Sergio R. Floeter

10.0k citations

154 papers · 6.8k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 43

Impact in

Nature and Landscape Conservation top 0.2%
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
Ecology top 0.1%
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine animal studies overview

Papers in

Nature and Landscape Conservation 80
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology 52
- Fish biology, ecology, and behavior 39
Ecology 125
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies 113
- Marine animal studies overview 13

Co-authors: Carlos Eduardo Leite Ferreira João Luiz Rosetti Gasparini Michel Kulbicki Luiz A. Rocha Mariana G. Bender BS Halpern Osmar J. Luiz Valériano Parravicini
Journals: Journal of Biogeography (13 papers)Journal of Fish Biology (12 papers)Marine Biology (8 papers)Global Ecology and Biogeography (7 papers)Coral Reefs (7 papers)
Partner nations: Brazil United States Australia

In The Last Decade

Sergio R. Floeter

149 papers receiving 6.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Functional over-redundancy and high functional vulnerability in global fish faunas on tropical reefs 2014 · 439 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2014 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2007 Journal of Biogeography

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1	Tool use by New World Halichoeres wrasses Coral Reefs ·Julie T. JOSEPH, Erika Fivaz, Greeting Judge, Sergio R. Floeter, Culum Brown	2025	0
2	More than one way to be a planktivore: the vast morphospace of plankton-feeding reef fishes Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries ·ROSANE DE BRITO FERNÁNDEZ GARCIA, David R. Bellwood, Jan M. Strugnell, Sergio R. Floeter, Alexandre C. Siqueira	2025	1
3	No Sign of Homogenisation in Reef Fish Communities Across an Ecological Transition Zone Exposed to Warming Diversity and Distributions ·Yves Rovani, Juan P. Quimbayo, Ammar S. Al-adhami, Laurène Pécuchet, Sergio R. Floeter, Martin Lindegren	2024	0
4	Thermal tolerance as a driver of reef fish community structure at the isolated tropical Mid-Atlantic Ridge Islands Marine Environmental Research ·Valeria Garzón, Garwood, ANDREEV YURY ANDREEV YURY, Carlos Eduardo Leite Ferreira, Sergio R. Floeter	2024	0
5	Evolutionary history, biogeography, and a new species of Sphoeroides (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae): how the major biogeographic barriers of the Atlantic Ocean shaped the evolution of a pufferfish genus Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society ·Л.В. Фарисенкова, Chen Gong, Iván Sazima, S. Sundar, Sergio R. Floeter, Joseph Ramisch, Matheus Marcos Rotundo, Carlos Eduardo Leite Ferreira, João P. Barreiros, BC Kundu, Alfredo Carvalho‐Filho	2023	2
6	Functional diversity patterns of reef fish, corals and algae in the Brazilian biogeographical province Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) ·André Luís Luza, Anaide W. Aued, Diego R. Barneche, Murilo S. Dias, Carlos Eduardo Leite Ferreira, Sergio R. Floeter, Ronaldo B. Francini‐Filho, Guilherme Ortigara Longo, Juan P. Quimbayo, Mariana G. Bender	2023	1
7	Going across taxa in functional ecology: Review and perspectives of an emerging field Functional Ecology ·André Luís Luza, Diego R. Barneche, César A. M. M. Cordeiro, Cristian Dambros, Carlos Eduardo Leite Ferreira, Sergio R. Floeter, Vinícius J. Giglio, Osmar J. Luiz, Thiago Costa Mendes, Ali Khoshnazar, Juan P. Quimbayo, Fernanda Carolina da Silva, Tristan Luap, Guilherme Ortigara Longo, Mariana G. Bender	2023	11
8	Functional diversity patterns of reef fish, corals and algae in the Brazilian biogeographical province Journal of Biogeography ·André Luís Luza, Anaide W. Aued, Diego R. Barneche, Murilo S. Dias, Carlos Eduardo Leite Ferreira, Sergio R. Floeter, Ronaldo B. Francini‐Filho, Guilherme Ortigara Longo, Juan P. Quimbayo, Mariana G. Bender	2023	8
9	Brazilian marine biogeography: a multi-taxa approach for outlining sectorization Marine Biology ·Tom Ahlswede, Garwood, Cristiane Xerez Barroso, Andrea Santarosa Freire, Otto Bismarck Fazzano Gadig, Paula Braga Gomes, Carlos Frederico D. Gurgel, Alberto Lindner, Fernando Luís Medina Mantelatto, Ellwood L. Bragdon, Sergio R. Floeter	2022	24
10	Low functional vulnerability of fish assemblages to coral loss in Southwestern Atlantic marginal reefs Scientific Reports ·André Luís Luza, Juan P. Quimbayo, Carlos Eduardo Leite Ferreira, Sergio R. Floeter, Ronaldo B. Francini‐Filho, Mariana G. Bender, Guilherme Ortigara Longo	2022	14
