Liverpool, UK, 2016.
  5. Freitas, Helena; Costa, J.; Esteves, C.; Vargas, P.; Heleno, Ruben; Esteves, Carolina Franco; Costa, José Miguel Gonçalves Nunes da; et al. "To swim or not to swim: on the poor oceanic dispersal potential of Azorean fleshy fruits". Paper presented in 4th Iberian Ecological Congress, 2015.
  6. Correia, Marta; Timóteo, Sérgio; Rodríguez-Echeverría, Susana; Mazars-Simon, Alban; Heleno, Ruben; Correia, Marta. "The refaunation of Gorongosa National Park (Mozambique) and the reinstatement of the seed dispersal service". Paper presented in 2nd Ecological Networks Symposium: Theory, Empiricism and Practice in a Changing World, 2015.
  7. da Silva, Luis P.; Ramos, Jaime; Olensen, JM; Traveset, Anna; Heleno, Ruben. "Bird pollination in Europe: irrelevant or underappreciated?". Paper presented in BOU Autumn Conference - Birds in the entangled bank: advances in food webs theory and practice, 2014.
  8. Freitas, Helena; Esteves C.; Costa, Joana; Vargas, P.; Heleno, Ruben. "Enhancing Object-Oriented Technologies with Semantic Web Technologies". Paper presented in Isalnd Biology. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 2014.
Journal article
  1. Manuel Nogales; Kim R. McConkey; Tomás A. Carlo; Debra M. Wotton; Peter J. Bellingham; Anna Traveset; Aarón González-Castro; et al. "A Review on the State of the Art in Frugivory and Seed Dispersal on Islands and the Implications of Global Change". The Botanical Review (2024): https://doi.org/10.1007/s12229-023-09296-8.
    10.1007/s12229-023-09296-8
  2. Benedicto-Royuela, José; Costa, José Miguel; Heleno, Ruben; Silva, Joaquim S.; Freitas, Helena; Lopes, Pedro; Mendes, Sara Beatriz; Timóteo, Sérgio. "What is the value of biotic seed dispersal in post-fire forest regeneration?". Conservation Letters (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/conl.12990.
    10.1111/conl.12990
  3. Fernanda GARCIA; António ALVES DA SILVA; Ruben HELENO; José Paulo SOUSA; Joana ALVES. "Red deer as a disperser of native, but not invasive plants’ seeds". Integrative Zoology (2023): https://doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.12729.
    10.1111/1749-4877.12729
  4. Vargas, Pablo; Heleno, Ruben; Costa, José. "EuDiS - A comprehensive database of the seed dispersal syndromes of the European flora". Biodiversity Data Journal 11 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/bdj.11.e104079.
    Published • 10.3897/bdj.11.e104079
  5. Helena Raposeira; Pedro Horta; Ruben Heleno; Hugo Rebelo. "Changing with the times: Seasonal environmental gradients unveil dynamic bat assemblages and vulnerability". Ecology and Evolution (2023): https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10246.
    10.1002/ece3.10246
  6. Vasconcelos, Sasha; Pina, Sílvia; Jonsson, Mattias; Heleno, Ruben; Herrera, José M.; Moreira, Francisco; Silva, Bruno; et al. "Mixed effects of oak woodlands on biocontrol potential and pest pressure in olive orchards under management intensification". Journal of Pest Science 97 1 (2023): 355-368. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10340-023-01634-4.
    10.1007/s10340-023-01634-4
  7. Martins, Lucas P.; Stouffer, Daniel B.; Blendinger, Pedro G.; Böhning-Gaese, Katrin; Buitrón-Jurado, Galo; Correia, Marta; Costa, José Miguel; et al. "Global and regional ecological boundaries explain abrupt spatial discontinuities in avian frugivory interactions". Nature Communications 13 1 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34355-w.
