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Overview

Marcos Callisto is affiliated with the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil, contributing extensively to environmental science with a focus on freshwater ecosystems. Their research encompasses multiple subfields, primarily ecology, nature and landscape conservation, water science and technology, global and planetary change, and environmental chemistry.

The scientist's work centers around several main topics, including freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, fish ecology and management studies, fish biology, ecology, and behavior, aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior, hydrology and sediment transport processes, water quality and pollution assessment, and ecology and vegetation dynamics studies.

Marcos Callisto has published in various scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Water Biology and Security
  • Ecological Indicators
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Aquatic Sciences

They have collaborated repeatedly with several researchers, including:

  • Marden Seabra Linares
  • Diego Rodrigues Macedo
  • Robert M. Hughes
  • Diego Marcel Parreira de Castro
  • Renato Tavares Martins

Key recent publications by Marcos Callisto cover topics related to freshwater biodiversity, river ecosystem health, and biomonitoring, with papers including:

  • Thresholds of freshwater biodiversity in response to riparian vegetation loss in the Neotropical region, 2020, Journal of Applied Ecology
  • The Biological Assessment and Rehabilitation of the World's Rivers: An Overview, 2021, Water
  • Fish and macroinvertebrate assemblages reveal extensive degradation of the world's rivers, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • Assemblage-based biomonitoring of freshwater ecosystem health via multimetric indices: A critical review and suggestions for improving their applicability, 2022, Water Biology and Security
  • Biodiversity and ecosystem services in the Campo Rupestre: A road map for the sustainability of the hottest Brazilian biodiversity hotspot, 2020, Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation

These publications provide insights into biodiversity thresholds, river degradation impacts, biological assessments, ecosystem services, and monitoring techniques for freshwater environments.

Best Publications

  • A global experiment suggests climate warming will not accelerate litter decomposition in streams but might reduce carbon sequestration

    Luz Boyero;Richard G. Pearson;Mark O. Gessner;Mark O. Gessner;Leon A. Barmuta

  • Aplicação de um protocolo de avaliação rápida da diversidade de habitats em atividade de ensino e pesquisa (MG-RJ)

    M. Callisto;W.R. Ferreira;P. Moreno;M. Goulart

  • Habitat diversity and benthic functional trophic groups at Serra do Cipó, Southeast Brazil.

    M. Callisto;P. Moreno;F. A. R. Barbosa

  • Defining quantitative stream disturbance gradients and the additive role of habitat variation to explain macroinvertebrate taxa richness

    Raphael Ligeiro;Robert M. Hughes;Philip R. Kaufmann;Diego R. Macedo;Diego R. Macedo

  • Global distribution of a key trophic guild contrasts with common latitudinal diversity patterns.

    Luz Boyero;Luz Boyero;Richard G. Pearson;David Dudgeon;Manuel A. S. Graça

  • A comparative analysis reveals weak relationships between ecological factors and beta diversity of stream insect metacommunities at two spatial levels.

    Jani Heino;Adriano Sanches Melo;Luis Mauricio Bini;Florian Altermatt;Florian Altermatt

  • Thresholds of freshwater biodiversity in response to riparian vegetation loss in the Neotropical region

    Renato B. Dala-Corte;Adriano S. Melo;Tadeu Siqueira;Luis M. Bini

  • Global patterns and drivers of ecosystem functioning in rivers and riparian zones

    Scott D. Tiegs;David M. Costello;Mark W. Isken;Guy Woodward

  • Biotic and abiotic variables influencing plant litter breakdown in streams: a global study.

    Luz Boyero;Richard G. Pearson;Cang Hui;Cang Hui;Mark O. Gessner;Mark O. Gessner

  • Global patterns of stream detritivore distribution: implications for biodiversity loss in changing climates

    Luz Boyero;Richard G. Pearson;David Dudgeon;Verónica Ferreira

  • Leaf-litter breakdown in 3 streams in temperate, Mediterranean, and tropical Cerrado climates

    José F. Gonçalves;Manuel A. S. Graça;Marcos Callisto

  • Land cover disturbance homogenizes aquatic insect functional structure in neotropical savanna streams

    Diego M. Parreira de Castro;Sylvain Dolédec;Marcos Callisto

  • Litter decomposition in a Cerrado savannah stream is retarded by leaf toughness, low dissolved nutrients and a low density of shredders

    J. F. Gonçalves;M. A. S. Graça;M. Callisto

  • The Biological Assessment and Rehabilitation of the World’s Rivers: An Overview

    Maria João Feio;Robert M. Hughes;Marcos Callisto;Susan J. Nichols

  • Fish and macroinvertebrate assemblages reveal extensive degradation of the world's rivers

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  • Protected areas: A focus on Brazilian freshwater biodiversity

    Valter M. Azevedo-Santos;Renata G. Frederico;Camila K. Fagundes;Paulo S. Pompeu

  • The relative influence of catchment and site variables on fish and macroinvertebrate richness in cerrado biome streams

    Diego R. Macedo;Diego R. Macedo;Robert M. Hughes;Robert M. Hughes;Raphael Ligeiro;Wander R. Ferreira

  • Leaf Breakdown in a Tropical Stream

    José Francisco Gonçalves;Juliana S. França;Adriana O. Medeiros;Carlos A. Rosa

  • Benthic macroinvertebrates in the watershed of an urban reservoir in southeastern Brazil

    P. Moreno;M. Callisto

  • Lotic ecosystems of Serra do Cipó, southeast Brazil: water quality and a tentative classification based on the benthic macroinvertebrate community

    N Galdean;M Callisto;F.A.R Barbosa

  • Riparian plant litter quality increases with latitude

    Luz Boyero;Manuel A. S. Graca;Alan M. Tonin;Javier Perez

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert M. Hughes
Robert M. Hughes Oregon State University
José F. Gonçalves
José F. Gonçalves University of Brasília
Paulo Santos Pompeu
Paulo Santos Pompeu Federal University of Lavras
Manuel A. S. Graça
Manuel A. S. Graça University of Coimbra
Mark O. Gessner
Mark O. Gessner Technical University of Berlin
Andrea C. Encalada
Andrea C. Encalada Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Luz Boyero
Luz Boyero University of the Basque Country
Philip R. Kaufmann
Philip R. Kaufmann Environmental Protection Agency
Eric Chauvet
Eric Chauvet Paul Sabatier University
Catherine M. Yule
Catherine M. Yule University of the Sunshine Coast

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