Articles in Scientific Journals
For pdf files of any of the articles below please contact me by email: gcosta@aum.edu
75. Singhal S, ColstonTJ, Grundler M, Smith SA, Costa GC, Colli GR, Moritz C, Rabosky, DL. In press. Congruence and conflict in the higher-level phylogenetics of squamate reptiles: an expanded phylogenomic perspective. Systematic Biology.
74. Bruinjé AC, Coelho FEA, Maggi BS, Costa GC. 2020. Chemical signalling behaviour in intrasexual communication of femoral poreless lizards. Ethology 126: 772–779.
73. Costa GC & Schlupp I. 2020. Placing the hybrid origin of the asexual Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa) based on historical climate data. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 129: 835–843.
72. Oliveira BF, Sheffers BR, Costa GC. 2020. Decoupled erosion of amphibians’ phylogenetic and functional diversity from extinction. Global Ecology and Biogeography 29: 309–319.
71. Mazzochini GG, Fonseca CR, Costa GC, Santos RM, Oliveira-Filho A, Ganade G. 2019. Plant phylogenetic diversity stabilizes large-scale ecosystem productivity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 28: 1430–1439.
70. Fonseca EM, Werneck FP, Gehara M, Oliveira EF, Magalhães FM, Lima GS, Mesquita, DO, Costa GC, Colli GR, Garda AA. 2019. Protected areas do not safeguard evolutionary hotspots in the semiarid Caatinga Biome in Brazil. Biodiversity and Conservation 28:2877–2890.
69. Bruinjé AC, Coelho FEA, Paiva TMA, Costa GC. 2019. Aggression, color signaling, and performance of male color morphs of the Striped Lava Lizard. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 73:72.
68. Souza HBA, Vieira WL, Costa GC, Vasconcellos A. 2019. Defense mechanisms of termites affect their consumption rates by lizards. Amphibia-Reptilia 40:395–400.
67. Lion MB, Garda AA, Lee TM, Bickford D, Costa GC, Mazzochini GG, Fonseca CR. 2019. Global patterns of terrestriality in amphibian reproduction. Global Ecology and Biogeography 28:744–756.
66. Bruinjé AC, Pessoa DMA, Costa GC. 2019. Conspecifics of the Striped Lava Lizard, Tropidurus semitaeniatus, are able to distinguish sex and male color morphs in apparently homogeneous dull dorsal coloration. Amphibia-Reptilia 40:149–162.
65. Oliveira JA, Farias IP, Costa GC, Werneck FP. 2019. Model-based riverscape genetics: disentangling the roles of local and connectivity factors in shaping spatial genetic patterns of two Amazonian turtles with different dispersal abilities. Evolutionary Ecology 33:273–298.
64. Zurano JP, Magalhães FM, Asato AB, Silva G, Bidau CJ, Mesquita DO, Costa GC. 2019. Cetartiodactyla: updating a time-calibrated molecular phylogeny. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 133:256–262.
63. Radeloff VC, Dubinin M, Coops NC. Allen A, Brooks TM, Clayton M, Costa GC, Graham CH, Ives AR, Kolesov D, Kuemmerle T, Pidgeon AM, Rapacciuolo G, Razenkova E, Rondinini C, Suttidate N, Young B, Zhu L, Hobi, M. (2019). The Dynamic Habitat Indices (DHIs) from MODIS and global biodiversity. Remote Sensing of Environment 222:204–214.
62. Bruinjé AC, Leivas PT, Costa GC . 2018. Characterization of sexual dimorphism and male color polymorphism of Tropidurus semitaeniatus (Spix, 1825) in three populations from northeast of Brazil. Herpetological Notes 11:755–760.
61. Gonçalves AS, Costa GC, Bond-Buckup G, Bartholomei-Santos ML, Santos, S. 2018. Priority areas for conservation within freshwater ecoregions: a scale perspective. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 28:1077–1088.
60. Oliveira EF, Gehara M, São-Pedro VA, Costa GC, Burbrink FT, Colli GR, Rodrigues MT, Garda AA. 2018. Phylogeography of Muller's termite frog suggests the vicariant role of the Central Brazilian Plateau. Journal of Biogeography 45:2508–2519.
59. Coelho FEA, Bruinjé AC, Costa GC. 2018. Ethogram with the description of a new behavioral display for the Striped Lava Lizard, Tropidurus semitaeniatus. South American Journal of Herpetology 13:96–101.
58. Marin J, Rapacciuolo G, Costa GC, Graham CH, Brooks TM, Young BE, Radeloff VC, Behm JE, Helmus MR, Hedges SB. 2018. Evolutionary time drives global tetrapod diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 285:20172378.
