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Carlos Garcia de Leaniz

Carlos Garcia de Leaniz

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
40
Citations
5288
World Ranking
6192
National Ranking
650

Overview

Carlos Garcia de Leaniz is affiliated with Swansea University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these domains, their work focuses significantly on subfields such as Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Aquatic Science.

The main research topics covered in their publications include Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Identification and Quantification in Food, Aquaculture Disease Management and Microbiota, and Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth.

They have contributed to several papers, including:

  • More than one million barriers fragment Europe's rivers (2020, Nature)
  • Environmental plasticity and colonisation history in the Atlantic salmon microbiome: A translocation experiment (2020, Molecular Ecology)
  • The Use of Barriers to Limit the Spread of Aquatic Invasive Animal Species: A Global Review (2021, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution)
  • Cortisol-Related Signatures of Stress in the Fish Microbiome (2020, Frontiers in Microbiology)
  • Impacts of artificial barriers on the connectivity and dispersal of vascular macrophytes in rivers: A critical review (2020, Freshwater Biology)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Carlos Garcia de Leaniz include Sofía Consuegra, Tamsyn M. Uren Webster, Waldir M. Berbel-Filho, Joshua Jones, and Deiene Rodríguez-Barreto.

Carlos Garcia de Leaniz's work has been published repeatedly in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • More than one million barriers fragment Europe's rivers.

    Barbara Belletti;Barbara Belletti;Carlos Garcia de Leaniz;Joshua Jones;Simone Bizzi;Simone Bizzi

  • Use of lumpfish for sea-lice control in salmon farming: challenges and opportunities

    Adam Powell;Jim W. Treasurer;Craig L. Pooley;Alex J. Keay

  • MHC-mediated mate choice increases parasite resistance in salmon

    Sofia Consuegra;Carlos Garcia de Leaniz

  • Interpopulation Variation in the Atlantic Salmon Microbiome Reflects Environmental and Genetic Diversity.

    Tamsyn M. Uren Webster;Sofia Consuegra;Matthew Hitchings;Carlos Garcia de Leaniz

  • Weir removal in salmonid streams: implications, challenges and practicalities

    Carlos Garcia de Leaniz

  • Permanent Genetic Resources added to Molecular Ecology Resources Database 1 August 2009–30 September 2009

    Ramesh K. Aggarwal;Joel Allainguillaume;M. M. Bajay;Santan Barthwal

  • Asymmetric gene flow and the evolutionary maintenance of genetic diversity in small, peripheral Atlantic salmon populations

    Sofía Consuegra;Sofía Consuegra;Eric Verspoor;David Knox;Carlos García de Leániz

  • Patterns of natural selection acting on the mitochondrial genome of a locally adapted fish species

    Sofia Consuegra;Elgan John;Eric Verspoor;Carlos Garcia de Leaniz

  • A comprehensive assessment of stream fragmentation in Great Britain

    Joshua Jones;Luca Börger;Jeroen Tummers;Peter Jones

  • Differential invasion success of salmonids in southern Chile: patterns and hypotheses

    Ivan Arismendi;Brooke E. Penaluna;Jason B. Dunham;Carlos García de Leaniz

  • Winning the invasion roulette: escapes from fish farms increase admixture and facilitate establishment of non-native rainbow trout

    Sofia Consuegra;Nia Phillips;Gonzalo Gajardo;Carlos Garcia de Leaniz

  • Environmental plasticity and colonisation history in the Atlantic salmon microbiome: A translocation experiment

    Tamsyn M. Uren Webster;Deiene Rodriguez‐Barreto;Giovanni Castaldo;Peter Gough

  • The use of barriers to limit the spread of aquatic invasive animal species: a global review

    Peter E. Jones;Jeroen S. Tummers;Shams M. Galib;Shams M. Galib;Darragh J. Woodford;Darragh J. Woodford

  • Contrasting effects of acute and chronic stress on the transcriptome, epigenome, and immune response of Atlantic salmon.

    Tamsyn M. Uren Webster;Deiene Rodriguez-Barreto;Samuel A.M. Martin;Cock Van Oosterhout

  • Cortisol-Related Signatures of Stress in the Fish Microbiome.

    Tamsyn M. Uren Webster;Deiene Rodriguez-Barreto;Sofia Consuegra;Carlos Garcia de Leaniz

  • BEHAVIOURAL ADAPTATIONS OF MUSSELS TO VARYING LEVELS OF FOOD AVAILABILITY AND PREDATION RISK

    Anthony A. Robson;Carlos Garcia De Leaniz;Rory P. Wilson;Lewis G. Halsey

  • The Living Planet Index (LPI) for migratory freshwater fish : Technical Report

    Stefanie Deinet;Kate Scott-Gatty;Hannah Rotton;William M. Twardek

  • Impacts of artificial barriers on the connectivity and dispersal of vascular macrophytes in rivers: A critical review

    Peter E. Jones;Sofia Consuegra;Luca Börger;Joshua Jones

  • Elements in the development of conservation plans for Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

    Julian J Dodson;R John Gibson;Richard A Cunjak;Kevin D Friedland

  • Selective effects of small barriers on river‐resident fish

    Peter E. Jones;Toby Champneys;Jessica Vevers;Luca Börger

  • Mussels flexing their muscles: a new method for quantifying bivalve behaviour

    Anthony Robson;Rory Wilson;Carlos Garcia de Leaniz

  • Discrimination between farmed and free-living invasive salmonids in Chilean Patagonia using stable isotope analysis.

    V. Schröder;Carlos Garcia de Leaniz

  • DNA Methylation Changes in the Sperm of Captive-Reared Fish: A Route to Epigenetic Introgression in Wild Populations.

    Deiene Rodriguez Barreto;Carlos Garcia de Leaniz;Eric Verspoor;Halina Sobolewska

Frequent Co-Authors

Sofia Consuegra
Sofia Consuegra Swansea University
Luca Börger
Luca Börger Swansea University
Joanne Cable
Joanne Cable Cardiff University
Eva Garcia-Vazquez
Eva Garcia-Vazquez University of Oviedo
Martyn C. Lucas
Martyn C. Lucas Durham University
Kjetil Hindar
Kjetil Hindar Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
John C. Avise
John C. Avise University of California, Irvine
Rory P. Wilson
Rory P. Wilson Swansea University
Samuel A.M. Martin
Samuel A.M. Martin University of Aberdeen
Jamie R. Stevens
Jamie R. Stevens University of Exeter

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