    10.1038/s41467-022-34355-w
  8. Alba Costa; Ruben Heleno; Yanick Dufrene; Eleanor Huckle; Ronny Gabriel; Xavier Harrison; Dana G. Schabo; Nina Farwig; Christopher N. Kaiser-Bunbury. "Seasonal variation in impact of non-native species on tropical seed dispersal networks". Functional Ecology (2022): https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14171.
    10.1111/1365-2435.14171
  9. Jaime Moyano; Franz Essl; Ruben Heleno; Pablo Vargas; Martin A. Nuñez; Mariano A. Rodriguez-Cabal. "Diaspore traits specialized to animal adhesion and sea current dispersal are positively associated with the naturalization of European plants across the world". Ecography (2022): https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06423.
    10.1111/ecog.06423
  10. Timóteo, Sérgio; Albrecht, Jörg; Rumeu, Beatriz; Norte, Ana C.; Traveset, Anna; Frost, Carol M.; Marchante, Elizabete; et al. "Tripartite networks show that keystone species can multitask". Functional Ecology 37 2 (2022): 274-286. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14206.
    10.1111/1365-2435.14206
  11. Alberto J. Coello; Mario Fernández-Mazuecos; Ruben H. Heleno; Pablo Vargas. "PAICE: A new R package to estimate the number of inter-island colonizations considering haplotype data and sample size". Journal of Biogeography (2022): https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14341.
    10.1111/jbi.14341
  12. Ruben H. Heleno; Filipa Mendes; Ana P. Coelho; Jaime A. Ramos; Jorge M. Palmeirim; Ana Rainho; Ricardo F. de Lima. "The upsizing of the São Tomé seed dispersal network by introduced animals". Oikos 2022 2 (2022): https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.08279.
    10.1111/oik.08279
  13. Vasconcelos, Sasha; Sílvia Pina; Herrera , José M. ; Bruno Silva; Pedro Sousa; Porto, Miguel; Nereida Melguizo-Ruiz; et al. "Canopy arthropod declines along a gradient of olive farming intensification". (2022):
    Under revision
  14. Bartomeus, Ignasi; Lanuza, Jose B.; Wood, Thomas J.; Carvalheiro, Luisa; Molina, Francisco P.; Collado, Miguel Ángel; Aguado-Martín, Luis Oscar; et al. "Base de datos de abejas ibéricas". (2022): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/6507.
    10.7818/ECOS.2380
  15. Costa, A.; Heleno, R.; Dufrene, Y.; Huckle, E.; Gabriel, R.; Doudee, D.; Kaiser-Bunbury, C.N.. "Seed dispersal by frugivores from forest remnants promotes the regeneration of adjacent invaded forests in an oceanic island". Restoration Ecology (2022): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85125951203&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/rec.13654
  16. Vasconcelos, S.; Jonsson, M.; Heleno, R.; Moreira, F.; Beja, P.. "A meta-analysis of biocontrol potential and herbivore pressure in olive crops: Does integrated pest management make a difference?". Basic and Applied Ecology 63 (2022): 115-124. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85132783424&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.baae.2022.05.009
  17. Alexandre Fuster-Calvo; Manuel Nogales; Ruben Heleno; Carlos Vera; Pablo Vargas; Fuster-Calvo, Alexandre; Nogales, Manuel; et al. "Sea dispersal potential and colonization of the Galápagos littoral flora". Journal of Biogeography 48 8 (2021): 1904-1916. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14120.
    10.1111/jbi.14120
  18. Francisco Alejandro López-Núñez; Elizabete Marchante; Ruben Heleno; Liliana Neto Duarte; Jael Palhas; Fiona Impson; Helena Freitas; Hélia Marchante. "Establishment, spread and early impacts of the first biocontrol agent against an invasive plant in continental Europe". Journal of Environmental Management 290 (2021): 112545-112545. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112545.
