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Wesley Dáttilo

Wesley Dáttilo

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
36
Citations
5360
World Ranking
7116
National Ranking
29

Overview

Wesley Dáttilo is affiliated with the Instituto de Ecología in Mexico, focusing on research within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Genetics, Ecology, and Plant Science.

The scientist's research portfolio covers a range of topics, including Plant and Animal Studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Insect and Pesticide Research, and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.

Wesley Dáttilo has published in several academic journals, with frequent contributions to Ecological Entomology, Sociobiology, Biotropica, PeerJ, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Insect responses to heat: physiological mechanisms, evolution and ecological implications in a warming world" (2020) in Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • "Searching for keystone plant resources in fruit-frugivore interaction networks across the Neotropics" (2020) in Biotropica
  • "Plant size, latitude, and phylogeny explain within-population variability in herbivory" (2023) in Science
  • "Severe airport sanitarian control could slow down the spreading of COVID-19 pandemics in Brazil" (2020) in PeerJ
  • "Species-level drivers of mammalian ectoparasite faunas" (2020) in Journal of Animal Ecology

Collaborations are a significant aspect of their work. Frequent co-authors include Fabricio Villalobos, Roger Guevara, Pedro Luna, Sérvio Pontes Ribeiro, and Frederico S. Neves.

Best Publications

  • Insect responses to heat: physiological mechanisms, evolution and ecological implications in a warming world.

    Daniel González-Tokman;Alex Córdoba-Aguilar;Wesley Dáttilo;Andrés Lira-Noriega

  • Higher predation risk for insect prey at low latitudes and elevations

    Tomas Roslin;Tomas Roslin;Bess Hardwick;Vojtech Novotny;Vojtech Novotny;William K. Petry;William K. Petry

  • Loss and gains in ant–plant interactions mediated by extrafloral nectar: fidelity, cheats, and lies

    K. Del-Claro;V. Rico-Gray;H. M. Torezan-Silingardi;E. Alves-Silva

  • Spatial structure of ant–plant mutualistic networks

    Wesley Dáttilo;Paulo Roberto Guimarães Jr.;Thiago J Izzo

  • Influence of extrafloral nectary phenology on ant–plant mutualistic networks in a neotropical savanna

    Denise Lange;Wesley Dáttilo;Kleber Del‐Claro

  • Ecological Networks in the Tropics

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  • Unravelling Darwin's entangled bank: architecture and robustness of mutualistic networks with multiple interaction types

    Wesley Dáttilo;Nubia Lara-Rodríguez;Pedro Jordano;Paulo R. Guimarães

  • Differences among ant species in plant protection are related to production of extrafloral nectar and degree of leaf herbivory

    R. Fagundes;R. Fagundes;R. Fagundes;W. Dáttilo;S. P. Ribeiro;V. Rico-Gray

  • The structure of ant–plant ecological networks: Is abundance enough?

    Wesley Dáttilo;Flavia M. D. Marquitti;Paulo R. Guimarães;Thiago J. Izzo

  • Individual-based ant-plant networks: diurnal-nocturnal structure and species-area relationship.

    Wesley Dáttilo;Roberth Fagundes;Carlos A. Q. Gurka;Mara S. A. Silva

  • Ant dominance hierarchy determines the nested pattern in ant–plant networks

    Wesley Dáttilo;Cecilia Díaz-Castelazo;Victor Rico-Gray

  • NEOTROPICAL XENARTHRANS: a data set of occurrence of xenarthran species in the Neotropics

    Paloma Marques Santos;Adriana Bocchiglieri;Adriano Garcia Chiarello;Adriano Pereira Paglia

  • NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES: a data set on carnivore distribution in the Neotropics

    Mariana Nagy-Reis;Júlia Emi de Faria Oshima;Claudia Zukeran Kanda;Francesca Belem Lopes Palmeira

  • Plant size, latitude, and phylogeny explain within-population variability in herbivory

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  • Forest cover and landscape heterogeneity shape ant–plant co-occurrence networks in human-dominated tropical rainforests

    Erick J. Corro;Diana A. Ahuatzin;Armando Aguirre Jaimes;Mario E. Favila

  • Sampling effort differences can lead to biased conclusions on the architecture of ant–plant interaction networks

    Jéssica C.F. Falcão;Wesley Dáttilo;Victor Rico-Gray

  • Landscape structure and composition define the body condition of dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) in a fragmented tropical rainforest

    Renato Portela Salomão;Daniel González-Tokman;Wesley Dáttilo;Juan Carlos López-Acosta

  • Equal but different: Natural ecotones are dissimilar to anthropic edges.

    Giselle M. Lourenço;Glória R. Soares;Talita P. Santos;Wesley Dáttilo

  • Secretory activity of extrafloral nectaries shaping multitrophic ant-plant-herbivore interactions in an arid environment

    W. Dáttilo;A. Aguirre;R.V. Flores-Flores;R. Fagundes

  • The dilemma of binary or weighted data in interaction networks

    Patrícia Nakayama Miranda;José Eduardo Lahoz da Silva Ribeiro;Pedro Luna;Izaias Brasil

  • Searching for keystone plant resources in fruit‐frugivore interaction networks across the Neotropics

    João Vitor S. Messeder;Tadeu J. Guerra;Wesley Dáttilo;Fernando A. O. Silveira

  • Intraspecific variation in fruit–frugivore interactions: effects of fruiting neighborhood and consequences for seed dispersal

    Tadeu J. Guerra;Roberta L. C. Dayrell;André J. Arruda;Wesley Dáttilo

  • Efficiency of different planted forests in recovering biodiversity and ecological interactions in Brazilian Amazon.

    Jéssica C.F. Falcão;Wesley Dáttilo;Thiago J. Izzo;Thiago J. Izzo

  • Severe airport sanitarian control could slow down the spreading of COVID-19 pandemics in Brazil

    Sérvio Pontes Ribeiro;Sérvio Pontes Ribeiro;Alcides Castro E Silva;Wesley Dáttilo;Alexandre Barbosa Reis

Frequent Co-Authors

Victor Rico-Gray
Victor Rico-Gray Universidad Veracruzana
Kleber Del-Claro
Kleber Del-Claro Federal University of Uberlândia
Frederico de Siqueira Neves
Frederico de Siqueira Neves Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Milton Cezar Ribeiro
Milton Cezar Ribeiro Sao Paulo State University
Paulo R. Guimarães
Paulo R. Guimarães Universidade de São Paulo
Heraldo L. Vasconcelos
Heraldo L. Vasconcelos Federal University of Uberlândia
Ian MacGregor-Fors
Ian MacGregor-Fors University of Helsinki
Mauro Galetti
Mauro Galetti Sao Paulo State University
Pedro Jordano
Pedro Jordano Spanish National Research Council
Alexandre Barbosa Reis
Alexandre Barbosa Reis Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto

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