Rúben Heleno

University of Coimbra — Portugal

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Plant and animal studies(102), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(85), Plant Parasitism and Resistance(39), Species Distribution and Climate Change(31), Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna(15)

Publications175 total

Locally unusual fruit compositions drive rare-biased seed dispersal
Current Biology·2026
Coastal grassland vegetation records from São Miguel Island (Azores) and the south-western coast of mainland Portugal
Biodiversity Data Journal·2025Open Access
Species introductions shift seed dispersal potential more than extinctions across 120 island plant–frugivore communities
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025Open Access
Coastal grassland vegetation records from São Miguel Island (Azores) and Mainland Portugal
2025Open Access
Seed dispersal as a backup system to resprouting and seeding during post-fire regeneration
Annals of Botany·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Urbanization of seed dispersal networks
Conservation Biology·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Drivers and impacts of global seed disperser decline
Nature Reviews Biodiversity·2025· 13 citedOpen Access
Sampling biases across interaction types affect the robustness of ecological multilayer networks
Ecological Informatics·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
Global impoverishment of natural vegetation revealed by dark diversity
Nature·2025· 28 citedOpen Access
Disentangling small‐island multilayer networks: Underlying ecological and evolutionary patterns
Ecology·2025· 6 citedOpen Access
Arthropod communities of insular (São Miguel Island, Azores) and mainland (Portugal) coastal grasslands
Biodiversity Data Journal·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Three‐trophic level food webs support the safety of a biocontrol agent 3 years after release
Restoration Ecology·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
<scp>EuPPollNet</scp>: A European Database of Plant‐Pollinator Networks
Global Ecology and Biogeography·2025· 20 citedOpen Access
<scp>HiDaFernPT</scp>: Historical data of spore availability for 121 fern and lycopod taxa in Portugal (1926–2013)
Ecology·2025Open Access
Chirping across continents: variation in urban house sparrow (Passer domesticus) vocalizations across North America and Europe
Biological Invasions·2025Open Access
New species and records of feather mites (Acariformes: Analgoidea) from endemic passerines (Aves: Passeriformes) in the Seychelles
Systematic and Applied Acarology·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Plant Functional Traits and Vegetation Structure Explain Pollination Networks at Scale
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025Open Access
Root-associated fungal communities on five distant small islands
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025Open Access
<b>Supporting data for "O armário: Fruiting phenology data for 4,462 plant taxa in Portugal (1926 </b><b>– 2013)"</b>
Figshare·2025Open Access
EuDiS - A comprehensive database of the seed dispersal syndromes of the European flora
Figshare·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Anna Traveset(24), Pablo Vargas(19), Manuel Nogales(16), Jens M. Olesen(13), Jaime A. Ramos(11), Luís P. da Silva(11), Sérgio Timóteo(10), José Miguel Costa(9), Marta Correia(8), Susana Rodríguez‐Echeverría(7), Jane Memmott(7), Beatriz Rumeu(6), Patricia Jaramillo(4), Aarón González‐Castro(3), Mari Moora(3), Pedro Jordano(3), Nina Farwig(3), Sandra Hervías‐Parejo(3), Juan Carlos Illera(2), Patrick Weigelt(2)