57. Costa GC, Carnaval AC, Hampe A, Ledru MP, Martinez PA, Mazzochini GG, Shepard DB, Werneck FP, Moritz C. 2018. Climatic variability and biome stability based on long-term vegetation dynamics in South America. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27:285–297
56 – Oliveira EF, Martinez PA, São-Pedro VA, Gehara M, Burbrink FT, Mesquita DO, Garda AA, Colli GR, Costa GC. 2018. Climatic suitability, isolation by distance and river resistance explain genetic variation in Brazilian whiptail lizard. Heredity 120:251–265
55 – Holt BG, Costa GC, Penone C, Lessard JP, Brooks, TM, Davidson AD, Hedges SB, Radeloff VC, Rahbek C, Rondinini C, Graham CH. 2018. Environmental variation is a major predictor of global trait turnover in mammals. Journal of Biogeography 45:225–237
54 – Oliveira BF, Costa GC, Fonseca CR. 2018. Niche dynamics of two cryptic Prosopis invading South American dry lands. Biological Invasions 20:181–194
53 – Davidson AD, Shoemaker KT, Weinstein B, Costa GC, Brooks TM, Ceballos G, Radeloff VC, Rondinini C, Graham CH. 2017. Geography of current and future global mammal extinction risk. PLoS ONE 12: e018693
52 – Gehara M, Garda AA, Werneck FP, Oliveira EF, Fonseca EM, Camurugi F, Magalhães FM, Lanna FM, Sites Jr JW, Marques R, São-Pedro VA, Colli GR, Costa GC, Burbrink FT. In Press. Estimating synchronous demographic changes across populations using hABC, and its application for a herpetological community from Northeastern Brazil. Molecular Ecology 26:4756–4771.
51 – Rapacciuolo G, Marin J, Costa GC, Helmus MR, Behm JE, Brooks TM, Hedges SB, Radeloff VC, Young BE, Graham CH. 2017. A detectable signal of human pressure amid ecological constraints on the biogeography of body mass in tetrapods. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26:1022–1034.
50 – Oliveira BF, São-Pedro VA, Santos-Barrera G, Penone C, Costa GC. 2017. AmphiBIO: A global database for amphibians ecological traits. Scientific Data 4:170123.
49 – Brum FT, Graham CH, Costa GC, Hedges SB, Penone C, Radeloff VC, Rondinini C, Loyola RD, Davidson AD. 2017. Global priorities for conservation across multiple dimensions of mammalian diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 114:7641–7646.
48 – Lisboa CMCA, Bajer K, Pessoa DMA, Huber M, Costa GC. 2017 Female Brazilian whiptail lizards (Cnemidophorus ocellifer) prefer males with high ultraviolet ornament reflectance. Behavioural Processes 142:33–39.
47 – Zurano JP, Martinez PA, Canto-Hernandez J, Montoya-Burgos JI, Costa GC. 2017. Morphological and ecological divergence in South American canids. Journal of Biogeography 44:821–833.
46 – Costa GC, França KL, Oliveira-Junior TM, Pichorim M. 2016. Microhabitat use and coexistence in two closely related species of Herpsilochmus (Aves: Thamnophilidae). Cogent Environment Series 2:1264126
45 – Veron S, Penone C, Clergeau P, Costa GC, Oliveira BF, São-Pedro VA, Pavoine S. 2016. Integrating data-deficient species in analyses of evolutionary history loss. Ecology and Evolution 6:8502–8514.
44 – Penone C, Weinstein BG, Graham CH, Brooks TM, Rondinini C, Hedges SB, Davidson AD, Costa GC. 2016. Global mammal betadiversity reveals convergence between isolated tropical forest assemblages. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences. 283:20161028.
43 – Oliveira BF, Machac A, Costa GC, Brooks TM, Davidson AD, Rondinini C, Graham CH. 2016. Species and functional diversity accumulate differently in terrestrial mammals. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 25:1119–1130.
42 – Mesquita DO, Costa GC, Colli GR, Costa TB, Shepard DB, Vitt LJ, Pianka ER. 2016. Life history patterns of lizards of the world. The American Naturalist. 187:689–705.
41 – Moura MR, Villalobos F, Costa GC, Garcia PCA. 2016. Disentangling the role of climate, topography and vegetation in species richness gradients. PLoS ONE. 11:e0152468.
