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Daniel F. R. Cleary

Daniel F. R. Cleary

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
47
Citations
6472
World Ranking
4514
National Ranking
32

Overview

Daniel F. R. Cleary is affiliated with the University of Aveiro in Portugal and works primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research spans various subfields, including Ecology, Biotechnology, Immunology, Oceanography, and Molecular Biology, reflecting a broad scope of scientific inquiry.

Their main research topics focus on Marine Sponges and Natural Products, Aquaculture disease management and microbiota, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Recent significant papers authored or co-authored by Daniel F. R. Cleary include:

  • The effect of natural disturbances on forest biodiversity: an ecological synthesis, 2022, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • A global database for metacommunity ecology, integrating species, traits, environment and space, 2020, Scientific Data
  • Humic substances modulate fish bacterial communities in a marine recirculating aquaculture system, 2021, Aquaculture
  • Prokaryote Communities Inhabiting Endemic and Newly Discovered Sponges and Octocorals from the Red Sea, 2020, Microbial Ecology
  • Spatial and environmental variables structure sponge symbiont communities, 2022, Molecular Ecology

Daniel F. R. Cleary collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Newton C. M. Gomes
  • Nicole J. de Voogd
  • Ana R. M. Polónia
  • Vanessa Oliveira
  • António Louvado

Their work has been published in various reputable venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Neuromodulation Technology at the Neural Interface
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Aquaculture
  • Coral Reefs

Best Publications

  • The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

    Lawrence N. Hudson;Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Sara Contu;Samantha L.L. Hill;Samantha L.L. Hill

  • The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts

    Lawrence N Hudson;Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Sara Contu;Samantha L L Hill;Samantha L L Hill

  • Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis and barcoded pyrosequencing reveal unprecedented archaeal diversity in mangrove sediment and rhizosphere samples.

    Ana C. C. Pires;Daniel F. R. Cleary;Adelaide Almeida;Ângela Cunha

  • BIRD SPECIES AND TRAITS ASSOCIATED WITH LOGGED AND UNLOGGED FOREST IN BORNEO

    Daniel F. R. Cleary;Daniel F. R. Cleary;Timothy J. B. Boyle;Titiek Setyawati;Celina D. Anggraeni

  • Taking Root: Enduring Effect of Rhizosphere Bacterial Colonization in Mangroves

    Newton C. M. Gomes;Daniel F. R. Cleary;Fernando N. Pinto;Conceição Egas

  • Variation in the diversity and composition of benthic taxa as a function of distance offshore, depth and exposure in the Spermonde Archipelago, Indonesia

    Daniel F.R. Cleary;Daniel F.R. Cleary;Leontine E. Becking;Nicole J. de Voogd;Nicole J. de Voogd;Willem Renema

  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in deep sea sediments: Microbe-pollutant interactions in a remote environment.

    A. Louvado;N.C.M. Gomes;M.M.Q. Simões;A. Almeida

  • An examination of scale of assessment, logging and ENSO-induced fires on butterfly diversity in Borneo

    Daniel F.R. Cleary

  • Bacterial community composition and predicted functional ecology of sponges, sediment and seawater from the thousand islands reef complex, West Java, Indonesia.

    Nicole J. de Voogd;Nicole J. de Voogd;Daniel F.R. Cleary;Ana R.M. Polónia;Newton C.M. Gomes

  • Sponge beta diversity in the Spermonde Archipelago, SW Sulawesi, Indonesia

    N.J. de Voogd;D.F.R. Cleary;B.W. Hoeksema;A. Noor

  • Assessment of variation in bacterial composition among microhabitats in a mangrove environment using DGGE fingerprints and barcoded pyrosequencing.

    Daniel F. R. Cleary;Kornelia Smalla;Leda C. S. Mendonça-Hagler;Newton C. M. Gomes

  • Habitat- and host-related variation in sponge bacterial symbiont communities in Indonesian waters.

    Daniel F.R. Cleary;Leontine E. Becking;Leontine E. Becking;Nicole J. de Voogd;Ana C.C. Pires

  • Diversity and community composition of butterflies and odonates in an ENSO-induced fire affected habitat mosaic: a case study from East Kalimantan, Indonesia

    Daniel F. R. Cleary;Arne Ø. Mooers;Karl A. O. Eichhorn;Jan Van Tol

  • Relating coral species traits to environmental conditions in the Jakarta Bay/Pulau Seribu reef system, Indonesia

    P.G. Rachello-Dolmen;D.F.R. Cleary

  • How does the taxonomic status of allopatric populations influence species richness within African cichlid fish assemblages

    Martin J. Genner;Ole Seehausen;Daniel F.R. Cleary;Mairi E. Knight

  • Changes in rain forest butterfly diversity following major ENSO-induced fires in Borneo

    Daniel F. R. Cleary;Daniel F. R. Cleary;Martin J. Genner

  • Coral diversity across a disturbance gradient in the Pulau Seribu reef complex off Jakarta, Indonesia

    Daniel F. R. Cleary;Daniel F. R. Cleary;Suharsono;Bert W. Hoeksema

  • The sponge microbiome within the greater coral reef microbial metacommunity.

    Daniel F. R. Cleary;Daniel F. R. Cleary;Thomas Swierts;Thomas Swierts;Francisco J. R. C. Coelho;Ana R. M. Polónia

  • An analysis of sponge diversity and distribution at three taxonomic levels in the Thousand Islands ⁄Jakarta Bay reef complex, West-Java, Indonesia

    Nicole J. de Voogd;Nicole J. de Voogd;Daniel F. R. Cleary;Daniel F. R. Cleary

  • Range-restricted, specialist Bornean butterflies are less likely to recover from ENSO-induced disturbance.

    N. A. Charrette;D. F. R. Cleary;A. Ø. Mooers

  • 2007, Ecological Applications: Bird Species and Traits Associated with Logged and Unlogged Forest in Borneo

    D. F. Cleary;T. J. Boyle;T. Setyawati;C. D. Anggraeni

Frequent Co-Authors

Newton C. M. Gomes
Newton C. M. Gomes University of Aveiro
Ricardo Calado
Ricardo Calado University of Aveiro
Steph B. J. Menken
Steph B. J. Menken University of Amsterdam
Bert W. Hoeksema
Bert W. Hoeksema University of Groningen
Tom M. Fayle
Tom M. Fayle Queen Mary University of London
Ana I. Lillebø
Ana I. Lillebø University of Aveiro
Adelaide Almeida
Adelaide Almeida University of Aveiro
Tim Diekötter
Tim Diekötter Kiel University
Alain Dejean
Alain Dejean Paul Sabatier University
Jérémy Bouyer
Jérémy Bouyer INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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