In Costa Rica, we have done several activities and produced materials aiming to make our project known, especially by the local communities in the area of the project. To this end we have elaborated a brochure with an overview of the project and submitted a...
Transfer of knowledge and the development of skills to conduct research in the fields of ecology and conservation are important components of our project. The implementation of the project has allowed the involvement of local students from the countries where the project is being implemented....
Making effective conservation and management decisions requires knowledge of how species – and their interactions – respond to human-altered habitats. The interactions among plants and hummingbirds are the backbone of an important ecosystem process, the pollination of hundreds of vascular plants. Henceforth, hummingbird pollination has...
Ecuador harbors unique species and ecosystems, many of them endemic and threatened. This is the case of the Black-breasted Puffleg, Eriocnemis nigrivestis, a hummingbird only known from Andean forest of Ecuador (3000 - 3500 m) at two localities, in Pichincha and Imbabura provinces. This species inhabits the interior of...
For my master's research, I evaluated short-term temporal niche partitioning of a plant-hummingbird network in the Atlantic Forest from southeastern Brazil (Figure 1). The Atlantic Forest harbors many bromeliads species, which are mainly pollinated by hummingbirds. Figure 1. Estação Biológica de Santa Lúcia, Santa Teresa, Espírito...
One of the important goals of network ecology is to discover the mechanisms determining interaction strength and fidelity between interacting species (Bascompte and Jordano 2007). When species co-occur in time and space, their probability of interacting is influenced by the gain from partner rewards resulting...