Peer-reviewed publications

  • Diaz-Perez JA, Araújo MS & Costa-Pereira R (2026) Head morphology predicts prey traits and drives individual dietary specialization in generalist anurans. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, in press.
  • Alexandre L & Costa-Pereira R (2026) Social media highlights the overlooked impact of cats on arthropods. Insect Conservation and Diversity, in press. PDF; media coverage: The Independent, Popular Science, Galileu
  • Sugai LSM & Costa-Pereira (2025) Opening the Pandora’s box of acoustic indices. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 40, 935-936. PDF
  • Garrido F, Franco-Trecu V, Naya DE & Costa-Pereira R (2025) Unraveling how keystone niche individuals contribute disproportionately to the population niche. Oikos 8, e11034. PDF
  • Garrido F, Franco-Trecu V & Costa-Pereira R (2025) Keystone-niche individuals: some are more unequal than others. Trends in Ecology and Evolution  40 (1), 4. PDF
  • Galindo E, Costa-Pereira R, Cruz-Escalona VH, Lopez-Garcia J, Morales-Zarate MV, Tavera J, Salinas-Zavala CA, Navia AF (2025) Spatio-temporal patterns of trophic niche variation within and among species of tropical coastal fishes. Biotropica 57, e13411. PDF
  • Costa-Pereira R & Shaner PJL (2024) The spatiotemporal context of individual specialization in resource use and environmental associations. Journal of Animal Ecology 94(3), 268-275. PDF
  • Lichtenstein JLL, McEwen BL, Primavera SD, Lenihan T, Wood ZM, Carson WP & Costa-Pereira R (2024) Top-down effects of intraspeciflic predator behavioral variation. Oecologia 205, 203–214. PDF
  • Costa-Pereira R & Araújo MS (2024) Individual Specialization. In: Scheiner Samuel M. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Biodiversity 3rd edition, 6: 1–14. Oxford: Elsevier. PDF
  • Li Z, Chen Z, Costa-Pereira R, Hussey NE, Zhang Y, Li Y (2024). Isotopic trajectories and interspecific niche partitioning in tropical pelagic sharks. Global Ecology and Conservation 49: e02772. PDF
  • Couto TBA, Rezende RS, Aquino PPU, Costa-Pereira R, Campos GL, Occhi TVT, Vitule JRS, Espirito-Santo HMV, Soares YFF, Olden JD (2023) Effects of small hydropower dams on macroinvertebrate and fish assemblages in southern Brazil. Freshwater Biology 68: 956-971. PDF
  • Toscano B, Pulcini D, Costa-Pereira R, Newsome WB, Griffen, BD (2022) Polymorphism promotes edge utilization by marsh crabs. Oecologia 198: 1031-1042. PDF
  • Costa-Pereira R, Moll R, Jesmer B, Jetz W (2022) Animal tracking moves community ecology: Opportunities and challenges. Journal of Animal Ecology 91: 1334-1344. PDF
  • Fragata I, Costa-Pereira R, Kozak M, Majer A, Godoy O, Magalhães S (2022) Specific sequence of arrival promotes coexistence via spatial niche pre-emption by the weak competitor. Ecology Letters 25: 1629-1639. PDF
  • Victor NR, Costa-Pereira R (2022) Trophic allometry in a predator that carries corpses of its prey. Biotropica 54: 1126-1130. PDF
  • Neves MP, Costa-Pereira R, Fialho CB, Delariva RD (2021) Seasonality and interspecific competition shape individual niche variation in co-occurring tetra fish in Neotropical streams. Biotropica 53: 329-338. PDF
  • Costa-Pereira, R (2021) Letter from Brazil: Teaching and Mentoring in a Sadder Nation. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 102:1. PDF
  • Fisher DN, Lichtenstein JLL, Costa-Pereira R, Yeager J, Pruitt JN (2020) Assessing the repeatability, robustness to disturbance, and parent–offspring colony resemblance of collective behavior. Journal of Evolutionary Biology ​33: 410-421.​ PDF
