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Overview

Luiz A. Rocha is affiliated with the California Academy of Sciences in the United States. Their primary field of research is Environmental Science, with a publication record of 120 works in this area.

Their research spans multiple subfields, including:

  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Molecular Biology
  • Genetics

Key topics of interest in their work include:

  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Ichthyology and Marine Biology
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Identification and Quantification in Food
  • Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Fish Biology and Ecology Studies

Luiz A. Rocha has coauthored numerous publications with several frequent collaborators, such as:

  • Hudson T. Pinheiro
  • Bart Shepherd
  • Caio Ribeiro Pimentel
  • Jean-Christophe Joyeux
  • Ronaldo B. Francini-Filho

Their work has appeared in a range of scientific venues, with multiple publications in:

  • ZooKeys
  • Coral Reefs
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Journal of Natural History
  • Brazilian Journal of Implantology and Health Sciences

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Luiz A. Rocha include:

  • Plastic pollution on the world's coral reefs, 2023, Nature
  • Heat Waves Are a Major Threat to Turbid Coral Reefs in Brazil, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Specimen collection is essential for modern science, 2023, PLoS Biology
  • Multiple lionfish (Pterois spp.) new occurrences along the Brazilian coast confirm the invasion pathway into the Southwestern Atlantic, 2021, Biological Invasions
  • Caught in the (inter)net: Online trade of ornamental fish in Brazil, 2021, Biological Conservation

Luiz A. Rocha has also contributed to book publications, including:

  • EDUCAÇÃO E QUESTÕES RACIAIS: DIÁLOGOS E DESAFIOS - VOLUME II, 2025, published by Editora Schreiben eBooks

Best Publications

  • Atlantic reef fish biogeography and evolution

    S. R. Floeter;S. R. Floeter;L. A. Rocha;D. R. Robertson;J. C. Joyeux

  • Fish biodiversity and conservation in South America.

    R. E. Reis;J. S. Albert;F. Di Dario;M. M. Mincarone

  • The origins of tropical marine biodiversity

    Brian W. Bowen;Luiz A. Rocha;Robert J. Toonen;Stephen A. Karl

  • Fishing groupers towards extinction: a global assessment of threats and extinction risks in a billion dollar fishery

    Yvonne Sadovy de Mitcheson;Matthew T Craig;Athila A Bertoncini;Kent E Carpenter

  • Ecological speciation in tropical reef fishes

    Luiz A Rocha;Luiz A Rocha;D. Ross Robertson;Joe Roman;Brian W Bowen

  • Phylogeography of the trumpetfishes (Aulostomus): ring species complex on a global scale.

    B. W. Bowen;A. L. Bass;L. A. Rocha;W. S. Grant

  • Patterns of distribution and processes of speciation in Brazilian reef fishes

    Luiz A. Rocha

  • Adult habitat preferences, larval dispersal, and the comparative phylogeography of three Atlantic surgeonfishes (Teleostei: Acanthuridae)

    Luiz A. Rocha;Anna L. Bass;D. Ross Robertson;Brian W. Bowen

  • Specimen collection: An essential tool

    L. A. Rocha;A. Aleixo;G. Allen;F. Almeda

  • Mesophotic coral ecosystems are threatened and ecologically distinct from shallow water reefs

    Luiz A. Rocha;Hudson T. Pinheiro;Bart Shepherd;Yannis P. Papastamatiou

  • Shifting seas: the impacts of Pleistocene sea‐level fluctuations on the evolution of tropical marine taxa

    William B. Ludt;Luiz A. Rocha

  • Geographic variation in reef-fish assemblages along the Brazilian coast

    Sergio R. Floeter;Ricardo Z. P. Guimarães;Luiz A. Rocha;Carlos Eduardo L. Ferreira

  • Phylogeography and the conservation of coral reef fishes

    L. A. Rocha;M. T. Craig;B. W. Bowen

  • Ecological traits influencing range expansion across large oceanic dispersal barriers: insights from tropical Atlantic reef fishes.

    Osmar J. Luiz;Joshua S. Madin;D. Ross Robertson;Luiz A. Rocha

  • Speciation in coral-reef fishes

    L. A. Rocha;B. W. Bowen

  • South‐western Atlantic reef fishes: Zoogeographical patterns and ecological drivers reveal a secondary biodiversity centre in the Atlantic Ocean

    Hudson T. Pinheiro;Hudson T. Pinheiro;Luiz A. Rocha;Luiz A. Rocha;Raphael M. Macieira;Alfredo Carvalho-Filho

  • Shallow mtDNA Coalescence in Atlantic Pygmy Angelfishes (Genus Centropyge) Indicates a Recent Invasion from the Indian Ocean

    B. W. Bowen;A. Muss;L. A. Rocha;W. S. Grant

  • On the origin of endemic species in the Red Sea

    Joseph D. DiBattista;Joseph D. DiBattista;J. Howard Choat;Michelle R. Gaither;Michelle R. Gaither;Jean-Paul A. Hobbs

  • Origins of species richness in the Indo‐Malay‐Philippine biodiversity hotspot: evidence for the centre of overlap hypothesis

    Michelle R. Gaither;Luiz A. Rocha

  • Phylogeography of the reef fish Cephalopholis argus (Epinephelidae) indicates Pleistocene isolation across the indo-pacific barrier with contemporary overlap in the coral triangle

    Michelle R Gaither;Brian W Bowen;Tiana-Rae Bordenave;Luiz A Rocha

  • Island biogeography of marine organisms

    Hudson T. Pinheiro;Giacomo Bernardi;Thiony Simon;Jean-Christophe Joyeux

  • Recent invasion of the tropical Atlantic by an Indo-Pacific coral reef fish.

    Luiz A. Rocha;D. Ross Robertson;Claudia R. Rocha;James L. Van Tassell

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph D. DiBattista
Joseph D. DiBattista Griffith University
Brian W. Bowen
Brian W. Bowen University of Hawaii at Manoa
Michelle R. Gaither
Michelle R. Gaither University of Central Florida
Michael L. Berumen
Michael L. Berumen King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Sergio R. Floeter
Sergio R. Floeter Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Carlos E. L. Ferreira
Carlos E. L. Ferreira Fluminense Federal University
Jean-Paul A. Hobbs
Jean-Paul A. Hobbs Curtin University
Jean-Christophe Joyeux
Jean-Christophe Joyeux Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
D. Ross Robertson
D. Ross Robertson Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
John E. Randall
John E. Randall Bernice P. Bishop Museum

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