Publications by authors named "Jorge Isla"
Ecological interactions are a key component of biodiversity, essential for understanding ecosystem services and functioning. Recording and quantifying ecological interactions is challenging, frequently requiring complex logistics and substantial effort in the field. Camera traps are routinely used in ecology for various applications, and have proven to be an excellent method for passive and non-invasive sampling of plant-animal interactions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPlant-animal mutualisms such as seed dispersal are key interactions for sustaining plant range shifts. It remains elusive whether the organization of interactions with seed dispersers is reconfigured along the expansion landscape template and, if so, whether its effects accelerate or slow colonization. Here we analyse plant-frugivore interactions in a scenario of rapid population expansion of a Mediterranean juniper.
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- The partitioning of ecological niches allows different predator species to coexist by differing in their use of resources such as food, space, and time.
- The study focused on a Mediterranean mesocarnivore community, analyzing how various predator species interacted with their prey and competitors across these resource dimensions using camera traps deployed in Doñana National Park from 2018 to 2020.
- Results revealed significant temporal segregation among mesopredators, with varying diet and spatial preferences allowing them to coexist despite an overall high overlap in activity patterns with their primary prey.