Esther Sebastián-González (ESG). Her multidisciplinary research covers the
areas of ecology, conservation biology and ornithology from different perspectives. ESG has focused
on understanding the factors driving the structure of terrestrial animal communities and how the
habitat and the interactions among the species influence them at local and macroecological scales.
ESG is specialized in applying network analyses to solve ecological problems, covering several study
systems worldwide.
ESG has a large experience studying seed-dispersal interactions and waterbird communities, and is
the lead author of the first paper evaluating the network structure of waterbird seed-dispersal
networks. Thus, her main roles will be 1) to help in the organization of the seed-dispersal database
so that it can be assessed using network analyses, 2) to coordinate students that will help in looking
for animal and plant traits to fill the traits database, 3) to take part in the identification of the main
ecological questions that can be answered with the database, 4) take the lead in the analysis of
network metrics and assist other colleagues in their use and 5) participate in the writing of scientific
papers.