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...