40 – Nóbrega RP, Montingelli GG, Trevine VC, L. FF, Vieira GHC, Costa GC, Mesquita DO. 2016. Intraspecific variation of the snake Thamnodynastes pallidus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Serpentes, Dipsadidae, Tachymenini) based on morphology, and the analysis of its geographic distribution. Herpetological Journal. 26:167–176.
39 – Oliveira EF, Gehara M, Pedro VAS, Chen X, Myers EA, Burbrink FT, Mesquita DO, Garda AA, Colli GR, Rodrigues MT, Arias FJ, Zaher H, Santos RML and Costa GC. 2015. Speciation with gene flow in whiptail lizards from a Neotropical xeric biome. Molecular Ecology 24:5957–5975.
38 – Pyron RA, Costa GC, Patten MA, Burbrink FT. 2015. Phylogenetic niche conservatism and the evolutionary basis of ecological speciation. Biological Reviews 90:1248–1262
37 – Mesquita DO, Colli GR, Costa GC, Costa TB, Shepard DB, Vitt, LJ, Pianka ER. 2015. Life history data of lizards of the world. Ecology 96: 594.
36 – Mesquita, DO, Costa GC, Figueiredo AS, França, FGR, Garda AA, Soares, AHSB, Tavares-Bastos L, Vasconcellos MM, Vieira GHC, Vitt LJ, Werneck FP, Wiederhecker HC, Colli GR. 2015. The autecology of Anolis brasiliensis (Squamata, Teiidae) in a Neotropical Savanna. Herpetological Journal 25: 233–244.
35. Penone C, Davidson AD, Shoemaker KT, Rondinini C, Di Marco M, Brooks TM, Young BY, Graham CH, Costa GC. 2014. Imputation of missing data in life-history traits datasets: which approach performs the best? Methods in Ecology and Evolution 5: 961–970
34. Cavalcanti, LBQ, Costa, TB, Colli, GR, Costa, GC, França, FGR, Mesquita, DO, Palmeira, CNS, Pelegrin, N, Soares, AHSB, Tucker, DB, Garda, AA. 2014. Herpetofauna of protected areas in the Caatinga II: Serra da Capivara National Park, Piauí, Brazil. Check List 10: 18–27.
33. Araújo CB, Marcondes-Machado, LM, Costa GC. 2014. The importance of biotic interactions in species distribution models: a test of the Eltonian Noise Hypothesis using parrots. Journal of Biogeography 41: 513–523.
32. Palaoro, AV., Dalosto, MM., Costa, GC, Santos, S. 2013. Niche conservatism and invasive potential of the crayfish Procambarus clarkii in South America. Freshwater Biology 58: 1379–1391.
31. Riul, P., Targino, CH, Júnior, LAC, Creed, JC, Horta, PA, Costa GC. 2013. Invasive potential of the coral Tubastraea coccinea in the southwest Atlantic. Marine Ecology Progress Series 480: 73–81.
30. Bohm M, Costa GC, et al. 2013. The conservation status of the world's reptiles Biological Conservation. Biological Conservation 157: 372–385.
29. Garda, AA, Wiederhecker, HC., Gainsbury, AM, Costa, GC., Pyron RA, Vieira, GHC, Werneck, FP, Colli, GR. 2013. Microhabitat variation explains local-scale terrestrial species distributions and abundances in an Amazonian lizard assemblage. Biotropica 45: 245–252.
28. Werneck, FP, Nogueira, C, Colli, GR, Sites Jr, JW, Costa, GC. 2012. Climatic stability in the Brazilian Cerrado: implications for biogeographical connections of South American savannas, species richness, and conservation in a biodiversity hotspot. Journal of Biogeography 39: 1695–1706.
27. Garda AA, Costa GC, França FGR, Giuliano L, Leite G, Mesquita DO, Nogueira C, Tavares-Bastos L, Vasconcellos MM, Vieira GHC, Vitt LJ, Werneck FP, Wiederhecker HC, Colli GR. 2012. Reproduction, body size, and diet of Polychrus acutirostris (Squamata, Polychrotidae) in two contrasting environments in Brazil. Journal of Herpetology 46: 2–8.
26. Nogueira C, Ribeiro SL, Costa GC, Colli GR. 2011. Vicariance and endemism in a Neotropical savanna hotspot: distribution patterns of Cerrado squamate reptiles. Journal of Biogeography 38: 1907–1922
25. Werneck FP, Costa GC, Colli GR, Prado DE, Sites Jr JW. 2011. Revisiting the Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests historical distribution: new insights based on palaeodistribution modelling and palynological evidence. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20: 272–288.
24. Colston TJ, Costa GC, Vitt LJ. 2010. Snake diets and the deep history hypothesis. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 101: 476–486.
