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José Carlos Brito

Principal Researcher

Publications

204 Publications

Licata, F., Liz, A.V., Santos, B., Lakušić, M., Taheri, A., Tarroso, P., Gonçalves, D.V., & Brito, J. C. (2024). Reptiles of AlUla. In: D.V. Gonçalves, L. Khalatbari, B. Santos, G.H. Yusefi, & J.C. Brito (Eds.), Field guides to the fauna of AlUla. Sarawat Printing and Publishing, Saudi Arabia. Total pages: 128. Published in English and Arabic. https://www.rcu.gov.sa/en/open-data-library/reptiles-of-alula Open publication

Liz, A.V., Licata, F., Santos, B., Gonçalves, D.V., Lakušić, M., Roumelioti, M., Serén, N., Tarroso, P., Abdulkareem, A., László, P., & Brito, J.C. (2025). Biogeographic implications of biodiversity shortfalls in a mid-altitude desert ecotone of the Arabian Peninsula. Diversity and Distributions, 31(3), e70016. doi: 10.1111/ddi.70016 Open publication

Bilancioni, M., Ferreira, D., Khalatbari, L., Boratyński, Z., Rebelo, H., Álvares, F., Liz, A.V., Alfakih, A., Taheri, A., Santos, B., Tarroso, P., & Brito, J.C. (2024). Mammals of AlUla. In: D.V. Gonçalves, L. Khalatbari, B. Santos, G.H. Yusefi, & J.C. Brito (Eds.), Field guides to the fauna of AlUla. Sarawat Printing and Publishing, Saudi Arabia. Total pages: 136. Published in English and Arabic. https://www.rcu.gov.sa/en/open-data-library/mammals-of-alula Open publication

Licata, F., Pola, L., Šmíd, J., Ibrahim, A. A., Liz, A. V., Santos, B., Patkó, L., Abdulkareem, A., Gonçalves, D. V., AlShammari, A. M., Busais, S., Egan, D. M., Ramalho, R. M. O., Smithson, J., Brito, J. C. (2024). The missing piece of the puzzle: A new and widespread species of the genus Rhynchocalamus Günther, 1864 (Squamata, Colubridae) from the Arabian Peninsula. Zoosystematics and Evolution, 100(2), 691-704. doi: 10.3897/zse.100.123441 Open publication

Liz, A. V., Rödder, D, Gonçalves, D. V., Velo-Antón, G., Tarroso, P., Geniez, P., Crochet, P. A., Carvalho, S. B., Brito, J. C. (2023). Overlooked species diversity in the hyper-arid Sahara Desert unveiled by dryland-adapted lizards. Journal of Biogeography, 50(1), 101-115. doi: 10.1126/science.abo7381 Open publication

Rocha J.L., Silva P., Santos N., Nakamura M., Afonso S., Qninba A., Boratynski Z., Sudmant P.H., Brito J.C., Nielsen R. & Godinho R. (2023) North-African foxes genomes show signatures of repeated introgression and adaptation to life in deserts. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 1-20. doi: 10.1038/s41559-023-02094-w Open publication

Brito, J.C., Sow, A.S., Vale, C.G., Pizzigalli, C., Hamidou, D., Gonçalves, D.V., Martínez-Freiría, F., Santarém, F., Rebelo, H., Campos, .JC., Pleguezuelos, J.M. (2022). Diversity, distribution and conservation of land mammals in Mauritania, North-West Africa. Plos one 1;17(8):e0269870. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0269870 Open publication

Liz, A. V., Gonçalves, D. V., Velo-Antón, G., Brito, J. C., Crochet, P. A., Rödder, D. (2022). Adapt biodiversity targets to climate change. Science, 376(6593), 589-590. doi: 10.1111/jbi.14510 Open publication

Martínez-Freiría, F., Freitas, I., Velo-Antón, G., Lucchini, N., Fahd, S., Larbes, S., Pleguezuelos, J.M., Santos, X., Brito, J.C. (2022). Integrative taxonomy reveals two species and intraspecific differentiation in the Vipera latastei-monticola complex. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 59, 2278-2306. doi: 10.1111/jzs.12534 Open publication

Velo-Antón, G., Henrique, M., Liz, A. V., Martínez-Freiría, F., Pleguezuelos, J. M., Geniez, P., Crochet, P. A., Brito, J. C. (2022). DNA barcode reference library for the West Sahara-Sahel reptiles. Scientific Data, 9, 459. doi: 10.1038/s41597-022-01582-1 Open publication

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