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Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues

Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
63
Citations
14360
World Ranking
1972
National Ranking
28

Overview

Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues is affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a significant focus on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Ecological Modeling, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's work addresses a variety of main research topics including Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant and Animal Studies, Fish Biology, Ecology and Behavior, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Lepidoptera Biology and Taxonomy, and Bat Biology and Ecology Studies.

Their publication record includes research in a range of venues, highlighting frequent contributions to:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • Systematics and Biodiversity
  • Zootaxa
  • Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by the scientist are:

  • The taxonomic impediment: a shortage of taxonomists, not the lack of technical approaches, 2021, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • Large-scale DNA-based survey of frogs in Amazonia suggests a vast underestimation of species richness and endemism, 2020, Journal of Biogeography
  • Seeing the forest through many trees: Multi-taxon patterns of phylogenetic diversity in the Atlantic Forest hotspot, 2020, Diversity and Distributions
  • Historical biogeography identifies a possible role of Miocene wetlands in the diversification of the Amazonian rocket frogs (Aromobatidae: Allobates), 2020, Journal of Biogeography
  • Diversification history of clown tree frogs in Neotropical rainforests (Anura, Hylidae, Dendropsophus leucophyllatus group), 2020, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Antoine Fouquet
  • Fernanda P. Werneck
  • Renato Sousa Recoder
  • Mariana L. Lyra
  • Agustín Camacho

Best Publications

  • Stability Predicts Genetic Diversity in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest Hotspot

    Ana Carolina Oliveira de Queiroz Carnaval;Michael J. Hickerson;Célio Fernando Baptista Haddad;Miguel Trefaut Urbano Rodrigues

  • Sistemática, ecologia e zoogeografia dos Tropidurus do grupo Torquatus ao sul do Rio Amazonas (Sauria, Iguanidae)

    Miguel Trefaut Urbano Rodrigues

  • The taxonomic impediment: a shortage of taxonomists, not the lack of technical approaches

    Michael S. Engel;Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Gimo M. Daniel;Pablo M. Dellapé

  • Prediction of phylogeographic endemism in an environmentally complex biome.

    Ana Carolina Carnaval;Eric Waltari;Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues;Dan Rosauer

  • Specimen collection: An essential tool

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

  • Phylogeography and species limits in the Gymnodactylus darwinii complex (Gekkonidae, Squamata): genetic structure coincides with river systems in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

    Katia C. M. Pellegrino;Miguel T. Rodrigues;Aaron N. Waite;Mariana Morando

  • High Levels of Diversity Uncovered in a Widespread Nominal Taxon: Continental Phylogeography of the Neotropical Tree Frog Dendropsophus minutus

    Marcelo Gehara;Marcelo Gehara;Andrew J. Crawford;Andrew J. Crawford;Victor G. D Orrico;Ariel Rodríguez

  • Phylogenetics of the Lizard Genus Tropidurus (Squamata: Tropiduridae: Tropidurinae): Direct Optimization, Descriptive Efficiency, and Sensitivity Analysis of Congruence Between Molecular Data and Morphology

    Darrel R. Frost;Miguel T. Rodrigues;Taran Grant;Taran Grant;Tom A. Titus

  • DEEP DIVERSIFICATION AND LONG-TERM PERSISTENCE IN THE SOUTH AMERICAN 'DRY DIAGONAL': INTEGRATING CONTINENT-WIDE PHYLOGEOGRAPHY AND DISTRIBUTION MODELING OF GECKOS

    Fernanda P. Werneck;Tony Gamble;Tony Gamble;Guarino R. Colli;Miguel T. Rodrigues

  • A molecular perspective on the evolution of microteiid lizards (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae), and a new classification for the family

    Katia C. M. Pellegrino;Katia C. M. Pellegrino;Miguel T. Rodrigues;Y. Yonenaga-Yassuda;Jack W. Sites

  • Seasonal patterns of breeding activity of Atlantic Rainforest anurans at Boracéia, Southeastern Brazil

    Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues;Jaime Bertoluci

  • Frogs, snakes, and lizards of the inpa-wwf reserves near manaus, brazil

    B L Zimmerman;Miguel Trefaut Urbano Rodrigues

  • Lizards, Snakes, and Amphisbaenians from the Quaternary Sand Dunes of the Middle Rio Sao Francisco, Bahia, Brazil

    Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues

  • The use of sighting data to analyse Iberian lynx habitat and distribution

    Luís Palma;Pedro Beja;Miguel Rodrigues

  • Utilização de habitats reprodutivos e micro-habitats de vocalização em uma taxocenose de anuros (Amphibia) da Mata Atlântica do sudeste do Brasil

    Jaime Bertoluci;Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues

  • Species delimitation, patterns of diversification and historical biogeography of the Neotropical frog genus Adenomera (Anura, Leptodactylidae)

    Antoine Fouquet;Antoine Fouquet;Carla Santana Cassini;Célio Fernando Baptista Haddad;Nicolas Pech

  • Multiple Quaternary Refugia in the Eastern Guiana Shield Revealed by Comparative Phylogeography of 12 Frog Species

    Antoine Fouquet;Antoine Fouquet;Brice P. Noonan;Miguel T. Rodrigues;Nicolas Pech

  • The impact of anchored phylogenomics and taxon sampling on phylogenetic inference in narrow‐mouthed frogs (Anura, Microhylidae)

    Pedro L.V. Peloso;Darrel R. Frost;Stephen J. Richards;Miguel T. Rodrigues

  • Amphibian Chytrid Fungus Broadly Distributed in the Brazilian Atlantic Rain Forest

    Ana Carolina Oliveira de Queiroz Carnaval;Robert Puschendorf;Oswaldo Luiz Peixoto;Vanessa Kruth Verdade

  • Taxonomic revision of Rhinella granulosa species group (Amphibia, Anura, Bufonidae), with a description of a new species

    Patrícia Narvaes;Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues

Frequent Co-Authors

Ana Carolina Carnaval
Ana Carolina Carnaval City University of New York
Antoine Fouquet
Antoine Fouquet École Nationale Supérieure de Formation de l’Enseignement Agricole
Célio F. B. Haddad
Célio F. B. Haddad Sao Paulo State University
Guarino R. Colli
Guarino R. Colli University of Brasília
Jack W. Sites
Jack W. Sites Brigham Young University
Craig Moritz
Craig Moritz Australian National University
Julián Faivovich
Julián Faivovich National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Jason L. Brown
Jason L. Brown Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Andrew J. Crawford
Andrew J. Crawford Universidad de Los Andes
Ward C. Wheeler
Ward C. Wheeler American Museum of Natural History

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