  • Toscano BJ, Lichtenstein JL, Costa-Pereira R​ (2020) Intraspecific behavioral variation mediates insect prey survival via direct and indirect effects. Diversity ​12: 152-163. ​PDF
  • Velázquez-Castro J, Lakovic M, Morales-Tehuitzit E, Pagnuco IA, Ramirez CA, Costa-Pereira R (2020) A mathematical model of anarchy in bees. Apidologie 51: 1117–1124. PDF​
  • Saito VS, Siqueira T, Bini LM, Costa-Pereira R, Santos EP, Pavoine S (2020) Comparing taxon- and trait-environment relationships in stream communities. Ecological Indicators ​117: 106625.​ PDF
  • Costa-Pereira R & Pruit J (2020) Retraction: Behaviour, morphology and microhabitat use: what drives individual niche variation? Biology Letters 15: 20190266. PDF
  • Costa-Pereira R (2020) Tear down academic paywall during pandemic. Brazilian Journal of Biology ​80: 697. PDF​
  • Costa-Pereira R, Araújo MS, Souza FL, Ingram T (2019) Competition and resource breadth shape niche variation and overlap in multiple trophic dimensions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286: 20190369.​ PDF​
  • Costa-Pereira R, Toscano B, Souza FL, Ingram T, Araújo MS (2019) Individual niche trajectories drive fitness variation. Functional Ecology ​33: ​1734-1745. PDF
  • Lichtenstein JL, Daniel KA, Wong J, Wright CM, Doering GN, Costa-Pereira R, Pruitt JN (2019) Habitat structure changes the relationships between predator behavior, prey behavior, and prey survival rates. Oecologia ​190: 297–308. PDF
  • Costa‐Pereira  R, Rudolf VHW, Souza FL, Araújo MS (2018) Drivers of individual niche variation in coexisting species. Journal of Animal Ecology ​87: 1452-1464. PDF
  • Costa-Pereira R, Araújo MS, Olivier RS, Souza FL, Rudolf VHW (2018) Prey Limitation Drives Variation in Allometric Scaling of Predator-Prey Interactions. The American Naturalist 192: E139-E149.​ PDF
  • Costa-Pereira R, Lucas C, Crossa M, Anderson JT, Weiss BA, Dary EA, Piedade MTF, Demarchi LO, Rebouças ER, Costa GS, Galetti M, Correa SB (2018) Defaunation shadow on mutualistic interactions. PNAS 115:12 E2673-E2675. PDF; media coverage: Unesp
  • Costa-Pereira R, Correa SB, Galetti M (2018) Fishing-down within populations harms seed dispersal mutualism. Biotropica 50: 319–325.​ PDF; media coverage: The Economist; Unesp; Slate
  • Martins CA, Silveira M, Saito VS, Costa-Pereira R, Sugai LMS, Pays O, Roque FO (2018) Phylogenetic structure of communities across temperate and tropical regions. Acta Oecologica ​91: 30-34. PDF
  • Ingram T, Costa-Pereira R, Araújo MS (2018) The Dimensionality of Individual Niche Variation. Ecology 99: 536–549. PDF
  • Gonçalves F, Bovendorp RS, Beca G, Bello C, Costa-Pereira R et al. (2018) ATLANTIC MAMMAL TRAITS: A dataset of morphological traits of mammals in the Atlantic Forest of South America. Ecology 99: 498. PDF​​
  • Costa-Pereira R, Tavares LER, Camargo P, Araújo MS (2017) Seasonal population and individual niche dynamics in a tetra fish in the Pantanal wetlands. Biotropica 49: 531-538. PDF
  • Galetti M, Costa-Pereira R (2017) Scientists need social media influencers. Science 357: 880-881. PDF
  • Costa-Pereira R (2017) An overview on the effects of fish consumption on seed germination: pitfalls, challenges, and directions. Aquatic Botany 140: 34-37. PDF
  • Tavares LER, Campião KM, Costa-Pereira R, Paiva F (2017) Helminth endoparasites of wildlife vertebrates in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Iheringia 107: 1-14. PDF
  • Costa-Pereira R, Araújo MS, Paiva F, Tavares LER (2016) Functional morphology of a tetra fish differs between divergent habitats in the Pantanal wetlands. Journal of Fish Biology 89: 1450-1458. PDF
