Investigadora Asistente CONICET
Área: ECOLOGÍA. Línea de Investigación: Interacciones insecto-planta
E-mail: juliatavella@gmail.com
Títulos: Licenciada en Biodiversidad, Doctora en Ciencias Biológicas.
Resumen del proyecto de investigación
Tengo interés en ecología de comunidades y entomología, especialmente en lo referido a patrones de diversidad, interacciones mutualistas y antagónicas entre especies y el análisis de redes de interacciones ecológicas. En particular, estudio redes de interacciones ecológicas en sistemas agrícolas del centro de Argentina, con foco en procesos de control biológico de plagas y polinización. Además, me interesa evaluar el efecto del fuego en el bosque chaqueño serrano sobre la diversidad y las interacciones entre múltiples grupos de especies, entre ellos plantas, hemípteros, hormigas, predadores y parasitoides.
Publicaciones
Tavella, Julia, Fredric Windsor, Fernando Oreja, Débora C. Rother, Marcos Monasterolo, Tania P. Palacios, et al. (2025). Herbicide application indirectly affects plant-pollinator networks in agroecosystems non-crop areas. Journal of Applied Ecology 62, 2237-2248. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.70113
Rother, Débora C., Leandro G. Cosmo, Julia Tavella, Fredric M. Windsor, Mariano Devoto, Darren M. Evans, and Paulo R. Guimarães Jr. (2025). Spatial networks reveal how forest cover decreases the spread of agricultural pests.» Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation 23, 93-103. DOI: 10.1016/j.pecon.2025.03.006
Tavella, Julia, Lucas Carbone, Adriana Salvo, María Laura Bernaschini, and Luciano Cagnolo. (2025). Fire frequency shapes diversity in multi‐guild communities through direct and indirect pathways. Insect Conservation and Diversity 18, 236-245. DOI: 10.1111/icad.12800 Editors’ choice
Carbone, L. M., Tavella, J., Marquez, V., Ashworth, L., Pausas, J. G., & Aguilar, R. (2024). Fire effects on pollination and plant reproduction: a quantitative review. Annals of Botany, mcae033. DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcae033
Astegiano, J., Carbone, L., Zamudio, F., Tavella, J., Ashworth, L., Aguilar, R., et al. (2024). Diversifying agroecological systems: Plant-pollinator network organisation and landscape heterogeneity matter. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 361:108816. DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2023.108816
Fenoglio, M. S.; González, E.; Tavella, J.; Beccacece, H.; Moreno, M. L.; Fabian, D., …; Calviño, A. (2023). Native plants on experimental urban green roofs support higher community-level insect abundance than exotics. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 86: 128039. DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2023.128039
Kuzmanich, N.; Giorgis, M. A.; Bernaschini, L.; Tavella, J.; Salvo, A. (2023). Galling insect communities mediate the effects of fire on their associated parasitoid communities. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 16: 817-827.
Calviño, Ana A.; Tavella, Julia; Beccacece, Hernan M.; Estallo, Elizabet; Fabian, Diego; Moreno, Maria Laura; et al. (2023). The native-exotic plant choice in green roof design: Using a multicriteria decision framework to select plant tolerant species that foster beneficial arthropods. Ecological Engineering, 187:106871. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2022.106871
Forest Isbell; Patricia Balvanera; Akira S Mori; Jin-Sheng He; James M Bullock; Ganga Ram Regmi; Eric W Seabloom; Simon Ferrier; Osvaldo E Sala; Nathaly R Guerrero-Ramírez; Julia Tavella; et al. (2022). Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 21:94-103. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2536
Mari-Liis Viljur; Scott R. Abella; Martin Adámek; Janderson Batista Rodrigues Alencar; Nicholas A. Barber; Burkhard Beudert; … ; Julia Tavella; Clara Wendenburg; Beat Wermelinger; Andrey S. Zaitsev; Simon Thorn. (2022). The effect of natural disturbances on forest biodiversity: an ecological synthesis. Biological Reviews, 97:1930-1947. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12876
Windsor, Fredric M.; Armenteras, Dolors; Assis, Ana Paula A.; Astegiano, Julia; Santana, Pamela C.; Cagnolo, Luciano; …; Tavella, Julia; Rother, Débora C.; Devoto, Mariano; Guimarães, Paulo R.; Evans, Darren M. (2022). Network science: Applications for sustainable agroecosystems and food security. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, 20:79-90. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pecon.2022.03.001
Tavella, Julia; Windsor, Fredric M.; Rother, Débora C.; Evans, Darren M.; Guimarães, Paulo R.; Palacios, Tania P.; Lois, Marcelo; Devoto, Mariano. (2022) Using motifs in ecological networks to identify the role of plants in crop margins for multiple agriculture functions. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 331:107912. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2022.107912
Windsor, Fredric M.; Tavella, Julia; Rother, Débora C; Raimundo, Rafael L.; Devoto, Mariano; Guimarães Jr, Paulo R.; Evans, Darren M. (2021). Identifying plant mixes for multiple ecosystem service provision in agricultural systems using ecological networks. Journal of Applied Ecology, 58:2770-2782. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14007
Chillo, Verónica; Vázquez, Diego P.; Tavella, Julia; Cagnolo, Luciano. (2021). Plant–plant co-occurrences under a complex land-use gradient in a temperate forest. Oecologia, 1-10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-021-04953-4
Carbone, Lucas; Tavella, Julia; Pausas, Juli; Aguilar, Ramiro (2019). A global synthesis of fire effects on pollinators. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 28:1487-1498. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12939
Tavella, Julia; Cagnolo, Luciano. (2019). Does fire disturbance affect ant community structure? Insights from spatial co-occurrence networks. Oecologia, 189: 475–486. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-018-4320-2
Tavella, Julia; Alvarez, Ana P.; Cagnolo, Luciano. (2018). Determinants of ant species spatial distribution in habitats from central Argentina. Community Ecology, 19:300-310. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1556/168.2018.19.3.11
Carbone, Lucas; Aguirre-Acosta, Natalia; Tavella, Julia; Aguilar, Ramiro. (2017). Cambios florísticos inducidos por la frecuencia de fuego en el chaco serrano. Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica, 52:753-778. DOI: 10.31055/1851.2372.v52.n4.18861
Zumoffen, Leticia; Tavella, Julia; Signorini, Marcelo; Salvo, Adriana. (2016). Laboratory and field studies to evaluate the potential of an open rearing system of Lysiphlebus testaceipes for the control of Aphis craccivora in Argentina. BioControl, 61:23 – 33. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10526-015-9698-8
Cagnolo, Luciano; Tavella, Julia. (2015). The network structure of myrmecophilic interactions. Ecological Entomology, 40: 553 – 561. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/een.12229