    10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112545
  19. González-Varo, Juan P.; Rumeu, Beatriz; Albrecht, Jörg; Arroyo, Juan M.; Bueno, Rafael S.; Burgos, Tamara; da Silva, Luís P.; et al. "Limited potential for bird migration to disperse plants to cooler latitudes". Nature 595 7865 (2021): 75-79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03665-2.
    10.1038/s41586-021-03665-2
  20. Trevor S. Fristoe; Milan Chytrý; Wayne Dawson; Franz Essl; Ruben Heleno; Holger Kreft; Noëlie Maurel; et al. "Dimensions of invasiveness: Links between local abundance, geographic range size, and habitat breadth in Europe’s alien and native floras". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2021): https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2021173118.
    10.1073/pnas.2021173118
  21. Ruben H. Heleno; Mendes, Filipa; Ana P Coelho; Jaime A. Ramos; Jorge M. Palmeirim; Ana Rainho; Ricardo F de Lima. "The disruption of insular frugivory networks by large-gaped introduced animals". Oikos (2021):
    Submitted
  22. Costa, José M.; Ramos, Jaime A.; Timóteo, Sérgio; da Silva, Luís P.; Ceia, Ricardo S.; Heleno, Ruben H.. "Species temporal persistence promotes the stability of fruit-frugivore interactions across a 5-year multilayer network". Journal of Ecology (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13391.
    10.1111/1365-2745.13391
  23. Ruben H. Heleno; William J. Ripple; Anna Traveset. "Scientists' warning on endangered food webs". Web Ecology (2020): https://doi.org/10.5194/we-20-1-2020.
    10.5194/we-20-1-2020
  24. HERVÍAS-PAREJO, Sandra; NOGALES, Manuel; GUZMÁN, Beatriz; TRIGO, María del Mar; OLESEN, Jens M.; VARGAS, Pablo; HELENO, Ruben; TRAVESET, Anna. "Potential role of lava lizards as pollinators across the Galápagos Islands". Integrative Zoology 15 2 (2020): 144-148. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.12386.
    10.1111/1749-4877.12386
  25. Hervías-Parejo, S.; Tur, C.; Heleno, R.; Nogales, M.; Timóteo, S.; Traveset, A.; S. Hervías-Parejo; et al. "Species functional traits and abundance as drivers of multiplex ecological networks: First empirical quantification of inter-layer edge weights: Pollination-seed dispersal networks". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287 1939 (2020): 20202127-20202127. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85096816754&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1098/rspb.2020.2127rspb20202127
  26. Sandra Hervías-Parejo; Jens M. Olesen; Manuel Nogales; Anna Traveset; Ruben Heleno; Hervías-Parejo, Sandra; Olesen, Jens M.; et al. "Dispersal of fern spores by Galápagos finches". Journal of Ornithology 160 3 (2019): 831-833. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-019-01656-9.
    10.1007/s10336-019-01656-9
  27. Correia, Marta; Rodríguez-Echeverría, Susana; Timóteo, Sérgio; Freitas, Helena; Heleno, Ruben. "Integrating plant species contribution to mycorrhizal and seed dispersal mutualistic networks". Biology Letters 15 5 (2019): 20180770. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0770.
    10.1098/rsbl.2018.0770
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  37. Marta Correia; Ruben Heleno; Pablo Vargas; Susana Rodríguez-Echeverría; Marc-André Selosse. "Should I stay or should I go? Mycorrhizal plants are more likely to invest in long-distance seed dispersal than non-mycorrhizal plants". Ecology Letters (2018): https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12936.
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  38. Mauro Nereu; Ruben H. Heleno; Francisco Lopez-Núñez; Mário Agostinho; Jaime A. Ramos. "Effects of native biodiversity on grape loss of four castes: testing the biotic resistance hypothesis". Web Ecology 18 1 (2018): 15-27. https://doi.org/10.5194/we-18-15-2018.
