Prof. Dr. Diego P. Vazquez

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsEcology and Biodiversity of Plants and Ecosystems
Keywordsmutualism, ecological network, pollination, plant-animal interactions, community ecology

Current contact address

CountryArgentina
CityMendoza
InstitutionCONICET Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Aridas (IADIZA)

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Tiffany KnightSpatial Interaction Ecology, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Leipzig
Prof. Dr. Tiffany KnightInstitut für Biologie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale)
Start of initial sponsorship01/12/2016

Programme(s)

2016Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Vázquez is a leader in the application of network theory to plant-pollinator interactions. He discovered that plants and pollinators tend to have asymmetrical specialization; a situation in which specialists tend to interact with generalists. His more recent research focus has continued to refine the way people conceptualize and study networks in Ecological systems. In Germany, Professor Vázquez will work collaboratively with German professors to compile a synthetic dataset on how climate change, phenology, and temporal mismatches influence plant-pollinator networks.