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Luciano B. Beheregaray

Luciano B. Beheregaray

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
59
Citations
10811
World Ranking
2462
National Ranking
187

Luciano B. Beheregaray publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Luciano B. Beheregaray sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 230 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Luciano B. Beheregaray D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Luciano B. Beheregaray sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Luciano B. Beheregaray is affiliated with Flinders University in Australia and conducts research primarily in environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans across several subfields including genetics, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, molecular biology, and aquatic science. The scientist's research focuses on diverse topics such as genetic diversity and population structure, fish ecology and management studies, marine animal studies, species distribution and climate change, identification and quantification in food, fish biology and ecology studies, and genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock.

Some of the recent papers authored by Luciano B. Beheregaray include:

  • Natural hybridization reduces vulnerability to climate change, 2023, Nature Climate Change
  • Adaptation of plasticity to projected maximum temperatures and across climatically defined bioregions, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Recent and rapid anthropogenic habitat fragmentation increases extinction risk for freshwater biodiversity, 2020, Evolutionary Applications
  • Colonization history of Galapagos giant tortoises: Insights from mitogenomes support the progression rule, 2020, Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research
  • Assessing the benefits and risks of translocations in depauperate species: A theoretical framework with an empirical validation, 2020, Journal of Applied Ecology

Frequent collaborators in their research include Jonathan Sandoval-Castillo, Chris J. Brauer, Peter J. Unmack, Luciana M. Möller, and Michael P. Hammer. These coauthors have contributed extensively to various studies with notable repeated partnerships.

Their publications are often featured in key venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Molecular Ecology, Evolutionary Applications, Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. These venues reflect a focus on ecology, molecular genetics, conservation, and environmental science research.

The scientist's research integrates genetics and ecology with an emphasis on aquatic systems and climate change impacts. Their work on genetic diversity and population structure is significant within fish ecology and marine animal studies, contributing to the understanding of species adaptation and conservation in changing environmental conditions.

Best Publications

  • Twenty years of phylogeography: the state of the field and the challenges for the Southern Hemisphere.

    Luciano Bellagamba Beheregaray

  • SSCP is not so difficult: the application and utility of single-stranded conformation polymorphism in evolutionary biology and molecular ecology.

    Paul James Sunnucks;Alex C Wilson;Luciano B Beheregaray;K Zenger

  • Fine‐scale genetic structure, estuarine colonization and incipient speciation in the marine silverside fish Odontesthes argentinensis

    Luciano B Beheregaray;Paul James Sunnucks

  • OCEANIC VARIABILITY AND COASTAL TOPOGRAPHY SHAPE GENETIC STRUCTURE IN A LONG-DISPERSING SEA URCHIN

    Sam C Banks;Maxine P Piggott;Jane E. Williamson;Ulysse Bove

  • Cryptic biodiversity in a changing world

    Luciano Bellagamba Beheregaray;Adalgisa Caccone

  • Severe consequences of habitat fragmentation on genetic diversity of an endangered Australian freshwater fish: A call for assisted gene flow

    Alexandra Pavlova;Luciano Bellagamba Beheregaray;Rhys Coleman;Dean M Gilligan

  • Alliance membership and kinship in wild male bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) of southeastern Australia.

    Luciana M. Möller;Luciano B. Beheregaray;Robert G. Harcourt;Michael Krützen

  • RNA-seq analysis reveals extensive transcriptional plasticity to temperature stress in a freshwater fish species

    Steve Smith;Steve Smith;Louis Bernatchez;Luciano B Beheregaray

  • Highly reliable genetic identification of individual northern hairy‐nosed wombats from single remotely collected hairs: a feasible censusing method

    Mathew A Sloane;Paul J Sunnucks;Deryn L Alpers;Luciano B Beheregaray

  • Genetic evidence for sex-biased dispersal in resident bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus)

    Luciana M. Möller;Luciano B. Beheregaray

  • Aquatic Landscape Genomics and Environmental Effects on Genetic Variation

    Jared A. Grummer;Luciano B. Beheregaray;Louis Bernatchez;Brian K. Hand

  • Association patterns and kinship in female Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) of southeastern Australia

    Luciana M. Möller;Luciano B. Beheregaray;Simon J. Allen;Robert G. Harcourt

  • Historical DNA analysis reveals living descendants of an extinct species of Galápagos tortoise

    Nikos Poulakakis;Scott Glaberman;Michael Russello;Michael Russello;Luciano B. Beheregaray

  • A rapid fish radiation associated with the last sea-level changes in southern Brazil: the silverside Odontesthes perugiae complex.

    Luciano B. Beheregaray;Paul Sunnucks;David A. Briscoe

  • Natural hybridization reduces vulnerability to climate change

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  • A novel holistic framework for genetic-based captive-breeding and reintroduction programs.

    Catherine Attard;Luciana Moller;Minami Sasaki;Michael Hammer

  • Seascape genomics reveals adaptive divergence in a connected and commercially important mollusc, the greenlip abalone (Haliotis laevigata), along a longitudinal environmental gradient

    Jonathan Sandoval‐Castillo;Nick A. Robinson;Anthony M. Hart;Lachlan W. S. Strain

  • Coastal bottlenose dolphins from southeastern Australia are Tursiops aduncus according to sequences of the mitochondrial DNA control region

    Luciana M. Möller;Luciano B. Beheregaray

  • Babies and bathwater: a comment on the premature obituary for nested clade phylogeographical analysis.

    Ryan Garrick;Rodney Dyer;Luciano B Beheregaray;Paul Sunnucks

  • Mitochondrial DNA is unsuitable to test for isolation by distance

    Peter R. Teske;Tirupathi Rao Golla;Jonathan Sandoval-Castillo;Arsalan Emami-Khoyi

  • Habitat type promotes rapid and extremely localised genetic differentiation in dolphins

    Luciana Marta Moller;Joanna Wiszniewski;Simon Allen;Luciano Bellagamba Beheregaray

  • Riverscape genomics of a threatened fish across a hydroclimatically heterogeneous river basin.

    Chris J. Brauer;Michael P. Hammer;Luciano B. Beheregaray

  • Giant tortoise genomes provide insights into longevity and age-related disease

    Víctor Quesada;Sandra Freitas-Rodríguez;Joshua Miller;José G. Pérez-Silva

Frequent Co-Authors

Luciana M. Möller
Luciana M. Möller Flinders University
Peter R. Teske
Peter R. Teske University of Johannesburg
Adalgisa Caccone
Adalgisa Caccone Yale University
Peter J. Unmack
Peter J. Unmack University of Canberra
Nikos Poulakakis
Nikos Poulakakis University of Crete
Michael A. Russello
Michael A. Russello University of British Columbia
Claudio Ciofi
Claudio Ciofi University of Florence
James P. Gibbs
James P. Gibbs SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Paul Sunnucks
Paul Sunnucks Monash University
Louis Bernatchez
Louis Bernatchez Université Laval

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