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Manuel Lopes-Lima

Manuel Lopes-Lima

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
41
Citations
6493
World Ranking
5843
National Ranking
44

Overview

Manuel Lopes-Lima is affiliated with the University of Porto in Portugal and has a research focus primarily in Environmental Science. Their work encompasses multiple subfields, including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Molecular Biology, Insect Science, and Global and Planetary Change.

The research topics covered by Lopes-Lima include Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Mollusks and Parasites Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Identification and Quantification in Food, and Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Diversity and Ecology.

Recent publications by Lopes-Lima demonstrate a focus on freshwater molluscs and biodiversity conservation. These include:

  • Freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae) from the rising sun (Far East Asia): phylogeny, systematics, and distribution, 2020, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • Major shortfalls impairing knowledge and conservation of freshwater molluscs, 2021, Hydrobiologia

Other influential papers in related fields, co-authored by or associated with Lopes-Lima, include:

  • The conservation status of the world's freshwater molluscs, 2020, Hydrobiologia
  • Molluscan mitochondrial genomes break the rules, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Freshwater mussel conservation: A global horizon scan of emerging threats and opportunities, 2022, Global Change Biology

Lopes-Lima frequently collaborates with a select group of co-authors. Notable frequent collaborators include Elsa Froufe, Amílcar Teixeira, Ronaldo Sousa, André Gomes-dos-Santos, and Vincent Prié.

The scientist's work has been published extensively in several key venues, with significant contributions to:

  • Hydrobiologia
  • Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Scientific Data

Best Publications

  • Conservation status of freshwater mussels in Europe: state of the art and future challenges.

    Manuel Lopes-Lima;Manuel Lopes-Lima;Ronaldo Sousa;Ronaldo Sousa;Juergen Geist;David C. Aldridge

  • Conservation of freshwater bivalves at the global scale: diversity, threats and research needs

    Manuel Lopes-Lima;Manuel Lopes-Lima;Lyubov E. Burlakova;Alexander Y. Karatayev;Knut Mehler

  • Research priorities for freshwater mussel conservation assessment

    Noé Ferreira-Rodríguez;Yoshihiro B. Akiyama;Olga V. Aksenova;Rafael Araujo

  • Fish and mussels: Importance of fish for freshwater mussel conservation

    Vanessa Modesto;Martina Ilarri;Allan T Souza;Manuel Lopes‐Lima

  • Phylogeny of the most species-rich freshwater bivalve family (Bivalvia: Unionida: Unionidae): Defining modern subfamilies and tribes.

    Manuel Lopes-Lima;Elsa Froufe;Van Tu Do;Mohamed Ghamizi

  • Biology and conservation of freshwater bivalves: past, present and future perspectives

    Manuel Lopes-Lima;Amílcar Teixeira;Elsa Froufe;Anabela Lopes

  • Diversity, biogeography and conservation of freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionida) in East and Southeast Asia

    Alexandra Zieritz;Arthur E. Bogan;Elsa Froufe;Olga Klishko

  • The conservation status of the world’s freshwater molluscs

    Monika Böhm;Nadia I. Dewhurst-Richman;Nadia I. Dewhurst-Richman;Mary Seddon;Sophie E.H. Ledger

  • Molluscan mitochondrial genomes break the rules.

    Fabrizio Ghiselli;André Gomes-Dos-Santos;Coen M Adema;Manuel Lopes-Lima

  • Freshwater mussel conservation: A global horizon scan of emerging threats and opportunities

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  • Massive die-offs of freshwater bivalves as resource pulses.

    Ronaldo Sousa;Ronaldo Sousa;Simone Varandas;Rui Cortes;Amílcar Teixeira

  • Impacts of climate change and land-use scenarios on Margaritifera margaritifera, an environmental indicator and endangered species.

    R.M.B. Santos;L.F. Sanches Fernandes;S.G.P. Varandas;M.G. Pereira;M.G. Pereira

  • Factors driving changes in freshwater mussel (Bivalvia, Unionida) diversity and distribution in Peninsular Malaysia

    Alexandra Zieritz;Manuel Lopes-Lima;Arthur E. Bogan;Ronaldo Sousa

  • Freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae) from the rising sun (Far East Asia): phylogeny, systematics, and distribution

    Manuel Lopes-Lima;Manuel Lopes-Lima;Akimasa Hattori;Takaki Kondo;Jin Hee Lee

  • Major shortfalls impairing knowledge and conservation of freshwater molluscs

    Manuel Lopes-Lima;Manuel Lopes-Lima;Nicoletta Riccardi;Maria Urbanska;Frank Köhler

  • Molluscan genomics: the road so far and the way forward

    André Gomes-dos-Santos;Manuel Lopes-Lima;Manuel Lopes-Lima;L. Filipe C. Castro;Elsa Froufe

  • Biotic homogenization as a threat to native affiliate species: fish introductions dilute freshwater mussel's host resources

    Karel Douda;Manuel Lopes-Lima;Mariana Hinzmann;Jorge Machado

  • Who lives where? Molecular and morphometric analyses clarify which Unio species (Unionida, Mollusca) inhabit the southwestern Palearctic

    Elsa Froufe;Duarte V. Gonçalves;Duarte V. Gonçalves;Amílcar Teixeira;Ronaldo Sousa;Ronaldo Sousa

  • Integrative taxonomy, biogeography and conservation of freshwater mussels (Unionidae) in Russia.

    Ivan N. Bolotov;Ivan N. Bolotov;Ivan N. Bolotov;Alexander V. Kondakov;Alexander V. Kondakov;Alexander V. Kondakov;Ekaterina S. Konopleva;Ekaterina S. Konopleva;Ilya V. Vikhrev;Ilya V. Vikhrev;Ilya V. Vikhrev

  • Invasive Chinese pond mussel Sinanodonta woodiana threatens native mussel reproduction by inducing cross-resistance of host fish

    Seth W. Donrovich;Karel Douda;Věra Plechingerová;Kateřina Rylková

  • Towards a taxonomically unbiased EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030

    S. Mammola;N. Riccardi;V. Prié;R. Correia

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronaldo Sousa
Ronaldo Sousa University of Minho
Simone Varandas
Simone Varandas University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro
Elsa Froufe
Elsa Froufe University of Porto
Ivan N. Bolotov
Ivan N. Bolotov Russian Academy of Sciences
Arthur E. Bogan
Arthur E. Bogan North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
David C. Aldridge
David C. Aldridge University of Cambridge
Pedro Beja
Pedro Beja University of Porto
Lyubov E. Burlakova
Lyubov E. Burlakova Buffalo State College
Rui Cortes
Rui Cortes University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro
Alexander Y. Karatayev
Alexander Y. Karatayev Buffalo State College

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