  • Roque FO, Ochoa-Quintero J, Ribeiro DB, Sugai LSM, Costa-Pereira R, Lourival R, Bino G (2016) Upland habitat loss as a threat to Pantanal wetlands. Conservation Biology 30: 1131-1134. PDF
  • Costa-Pereira R, Ingram T, Souza FL, Araújo MS (2016) Bothrops mattogrossensis (Mato Grosso Lancehead). Diet. Herpetological Review 47: 142. PDF
  • Galetti M, Rodarte R, Neves CL, Moreira M, Costa-Pereira R (2016) Trophic niche differentiation in rodents and marsupials in Atlantic forests revealed by stable isotopes. Plos One 11: e0152494, 2016. PDF
  • Costa-Pereira R (2016) Cecil, the fish. Animal Conservation 19: 1-2. PDF
  • Casillas-Barragán I, Costa-Pereira R, Peixoto PEC (2016) Perceived predation risk decreases movement and increases aggregation of Amazon milk frog (Anura, Hylidae) tadpoles throughout ontogeny. Hydrobiologia 765: 379-386. PDF
  • Costa-Pereira R, Severo-Neto F, Inforzato IM, Laps RR, Pizo MA (2015) Nutrients Drive Termite Nest Geophagy in Yellow-chevroned Parakeets (Brotogeris chiriri). The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 127: 506-510. PDF
  • Severo-Neto F, Tencatt LFC, Costa-Pereira R, Tavares LER (2015) Fishes from Baía da Medalha, southern Pantanal, Brazil: A 20 years review. Biota Neotropica 15: 1-9. PDF
  • Sugai LSM, Ochoa-Quintero J, Costa-Pereira R, Roque FO (2015) Beyond aboveground. Biodiversity and Conservation 24: 2109-2112. PDF
  • Costa-Pereira R, Sugai JLMM, Duleba S, Sugai LSM, Terra JS, Souza FL (2015) Predation on Physalaemus centralis by the Chaco Frog Leptodactylus chaquensis. Herpetology Notes 8: 345-346. PDF
  • Costa-Pereira R, Galetti M (2015) Frugivore downsizing and the collapse of seed dispersal by fish. Biological Conservation 191: 1-3. PDF
  • Correa SB, Costa-Pereira R, Fleming T, Goulding M, Anderson JT (2015) Neotropical fish-fruit interactions: eco-evolutionary dynamics and conservation. Biological Reviews 90:1263-78. PDF
  • Costa-Pereira R (2014) Removal of clay by stingless bees: load size and moisture selection. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 86: 1287-1293.  PDF
  • Costa-Pereira R, Paiva F, Tavares LER (2014) Variation in the parasite community of the sardine fish Triportheus nematurus (Actinopterygii: Characidae) from the Medalha lagoon in the Pantanal wetland, Brazil. Journal of Helminthology 88: 272-277. PDF​
  • Costa-Pereira R, Rosa FR, Resende EK (2013) Estrutura trófica da comunidade de peixes de riachos da porção oeste da bacia do Alto Paraná. Boletim de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento – EMBRAPA 117: 7-26. PDF
  • Araújo MS, Costa-Pereira R (2013) Latitudinal gradients in intraspecific ecological diversity. Biology Letters 9: 20130778. PDF
  • Costa-Pereira R & Severo-Neto F (2012) Dining out: Bryconops caudomaculatus jumps out of water to catch flies. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 85: 241-244. PDF
  • Costa-Pereira R (2012) Small fishes follow large mammals suspending sediment. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 85: 361-364. PDF
  • Severo-Neto F, Yule TS, Costa-Pereira R (2012) Parakeets as facilitators of fish frugivory in the Southern Pantanal. Atualidades Ornitológicas 169: 14-17. PDF
  • Costa-Pereira R, Severo-Neto F, Yule TS, Pereira APT (2011) Fruit-eating fishes of Banara arguta (Salicaceae) in the Miranda River floodplain, Pantanal wetland. Biota Neotropica 11: 373-376. PDF
  • Costa-Pereira R, Martins FI, Sczesny-Moraes E, Brescovit A (2010). Predation on young treefrog (Osteocephalus taurinus) by arthropods (Insecta, Mantodea and Arachnida, Araneae) in Central Brazil. Biota Neotropica 10: 469-472. PDF​​