23. Costa GC, Schlupp I. 2010. Biogeography of the Amazon molly: ecological niche and range limits of an asexual hybrid species. Global Ecology and Biogeography 19: 442–451.
22. Costa GC, Nogueira CC, Machado RB, Colli GR. 2010. Sampling bias and the use of ecological niche modeling in conservation planning: A field evaluation in a biodiversity hotspot. Biodivesity and Conservation 19: 883–899.
21. Costa GC. 2009. Predator size, prey size, and dietary niche breadth relationships in marine predators. Ecology 90: 2014–2019.
20. Costa GC, Mesquita DO, Vitt LJ, Colli GR. 2008. Niche expansion and the niche variation hypothesis: Does the degree of individual variation increase in depauperate assemblages? American Naturalist 172: 868–877.
19. Costa GC, Vitt LJ, Pianka ER, Mesquita DO, Colli GR. 2008. Optimal foraging constrains macroecological patterns: Body size and dietary niche breadth in lizards. Global Ecology and Biogeography 17: 670–677.
18. Costa GC, Mesquita DO, Colli GR. 2008. The effect of pitfall trapping on lizard diets. Herpetological Journal 18: 45–48.
17. Costa GC, Wolfe C, Shepard DB, Caldwell JP, Vitt LJ. 2008. Detecting the influence of climatic variables on species’ distributions: A test using GIS niche-based models along a steep longitudinal environmental gradient. Journal of Biogeography 35: 637–646.
16. Costa GC, Constantino R, Colli GR. 2008. Can lizard richness be driven by termite diversity? Insights from the Brazilian Cerrado. Canadian Journal of Zoology 36: 1–9.
15. Garda AA, Costa GC, França FGR, Mesquita DO. 2007. Ecology of Lysapsus limellum (Anura, Hylidae) In the Brazilian Amazon River Basin. Hepetological Journal 17: 141–148.
14. Costa GC, Nogueira C, Machado R, Colli GR. 2007. Squamate richness in the Brazilian Cerrado and its environmental–climatic associations. Diversity and Distributions 13: 714–724.
13. Goldberg SR, Bursey CR, Caldwell JP, Vitt LJ, Costa GC. 2007. Gastrointestinal helminths from six species of frogs and two species of lizards, sympatric in Pará State, Brazil. Comparative Parasitology 74: 327–342.
12. Colli GR, Constantino R, Costa GC. Termites and lizards revisited. 2006. Austral Ecology 31: 417–424.
11. Mesquita DO, Colli GR, Costa GC, França FGR, Garda AA, Peres Jr AK. 2006. At the water's edge: the ecology of semi–aquatic teiids in Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Herpetology 40: 221–229.
10. Garda AA, Biavati GM, Costa GC. 2006. Diet, sexual dimorphism, and reproduction of Pipa arrabali in Serra do Cachimbo, Pará, Brazil. South American Journal of Herpetology 1: 20–24.
9. Mesquita DO, Costa GC, Colli GR. 2006. Ecology of an Amazonian savanna lizard assemblage in Monte Alegre, Pará State, Brazil. South American Journal of Herpetology 1: 61–71.
8. Vitt LJ, Caldwell JP, Colli GR, Garda AA, Mesquita DO, França FGR, Shepard DB, Costa GC, Vasconcellos MM, Silva VN. 2005. Uma atualização do Guia fotográfico dos répteis e anfíbios da região do Jalapão no Cerrado Brasileiro. Special Publications in Herpetology Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History 2: 1–24.
7. Costa GC, Mesquita DO, França FGR. 2005. Crocodilurus amazonicus Diet. Herpetological Review 36: 174–175.
6. Costa GC, Teixeira RD, Garda AA, Colli GR, Báo SN. 2004. Comparative analysis of the sperm ultrastructure of three species of Phyllomedusa (Anura, Hylidae). Acta Zoologica 85: 257–262.
5. Mesquita DO, Costa GC, Zatz MG. 2004. Ecology of Aparasphenodon brunoi in a Restinga in southeastern Brazil. Phyllomedusa 3: 51–60.
4. Costa GC, Vieira GHC, Teixeira RD, Garda AA, Colli GR, Báo SN. 2004. An ultrastructural comparative study of the sperm of Hyla and Scinax (Amphibia: Anura: Hylidae). Zoomorphology 123: 191–197.
3. Garda AA, Costa GC, Colli GR, Báo SN. 2004. The spermatozoa of the family Pseudidae (Anura, Amphibia), with a test of the hypothesis of correlation between ultrastructure and reproductive modes in anurans. Journal of Morphology 261: 196–205.
