Publications

Selected publications

Preprints and earlier work are listed on my Google Scholar profile.

Leiva FP, Molina-Venegas R, Alter K, Freire CA, Hendriks AJ, Hermaniuk A, Serre-Fredj L, Shokri M, Czarnoleski M & Mark FC (2026). ErythroCite: a database on red blood cell size of fishes. Scientific Data, 13.

Code Data

Verberk WCEP, Henry E, Leiva FP, Barbarossa V & Schipper A (2026). Heat tolerance and its plasticity in freshwater and marine fishes reflect exposure to extremes and seasonal variation in habitat temperatures. Ecology Letters, 29,e70341.

Code Data

Kempf S, Neven CJ, Timpe A, Leiva FP, Seibel B & Mark FC (2025). The physiological response of the Arctic key species Polar cod, Boreogadus saida, to hypoxia in a warming ocean: critical oxygen levels and swimming performance. BMC Zoology, 10,1–12.

Code Data

Leiva FP, Ellers J, Berg MP, Cuxart-Erruz R, Barneche D, Blackburn T, Castañeda LE, Chown S, Gaitán-Espitia JD, Gebauer P, Gomez Isaza D, Hardy I, Hermaniuk A, Hirst A, Jorissen S, Keasar T, Koene JM, Le Lann C, Martorelli I, Molinet C, Niklitschek EJ, Oliveira B, Olivier B, Orizaola G, Pilakouta N, Shameer KS, Shokri M, Stoks R, Tougeron K, Tuni C, van de Pol ILE, van Dis NE, Visser B, Vogels J, White CR, Wu N & Verberk WCEP (2025). ShareTrait: towards interoperable and reusable individual trait-based data in ectotherms. Functional Ecology, 39, 3124–3138.

Code Data

Babin CH, Leiva FP, Verberk WCEP, Rees BB (2024). Evolution of key oxygen-sensing genes is associated with hypoxia tolerance in fishes. Genome Biology and Evolution, 16, evae183.

Code Data

Leiva FP, Santos M, Rezende EL & Verberk WCEP (2024). Intraspecific variation of heat tolerance in a model ectotherm: the role of oxygen, cell size and body size. Functional Ecology, 38, 439–448.

Code Data

Leiva FP, Boerrigter JGJ & Verberk WCEP (2023). The role of cell size in shaping responses to oxygen and temperature in fruit flies. Functional Ecology,37, 1269-1279.

Code Data

Verberk WCEP, Sandker JF, van de Pol ILE, Urbina MA, Wilson RW, McKenzie DJ & Leiva FP (2022). Body mass and cell size shape the tolerance of fishes to low oxygen in a temperature-dependent manner. Global Change Biology, 28, 5695–5707.

Code Data

Verspagen N, Leiva FP, Janssen I & Verberk WCEP (2020). Effects of developmental plasticity on heat tolerance may be mediated by changes in cell size in Drosophila melanogaster. Insect Science, 27, 1244–1256.

Code Data

Toledo P, Niklitschek EJ, Darnaude AM, Leiva FP, Harrod C, Lillo S, Ojeda V, Klarian S, Molina-Burgos B, Gálvez P, Canales-Aguirre CB (2020). The trophic ecology of partial migration: insights from Merluccius australis off NW Patagonia. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 77, 1927–1940.

Code Data

Leiva FP, Calosi P & Verberk WCEP (2019). Scaling of thermal tolerance with body mass and genome size in ectotherms: a comparison between water- and air-breathers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 374, 20190035.

Code Data

Sunday J, Bennett JM, Calosi P, Clusella-Trullas S, Gravel S, Leiva FP, Verberk WCEP, Olalla-Tárraga MA & Morales-Castilla I (2019). Thermal tolerance patterns across latitude and elevation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 374, 20190036.

Code Data

Toledo P, Darnaude AM, Niklitschek EJ, Ojeda V, Voué R, Leiva FP, Labonne M, Canales- Aguirre CB (2019). Partial migration and early growth of southern hake Merluccius australis: a journey between estuarine and oceanic habitats off Northwest Patagonia. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 76, 1094–1106.

Code Data

Murúa P, Patiño DJ, Leiva FP, Küpper FC, Müller DG, Peters AF, Muñoz LA, Westermeier R (2019). Gall disease in the alginophyte Lessonia berteroana: a pathogenic interaction linked with host adulthood in a seasonal-dependant manner. Algal Research, 39, 101435.

Code Data

Leiva FP, Garcés C, Verberk WCEP, Care M, Paschke K & Gebauer P (2018). Differences in the respiratory response to temperature and hypoxia across four life-stages of the intertidal porcelain crab Petrolisthes laevigatus. Marine Biology, 165, 146.

Code Data

Leiva FP, Niklitschek EJ, Paschke K, Gebauer P & Urbina MA (2016). Tide-related biological rhythm in the oxygen consumption rate of ghost shrimp Neotrypaea uncinata. Journal of Experimental Biology, 219, 1957–1960.

Code Data

Leiva FP, Urbina MA, Cumillaf JP, Gebauer P & Paschke K (2015). Physiological responses of the ghost shrimp Neotrypaea uncinata to oxygen availability and recovery after severe environmental hypoxia. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology,189, 30–37.

Code Data