Island biogeography of species interaction Networks.

Projektinformationen

IslandNet

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 101149502

DOI

10.3030/101149502

Projekt abgeschlossen

EK-Unterschriftsdatum 2 April 2024

Startdatum 1 Juni 2024

Enddatum 31 Mai 2026

Finanziert unter

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Gesamtkosten

Keine Daten

EU-Beitrag

€ 165 312,96

Koordiniert durch

AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS
Spain

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Leistungen

Data Management Plan (1)

Data Management Plan

I have led and co-coordinated two teams in an intensive field work campaign across high-elevation forests of the two continental islands Trinidad & Tobago and nine oceanic islands of the Lesser Antilles in the East Caribbean Sea (11 islands, 5 replicates on each). In contrast to Trinidad & Tobago, the Lesser Antilles have never had a continental connection, are sufficiently isolated to sustain endemism and are close enough to sources of colonization to display a dynamic interaction with surrounding continental areas. This system is thus ideally suited to study effects of insularity (e.g., isolation, area) and environmental factors (e.g., climate) on ecosystem functions. The data is the first of its kind on islands worldwide, as it combines information about bird-mediated pollination and seed dispersal, functional bird and plant traits, as well as information about infections with blood parasites. To obtain this data, we mist-netted birds, collected pollen, faecal and blood samples from all bird individuals and additionally measured functional traits related to pollination and frugivory (beak shape, tarsus, body mass). The data comprises 1630 bird individuals, from 68 species. Further, we collected functional flower, fruit and seed traits from all flowering and fruiting plant species encountered at the sampling sites (floral corolla shape, fruit & seed size). The collected pollen and seed samples are being identified to species level and the blood samples will be screened for parasites in the laboratory in collaboration with parasitology experts. This unique and comprehensive dataset represents an unprecedented opportunity to understand how bird-plant interaction networks assemble across islands and evaluate the relative importance of insularity, environmental factors, functional traits and parasites in the process.I will integrate methods from: (a) mutualistic interaction networks, (b) functional ecology, (c) parasitology, and (d) island biogeography. I will analyse the largest dataset of empirical pollination networks and the only dataset of empirical seed-dispersal networks spanning the islands of the East Caribbean. I will link this data to functional traits and infection status of species for the first time in close collaboration with several international institutes.I will use existing online open- access repositories (e.g., Figshare, institutional repositories and my personal Github) and use internationally accepted data standards for data formatting (interoperable and reusable data), to assure FAIR data and code publication.

Documents, reports (1)

Communication, Dissemination & Exploitation Plan

"IslandNet is a project focused on basic, fundamental research and will hence mainly target the scientific community. This will be achieved via distinct research deliverables (RD): Publication in peer-reviewed journals. I aim to publish at least three first-author papers. WP1-3 would culminate in one article each, summarizing the respective results. Given the novelty and interdisciplinarity of the project, I will target high-impact journals (e.g., Ecology Letters, Nature Communications) (RD1-3). I will additionally develop shiny web apps for the respective publications, where the data and results can be displayed dynamically. Scientific conferences. I will present my research at conferences, such as the Symposium on “Frugivory and Seed Dispersal” (2024); Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation or Society of Island Biology (2025) and Society for Tropical Ecology (2026) (RD4-7). Seminars. I will present at least one seminar talk at each host institution (RD8- 9) and other labs from my network if invited. Social media. I will periodically share progress and news about the project via IslandNet Twitter and Instagram accounts, and I will always include the hashtag #MSCActions (RD10).Furthermore, I will actively engage in multiple Outreach activities (OA): Collaborate with local associations. I have established good working contacts with institutions on all East Caribbean islands (e.g., Department of Environment on Montserrat; Forestry Division of Trinidad & Tobago). I will help organize activities to raise awareness about the vulnerability of ecosystems on islands (if possible, in situ). Together, we will translate the scientific results of IslandNet to a language that is accessible to a broad audience and create more awareness of the importance of biodiversity. In particular, the Forestry Division of Trinidad & Tobago in collaboration with the University of the West Indies has excellent infrastructure and staff to help disseminate results and reach diverse audiences (OA1). Press releases. For each scientific paper (RD1-3), I will prepare press releases to attract the attention of a broad and general public through newspapers (local and regional) or interviews for international conservation online press, such as Mongabay (OA2). Popular science articles. I will create one article on the general theoretic background, the findings and the implications of IslandNet, including photographs documenting the field work effort for popular science journals, such as Terre Sauvage (OA3). Public talks. I will give two presentations aimed at the broad public as organized e.g., by the staff of the ONF in Martinique, who already invited me to present the project (OA4)."

