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Overview

Oscar Godoy is affiliated with the University of Cádiz in Spain and is active in the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science, Ecology, and Genetics.

Their main research topics cover Plant and Animal Studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics.

Oscar Godoy has contributed to several recent scientific papers, including:

  • "An excess of niche differences maximizes ecosystem functioning," 2020, published in Nature Communications
  • "Experimental evidence of the importance of multitrophic structure for species persistence," 2021, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Mapping species niche and fitness differences for communities with multiple interaction types," 2021, published in Oikos
  • "Positive associations fuel soil biodiversity and ecological networks worldwide," 2024, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Identifying 'Useful' Fitness Models: Balancing the Benefits of Added Complexity with Realistic Data Requirements in Models of Individual Plant Fitness," 2020, published in The American Naturalist

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, with notable co-authors including Ígnasi Bartomeus, David García-Callejas, María Hurtado, Eric Allan, and Margaret M. Mayfield.

Oscar Godoy's publications appear regularly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Ecology Letters, Journal of Ecology, and Oikos.

Best Publications

  • Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

    William K. Cornwell;Johannes H. C. Cornelissen;Kathryn Amatangelo;Ellen Dorrepaal

  • Community assembly, coexistence and the environmental filtering metaphor

    Nathan J. B. Kraft;Peter B. Adler;Oscar Godoy;Emily C. James

  • Plant functional traits and the multidimensional nature of species coexistence

    Nathan J. B. Kraft;Oscar Godoy;Jonathan M. Levine

  • Phylogenetic relatedness and the determinants of competitive outcomes.

    Oscar Godoy;Nathan J. B. Kraft;Jonathan M. Levine;Jonathan M. Levine

  • A structural approach for understanding multispecies coexistence

    Serguei Saavedra;Rudolf P. Rohr;Jordi Bascompte;Oscar Godoy

  • Phenology effects on invasion success: insights from coupling field experiments to coexistence theory

    Oscar Godoy;Jonathan M. Levine;Jonathan M. Levine

  • What explains variation in the impacts of exotic plant invasions on the nitrogen cycle? A meta-analysis.

    P. Castro-Díez;O. Godoy;A. Alonso;A. Gallardo

  • Global effects of non-native tree species on multiple ecosystem services

    Pilar Castro-Díez;Ana Sofia Vaz;Joaquim S. Silva;Joaquim S. Silva;Marcela van Loo

  • Functional traits and phenotypic plasticity modulate species coexistence across contrasting climatic conditions

    Ignacio M. Pérez-Ramos;Luis Matías;Luis Matías;Lorena Gómez-Aparicio;Óscar Godoy

  • Multispecies comparison reveals that invasive and native plants differ in their traits but not in their plasticity

    Oscar Godoy;Oscar Godoy;Fernando Valladares;Fernando Valladares;Pilar Castro‐Díez

  • Species coexistence in a changing world.

    Fernando Valladares;Cristina C. Bastias;Oscar Godoy;Elena Granda

  • Towards the Integration of Niche and Network Theories

    Oscar Godoy;Ignasi Bartomeus;Rudolf P. Rohr;Serguei Saavedra

  • Flowering phenology of invasive alien plant species compared with native species in three Mediterranean-type ecosystems

    Oscar Godoy;David M. Richardson;Fernando Valladares;Fernando Valladares;Pilar Castro-Díez

  • Intransitivity is infrequent and fails to promote annual plant coexistence without pairwise niche differences.

    Oscar Godoy;Daniel B. Stouffer;Nathan J. B. Kraft;Jonathan M. Levine

  • Predicting invasiveness of Australian acacias on the basis of their native climatic affinities, life history traits and human use

    Pilar Castro-Díez;Oscar Godoy;Oscar Godoy;Oscar Godoy;Asunción Saldaña;David M. Richardson

  • Leaf litter traits of invasive species slow down decomposition compared to Spanish natives: a broad phylogenetic comparison.

    Oscar Godoy;Oscar Godoy;Pilar Castro-Díez;Richard S. P. Van Logtestijn;Johannes H. C. Cornelissen

  • The relative importance for plant invasiveness of trait means, and their plasticity and integration in a multivariate framework

    Oscar Godoy;Oscar Godoy;Oscar Godoy;Fernando Valladares;Fernando Valladares;Pilar Castro‐Díez

  • Different flowering phenology of alien invasive species in Spain: evidence for the use of an empty temporal niche?

    O. Godoy;O. Godoy;P. Castro-Díez;F. Valladares;F. Valladares;M. Costa-Tenorio

  • Invasive species can handle higher leaf temperature under water stress than Mediterranean natives

    Oscar Godoy;José Pires de Lemos-Filho;Fernando Valladares;Fernando Valladares

  • An excess of niche differences maximizes ecosystem functioning.

    Oscar Godoy;Lorena Gómez-Aparicio;Luis Matías;Ignacio M. Pérez-Ramos

  • Forests are not immune to plant invasions: phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation allow Prunella vulgaris to colonize a temperate evergreen rainforest

    Oscar Godoy;Alfredo Saldaña;Nicol Fuentes;Fernando Valladares;Fernando Valladares;Fernando Valladares

Frequent Co-Authors

Ignasi Bartomeus
Ignasi Bartomeus Spanish National Research Council
Fernando Valladares
Fernando Valladares Spanish National Research Council
Jonathan M. Levine
Jonathan M. Levine Princeton University
Pilar Castro-Díez
Pilar Castro-Díez University of Alcalá
Ignacio Manuel Pérez-Ramos
Ignacio Manuel Pérez-Ramos Spanish National Research Council
Nathan J. B. Kraft
Nathan J. B. Kraft University of California, Los Angeles
Lorena Gómez-Aparicio
Lorena Gómez-Aparicio Spanish National Research Council
Joana R. Vicente
Joana R. Vicente University of Porto
Montserrat Vilà
Montserrat Vilà Spanish National Research Council
Margaret M. Mayfield
Margaret M. Mayfield University of Queensland

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