Rafael P. Leitão

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais — Brazil

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Fish biology, ecology, and behavior(53), Fish Ecology and Management Studies(44), Fish Biology and Ecology Studies(35), Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology(7), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management(6)

Publications74 total

Effects of climate change on invasive fish species and the vulnerability of tropical freshwater ecoregions
The Science of The Total Environment·2026Open Access
Historical and contemporary drivers of Amazonian stream fish community assembly
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2025
Author response for "Historical and contemporary drivers of Amazonian stream fish community assembly"
2025
Correction: An ecological trait matrix of Neotropical freshwater fishes
Scientific Data·2025Open Access
Author response for "Historical and contemporary drivers of Amazonian stream fish community assembly"
2025
An ecological trait matrix of Neotropical freshwater fishes
Scientific Data·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Beta diversity facets of Amazonian fishes are explained by dispersal limitation, environmental filtering and historical contingencies
2025Open Access
Cost-effective alternatives to facilitate biomonitoring and bioassessment of neotropical streams
The Science of The Total Environment·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
How does fragmentation by small dams affect stream ichthyofauna in the upper Paraná River basin?
Neotropical Ichthyology·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Impacts of roads on the body condition of Amazonian stream fish
Neotropical Ichthyology·2025Open Access
Multi‐Taxa Responses to Climate Change in the Amazon Forest
Global Change Biology·2024· 5 citedOpen Access
Multi-taxa responses to climate change in the Amazon forest
Figshare·2024Open Access
The ecomorphological diversity of Amazonian stream fishes is constrained by phylogenetic relationships
2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Spatial non-stationarity in the distribution of fish species richness of tropical streams
Community Ecology·2022· 4 citedOpen Access
Wood predictors in neotropical streams: Assessing the effects of regional and local controls in Amazon and Cerrado catchments
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms·2022· 5 citedOpen Access
Congruence and responsiveness in the taxonomic compositions of Amazonian aquatic macroinvertebrate and fish assemblages
Hydrobiologia·2022· 17 citedOpen Access
Length–weight relationships of 78 fish species from São Francisco River basin, Brazil
Journal of Applied Ichthyology·2022· 2 cited
Land-use changes affect the functional structure of stream fish assemblages in the Brazilian Savanna
Figshare·2022Open Access
A database of freshwater fish species of the Amazon Basin
Figshare·2022· 1 citedOpen Access
A database of freshwater fish species of the Amazon Basin
Figshare·2022Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Jansen Zuanon(23), Paulo dos Santos Pompeu(21), Cecília Gontijo Leal(17), Robert M. Hughes(15), Leandro Juen(10), Sílvio Frosini de Barros Ferraz(9), Karina Dias‐Silva(9), Neusa Hamada(9), Janaína Gomes de Brito(7), Luciano Fogaça de Assis Montag(7), Vívian Campos de Oliveira(7), José Max Barbosa de Oliveira(7), Felipe Rossetti de Paula(6), Toby Gardner(6), Lílian Casatti(6), Joice Ferreira(6), Jos Barlow(6), Jorge Luiz Nessimian(6), Ricardo Solar(6), Jorge Iván Sánchez-Botero(6)