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  39. P. Vargas; M. Fernández-Mazuecos; R. Heleno; J.D. Thompson. "Phylogenetic evidence for a Miocene origin of Mediterranean lineages: species diversity, reproductive traits and geographical isolation". Plant Biology 20 (2018): 157-165. https://doi.org/10.1111/plb.12626.
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  40. Timóteo, S.; Correia, M.; Rodríguez-Echeverría, S.; Freitas, H.; Heleno, R.. "Multilayer networks reveal the spatial structure of seed-dispersal interactions across the Great Rift landscapes". Nature Communications 9 1 (2018): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85040533057&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
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  89. Heleno, R. H.; Ceia, R. S.; Ramos, J. A.; Memmott, J.; Heleno, Ruben; CEIA, RICARDO S.; RAMOS, JAIME A.; MEMMOTT, JANE. "Effects of Alien Plants on Insect Abundance and Biomass: a Food-Web Approach". Conservation Biology 23 2 (2009): 410-419. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/41303.
    10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01129.x
  90. Arosa, M.L.; Ramos, J.A.; Valkenburg, T.; Ceia, R.; Laborda, H.; Quintanilla, L.G.; Heleno, R.. "Fern feeding ecology of the Azores bullfinch Pyrrhula murina: The selection of fern species and the influence of nutritional composition in fern choice". Ardeola 56 1 (2009): 71-84. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-76449107661&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
Magazine article
  1. Heleno, Ruben; Timóteo, Sérgio; da Silva, Luis P.; Costa, JM; Correia, M; López-Nuñez, F.. "O papel das aves na ciência ¿ A papel das aves nas redes ecológicas", Pardela, 2017, https://issuu.com/spea/docs/pardela_54_web.
  2. Heleno, Ruben; Timóteo, Sérgio; da Silva, Luís Pascoal; Correia, Marta; López-Núñez, Francisco. "A Ciência das Aves", Pardela, 2017, https://issuu.com/spea/docs/pardela_54_web.
  3. Heleno, Ruben; Timóteo, Sérgio; da Silva, Luís Pascoal; Costa, José M.; López-Núñez, Francisco. "A Ciência das Aves. O Papel das Aves nas Redes Ecológicas", Pardela, 2017, https://issuu.com/spea/docs/pardela_54_web.

Other

Dataset
  1. Ruben H. Heleno; José Costa; Filipe Covelo; Joaquim Santos; Sérgio Timóteo. Fruiting phenology data for 4,462 spontaneous and cultivated plant taxa in Portugal (1926 - 2013). 2024.
    10.6084/m9.figshare.25016432.v1
  2. Ruben H. Heleno; José Costa; Filipe Covelo; Joaquim Santos; Pedro Brito Lopes; António Carmo Gouveia; Arménio Matos; et al. Historical data of spore availability for 109 spontaneous and cultivated ferns and lycopods taxa in Portugal (1926 ¿ 2013). 2024.
    10.15468/6gp2ha
  3. Pablo Vargas; Ruben H. Heleno; José Costa. EuDiS - A comprehensive database of the seed dispersal syndromes of the European flora. 2023.
    10.6084/m9.figshare.22251028.v4
Other output
  1. Global and regional ecological boundaries drive abrupt changes in avian frugivory interactions. 2021. Martins, L.P.; Stouffer, D.B.; Blendinger, P.G.; Böhning-Gaese, K.; Buitrón-Jurado, G.; Correia, M.; Costa, J.M.; et al. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85118599645&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1101/2021.09.18.460873
  2. Species activity promote the stability of fruit-frugivore interactions across a five-year multilayer network. 2018. José M Costa; Jaime A Ramos; Sérgio Timóteo; Luis P da Silva; Ricardo S Ceia; Ruben H Heleno. https://doi.org/10.1101/421941.