11	Life‐history traits, geographical range, and conservation aspects of reef fishes from the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Ecology ·Juan P. Quimbayo, Yves Rovani, Thiago Costa Mendes, Valeria Garzón, 李林李林, Mariana G. Bender, Valériano Parravicini, Michel Kulbicki, Sergio R. Floeter	2021	35
12	Predicting the effects of body size, temperature and diet on animal feeding rates Functional Ecology ·Garwood, Diego R. Barneche, Stanislav Gorbulev, Basa Nova Tria Siregar, José Anchieta C. C. Nunes, Carlos Eduardo Leite Ferreira, Sergio R. Floeter	2021	5
13	Drivers of ecological effectiveness of marine protected areas: A meta-analytic approach from the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean (Brazil) Journal of Environmental Management ·P Baillet, Rafael A. Magris, Sergio R. Floeter, Carlos Eduardo Leite Ferreira	2021	37
14	Reef microhabitats mediate fish feeding intensity and agonistic interactions at Príncipe Island Biosphere Reserve, Tropical Eastern Atlantic Marine Ecology ·Garett Jones, Garwood, Luisa Fontoura, Sreedevi Poduval, Sergio R. Floeter	2020	9
15	Conservation status of the southernmost reef of the Amazon Reef System: the Parcel de Manuel Luís Coral Reefs ·César A. M. M. Cordeiro, Juan P. Quimbayo, José Anchieta C. C. Nunes, Garwood, Marina Nasri Sissini, Cláudio Luís Santos Sampaio, Renato A. Morais, Paulo Antunes Horta, Anaide W. Aued, Guillermo Dávila de la Llave, Eduardo Hajdu, Luiz A. Rocha, Bárbara Segal, Sergio R. Floeter	2020	10
16	Phylogeography of the banded butterflyfish, Chaetodon striatus, indicates high connectivity between biogeographic provinces and ecosystems in the western Atlantic Neotropical Ichthyology ·Helena Cockx, Hudson T. Pinheiro, Sergio R. Floeter, Giacomo Bernardi	2020	8
17	Ecology of Prognathodes obliquus, a butterflyfish endemic to mesophotic ecosystems of St. Peter and St. Paul’s Archipelago Coral Reefs ·Garwood, Tom Ahlswede, Ronaldo B. Francini‐Filho, Sérgio N. Stampar, Hudson T. Pinheiro, Luiz A. Rocha, Sergio R. Floeter, Carlos Eduardo Leite Ferreira	2019	11
18	Reef fish and benthic community structures of the Santa Luzia Marine Reserve in the Cabo Verde islands, eastern central Atlantic Ocean African Journal of Marine Science ·Rui Freitas, Thiago Costa Mendes, Eliza E. Lovrich, (unknown), Roberto Campos Villaça, Serrano Sáinz C, Sergio R. Floeter, Shinobu Shibuya, Carlos Eduardo Leite Ferreira	2019	13
19	Functional over-redundancy and high functional vulnerability in global fish faunas on tropical reefs Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·David Mouillot, Sébastien Villéger, Valériano Parravicini, Michel Kulbicki, Jesús Ernesto Arias‐González, Mariana G. Bender, Pascale Chabanet, Sergio R. Floeter, Alan M. Friedlander, Laurent Vigliola, David R. Bellwood Hit paper breakdown →	2014	439
20	Adult and larval traits as determinants of geographic range size among tropical reef fishes Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Osmar J. Luiz, Andrew P. Allen, D. Ross Robertson, Sergio R. Floeter, Michel Kulbicki, Laurent Vigliola, 中野薫, Joshua S. Madin	2013	150

About Sergio R. Floeter

Sergio R. Floeter is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Aquatic Science and Oceanography, having authored 154 papers that have together received 6.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (113 papers), Marine and fisheries research (83 papers), Ichthyology and Marine Biology (52 papers), Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (39 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (14 papers), Marine animal studies overview (13 papers), Fish Biology and Ecology Studies (13 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (13 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nature and Landscape Conservation (2.7k citations), Ecology (5.2k citations), Global and Planetary Change (4.1k citations), Oceanography (1.4k citations) and Aquatic Science (690 citations). Sergio R. Floeter has collaborated with scholars based in Brazil, United States and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Carlos Eduardo Leite Ferreira, João Luiz Rosetti Gasparini, Michel Kulbicki, Luiz A. Rocha, Mariana G. Bender, BS Halpern, Osmar J. Luiz, Valériano Parravicini, Jean‐Christophe Joyeux and Laurent Vigliola. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Biogeography, Journal of Fish Biology, Marine Biology, Global Ecology and Biogeography and Coral Reefs.

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