​​Peer reviewed publications

2020
  • 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 ​(in press). 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. PDF
  • Costa-Pereira R (2020) Tear down academic paywall during pandemic. Brazilian Journal of Biology ​80: 697. PDF​
  • Neves MP, Costa‐Pereira R, Delariva RL, Fialho CB (2020) Seasonality and interspecific competition shape individual niche variation in co‐occurring tetra fish in Neotropical streams. Biotropica (in press).​ PDF

2019
  • 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

2018
  • 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​​

2017
  • 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

2016
  • 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

2015
  • 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

2014 & before
  • 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​​