    10.1101/421941
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2018 - Current The role of animals in post-fire regeneration. co-supervised with Sérgio Timoteo. University of Coimbra. 2018-2019. (ongoing)
Co-supervisor
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2019 - 2023 Zooming in, out and beyond traditional bipartite networks: towards a new generation of more informative ecological networks
Supervisor
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2017 - 2021 Linking agricultural management, host-parasitoid interactions and natural pest control in Mediterranean olive farms: a molecular-based food web approach
Co-supervisor of Sasha Vasconcelos
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2017 - 2021 Combining ecological networks and metabarcoding to evaluate the resilience of mountain agroforestry ecosystems to climate change
Co-supervisor of Helena Raposeira
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2017 - 2021 Spatio-temporal responses of ecosystem functions to ecological restoration in the Seychelles
Co-supervisor
University of Exeter Centre for Ecology and Conservation, United Kingdom
2016 - 2020 Disentangling the ecological impacts of Acacia longifolia and monitoring its biological control: a multi-network approach
Co-supervisor of Francisco Lopez-Nuñez
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2018 - 2019 Sea dispersal potential and colonization success of the Galápagos coastal flora
Co-supervisor
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
2014 - 2018 Bridging the roles of seed dispersal and plant mycorrhizal interactions as drivers of ecosystem structure and function
Co-supervisor of Marta Raquel Correia
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2014 - 2018 The disruption of mutualistic networks. co-supervised with Prof. Jaime Ramos. University of Coimbra. 2014-2018. (completed
Supervisor of José Miguel Nunes da Costa
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2015 - 2017 Testing the biotic resistance hypothesis in Portuguese vineyards
Co-supervisor
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2015 - 2017 The impact of introduced animals and plants on the São Tomé seed-dispersal network
Co-supervisor
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2015 - 2016 The dispersal of native and introduced seeds by São Tomé forest birds
Co-supervisor
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2013 - 2016 Consequences of monospecific alien forests on biodiversity and ecosystem function and possible strategies to minimize their impact
Co-supervisor of Luis Pascoal da Silva
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2013 - 2014 Do níquel hyperaccumulator plants make good neighbours? Co-supervised with Henrique Pereira
Co-supervisor
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2013 - 2014 Impactos da Acacia longifolia em redes tróficas de galhas
Co-supervisor
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2013 - 2014 Comparative biodiversity of four native and exotic forest habitats
Co-supervisor
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2012 - 2013 The functioning of seed dispersal networks in a small, urban Natural reserve
Co-supervisor
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2019 - Current 1st Iberian Ecological Society Meeting (2019)
Congress (Member of the Scientific Committee)
 AEET - Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre, Spain
2019 - Current 10th Portuguese Ornithological Congress - SPEA (2019)
Congress (Member of the Scientific Committee)
 Sociedade Portuguesa para o Estudo das Aves, Portugal
2016 - Current symposium “Network approaches to island biology”, 2nd Island Biology meeting (2016)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
2015 - Current 4th Iberian Ecological Meeting (2015)
Congress (Member of the Scientific Committee)
 AEET - Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre, Spain
2014 - Current British Ornithologists Union meeting: “Birds in the entangled bank: advances in food-web theory and practice” (2014)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 British Ornithologists' Union, United Kingdom
2013 - Current 1st International Symposium on “Ecological Networks: Delving into the architecture of biodiversity (2013)
Congress (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2019 Alban Mazars-Simón. “The wild in Live Project: A human/algorithm learning network to help citizen science in wildlife conservation”. Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal. 2019.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Alban Mazars-Simón (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2018 Beatriz da Cunha Ferreira “Interactive seed and mucillage identification of Lamiaceae in Portugal”. Supervisor: M. Fátima Sales/Daniel Montesinos, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal. 2018