2. Colli GR, Caldwell JP, Costa GC, Gainsbury AM, Garda AA, Mesquita DO, Filho CMMR, Soares AHB, Silva VN, Valdujo PH, Vieira GHC, Vitt LJ, Werneck FP, Wiederhecker HC, Zatz MG, 2003. A new species of Cnemidophorus (Squamata, Teiidae) from the Cerrado biome in central Brazil. Occasional Papers, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History 14: 1–14.
1. Colli GR, Costa GC, Garda AA, Mesquita, DO, Kopp K, Péres Jr AK, Valdujo PH, Vieira GHC, Wiederhecker HC. 2003. A critically endangered new species of Cnemidophorus (Squamata, Teiidae) from Cerrado enclave in southwestern Amazonia, Brazil. Herpetologica 59: 76–88.
For pdf files of any of the articles below please contact me by email: gcosta@aum.edu
75. Singhal S, ColstonTJ, Grundler M, Smith SA, Costa GC, Colli GR, Moritz C, Rabosky, DL. In press. Congruence and conflict in the higher-level phylogenetics of squamate reptiles: an expanded phylogenomic perspective. Systematic Biology.
74. Bruinjé AC, Coelho FEA, Maggi BS, Costa GC. 2020. Chemical signalling behaviour in intrasexual communication of femoral poreless lizards. Ethology 126: 772–779.
73. Costa GC & Schlupp I. 2020. Placing the hybrid origin of the asexual Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa) based on historical climate data. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 129: 835–843.
72. Oliveira BF, Sheffers BR, Costa GC. 2020. Decoupled erosion of amphibians’ phylogenetic and functional diversity from extinction. Global Ecology and Biogeography 29: 309–319.
71. Mazzochini GG, Fonseca CR, Costa GC, Santos RM, Oliveira-Filho A, Ganade G. 2019. Plant phylogenetic diversity stabilizes large-scale ecosystem productivity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 28: 1430–1439.
70. Fonseca EM, Werneck FP, Gehara M, Oliveira EF, Magalhães FM, Lima GS, Mesquita, DO, Costa GC, Colli GR, Garda AA. 2019. Protected areas do not safeguard evolutionary hotspots in the semiarid Caatinga Biome in Brazil. Biodiversity and Conservation 28:2877–2890.
69. Bruinjé AC, Coelho FEA, Paiva TMA, Costa GC. 2019. Aggression, color signaling, and performance of male color morphs of the Striped Lava Lizard. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 73:72.
68. Souza HBA, Vieira WL, Costa GC, Vasconcellos A. 2019. Defense mechanisms of termites affect their consumption rates by lizards. Amphibia-Reptilia 40:395–400.
67. Lion MB, Garda AA, Lee TM, Bickford D, Costa GC, Mazzochini GG, Fonseca CR. 2019. Global patterns of terrestriality in amphibian reproduction. Global Ecology and Biogeography 28:744–756.
66. Bruinjé AC, Pessoa DMA, Costa GC. 2019. Conspecifics of the Striped Lava Lizard, Tropidurus semitaeniatus, are able to distinguish sex and male color morphs in apparently homogeneous dull dorsal coloration. Amphibia-Reptilia 40:149–162.
65. Oliveira JA, Farias IP, Costa GC, Werneck FP. 2019. Model-based riverscape genetics: disentangling the roles of local and connectivity factors in shaping spatial genetic patterns of two Amazonian turtles with different dispersal abilities. Evolutionary Ecology 33:273–298.
64. Zurano JP, Magalhães FM, Asato AB, Silva G, Bidau CJ, Mesquita DO, Costa GC. 2019. Cetartiodactyla: updating a time-calibrated molecular phylogeny. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 133:256–262.
63. Radeloff VC, Dubinin M, Coops NC. Allen A, Brooks TM, Clayton M, Costa GC, Graham CH, Ives AR, Kolesov D, Kuemmerle T, Pidgeon AM, Rapacciuolo G, Razenkova E, Rondinini C, Suttidate N, Young B, Zhu L, Hobi, M. (2019). The Dynamic Habitat Indices (DHIs) from MODIS and global biodiversity. Remote Sensing of Environment 222:204–214.
62. Bruinjé AC, Leivas PT, Costa GC . 2018. Characterization of sexual dimorphism and male color polymorphism of Tropidurus semitaeniatus (Spix, 1825) in three populations from northeast of Brazil. Herpetological Notes 11:755–760.
61. Gonçalves AS, Costa GC, Bond-Buckup G, Bartholomei-Santos ML, Santos, S. 2018. Priority areas for conservation within freshwater ecoregions: a scale perspective. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 28:1077–1088.
