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Rodrigo L. Moura is affiliated with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Their research primarily encompasses Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a substantial focus on ecology, oceanography, and global and planetary change. The subfields of their work include ecology, oceanography, nature and landscape conservation, and management, monitoring, policy, and law.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of marine and ecological subjects including:

  • Coral and marine ecosystems studies
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Coastal and marine management
  • Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
  • Marine biology and ecology research
  • Ichthyology and marine biology

Rodrigo L. Moura has published extensively in several venues, highlighting consistent contributions to marine and environmental sciences. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • PLoS ONE
  • Marine Environmental Research
  • Coral Reefs
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Their recent papers illustrate a focus on marine habitats and environmental impacts, and include:

  • Tropical rhodolith beds are a major and belittled reef fish habitat, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • First year after the Brumadinho tailings' dam collapse: Spatial and seasonal variation of trace elements in sediments, fishes and macrophytes from the Paraopeba River, Brazil, 2020, Environmental Research
  • Mechanisms of dispersal and establishment drive a stepping stone community assembly on seamounts and oceanic islands, 2021, Marine Biology
  • Effects of marine protected areas under different management regimes in a hot spot of biodiversity and cumulative impacts from SW Atlantic, 2021, Regional Studies in Marine Science
  • Drivers of biodiversity associated with rhodolith beds from euphotic and mesophotic zones: Insights for management and conservation, 2020, Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation

Collaboration is an important aspect of their work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Alex Cardoso Bastos
  • Paulo S. Salomon
  • Fernando Coreixas de Moraes
  • Lívia Bonetti Villela
  • Gilberto M. Amado-Filho

Best Publications

  • Global conservation outcomes depend on marine protected areas with five key features

    Graham J. Edgar;Rick D. Stuart-Smith;Trevor J. Willis;Stuart Kininmonth;Stuart Kininmonth

  • Catálogo das espécies de peixes marinhos do Brasil

    Naércio Aquino Menezes;Paulo Andreas Buckup;José Lima de Figueiredo;Rodrigo Leão de Moura

  • An extensive reef system at the Amazon River mouth

    Rodrigo L. Moura;Gilberto M. Amado-Filho;Fernando C. Moraes;Poliana S. Brasileiro

  • Rhodolith beds are major CaCO3 bio-factories in the tropical South West Atlantic.

    Gilberto M. Amado-Filho;Rodrigo L. Moura;Alex C. Bastos;Leonardo T. Salgado

  • South‐western Atlantic reef fishes: Zoogeographical patterns and ecological drivers reveal a secondary biodiversity centre in the Atlantic Ocean

    Hudson T. Pinheiro;Hudson T. Pinheiro;Luiz A. Rocha;Luiz A. Rocha;Raphael M. Macieira;Alfredo Carvalho-Filho

  • Spatial patterns of benthic megahabitats and conservation planning in the Abrolhos Bank

    Rodrigo Leão Moura;Nélio Augusto Secchin;Gilberto Menezes Amado-Filho;Ronaldo Bastos Francini-Filho

  • Dynamics of fish assemblages on coral reefs subjected to different management regimes in the Abrolhos Bank, eastern Brazil

    Ronaldo Bastos Francini-Filho;Ronaldo Bastos Francini-Filho;Rodrigo Leão de Moura

  • Environmental and Sanitary Conditions of Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro

    Giovana O. Fistarol;Felipe H. Coutinho;Felipe H. Coutinho;Ana Paula B. Moreira;Tainá Venas

  • Dynamics of Coral Reef Benthic Assemblages of the Abrolhos Bank, Eastern Brazil: Inferences on Natural and Anthropogenic Drivers

    Ronaldo B. Francini-Filho;Ericka O. C. Coni;Pedro M. Meirelles;Gilberto M. Amado-Filho

  • Diseases leading to accelerated decline of reef corals in the largest South Atlantic reef complex (Abrolhos Bank, eastern Brazil)

