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Luiz Felipe Machado Velho

Luiz Felipe Machado Velho

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
36
Citations
4320
World Ranking
7197
National Ranking
134

Luiz Felipe Machado Velho 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 Luiz Felipe Machado Velho sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 176 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Luiz Felipe Machado Velho 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 Luiz Felipe Machado Velho sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 36 D-Index — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Luiz Felipe Machado Velho is affiliated with the State University of Maringa in Brazil. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with an extensive publication record comprising 83 works in this main field. Within Environmental Science, they have contributed significantly to various subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, and Molecular Biology.

Their main research topics reflect a focus on aquatic and ecological systems. The key topics covered in their work include:

  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Velho has published research articles in several notable scientific venues, often contributing multiple studies in these journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Hydrobiologia
  • Limnologica
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Oecologia Australis
  • Annales de Limnologie - International Journal of Limnology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Velho illustrate their interest in biodiversity, aquatic ecosystems, and environmental impacts. Some of these are:

  • Human pressure drives biodiversity-multifunctionality relationships in large Neotropical wetlands, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Scale-dependent patterns of metacommunity structuring in aquatic organisms across floodplain systems, 2020, Journal of Biogeography
  • Towards a synthesis of the biodiversity of freshwater Protozoa, Rotifera, Cladocera, and Copepoda in Brazil, 2022, Limnologica
  • Impoundment, environmental variables and temporal scale predict zooplankton beta diversity patterns in an Amazonian river basin, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Synergistic effects of natural and anthropogenic impacts on zooplankton diversity in a subtropical floodplain: a long-term study, 2020, Oecologia Australis

Their work involves collaboration with several frequent coauthors, showing a network of partnerships in their field. These collaborators include:

  • Fernando Miranda Lansac-Tôha
  • Felipe Rafael de Oliveira
  • Bianca Ramos Meira
  • Fábio Amodêo Lansac-Tôha
  • Melissa Progênio

Best Publications

  • Dispersal ability determines the role of environmental, spatial and temporal drivers of metacommunity structure.

    André A. Padial;Fernanda Ceschin;Steven A. J. Declerck;Luc De Meester

  • Biodiversity of zooplankton communities in the Upper Paraná River floodplain: interannual variation from long-term studies

    F A Lansac-Tôha;C C Bonecker;L F M Velho;N R Simões

  • Large-scale differences in microbial biodiversity discovery between 16S amplicon and shotgun sequencing.

    Michael Tessler;Johannes S. Neumann;Ebrahim Afshinnekoo;Ebrahim Afshinnekoo;Michael Pineda

  • Human pressure drives biodiversity–multifunctionality relationships in large Neotropical wetlands

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  • Testate Amoebae (Rhizopodea-Sarcodina) from Zooplankton of the High Paraná River Floodplain, State of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil: I. Families Arcellidae and Centropyxidae

    L F M Velho;F A Lansac-Tôha;M Serafim-Junior

  • Spatial and temporal variation in densities of testate amoebae in the plankton of the Upper Paraná River floodplain, Brazil

    L.F.M. Velho;F.A. Lansac-Tôha;L.M. Bini

  • Impact of reservoirs on zooplankton diversity and implications for the conservation of natural aquatic environments

    Nadson R. Simões;Ariádine H. Nunes;Juliana D. Dias;Fábio A. Lansac-Tôha

  • Temporal changes in zooplankton species diversity in response to environmental changes in an alluvial valley

    Claudia Costa Bonecker;Nadson Ressyé Simões;Carolina Viviane Minte-Vera;Fabio Amodeo Lansac-Tôha

  • Pleuston communities are buffered from regional flood pulses: the example of ostracods in the Paraná River floodplain, Brazil

    Janet Higuti;Luiz Felipe Machado Velho;Fábio Amodêo Lansac-Tôha;Koen Martens

  • Cladocera fauna composition in a river-lagoon system of the upper Paraná River floodplain, with a new record for Brazil

    Serafim Júnior M;Lansac-Tôha Fa;Paggi Jc;Velho Lf

  • Zooplankton biomass in tropical reservoirs in southern Brazil

    Claudia Costa Bonecker;Mariza Yuri Nagae;Martin Cesar Maria Bletller;Luiz Felipe Machado Velho

  • Differently dispersing organism groups show contrasting beta diversity patterns in a dammed subtropical river basin

    Fernando M. Lansac-Tôha;Jani Heino;Bárbara A. Quirino;Geovani A. Moresco

  • Diversity and Abundance of the Planktonic Rotifers in Different Environments of the Upper Paraná River Floodplain (Paraná State – Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil)

    Cláudia Costa Bonecker;Christiane Luciana Da Costa;Luiz Felipe Machado Velho;Fábio Amodêo Lansac-Tôha

  • Intra and inter-annual structure of zooplankton communities in floodplain lakes: a long-term ecological research study.

    Nadson R. Simões;Fábio A. Lansac-Tôha;Luiz Felipe Machado Velho;Claudia C. Bonecker

  • Influence of Environmental Heterogeneity on the Structure of Testate Amoebae (Protozoa, Rhizopoda) Assemblages in the Plankton of the Upper Paraná River Floodplain, Brazil

    Luiz Felipe Machado Velho;Fábio Amodêo Lansac-Tôha;Luis Mauricio Bini

  • Hydrological dynamics drives zooplankton metacommunity structure in a Neotropical floodplain

    Juliana Déo Dias;Nadson Ressyé Simões;Mariana Meerhoff;Fábio Amodêo Lansac-Tôha

  • Zooplankton assemblage concordance patterns in Brazilian reservoirs

    Luis Mauricio Bini;Leo Caetano F. da Silva;Luiz Felipe M. Velho;Claudia C. Bonecker

  • Evidence against the use of surrogates for biomonitoring of Neotropical floodplains

    André A. Padial;André A. Padial;Steven A. J. Declerck;Luc De Meester;Cláudia C. Bonecker

  • Testate Amoeba (Rhizopoda) Diversity in Plankton of the Upper Paraná River floodplain, Brazil

    Luiz Felipe M. Velho;Luis Mauricio Bini;Fábio A. Lansac-Tôha

  • Concordance of Species Composition Patterns among Microcrustaceans, Rotifers and Testate Amoebae in a Shallow Pond

    Luis Mauricio Bini;Ludgero Cardoso Galli Vieira;Juliana Machado;Luiz Felipe Machado Velho

  • The temporal distribution pattern of copepods in Corumbá Reservoir, State of Goiás, Brazil

    C. C. Bonecker;F. A. Lansac-Tôha;L. F. M. Velho;D. C. Rossa

Frequent Co-Authors

Fábio Amodêo Lansac-Tôha
Fábio Amodêo Lansac-Tôha State University of Maringa
Luis Mauricio Bini
Luis Mauricio Bini Universidade Federal de Goiás
Claudia Costa Bonecker
Claudia Costa Bonecker State University of Maringa
Koen Martens
Koen Martens Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
André Andrian Padial
André Andrian Padial Federal University of Paraná
Owen L. Petchey
Owen L. Petchey University of Zurich
Gustavo Q. Romero
Gustavo Q. Romero State University of Campinas
Tadeu Siqueira
Tadeu Siqueira Sao Paulo State University
Jani Heino
Jani Heino University of Oulu
Rob DeSalle
Rob DeSalle American Museum of Natural History

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