Leandro Castello

8.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
76 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Leandro Castello is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Aquatic Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Leandro Castello has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 34 papers in Aquatic Science and 27 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Leandro Castello's work include Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (54 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (47 papers) and Fish Biology and Ecology Studies (34 papers). Leandro Castello is often cited by papers focused on Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (54 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (47 papers) and Fish Biology and Ecology Studies (34 papers). Leandro Castello collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Canada. Leandro Castello's co-authors include Márcia N. Macedo, Caroline C. Arantes, David McGrath, Laura L. Hess, Donald J. Stewart, Victoria Isaac, Vivian Renó, Maria DiGiano, Oswaldo de Carvalho and Paulo Brando and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Leandro Castello

74 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Slowing Amazon deforestation through public policy and interventions in beef and soy supply chains

2014 783 citations David McGrath, Leandro Castello et al. profile →
The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems

2018 436 citations Jos Barlow, Filipe França et al. Nature profile →
The vulnerability of Amazon freshwater ecosystems

2013 364 citations Leandro Castello, David McGrath et al. Conservation Letters profile →
Large‐scale degradation of Amazonian freshwater ecosystems

2015 352 citations Leandro Castello, Márcia N. Macedo profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Leandro Castello United States	32	2.3k	1.5k	1.5k	1.2k	268	76	4.2k
T. Douglas Beard United States	28	1.6k 0.7×	2.0k 1.3×	1.1k 0.8×	669 0.6×	314 1.2×	55	3.4k
David McGrath Brazil	28	1.1k 0.5×	2.0k 1.3×	1.0k 0.7×	399 0.3×	448 1.7×	99	3.7k
Paulo dos Santos Pompeu Brazil	35	3.7k 1.6×	639 0.4×	1.9k 1.3×	2.0k 1.7×	79 0.3×	187	4.6k
Abigail J. Lynch United States	28	1.7k 0.7×	1.0k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	523 0.4×	96 0.4×	99	3.0k
Anne‐Hélène Prieur‐Richard France	15	4.1k 1.8×	1.4k 0.9×	4.2k 2.9×	952 0.8×	163 0.6×	25	7.3k
Joice Ferreira Brazil	33	1.5k 0.6×	2.0k 1.3×	1.3k 0.9×	110 0.1×	321 1.2×	79	4.0k
Robin Abell United States	19	2.5k 1.1×	1.2k 0.8×	2.5k 1.7×	599 0.5×	185 0.7×	33	4.7k
José Maria Cardoso da Silva Brazil	29	2.3k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	1.4k 1.0×	132 0.1×	211 0.8×	74	4.4k
Eduardo Martins Venticinque Brazil	24	934 0.4×	913 0.6×	1.2k 0.8×	158 0.1×	170 0.6×	82	2.6k
Márcia N. Macedo United States	31	1.3k 0.6×	3.3k 2.2×	1.6k 1.1×	235 0.2×	590 2.2×	63	5.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leandro Castello

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20 of 20 papers shown

Nguyen, Vivian M., Kathryn J. Fiorella, Leandro Castello, et al.. (2025). Provisioning fisheries: A framework for recognizing the fuzzy boundary around commercial, subsistence, and recreational fisheries. Fisheries. 50(8). 366–379. 1 indexed citations

Castello, Leandro, et al.. (2024). Fishing shrinks the size structure of exploited coral reef fishes in Brazil. Fisheries Research. 275. 107029–107029.

Castello, Leandro, et al.. (2024). Flood Pulse Effects on the Growth of Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum in the Amazon Basin. Fishes. 9(6). 223–223.

Castello, Leandro, Eduardo G. Martins, Michael G. Sorice, et al.. (2024). Local knowledge reconstructs historical resource use. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 22(5). 4 indexed citations

Castello, Leandro, et al.. (2023). A Synthesis of the Ecology and Conservation of Pseudoplatystoma Catfishes in the Neotropics. Fishes. 8(6). 306–306. 1 indexed citations

Fleischmann, Ayan Santos, Fabrice Papa, Stephen K. Hamilton, et al.. (2023). Increased floodplain inundation in the Amazon since 1980. Environmental Research Letters. 18(3). 34024–34024. 25 indexed citations

Castello, Leandro. (2023). Filling global gaps in monitoring data with local knowledge. Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 33(5). 423–430. 6 indexed citations

Cope, Jason M., Natalie Dowling, S. Alex Hesp, et al.. (2023). The stock assessment theory of relativity: deconstructing the term “data-limited” fisheries into components and guiding principles to support the science of fisheries management. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. 23 indexed citations

Castello, Leandro, et al.. (2023). An approach to assess data-less small-scale fisheries: examples from Congo rivers. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. 33(3). 593–610. 12 indexed citations

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Duponchelle, Fabrice, Victoria Isaac, Carolina Rodrigues da Costa Dória, et al.. (2021). Conservation of migratory fishes in the Amazon basin. Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 31(5). 1087–1105. 89 indexed citations

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Dias, Rosa Maria, Fernando Mayer Pelicice, Gustavo Henrique Zaia Alves, et al.. (2021). Brazil’s leading environmental agency and aquatic biodiversity threatened by federal decree. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 93(4). 3 indexed citations

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Watson, L. Cynthia, et al.. (2021). Recovery, conservation status, and environmental effects on arapaima populations in Guyana. Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 31(9). 2533–2546. 2 indexed citations

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Petrere, Miguel, et al.. (2020). Effects of deforestation and other environmental variables on floodplain fish catch in the Amazon. Fisheries Research. 230. 105643–105643. 19 indexed citations

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Arantes, Caroline C., Kirk O. Winemiller, Leandro Castello, et al.. (2019). Floodplain land cover affects biomass distribution of fish functional diversity in the Amazon River. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 16684–16684. 53 indexed citations

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Barlow, Jos, Filipe França, Toby Gardner, et al.. (2018). The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems. Nature. 559(7715). 517–526. 436 indexed citations breakdown →

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Castello, Leandro, et al.. (2018). Size‐structured habitat selection by arapaima in floodplain lakes of the Lower Amazon. Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 28(6). 1403–1413. 5 indexed citations

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Stewart, Donald J., et al.. (2016). Unravelling the life history of Amazonian fishes through otolith microchemistry. Royal Society Open Science. 3(6). 160206–160206. 38 indexed citations

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Castello, Leandro, David McGrath, Laura L. Hess, et al.. (2013). The vulnerability of Amazon freshwater ecosystems. Conservation Letters. 6(4). 217–229. 364 indexed citations breakdown →

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Castello, Leandro, et al.. (2008). Lessons from Integrating Fishers of Arapaima in Small-Scale Fisheries Management at the Mamirauá Reserve, Amazon. Environmental Management. 43(2). 197–209. 166 indexed citations

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Castello, Leandro, Jorge Pablo Castello, & Charles A. S. Hall. (2007). Problemas en el estudio y manejo de pesquerías tropicales. 65–73. 6 indexed citations

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