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Lucas Porto

Evolutionary biologist

Porto, L.M.V., Penido, G., Fiedler, M. 2025. The rise and fall of Felidae lineages: climatic and ecological drivers of body mass and diversification dynamics. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.

Published papers

Porto, L.M.V., Etienne, R.S., Maestri, R. 2025. Competition and environmental gradients structure Canidae assemblages across the planet. Evolutionary Ecology.

Graciotti, R.P., Porto, L.M.V., Gonçalves-Neto, S., Quental, T.B. 2025. Ecological and spatial overlap indicate interspecific competition during North American Canid radiation. Evolution.

Porto, L.M.V. 2025. FIRST REPORT OF Trichonephila clavipes (LINNAEUS, 1767) (ARANEAE: ARANEIDAE) PREDATION ON AN AMPHIBIAN (ANURA) IN SOUTHERN BRAZIL. Oecologia Australis.

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Porto, L.M.V., Machado, A.F. 2024. Phylogenetic Insights Into Canidae Trait Variation Across Continents. Journal of Biogeography.

Porto, L.M.V., Bennett, D., Maestri, R., Etienne, R.S. 2024. Canids in a changing climate: predicting range shifts and evolutionary rescue under distinct future scenarios. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.

Porto, L.M.V., Penido, G., Fiedler, M. 2023. The influence of Canidae social behaviour on reproductive traits. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.

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Porto, L.M.V., Etienne, R.S., Maestri, R. 2023. Evolutionary radiation in canids following continental colonizations. Evolution.

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Alhajeri, B.H., Porto, L.M.V., Maestri, R. 2020. Habitat productivity is a poor predictor of body size in rodents. Current Zoology.

Porto, L.M.V., Maestri, R., Duarte, L. 2019. Evolutionary relationships among lifehistory traits in Caninae (Mammalia: Carnivora). Biological Journal of the Linnean
Society.

Porto, L.M.V., Rui, A.M. 2019. Diet and habitat use by two sympatric canids in the Pampas of South America. Neotropical Biology and Conservation.

Rosenthal, L.D., Ribeiro, P.B., Rosenthal, M.D., Vianna, E.E.S., Porto, L.M.V. 2013.
Influência de baixas temperaturas no desenvolvimento e aspectos bionômicos de Musca
domestica (Linnaeus, 1758) (Diptera, Muscidae). Biotemas.

Publications in preprint

Porto, L.M.V., Maestri, R., Janzen, T., Eienne, R. 2023. From Fossils to Living Canids: Two Contrasting Perspectives on Biogeographic Diversification.

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Porto, L.M.V., Quental, T.B. 2025. High Competition and Selective Extinction: How Biotic and Abiotic Drivers Shaped Speciation and Extinction Regimes in Carnivora.

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