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Leandro R. Monteiro is affiliated with the State University of Norte Fluminense in Brazil. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions to related subfields such as Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientist's main topics of research encompass Bat Biology and Ecology Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Marine Animal Studies Overview, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Physiological and Biochemical Adaptations, and Animal Behavior and Reproduction.

The following recent papers illustrate the scope of their academic work:

  • Linking ecomechanical models and functional traits to understand phenotypic diversity (2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution)
  • The impacts of marking on bats: mark-recapture models for assessing injury rates and tag loss (2021, Journal of Mammalogy)
  • Flight performance and wing morphology in the bat Carollia perspicillata: biophysical models and energetics (2023, Integrative Zoology)
  • Brazil undermines parks by relocating staff (2020, Science)
  • Song as a signal of male identity and quality in the Green-winged Saltator (Saltator similis) (2022, The Wilson Journal of Ornithology)

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Monteiro include Marcelo R. Nogueira, Lucas de Oliveira Carneiro, Breno Mellado, Ana Paula Madeira Di Beneditto, and Ariovaldo P. Cruz-Neto.

The scientist has published frequently in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Mammalian Species, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Integrative Zoology, and Journal of Mammalogy.

Best Publications

  • Distances and directions in multidimensional shape spaces: implications for morphometric applications.

    Christian Peter Klingenberg;Leandro R. Monteiro

  • Landmark-based morphometric analysis in selected species of serranid fishes (Perciformes : Teleostei)

    M. J. Cavalcanti;L. R. Monteiro;Prd Lopes

  • Morphological correlates of bite force and diet in the skull and mandible of phyllostomid bats

    Marcelo R. Nogueira;Adriano L. Peracchi;Leandro R. Monteiro

  • Adaptive radiations, ecological specialization, and the evolutionary integration of complex morphological structures

    Leandro R. Monteiro;Marcelo R. Nogueira

  • SKULL SHAPE AND SIZE DIVERGENCE IN DOLPHINS OF THE GENUS SOTALIA: A TRIDIMENSIONAL MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS

    Emygdio Leite de Araujo Monteiro-Filho;Leandro Rabello Monteiro;Sérgio Furtado dos Reis

  • Evolutionary integration and morphological diversification in complex morphological structures: mandible shape divergence in spiny rats (Rodentia, Echimyidae).

    Leandro R. Monteiro;Vinícius Bonato;Sérgio F. Dos Reis

  • Evolutionary patterns and processes in the radiation of phyllostomid bats

    Leandro R Monteiro;Leandro R Monteiro;Marcelo R Nogueira

  • Allometric changes and shape differentiation of sagitta otoliths in sciaenid fishes

    Leandro R. Monteiro;Ana Paula M. Di Beneditto;Luis H. Guillermo;Luis A. Rivera

  • GEOMETRIC ESTIMATES OF HERITABILITY IN BIOLOGICAL SHAPE

    Leandro R. Monteiro;José Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho;Sérgio F. dos Reis;Edilson D. Araújo

  • The ecology of a continental evolutionary radiation: Is the radiation of sigmodontine rodents adaptive?

    Renan Maestri;Renan Maestri;Leandro Rabello Monteiro;Rodrigo Fornel;Nathan S. Upham;Nathan S. Upham

  • NONRANDOM FACTORS IN MODERN HUMAN MORPHOLOGICAL DIVERSIFICATION: A STUDY OF CRANIOFACIAL VARIATION IN SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICAN POPULATIONS

    S. Ivan Perez;Leandro R. Monteiro

  • Environmental correlates of geographical variation in skull and mandible shape of the punaré rat Thrichomys apereoides (Rodentia: Echimyidae)

    Leandro R. Monteiro;Luiza C. Duarte;Sérgio F. dos Reis

  • Diet, bite force and skull morphology in the generalist rodent morphotype.

    R. Maestri;B. D. Patterson;R. Fornel;L. R. Monteiro

  • Comparative ontogenetic shape changes in the skull of Caiman species (Crocodylia, Alligatoridae).

    L.R. Monteiro;M.J. Cavalcanti;H.J.S. Sommer

  • Morphometrics and phylogenetics: principal components of shape from cranial modules are neither appropriate nor effective cladistic characters.

    D.C. Adams;A. Cardini;L.R. Monteiro;P. O'Higgins

  • Functional and historical determinants of shape in the scapula of Xenarthran mammals: Evolution of a complex morphological structure

    Leandro R. Monteiro;Augusto S. Abe

  • Morphological divergence patterns among populations of Poecilia vivipara (Teleostei Poeciliidae) : test of an ecomorphological paradigm

    José L. Gomes;Leandro R. Monteiro

  • Morphometrics and the comparative method: studying the evolution of biological shape

    Leandro Rabello Monteiro

  • Ecomorphological analysis of the masticatory apparatus in the seed-eating bats, genus Chiroderma (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae)

    Marcelo R. Nogueira;Leandro R. Monteiro;Adriano L. Peracchi;Alexandre F. B. de Araújo

  • GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION IN CRANIAL MORPHOLOGY IN THRICHOMYS APEREOIDES(RODENTIA: ECHIMYIDAE). I. GEOMETRIC DESCRIPTORS AND PATTERNS OF VARIATION IN SHAPE

    Sérgio F. dos Reis;Luiza C. Duarte;Leandro R. Monteiro;Fernando J. Von Zuben

Frequent Co-Authors

Fernando J. Von Zuben
Fernando J. Von Zuben State University of Campinas
Bruce D. Patterson
Bruce D. Patterson Field Museum of Natural History
José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho
José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho Universidade Federal de Goiás
Paul O'Higgins
Paul O'Higgins Hull York Medical School
Christian Peter Klingenberg
Christian Peter Klingenberg University of Manchester
Timothy E. Higham
Timothy E. Higham University of California, Riverside
Duncan J. Irschick
Duncan J. Irschick University of Massachusetts Amherst
Malva Isabel Medina Hernández
Malva Isabel Medina Hernández Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Carlos Eduardo de Rezende
Carlos Eduardo de Rezende State University of Norte Fluminense
Karl J. Niklas
Karl J. Niklas Cornell University

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