60. Oliveira EF, Gehara M, São-Pedro VA, Costa GC, Burbrink FT, Colli GR, Rodrigues MT, Garda AA. 2018. Phylogeography of Muller's termite frog suggests the vicariant role of the Central Brazilian Plateau. Journal of Biogeography 45:2508–2519.
59. Coelho FEA, Bruinjé AC, Costa GC. 2018. Ethogram with the description of a new behavioral display for the Striped Lava Lizard, Tropidurus semitaeniatus. South American Journal of Herpetology 13:96–101.
58. Marin J, Rapacciuolo G, Costa GC, Graham CH, Brooks TM, Young BE, Radeloff VC, Behm JE, Helmus MR, Hedges SB. 2018. Evolutionary time drives global tetrapod diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 285:20172378.
57. Costa GC, Carnaval AC, Hampe A, Ledru MP, Martinez PA, Mazzochini GG, Shepard DB, Werneck FP, Moritz C. 2018. Climatic variability and biome stability based on long-term vegetation dynamics in South America. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27:285–297
56 – Oliveira EF, Martinez PA, São-Pedro VA, Gehara M, Burbrink FT, Mesquita DO, Garda AA, Colli GR, Costa GC. 2018. Climatic suitability, isolation by distance and river resistance explain genetic variation in Brazilian whiptail lizard. Heredity 120:251–265
55 – Holt BG, Costa GC, Penone C, Lessard JP, Brooks, TM, Davidson AD, Hedges SB, Radeloff VC, Rahbek C, Rondinini C, Graham CH. 2018. Environmental variation is a major predictor of global trait turnover in mammals. Journal of Biogeography 45:225–237
54 – Oliveira BF, Costa GC, Fonseca CR. 2018. Niche dynamics of two cryptic Prosopis invading South American dry lands. Biological Invasions 20:181–194
53 – Davidson AD, Shoemaker KT, Weinstein B, Costa GC, Brooks TM, Ceballos G, Radeloff VC, Rondinini C, Graham CH. 2017. Geography of current and future global mammal extinction risk. PLoS ONE 12: e018693
52 – Gehara M, Garda AA, Werneck FP, Oliveira EF, Fonseca EM, Camurugi F, Magalhães FM, Lanna FM, Sites Jr JW, Marques R, São-Pedro VA, Colli GR, Costa GC, Burbrink FT. In Press. Estimating synchronous demographic changes across populations using hABC, and its application for a herpetological community from Northeastern Brazil. Molecular Ecology 26:4756–4771.
51 – Rapacciuolo G, Marin J, Costa GC, Helmus MR, Behm JE, Brooks TM, Hedges SB, Radeloff VC, Young BE, Graham CH. 2017. A detectable signal of human pressure amid ecological constraints on the biogeography of body mass in tetrapods. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26:1022–1034.
50 – Oliveira BF, São-Pedro VA, Santos-Barrera G, Penone C, Costa GC. 2017. AmphiBIO: A global database for amphibians ecological traits. Scientific Data 4:170123.
49 – Brum FT, Graham CH, Costa GC, Hedges SB, Penone C, Radeloff VC, Rondinini C, Loyola RD, Davidson AD. 2017. Global priorities for conservation across multiple dimensions of mammalian diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 114:7641–7646.
48 – Lisboa CMCA, Bajer K, Pessoa DMA, Huber M, Costa GC. 2017 Female Brazilian whiptail lizards (Cnemidophorus ocellifer) prefer males with high ultraviolet ornament reflectance. Behavioural Processes 142:33–39.
47 – Zurano JP, Martinez PA, Canto-Hernandez J, Montoya-Burgos JI, Costa GC. 2017. Morphological and ecological divergence in South American canids. Journal of Biogeography 44:821–833.
46 – Costa GC, França KL, Oliveira-Junior TM, Pichorim M. 2016. Microhabitat use and coexistence in two closely related species of Herpsilochmus (Aves: Thamnophilidae). Cogent Environment Series 2:1264126
45 – Veron S, Penone C, Clergeau P, Costa GC, Oliveira BF, São-Pedro VA, Pavoine S. 2016. Integrating data-deficient species in analyses of evolutionary history loss. Ecology and Evolution 6:8502–8514.
44 – Penone C, Weinstein BG, Graham CH, Brooks TM, Rondinini C, Hedges SB, Davidson AD, Costa GC. 2016. Global mammal betadiversity reveals convergence between isolated tropical forest assemblages. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences. 283:20161028.
