Manuel Lopes‐Lima

6.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
164 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Manuel Lopes‐Lima is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Manuel Lopes‐Lima has authored 164 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 146 papers in Ecology, 58 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 43 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Manuel Lopes‐Lima's work include Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (129 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (55 papers) and Mollusks and Parasites Studies (42 papers). Manuel Lopes‐Lima is often cited by papers focused on Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (129 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (55 papers) and Mollusks and Parasites Studies (42 papers). Manuel Lopes‐Lima collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, United States and United Kingdom. Manuel Lopes‐Lima's co-authors include Ronaldo Sousa, Amílcar Teixeira, Elsa Froufe, Simone Varandas, Jorge Machado, Arthur E. Bogan, Alexandra Zieritz, Lyubov E. Burlakova, Alexander Y. Karatayev and Mary B Seddon and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Manuel Lopes‐Lima

152 papers receiving 3.4k citations

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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.

Conservation of freshwater bivalves at the global scale: diversity, threats and research needs

2018 278 citations Manuel Lopes‐Lima, Lyubov E. Burlakova et al. Hydrobiologia profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Manuel Lopes‐Lima Portugal	32	3.0k	1.4k	791	552	440	164	3.5k
Arthur E. Bogan United States	30	3.9k 1.3×	1.6k 1.1×	1.5k 1.9×	541 1.0×	500 1.1×	115	4.4k
Charles Lydeard United States	31	2.6k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	1.2k 1.5×	413 0.7×	222 0.5×	62	3.3k
Kevin S. Cummings United States	18	3.0k 1.0×	1.5k 1.1×	957 1.2×	301 0.5×	435 1.0×	59	3.2k
Elsa Froufe Portugal	28	1.7k 0.6×	926 0.7×	461 0.6×	530 1.0×	157 0.4×	141	2.6k
Amílcar Teixeira Portugal	25	1.6k 0.5×	863 0.6×	316 0.4×	303 0.5×	181 0.4×	93	1.8k
Theodore A. Kennedy United States	28	1.8k 0.6×	2.1k 1.5×	228 0.3×	464 0.8×	105 0.2×	91	4.0k
Ellen E. Strong United States	24	2.7k 0.9×	746 0.5×	1.7k 2.1×	695 1.3×	278 0.6×	86	4.1k
Lyubov E. Burlakova United States	32	3.3k 1.1×	1.9k 1.4×	482 0.6×	729 1.3×	801 1.8×	119	3.7k
Richard J. Neves United States	40	4.7k 1.6×	2.7k 2.0×	750 0.9×	846 1.5×	1.3k 2.9×	130	5.6k
Alexander Y. Karatayev United States	32	3.3k 1.1×	1.9k 1.4×	503 0.6×	732 1.3×	818 1.9×	118	3.8k

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Lopes‐Lima, Manuel, Jérôme Murienne, Loïc Pellissier, et al.. (2025). No attenuation of fish and mammal biodiversity declines in the Guiana Shield. The Science of The Total Environment. 971. 179021–179021. 1 indexed citations

Soares, João Fábio, et al.. (2025). Mammal Responses to Habitat Degradation Induced by Cashew Expansion in West Africa. Animal Conservation. 1 indexed citations

Gomes‐dos‐Santos, André, L. Filipe C. Castro, Ivan N. Bolotov, et al.. (2025). Phylogenetic Relationships of the Moles and their Relatives (Talpidae): Insights from Mitogenomes. Evolutionary Biology. 52(4). 221–233.