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Beatriz da Cunha Ferreira (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2018 Sara Beatriz Marques Mendes “Impact of habitat disturbance in pollination services of Jasione maritima”. Supervisor: Silvia Castro/João Loureiro, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal. 2018.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Sara Beatriz Marques Mendes (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2018 Vicente Martínez López, “Ecological and genetic analysis of plant-animal interactions in Mediterranean environments”. Supervisors: Pilar de la Rúa and Francisco Robledano, Universidad de Murcia, Spain. 2018.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Vicente Martínez López (PhD)
Universidad de Murcia, Spain
2016 Sergio Chozas Vinuesa. “Community dynamics of stabilized dune xerophytic shrubs”. Supervisors: Joaquín Hortal and Otília Correia, University of Lisbon, Portugal. 2016
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Sergio Chozas Vinuesa (PhD)
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2016 "Patrones emergentes en redes de polinizacion en comunidades costeras de Baleares y Canarias". Supervisor: Anna Traveset, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain. 2016
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Rocio Castro-Urgal (PhD)
Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats, Spain
2015 Cristina Tur Espinosa. “Plant-pollinator networks: incorporating individual variation and functional information”. Supervisor: Anna Traveset, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain. 2015
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Cristina Tur Espinosa (PhD)
Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats, Spain
2014 • MSc jury – Rui Daniel Antunes Machado. “Diet and isotopic niche of insectivorous birds in montado and their potential role in pest regulation”. Supervisor: Jaime Ramos, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal. 2014
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Rui Daniel Antunes Machado (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2013 Pedro Luis Brito Lopes “The use of two wetland habitats by Cetti’s Warbler Cettia cetti during periods of high energy outlay”. Supervisor: Jaime Ramos, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal. 2013.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Pedro Luis Brito Lopes (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2013 Danny Rojas Martín. “Consecuencias evolutivas y ecológicas de las interacciones murciélago-planta en el Caribe insular”. Supervisor: Luis Navarro, Universidad de Vigo
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Danny Rojas Martín (PhD)
Universidade de Vigo, Spain
2012 Beatriz Rumeu Ruiz. “Ecologiá y evolución de los cedros macaronésicos”. Supervisor: Manuel Nogales, Universidad de La Laguna (IPNA-CSIC), Spain. 2012
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Beatriz Rumeu Ruiz (PhD)
Universidad de La Laguna, Spain
2011 MSc jury – Susana Chamorro Arias. “Patrones de visitas florales en la zona árida de cinco islas del Archipiélago de Galápagos”. Supervisor: Anna Traveset, Universidad de las Islas Baleares (IMEDEA-CSIC), Spain. 2011.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Susana Chamorro Arias (Master)
Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats, Spain

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2020 - Current Masters in Ecology, course coordinator mestrado em ecologia (Mestrado) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2020 - Current H2020 EU call on “Addressing wild pollinators decline and its effects on biodiversity and ecosystem services” (EASME-H2020-SC5) 2020
Evaluator
 European Union, Belgium
2020 - Current Committee for the Evaluation of Final Scientific Reports (Comissão de Avaliação dos Relatórios Científicos Finais de Projetos IC&DT (FCT) 2019-2022
Evaluator
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2020 - Current External project evaluator for the Hungarian Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH)
Evaluator
 Nemzeti Kutatási Fejlesztési és Innovációs Hivatal
2016 - Current Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (Vice-Chair) European Commission, Belgium
2013 - Current External project evaluator for the Spanish Ministerío de Economia y Competitividad
Evaluator
 Gobierno de España Ministerio de Economía y Empresa, Spain
2016 - 2016 External project evaluator for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NOW) Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, Netherlands
2014 - 2015 External project evaluator for the French Agence Nationale de la Recherché (ANR) 2014, 2015
Evaluator
 Agence nationale de la recherche, France
Distinctions

Other distinction

2017 Success Stories 2017 (Best Marie Currie projects)
2016 ANICT Master Grants 2015/2016. Grant for a master student
2016 Transition to the 2nd evaluation step of the European Research Council Starting Grants 2016
European Research Council, Belgium
2015 best BBVA funded project
2013 Best paper in Integrative Zoology (2011-2013)
2008 High honour mention for best oral presentation (2008)