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Ecology and Evolution
Portugal
2022

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
51
Citations
13184
World Ranking
3572
National Ranking
21

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Portugal Leader Award

Overview

Ronaldo Sousa is affiliated with the University of Minho in Portugal and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research concentrates on diverse subfields including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, and Insect Science.

The main topics covered by Sousa's work include:

  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
  • Mollusks and Parasites Studies
  • Crustacean biology and ecology

Sousa has contributed to multiple recent publications, including:

  • "Freshwater mussel conservation: A global horizon scan of emerging threats and opportunities" (2022, Global Change Biology)
  • "Major shortfalls impairing knowledge and conservation of freshwater molluscs" (2021, Hydrobiologia)
  • "A global synthesis of ecosystem services provided and disrupted by freshwater bivalve molluscs" (2022, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society)
  • "Dimension and impact of biases in funding for species and habitat conservation" (2022, Biological Conservation)
  • "The role of anthropogenic habitats in freshwater mussel conservation" (2021, Global Change Biology)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sousa include Amílcar Teixeira, Manuel Lopes-Lima, Simone Varandas, Nicoletta Riccardi, and Duarte V. Gonçãlves.

Sousa publishes regularly in several scientific journals, with a notable number of papers appearing in:

  • Hydrobiologia
  • Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Global Change Biology
  • Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Best Publications

  • Impacts of biological invasions: what's what and the way forward

    Daniel Simberloff;Jean Louis Martin;Piero Genovesi;Virginie Maris

  • 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

  • Non-indigenous invasive bivalves as ecosystem engineers

    Ronaldo Sousa;Ronaldo Sousa;Jorge L. Gutiérrez;David C. Aldridge

  • Ecology of the invasive Asian clam Corbicula fluminea (Müller, 1774) in aquatic ecosystems: an overview

    R. Sousa;C. Antunes;L. Guilhermino

  • 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

  • Invasive bivalves in fresh waters: impacts from individuals to ecosystems and possible control strategies

    Ronaldo Gomes Sousa;Ronaldo Gomes Sousa;Adriana Araújo Novais;R. Costa;David L. Strayer

  • 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

  • Secondary production as a tool for better understanding of aquatic ecosystems

    M. Dolbeth;M. Cusson;Ronaldo Gomes Sousa;M. A. Pardal

  • Growth and extremely high production of the non-indigenous invasive species Corbicula fluminea (Muller, 1774): Possible implications for ecosystem functioning

    Ronaldo Sousa;António J.A. Nogueira;Miguel B. Gaspar;Carlos Antunes

  • Molluscan fauna in the freshwater tidal area of the River Minho estuary, NW of Iberian Peninsula

    R. Sousa;L. Guilhermino;C. Antunes

  • Distribution of Corbicula fluminea (Müller, 1774) in the invaded range: a geographic approach with notes on species traits variability

    Daniel Crespo;Marina Dolbeth;Marina Dolbeth;Sara Leston;Ronaldo Gomes Sousa;Ronaldo Gomes Sousa

  • Abiotic impacts on spatial and temporal distribution of Corbicula fluminea (Müller, 1774) in the River Minho estuary, Portugal

    Ronaldo Sousa;Marta Rufino;Miguel Gaspar;Carlos Antunes

  • 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

  • Negative effects of Corbicula fluminea over native freshwater mussels

    Noé Ferreira-Rodríguez;Ronaldo Sousa;Ronaldo Sousa;Isabel Pardo

  • Genetic and shell morphological variability of the invasive bivalve Corbicula fluminea (Müller, 1774) in two Portuguese estuaries

    Ronaldo Sousa;Ruth Freire;Marta Rufino;Josefina Méndez

  • Subtidal macrozoobenthic assemblages along the River Minho estuarine gradient (north‐west Iberian Peninsula)

    Ronaldo Sousa;Sérgia Dias;Vânia Freitas;Carlos Antunes

Frequent Co-Authors

Manuel Lopes-Lima
Manuel Lopes-Lima University of Porto
Simone Varandas
Simone Varandas University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro
Elsa Froufe
Elsa Froufe University of Porto
Lúcia Guilhermino
Lúcia Guilhermino University of Porto
Arthur E. Bogan
Arthur E. Bogan North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
David C. Aldridge
David C. Aldridge University of Cambridge
Ivan N. Bolotov
Ivan N. Bolotov Russian Academy of Sciences
Cláudia Pascoal
Cláudia Pascoal University of Minho
Filipe O. Costa
Filipe O. Costa University of Minho
Marina Dolbeth
Marina Dolbeth University of Porto

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