Lopes‐Lima, Manuel, et al.. (2025). Navigating Methodological Trade‐Offs in eDNA Metabarcoding Biodiversity Monitoring: Insights From a Mediterranean Watershed. Molecular Ecology Resources. 25(6). e14082–e14082. 2 indexed citations

Nogueira, Joana Garrido, Arnaud Lyet, Virgilio Hermoso, et al.. (2025). Assessing the value of environmental DNA into conservation planning: A case study of freshwater bivalves in France. Journal of Environmental Management. 380. 124852–124852. 1 indexed citations

Lopes‐Lima, Manuel, Lyubov E. Burlakova, Karel Douda, et al.. (2025). Non-native freshwater molluscs: a brief global review of species, pathways, impacts and management strategies. Hydrobiologia. 852(5). 1005–1028. 3 indexed citations

Gibbins, Christopher, Yixiong Cai, Farah Diba, et al.. (2024). Prioritising challenges and actions for freshwater conservation in a tropical biodiversity hotspot. Biological Conservation. 299. 110839–110839.

Palmeirim, Ana Filipa, et al.. (2024). Small mammal diversity across different habitat types in an Upper Guinean Forest National Park. African Journal of Ecology. 62(3). 5 indexed citations

Marques, Mariana P., et al.. (2024). An island in a sea of sand: a first checklist of the herpetofauna of the Serra da Neve inselberg, southwestern Angola. ZooKeys. 1201. 167–217. 3 indexed citations

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Halabowski, Dariusz, Ronaldo Sousa, Manuel Lopes‐Lima, et al.. (2024). Off the conservation radar: the hidden story of Europe's tiny pea clams (Bivalvia: Sphaeriidae). Biodiversity and Conservation. 33(13). 3567–3581. 2 indexed citations

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Hermoso, Virgilio, et al.. (2024). The role of connectivity in conservation planning for species with obligatory interactions: Prospects for future climate scenarios. Global Change Biology. 30(2). 5 indexed citations

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Marques, Mariana P., et al.. (2024). A treasure trove of endemics: two new species of snake-eyed skinks of the genus Panaspis Cope, 1868 (Squamata, Scincidae) from the Serra da Neve Inselberg, southwestern Angola. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8(2). 167–182. 2 indexed citations

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Lopes‐Lima, Manuel, Vincent Prié, Luis M. P. Ceríaco, et al.. (2024). Rapid eDNA survey reveals a unique biodiversity hotspot: The Corubal River, West Africa. BioScience. 74(6). 405–412. 6 indexed citations

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Gonçãlves, Duarte V., Manuel Lopes‐Lima, Simone Varandas, et al.. (2023). Joint species distribution models unveil co‐occurrences between freshwater mussels and their fish hosts. Journal of Biogeography. 50(4). 730–742. 7 indexed citations

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Sousa, Ronaldo, Duarte V. Gonçãlves, Rafael Miranda, et al.. (2023). Streams in the Mediterranean Region are not for mussels: Predicting extinctions and range contractions under future climate change. The Science of The Total Environment. 883. 163689–163689. 11 indexed citations

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Egeter, Bastian, et al.. (2022). Speeding up the detection of invasive bivalve species using environmental DNA: A Nanopore and Illumina sequencing comparison. Molecular Ecology Resources. 22(6). 2232–2247. 38 indexed citations

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Gomes‐dos‐Santos, André, Manuel Lopes‐Lima, André M. Machado, et al.. (2021). The Crown Pearl: a draft genome assembly of the European freshwater pearl mussel Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758). DNA Research. 28(2). 20 indexed citations

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Martins, Filipa M. S., Amílcar Teixeira, Ronaldo Sousa, et al.. (2020). Origin and history of Phoxinus (Cyprinidae) introductions in the Douro Basin (Iberian Peninsula): an update inferred from genetic data. Biological Invasions. 22(8). 2409–2419. 16 indexed citations

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Modesto, Vanessa, Martina Ilarri, Allan T. Souza, et al.. (2017). Fish and mussels: Importance of fish for freshwater mussel conservation. Fish and Fisheries. 19(2). 244–259. 139 indexed citations

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Lopes‐Lima, Manuel, et al.. (2015). A massive freshwater mussel bed (Bivalvia: Unionidae) in a small river in Ukraine. Folia Malacologica. 23(4). 273–277. 3 indexed citations

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