Dr. Gustavo Paterno

Postdoc
email: gustavo.paterno[at]uni-goettingen.de

Research Interests
I am interested in the interfaces between evolutionary ecology, biodiversity-ecosystem functioning, and restoration ecology. My current research focuses on integrating taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity into Restoration ecology. I am greatly interested in the mechanisms shaping plant communities and theory-driven ecological restoration and conservation of tropical ecosystems. I am currently

I am also very interested in broader scales, phylogenetic comparative methods, macroevolutionary patterns, and the evolution of plant sex.


Education
2013: M.Sc. in Ecology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil)
Advisors: Gislene Ganade
Title: The role of nurse plants in the restoration of semiarid ecosystems

2018: Ph.D. in Ecology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil)
Advisors: Carlos R. S. D. da Fonseca; Johannes Kollmann; Mark Westoby
Title: Sex, herbivores and the evolution of flowers

Selected recent and representative publications

For a list of my publications please visit my Google scholar profile.

Paterno, G. B., Siqueira Filho, J. A. J. A., & Ganade, G. (2016). Species-specific facilitation, ontogenetic shifts and consequences for plant community succession. Journal of Vegetation Science, 27(3), 606–615. pdf

Shackelford, N., Paterno, G. B., Winkler et al. (2021). Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts. Nature Ecology & Evolution. pdf


Paterno, G. B., Penone, C., & Werner, G. D. A. (2018). sensiPhy: An r-package for sensitivity analysis in phylogenetic comparative methods. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 9(6), 1461–1467. pdf

Zemp et al. (2023). Tree islands enhance biodiversity and functioning in oil palm landscapes. Nature, 1–6. pdf

Paterno, G. B., Silveira, C. L., Kollmann, J., Westoby, M., & Fonseca, C. R. (2020). The maleness of larger angiosperm flowers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201910631. pdf

Kollmann et al. (2016). Integrating ecosystem functions into restoration ecology-recent advances and future directions. Restoration Ecology, 24(6), 722–730. pdf

Blondeel, H. et al. (2024). Tree diversity reduces variability in sapling survival under drought. Journal of Ecology, 1365-2745.14294. pdf

Fonseca, C. R., Gossner, M. M., Kollmann, J., Brändle, M., & Paterno, G. B. (2022). Insect herbivores drive sex allocation in angiosperm flowers. Ecology Letters, 25(10), 2177–2188. pdf