43 – Oliveira BF, Machac A, Costa GC, Brooks TM, Davidson AD, Rondinini C, Graham CH. 2016. Species and functional diversity accumulate differently in terrestrial mammals. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 25:1119–1130.
42 – Mesquita DO, Costa GC, Colli GR, Costa TB, Shepard DB, Vitt LJ, Pianka ER. 2016. Life history patterns of lizards of the world. The American Naturalist. 187:689–705.
41 – Moura MR, Villalobos F, Costa GC, Garcia PCA. 2016. Disentangling the role of climate, topography and vegetation in species richness gradients. PLoS ONE. 11:e0152468.
40 – Nóbrega RP, Montingelli GG, Trevine VC, L. FF, Vieira GHC, Costa GC, Mesquita DO. 2016. Intraspecific variation of the snake Thamnodynastes pallidus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Serpentes, Dipsadidae, Tachymenini) based on morphology, and the analysis of its geographic distribution. Herpetological Journal. 26:167–176.
39 – Oliveira EF, Gehara M, Pedro VAS, Chen X, Myers EA, Burbrink FT, Mesquita DO, Garda AA, Colli GR, Rodrigues MT, Arias FJ, Zaher H, Santos RML and Costa GC. 2015. Speciation with gene flow in whiptail lizards from a Neotropical xeric biome. Molecular Ecology 24:5957–5975.
38 – Pyron RA, Costa GC, Patten MA, Burbrink FT. 2015. Phylogenetic niche conservatism and the evolutionary basis of ecological speciation. Biological Reviews 90:1248–1262
37 – Mesquita DO, Colli GR, Costa GC, Costa TB, Shepard DB, Vitt, LJ, Pianka ER. 2015. Life history data of lizards of the world. Ecology 96: 594.
36 – Mesquita, DO, Costa GC, Figueiredo AS, França, FGR, Garda AA, Soares, AHSB, Tavares-Bastos L, Vasconcellos MM, Vieira GHC, Vitt LJ, Werneck FP, Wiederhecker HC, Colli GR. 2015. The autecology of Anolis brasiliensis (Squamata, Teiidae) in a Neotropical Savanna. Herpetological Journal 25: 233–244.
35. Penone C, Davidson AD, Shoemaker KT, Rondinini C, Di Marco M, Brooks TM, Young BY, Graham CH, Costa GC. 2014. Imputation of missing data in life-history traits datasets: which approach performs the best? Methods in Ecology and Evolution 5: 961–970
34. Cavalcanti, LBQ, Costa, TB, Colli, GR, Costa, GC, França, FGR, Mesquita, DO, Palmeira, CNS, Pelegrin, N, Soares, AHSB, Tucker, DB, Garda, AA. 2014. Herpetofauna of protected areas in the Caatinga II: Serra da Capivara National Park, Piauí, Brazil. Check List 10: 18–27.
33. Araújo CB, Marcondes-Machado, LM, Costa GC. 2014. The importance of biotic interactions in species distribution models: a test of the Eltonian Noise Hypothesis using parrots. Journal of Biogeography 41: 513–523.
32. Palaoro, AV., Dalosto, MM., Costa, GC, Santos, S. 2013. Niche conservatism and invasive potential of the crayfish Procambarus clarkii in South America. Freshwater Biology 58: 1379–1391.
31. Riul, P., Targino, CH, Júnior, LAC, Creed, JC, Horta, PA, Costa GC. 2013. Invasive potential of the coral Tubastraea coccinea in the southwest Atlantic. Marine Ecology Progress Series 480: 73–81.
30. Bohm M, Costa GC, et al. 2013. The conservation status of the world's reptiles Biological Conservation. Biological Conservation 157: 372–385.
29. Garda, AA, Wiederhecker, HC., Gainsbury, AM, Costa, GC., Pyron RA, Vieira, GHC, Werneck, FP, Colli, GR. 2013. Microhabitat variation explains local-scale terrestrial species distributions and abundances in an Amazonian lizard assemblage. Biotropica 45: 245–252.
28. Werneck, FP, Nogueira, C, Colli, GR, Sites Jr, JW, Costa, GC. 2012. Climatic stability in the Brazilian Cerrado: implications for biogeographical connections of South American savannas, species richness, and conservation in a biodiversity hotspot. Journal of Biogeography 39: 1695–1706.
27. Garda AA, Costa GC, França FGR, Giuliano L, Leite G, Mesquita DO, Nogueira C, Tavares-Bastos L, Vasconcellos MM, Vieira GHC, Vitt LJ, Werneck FP, Wiederhecker HC, Colli GR. 2012. Reproduction, body size, and diet of Polychrus acutirostris (Squamata, Polychrotidae) in two contrasting environments in Brazil. Journal of Herpetology 46: 2–8.
