Tomas Carlo-Joglar

Professor of Biology

414A Mueller Lab
University Park, PA 16802
He/His
tac17@psu.edu
814-863-8274

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Huck Graduate Students

Huck Affiliations

Ecology

Ecology Institute

Plant Institute

Center for Parasitic and Carnivorous Plants

Publication Tags

Seed Dispersal Birds Bird Seeds Seed Fruits Ecology Fruit Effect Diet Frugivores Temperature Species Abundance Thermotolerance Ursidae Intraspecific Variation Heat Tolerance Interspecific Variation Habitats Animals Seed Rain Rain Fruiting Fruit Characteristics Lipid

Most Recent Publications

Bear diets and human–bear conflicts: insights from isotopic ecology

Nereyda Falconi, Tomás A. Carlo, Todd K. Fuller, Stephen Destefano, John F. Organ, 2022, Mammal Review on p. 322-327

Abundance predominates over niche factors as determinant of the frequency of interactions between frugivorous birds and plants

Marco A. Pizo, Antonio B. Fontanella, Tomás A. Carlo, Aarón González-Castro, 2022, Biotropica on p. 627-634

Special issue: Fruits, animals and seed dispersal: timely advances on a key mutualism

Tomás A. Carlo, Eliana Cazetta, Anna Traveset, Paulo R. Guimarães, Kim R. McConkey, 2022, Oikos

Functional ecology of Neotropical frugivorous birds

Tomás A. Carlo, Paulo H.S.A. Camargo, Marco A. Pizo, 2022, Ornithology Research

Effects of latitude and plant relative abundance on predispersal granivory

Brady W. Boyer, Teresa Morán-López, Guillermo Amico, César Arana, Walter D. Espíndola, Marcos A. Caraballo-Ortiz, Juan M. Morales, Tomás A. Carlo, 2021, Biotropica on p. 1007-1012

Biotropica announces a new paper category: Natural History Field Notes

Jennifer S. Powers, Tomás A. Carlo, Eleanor M. Slade, Ferry Slik, 2021, Biotropica on p. 352-353

Frugivory specialization in birds and fruit chemistry structure mutualistic networks across the neotropics

Marco A. Pizo, Juan M. Morales, Otso Ovaskainen, Tomás A. Carlo, 2021, American Naturalist on p. 236-249

Frugivore diversity increases evenness in the seed rain on deforested tropical landscapes

Paulo H.S.A. Camargo, Tomás A. Carlo, Pedro H.S. Brancalion, Marco A. Pizo, 2021, Oikos

Fruit traits of pioneer trees structure seed dispersal across distances on tropical deforested landscapes

Paulo H.S.A. Camargo, Marco A. Pizo, Pedro H.S. Brancalion, Tomás A. Carlo, 2020, Journal of Applied Ecology on p. 2329-2339

Enhanced heat tolerance of viral-infected aphids leads to niche expansion and reduced interspecific competition

Mitzy F. Porras, Carlos A. Navas, James H. Marden, Mark C. Mescher, Consuelo M. De Moraes, Sylvain Pincebourde, Andrés Sandoval-Mojica, Juan A. Raygoza-Garay, German A. Holguin, Edwin G. Rajotte, Tomás A. Carlo, 2020, Nature Communications

Most-Cited Papers

Where do seeds go when they go far? Distance and directionality of avian seed dispersal in heterogeneous landscapes

Tomás A. Carlo, Daniel García, Daniel Martínez, Jason M. Gleditsch, Juan M. Morales, 2013, Ecology on p. 301-307

Generalist birds promote tropical forest regeneration and increase plant diversity via rare-biased seed dispersal

Tomás A. Carlo, Juan M. Morales, 2016, Ecology on p. 1819-1831

Neighborhood effects on seed dispersal by frugivores

Juan Manuel Morales, Maria Daniela Rivarola, Guillermo Amico, Tomas A. Carlo, 2012, Ecology on p. 741-748

Relative importance of phenotypic trait matching and species' abundances in determining plant - Avian seed dispersal interactions in a small insular community

Aarón González-Castro, Suann Yang, Manuel Nogales, Tomás A. Carlo, 2015, AoB PLANTS

Connectivity from a different perspective: Comparing seed dispersal kernels in connected vs. unfragmented landscapes

John Herrmann, Tomás Carlo, Lars Brudvig, Ellen Damschen, Nick Haddad, Douglas Levey, John Orrock, Joshua Tewksbury, 2016, Ecology on p. 1274-1282

What determines the temporal changes of species degree and strength in an oceanic island plant-disperser network?

Aarón González-Castro, Suann Yang, Manuel Nogales, Tomás A. Carlo, 2012, PLoS One