    Ronaldo B. Francini-Filho;Ronaldo B. Francini-Filho;Rodrigo L. Moura;Fabiano L. Thompson;Rodrigo M. Reis

  • Abrolhos bank reef health evaluated by means of water quality, microbial diversity, benthic cover, and fish biomass data

    Thiago Bruce;Pedro M. Meirelles;Gizele Garcia;Rodolfo Paranhos

  • Fish Biodiversity of the Vitória-Trindade Seamount Chain, Southwestern Atlantic: An Updated Database

    Hudson T. Pinheiro;Eric Mazzei;Rodrigo L. Moura;Gilberto M. Amado-Filho

  • Foraging activity of roving herbivorous reef fish (Acanthuridae and Scaridae) in eastern Brazil: influence of resource availability and interference competition

    Ronaldo Bastos Francini-Filho;Camilo Moitinho Ferreira;Ericka Oliveira Cavalcanti Coni;Rodrigo Leão De Moura

  • Mechanisms of speciation and faunal enrichment in Atlantic parrotfishes.

    D. Ross Robertson;Frances Karg;Rodrigo Leao de Moura;Benjamin C. Victor

  • Spawning patterns of commercially important reef fish (Lutjanidae and Serranidae) in the tropical western South Atlantic

    Matheus Oliveira Freitas;Rodrigo Leão de Moura;Ronaldo Bastos Francini-Filho;Carolina Viviana Minte-Vera

  • Bacterial Community Associated with Healthy and Diseased Reef Coral Mussismilia hispida from Eastern Brazil

    Alinne Pereira de Castro;Samuel Dias Araújo;Alessandra M. M. Reis;Rodrigo L. Moura

  • Extensive Rhodolith Beds Cover the Summits of Southwestern Atlantic Ocean Seamounts

    Guilherme H. Pereira-Filho;Gilberto M. Amado-Filho;Rodrigo L. de Moura;Alex C. Bastos

  • Reef fish and benthic assemblages of the Trindade and Martin Vaz Island group, southwestern Atlantic

    Guilherme Henrique Pereira-Filho;Gilberto Menezes Amado-Filho;Silvia M. P. B. Guimarães;Rodrigo L. Moura

  • Metagenomic Analysis of Healthy and White Plague-Affected Mussismilia braziliensis Corals

    Gizele D. Garcia;Gustavo B. Gregoracci;Eidy de O. Santos;Pedro M. Meirelles

  • Sustained mass coral bleaching (2016–2017) in Brazilian turbid-zone reefs: taxonomic, cross-shelf and habitat-related trends

    Carolina D. Teixeira;Rodrigo L. L. Leitão;Felipe V. Ribeiro;Felipe V. Ribeiro;Fernando C. Moraes

  • A new parrotfish (Scaridae) from Brazil, and revalidation of Sparisoma amplum (Hanzani, 1842), Sparisoma frondosum (Agassiz, 1831) Sparisoma axillare (Steindachner, 1878) and Scarus trispinosus (Valenciennes, 1840)

    Rodrigo Leao De Moura;José Lima De Figueiredo;Ivan Sazima

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronaldo B. Francini-Filho
Ronaldo B. Francini-Filho Universidade de São Paulo
Fabiano L. Thompson
Fabiano L. Thompson Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Ivan Sazima
Ivan Sazima State University of Campinas
Carlos Eduardo de Rezende
Carlos Eduardo de Rezende State University of Norte Fluminense
Les Kaufman
Les Kaufman Boston University
Tomoo Sawabe
Tomoo Sawabe Hokkaido University
Tetsuya Iida
Tetsuya Iida Osaka University
Luiz A. Rocha
Luiz A. Rocha California Academy of Sciences
Jean-Christophe Joyeux
Jean-Christophe Joyeux Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
Shota Nakamura
Shota Nakamura Osaka University

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