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Miguel Costa Leal

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
39
Citations
4553
World Ranking
6470
National Ranking
128

Miguel Costa Leal 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 Miguel Costa Leal sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 91 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Miguel Costa Leal 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 Miguel Costa Leal sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Miguel Costa Leal is a researcher affiliated with the University of Lisbon in Portugal. Their primary field of study is Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Ecology, Aquatic Science, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, as well as Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics, including Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Coastal and Marine Management, Marine and Fisheries Research, and Physiological and Biochemical Adaptations.

Miguel Costa Leal has contributed to various highly specialized academic venues, regularly publishing in journals such as Marine Drugs, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Frontiers in Marine Science, Preprints.org, and Ecology Letters.

Frequent coauthors in the scientist's publications include Ricardo Calado, Diana Madeira, Helena Vieira, S. Nemiah Ladd, and Ana I. Lillebø.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Miguel Costa Leal include:

  • The evolutionary ecology of fatty-acid variation: Implications for consumer adaptation and diversification (2021, Ecology Letters)
  • Noise pollution on coral reefs? - A yet underestimated threat to coral reef communities (2021, Marine Pollution Bulletin)
  • Summer Is Coming! Tackling Ocean Warming in Atlantic Salmon Cage Farming (2021, Animals)
  • Guide to best practices to study the ocean's surface. (2021, IOC of UNESCO (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission))
  • Fifty Shades of Blue: How Blue Biotechnology is Shaping the Bioeconomy (2020, Trends in biotechnology)

Best Publications

  • Trends in the Discovery of New Marine Natural Products from Invertebrates over the Last Two Decades – Where and What Are We Bioprospecting?

    Miguel Costa Leal;Miguel Costa Leal;João Puga;João Serôdio;Newton C. M. Gomes

  • Seafood traceability: current needs, available tools, and biotechnological challenges for origin certification

    Miguel Costa Leal;Tânia Pimentel;Fernando Ricardo;Rui Rosa

  • Synergistic Effects of Climate Change and Marine Pollution: An Overlooked Interaction in Coastal and Estuarine Areas

    Henrique Cabral;Vanessa Fonseca;Tânia Sousa;Miguel Costa Leal;Miguel Costa Leal;Miguel Costa Leal

  • A key metabolic gene for recurrent freshwater colonization and radiation in fishes.

    Asano Ishikawa;Asano Ishikawa;Naoki Kabeya;Naoki Kabeya;Koki Ikeya;Ryo Kakioka

  • Shifts in the dominance between diatoms and cryptophytes during three late summers in the Bransfield Strait (Antarctic Peninsula)

    Carlos Rafael Borges Mendes;Carlos Rafael Borges Mendes;Virginia Maria Tavano;Miguel Costa Leal;Miguel Costa Leal;Márcio Silva de Souza

  • Early-life exposure to climate change impairs tropical shark survival.

    Rui Rosa;Miguel Baptista;Vanessa M. Lopes;Maria Rita Pegado

  • The evolutionary ecology of fatty-acid variation: Implications for consumer adaptation and diversification.

    Cornelia W. Twining;Cornelia W. Twining;Joey R. Bernhardt;Joey R. Bernhardt;Alison M. Derry;Cameron M. Hudson

  • Coral aquaculture to support drug discovery

    Miguel C. Leal;Miguel C. Leal;Ricardo Calado;Christopher Sheridan;Andrea Alimonti

  • Biogeography and biodiscovery hotspots of macroalgal marine natural products.

    Miguel C. Leal;Miguel C. Leal;Murray H. G. Munro;John W. Blunt;João Puga

  • The Ecology and Evolution of Stoichiometric Phenotypes

    Miguel C. Leal;Ole Seehausen;Blake Matthews

  • Coral aquaculture: applying scientific knowledge to ex situ production

    Miguel C. Leal;Miguel C. Leal;Christine Ferrier-Pagès;Dirk Petersen;Ronald Osinga

  • Bioprospecting of Marine Invertebrates for New Natural Products — A Chemical and Zoogeographical Perspective

    Miguel Costa Leal;Carolina Madeira;Cláudio Alexandre Brandão;João Puga

  • Dynamics of phytoplankton communities during late summer around the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula

    Carlos Rafael Borges Mendes;Carlos Rafael Borges Mendes;Márcio Silva de Souza;Virginia Maria Tavano Garcia;Miguel Costa Leal

  • Marine Microorganism-Invertebrate Assemblages: Perspectives to Solve the “Supply Problem” in the Initial Steps of Drug Discovery

    Miguel Costa Leal;Christopher Sheridan;Ronald Osinga;Gisela Dionísio

  • Diagnostic gene expression biomarkers of coral thermal stress.

    C. D. Kenkel;C. Sheridan;M. C. Leal;M. C. Leal;R. Bhagooli

  • Diseases in coral aquaculture: causes, implications and preventions

    Christopher Sheridan;Esti Kramarsky-Winter;Michael Sweet;Ariel Kushmaro;Ariel Kushmaro

  • Lower hypoxia thresholds of cuttlefish early life stages living in a warm acidified ocean

    Rui Rosa;Katja Trübenbach;Tiago Repolho;Marta Pimentel

  • Symbiont type influences trophic plasticity of a model cnidarian–dinoflagellate symbiosis

    Miguel C. Leal;Kenneth Hoadley;D. Tye Pettay;Alejandro Grajales

  • Dogs as a tool to improve bird-strike mortality estimates at wind farms

    João Paula;Miguel Costa Leal;Maria João Silva;Ramiro Mascarenhas

  • Marine ornamental fish imports in the European Union: an economic perspective

    Miguel Costa Leal;Marcela Carraro Melo Vaz;João Puga;Rui Jorge Miranda Rocha

  • Trophic Ecology of Benthic Marine Invertebrates with Bi-Phasic Life Cycles: What Are We Still Missing?

    Ricardo Calado;Miguel Costa Leal

  • Potential use of fatty acid profiles of the adductor muscle of cockles (Cerastoderma edule) for traceability of collection site

    Fernando Ricardo;Tânia Pimentel;Ana S. P. Moreira;Felisa Rey

Frequent Co-Authors

Ricardo Calado
Ricardo Calado University of Aveiro
Rui Rosa
Rui Rosa University of Lisbon
Blake Matthews
Blake Matthews Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Ole Seehausen
Ole Seehausen University of Bern
Christine Ferrier-Pagès
Christine Ferrier-Pagès Scientific Centre of Monaco
João Serôdio
João Serôdio University of Aveiro
Catarina Vinagre
Catarina Vinagre University of Lisbon
Vanda Brotas
Vanda Brotas University of Lisbon
Henrique N. Cabral
Henrique N. Cabral INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Mário Diniz
Mário Diniz Universidade Nova de Lisboa

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Ana I. Lillebø

University of Aveiro

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Christine Ferrier-Pagès

Christine Ferrier-Pagès

Scientific Centre of Monaco

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Jodie L. Rummer

Jodie L. Rummer

James Cook University

Publications: 13

João Serôdio

João Serôdio

University of Aveiro

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Irene R. Schloss

Irene R. Schloss

Argentine Antarctic Institute

Publications: 10

Daniel P. Cardinali

Daniel P. Cardinali

Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina

Publications: 9

Madeleine J. H. van Oppen

Madeleine J. H. van Oppen

University of Melbourne

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Arthur R. Grossman

Arthur R. Grossman

Carnegie Institution for Science

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Amadeu M.V.M. Soares

Amadeu M.V.M. Soares

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Catarina Vinagre

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