Jordi Bascompte
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Research interests
Biodiversity, plant-animal interactions, mutualistic networks, food webs, metacommunities, theoretical and computational ecology
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Education and professional positions
| 2015 – present | Full Professor (Ecology), Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich |
| 2008 - 2014 | Full Professor, Spanish Research Council, Sevilla, Spain |
| 2000 - 2007 | Associate Professor, Spanish Research Council, Sevilla, Spain |
| 1998 - 1999 | Postdoctoral Fellow, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA |
| 1996 - 1997 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, USA |
Distinctions
| 2021 | Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology |
| 2016 | British Ecological Society’s Marsh Book Award |
| 2014 - 2021 | Highly cited scientist (Thomson Reuters) |
| 2011 | European Research Council’s Advanced Grant |
| 2011 | Spanish National Research Award in Environmental Sciences |
| 2007 | Ecological Society of America’s George Mercer Award |
| 2004 | European Young Investigator Award |
Selected publications
- Barbour MA., Kliebenstein DJ., Bascompte J. (2022). A keystone gene underlies the persistence of an experimental food web Science 376: 70–73. DOI: 10.1126/science.abf2232
- Cámara-Leret R., Bascompte J. (2021). Language extinction triggers the loss of unique medicinal knowledge. PNAS, 118(24):e2103683118. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2103683118
- Bascompte J., García MB., Ortega R., Rezende EL., Pironon S. (2019). Mutualistic interactions reshuffle the effects of climate change on plants across the tree of life. Science Advances, 5(5): eaav2539. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav2539
- Rohr RP., Saavedra S., Bascompte J. (2014). On the structural stability of mutualistic systems. Science, 345 (6195). DOI: 10.1126/science.1253497
- Bascompte J. (2009). Disentangling the web of life. Science, 325 (5939): 416-419. DOI: 10.1126/science.1170749
- Bastolla U., Fortuna MA., Pascual-García A., Ferrera A., Luque B., Bascompte J. (2009). The architecture of mutualistic networks minimizes competition and increases biodiversity. Nature 458: 1018-1020. DOI: 10.1038/nature07950
- Rezende E., Lavabre JE., Guimarães PR. Jr., Jordano P., Bascompte J. (2007). Non-random coextinctions in phylogenetically structured mutualistic networks. Nature 448: 925-928. DOI: 10.1038/nature05956
- Bascompte J., Jordano P., Olesen JM. (2006). Asymmetric coevolutionary networks facilitate biodiversity maintenance. Science, 312(5772): 431-433. DOI: 10.1126/science.1123412
- Bascompte J., Jordano P., Melián CJ., Olesen JM. (2003). The nested assembly of plant-animal mutualistic networks. PNAS, 100(16): 9383-9387. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1633576100