Veröffentlichungen

Peer reviewed articles (6)

Biotropica

Autoren: David Becker; Wande Li; Ashtha Gurung; Eduardo Rodriguez Martinez; Emmanuel Rojas; Bernal Rodríguez‐Herrera; Maximilian G. R. Vollstädt; Ingo Grass; Thomas Hiller
Veröffentlicht in: Biotropica, Ausgabe 57, 2025, ISSN 0006-3606
Herausgeber: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/BTP.70063

New Phytologist

Autoren: Taia S. O. Schrøder; Fernando Gonçalves; Maximilian G. R. Vollstädt; Tianying Zhang; Rasmus D. Jensen; Fabio L. Tarazona‐Tubens; Seokmin Kim; Mauro Galetti; Benno I. Simmons; Christopher N. Kaiser‐Bunbury; Ethan J. Temeles; Bo Dalsgaard
Veröffentlicht in: New Phytologist, Ausgabe 224, 2024, ISSN 0028-646X
Herausgeber: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/NPH.19938

Elevated threat status of large-fruited plants is associated with the extinction of large frugivores in the Caribbean islands

Autoren: Fabio L. Tarazona-Tubens, Seokmin Kim, Alcides L. Morales-Pérez, Eleanor M. Hay, Maximilian G. R. Vollstädt, Thomas F. Johnson, Fernando Gonçalves, Benno I. Simmons, Christopher N. Kaiser-Bunbury, Bo Dalsgaard, Mauro Galetti, Christopher A. Searcy
Veröffentlicht in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Ausgabe 123, 2026, ISSN 0027-8424
Herausgeber: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/PNAS.2535192123

Mapping the supply of nature’s contributions to people on Mount Kilimanjaro

Autoren: Netra Bhandari, Neema Robert Kinabo, Dominic Andreas Martin, Andrea Larissa Boesing, Margot Neyret, Gaëlle Bocksberger, Jörg Albrecht, Tim Appelhans, Ugo Arbieu, Joscha N Becker, Giovanni Bianco, Robert Modest Byamungu, Alice Classen, M Eugenia Degano, Friederike Gebert, Milena Gross, Claudia Hemp, Victoria Junquera, Ralf Kiese, Koggani D Koggani, Armin Komposch, Yakov Kuzyakov, Dickson Gerald Mauki, Antonia V Mayr, Thomas Müller, Henry K Njovu, Insa Otte, Jasmine Pearson, Marcell K Peters, John Sanya, Matthias Schleuning, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Maximilian G R Vollstaedt, Jie Zhang, Katrin Böhning-Gaese, Markus Fischer, Andreas Hemp, Peter Manning, Dirk Zeuss
Veröffentlicht in: Environmental Research Letters, Ausgabe 21, 2026, ISSN 1748-9326
Herausgeber: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/AE45BD

Islas: Los ecosistemas más vulnerables a las invasiones biológicas

Autoren: null Muñoz-Gallego; null Correia; null Costa; null Donoso; null Hervías-Parejo; null Mieles; null Quitián; null Vollstädt; null Traveset
Veröffentlicht in: Ecosistemas, Ausgabe 34, 2025, ISSN 1697-2473
Herausgeber: Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre (AEET)
DOI: 10.7818/ECOS.2947

The role of insularity: Plants have few ornithophilous traits but are visited by morphologically more distinct hummingbirds in the Caribbean islands

Autoren: Maximillian G. R. Vollstädt, Rasmus D. Jensen, Pietro K. Maruyama, Matthias Schleuning, Francielle P. Araújo‐Hoffmann, Marlies Sazima, Jesper Sonne, Taia S. O. Schrøder, Fredrik Møller‐Stranges, Stefan Abrahamczyk, Mónica B. Ramírez‐Burbano, Marcelo Ferreira de Vasconcelos, Boris A. Tinoco, María A. Maglianesi, Ruth Partida‐Lara, José Raúl Vázquez‐Pérez, Paula L. Enríquez, André Rodrigo Rech, Aline G. Coelho, Fernando Gonçalves, Edvaldo Nunes da Silva Neto, Manoel Martins Dias Filho, Matheus Reis, Oscar H. Marín‐Gómez, Juan Francisco Ornelas, Peter A. Cotton, Paulo Eugenio Oliveira, Adriana Oliveira Machado, Jeferson Vizentin‐Bugoni, Pedro Joaquim Bergamo, Carlos Lara, Márcia Alexandra Rocca, Ivan Sazima, Oscar Gonzalez, Erich Fischer, Andréa C. Araujo, Raúl Ortiz‐Pulido, Blanca Patiño, Rubén Pineda López, Stella Watts, Ruben Alarcon, Caio Graco Machado, Flor Maria G. Las‐Casas, Benno I. Simmons, Christopher N. Kaiser‐Bunbury, Trine Bilde, Bo Dalsgaard
Veröffentlicht in: Functional Ecology, Ausgabe 39, 2025, ISSN 0269-8463
Herausgeber: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.70068