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D. James Harris

D. James Harris

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Ecology and Evolution
Portugal
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
62
Citations
15536
World Ranking
2061
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Portugal Leader Award
  • 1962 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

D. James Harris is affiliated with the University of Porto in Portugal. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily within environmental science, immunology and microbiology, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work incorporates various subfields such as parasitology, genetics, global and planetary change, ecological modeling, and ecology.

The scientist's research topics cover a wide range of biological and ecological areas, including amphibian and reptile biology, species distribution and climate change, vector-borne infectious diseases, bird parasitology and diseases, genetic diversity and population structure, turtle biology and conservation, and studies related to Yersinia bacterium, plague, and ectoparasites.

Frequent collaborators in their work include Ana Perera, Daniele Salvi, Isabel Damas-Moreira, Raquel Xavier, and J. Filipe Faria.

Among the journals and publication venues where D. James Harris frequently publishes are:

  • Herpetozoa
  • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  • Diversity
  • PLoS ONE

Significant recent publications include:

  • "Extensive introgression and mosaic genomes of Mediterranean endemic lizards," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Getting ahead: exploitative competition by an invasive lizard," 2020, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  • "Conservation status of the world's skinks (Scincidae): Taxonomic and geographic patterns in extinction risk," 2021, Biological Conservation
  • "Treatment and Prevention of Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Device (CIED) Infections," 2022, CJC Open
  • "Fossil-calibrated time tree of Podarcis wall lizards provides limited support for biogeographic calibration models," 2021, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

D. James Harris has also been recognized with the award of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1962.

Best Publications

  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

    William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;D. Carolina Useche;Julio Rendeiro;Margareta Kalka

  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests

    Wannes Hubau;Wannes Hubau;Wannes Hubau;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips;Kofi Affum-Baffoe

  • Above-ground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests.

    Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Bonaventure Sonké;Terry Sunderland;Serge K. Begne;Serge K. Begne

  • Cyanobacterial hydrogenases: diversity, regulation and applications

    Paula Tamagnini;Paula Tamagnini;Elsa Leitão;Paulo Oliveira;Daniela Ferreira;Daniela Ferreira

  • Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

    Martin J. P. Sullivan;Joey Talbot;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips

  • Intragenomic Variation Within ITS1 and ITS2 of Freshwater Crayfishes (Decapoda: Cambaridae): Implications for Phylogenetic and Microsatellite Studies

    D. James Harris;Keith A. Crandall

  • Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests

    Martin J.P. Sullivan;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Kofi Affum-Baffoe;Carolina Castilho

  • Can you bank on GenBank

    D. James Harris

  • The monophyletic origin of freshwater crayfish estimated from nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences

    Keith A. Crandal;D. James Harris;James W. Fetzner

  • Relationships of lacertid lizards (Reptilia: Lacertidae) estimated from mitochondrial DNA sequences and morphology

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  • Exploring the floristic diversity of tropical Africa

    Marc S.M. Sosef;Gilles Dauby;Gilles Dauby;Anne Blach-Overgaard;Xander van der Burgt

  • DNA barcoding reveals cryptic diversity in marine hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from coastal and deep-sea environments

    Carlos J. Moura;David J. Harris;Marina R. Cunha;Alex D. Rogers

  • Ancient introgression of Lepus timidus mtDNA into L. granatensis and L. europaeus in the Iberian Peninsula.

    P.C. Alves;N. Ferrand;F. Suchentrunk;D.J. Harris

  • RAINBIO: a mega-database of tropical African vascular plants distributions.

    Gilles Dauby;Rainer Zaiss;Anne Blach-Overgaard;Luís Catarino

  • Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests

    J. W.Ferry Slik;Janet Franklin;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Richard Field

  • Environmental temperatures shape thermal physiology as well as diversification and genome-wide substitution rates in lizards

    Joan Garcia-Porta;Iker Irisarri;Martin Kirchner;Ariel Rodríguez

  • Cradles and museums of generic plant diversity across tropical Africa

    Léo-Paul M J Dagallier;Steven B Janssens;Gilles Dauby;Anne Blach-Overgaard

  • When cryptic diversity blurs the picture: a cautionary tale from Iberian and North African Podarcis wall lizards

    Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou;Catarina Pinho;D. James Harris;Miguel A. Carretero

  • Cryptic Speciation Patterns in Iranian Rock Lizards Uncovered by Integrative Taxonomy

    Faraham Ahmadzadeh;Morris Flecks;Miguel A. Carretero;Omid Mozaffari

  • Complex biogeographical distribution of genetic variation within Podarcis wall lizards across the Strait of Gibraltar

    D. J. Harris;S. Carranza;E. N. Arnold;C. Pinho

  • Complex estimates of evolutionary relationships in Tarentola mauritanica (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) derived from mitochondrial DNA sequences

    D. James Harris;Vasco Batista;Petros Lymberakis;Miguel A. Carretero

  • Phylogeography of the lacertid lizard, Psammodromus algirus, in Iberia and across the Strait of Gibraltar

    S. Carranza;D. J. Harris;E. N. Arnold;V. Batista

  • Reexamination of the Iberian and North African Podarcis (Squamata: Lacertidae) phylogeny based on increased mitochondrial DNA sequencing.

    Catarina Pinho;Nuno Ferrand;D. James Harris

  • Non-equilibrium estimates of gene flow inferred from nuclear genealogies suggest that Iberian and North African wall lizards (Podarcis spp.) are an assemblage of incipient species.

    Catarina Pinho;D James Harris;Nuno Ferrand

  • Deciphering patterns of transoceanic dispersal: the evolutionary origin and biogeography of coastal lizards (Cryptoblepharus) in the Western Indian Ocean region

    Sara Rocha;Miguel A. Carretero;Miguel Vences;Frank Glaw

Frequent Co-Authors

Miguel A. Carretero
Miguel A. Carretero University of Porto
Salvador Carranza
Salvador Carranza Pompeu Fabra University
José Carlos Brito
José Carlos Brito University of Porto
David Posada
David Posada Universidade de Vigo
Miguel Vences
Miguel Vences Technische Universität Braunschweig
Nuno Ferrand
Nuno Ferrand University of Porto
Frank Glaw
Frank Glaw University of Bonn
Elsa Froufe
Elsa Froufe University of Porto
Wolfgang Böhme
Wolfgang Böhme Leibniz Association
Paulo C. Alves
Paulo C. Alves University of Porto

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