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Rodrigo Costa Araújo, Ph.D.
Science and nature conservation
I am mainly interested in research and conservation
of primates and forests
As a researcher my objective is to understand how the world's highest diversity of primates have arisen, diversified and assembled in the tropical forests of the Americas
In order to protect wildlife and humans I generate and
apply conservation science
and produce educational media pieces
Updates
We updated the list of mammals of Brazil in 2024. The list is a dataset annually published by the Taxonomy Committee of the Brazilian Society of Mammalogy, and it is available here.
posted on 14 January 2024
New book chapter published. I was part of a joint effort of the Brazilian societies of botany, microbiology, zoology and others that aimed to evaluate the state of the scientific collections in the country, which resulted in the publishing of the book––available here.
posted on 21 October 2024
New book published. Introdução e orientações às boas práticas para as Coleções Biológicas Científicas Brasileiras (PORT): Guidelines of best practices for the scientific collections of Brazil. Freely available here.
posted on 17 July 2024
New article published! The first occurrence dataset of Amazonian primates is now available, with 192 new records of 22 species and subspecies, as a result of 10 field expeditions carried out across the arc of deforestation. We extend the ranges of Alouatta puruensis, Ateles chamek, and Saimiri collinsi, update the range of Plecturocebus moloch, P. baptista, and P. hoffmannsi, and identify potential hybridization zones in Alouatta and Ateles. Article and dataset available here.
posted on 2 February 2024
Back to the field! My funding proposal to carry out a field expedition in Amazonia was just approved. News on the exploration will come out soon!
posted on 1 September 2023