26. Nogueira C, Ribeiro SL, Costa GC, Colli GR. 2011. Vicariance and endemism in a Neotropical savanna hotspot: distribution patterns of Cerrado squamate reptiles. Journal of Biogeography 38: 1907–1922
25. Werneck FP, Costa GC, Colli GR, Prado DE, Sites Jr JW. 2011. Revisiting the Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests historical distribution: new insights based on palaeodistribution modelling and palynological evidence. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20: 272–288.
24. Colston TJ, Costa GC, Vitt LJ. 2010. Snake diets and the deep history hypothesis. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 101: 476–486.
23. Costa GC, Schlupp I. 2010. Biogeography of the Amazon molly: ecological niche and range limits of an asexual hybrid species. Global Ecology and Biogeography 19: 442–451.
22. Costa GC, Nogueira CC, Machado RB, Colli GR. 2010. Sampling bias and the use of ecological niche modeling in conservation planning: A field evaluation in a biodiversity hotspot. Biodivesity and Conservation 19: 883–899.
21. Costa GC. 2009. Predator size, prey size, and dietary niche breadth relationships in marine predators. Ecology 90: 2014–2019.
20. Costa GC, Mesquita DO, Vitt LJ, Colli GR. 2008. Niche expansion and the niche variation hypothesis: Does the degree of individual variation increase in depauperate assemblages? American Naturalist 172: 868–877.
19. Costa GC, Vitt LJ, Pianka ER, Mesquita DO, Colli GR. 2008. Optimal foraging constrains macroecological patterns: Body size and dietary niche breadth in lizards. Global Ecology and Biogeography 17: 670–677.
18. Costa GC, Mesquita DO, Colli GR. 2008. The effect of pitfall trapping on lizard diets. Herpetological Journal 18: 45–48.
17. Costa GC, Wolfe C, Shepard DB, Caldwell JP, Vitt LJ. 2008. Detecting the influence of climatic variables on species’ distributions: A test using GIS niche-based models along a steep longitudinal environmental gradient. Journal of Biogeography 35: 637–646.
16. Costa GC, Constantino R, Colli GR. 2008. Can lizard richness be driven by termite diversity? Insights from the Brazilian Cerrado. Canadian Journal of Zoology 36: 1–9.
15. Garda AA, Costa GC, França FGR, Mesquita DO. 2007. Ecology of Lysapsus limellum (Anura, Hylidae) In the Brazilian Amazon River Basin. Hepetological Journal 17: 141–148.
14. Costa GC, Nogueira C, Machado R, Colli GR. 2007. Squamate richness in the Brazilian Cerrado and its environmental–climatic associations. Diversity and Distributions 13: 714–724.
13. Goldberg SR, Bursey CR, Caldwell JP, Vitt LJ, Costa GC. 2007. Gastrointestinal helminths from six species of frogs and two species of lizards, sympatric in Pará State, Brazil. Comparative Parasitology 74: 327–342.
12. Colli GR, Constantino R, Costa GC. Termites and lizards revisited. 2006. Austral Ecology 31: 417–424.
11. Mesquita DO, Colli GR, Costa GC, França FGR, Garda AA, Peres Jr AK. 2006. At the water's edge: the ecology of semi–aquatic teiids in Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Herpetology 40: 221–229.
10. Garda AA, Biavati GM, Costa GC. 2006. Diet, sexual dimorphism, and reproduction of Pipa arrabali in Serra do Cachimbo, Pará, Brazil. South American Journal of Herpetology 1: 20–24.
9. Mesquita DO, Costa GC, Colli GR. 2006. Ecology of an Amazonian savanna lizard assemblage in Monte Alegre, Pará State, Brazil. South American Journal of Herpetology 1: 61–71.
8. Vitt LJ, Caldwell JP, Colli GR, Garda AA, Mesquita DO, França FGR, Shepard DB, Costa GC, Vasconcellos MM, Silva VN. 2005. Uma atualização do Guia fotográfico dos répteis e anfíbios da região do Jalapão no Cerrado Brasileiro. Special Publications in Herpetology Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History 2: 1–24.
7. Costa GC, Mesquita DO, França FGR. 2005. Crocodilurus amazonicus Diet. Herpetological Review 36: 174–175.
6. Costa GC, Teixeira RD, Garda AA, Colli GR, Báo SN. 2004. Comparative analysis of the sperm ultrastructure of three species of Phyllomedusa (Anura, Hylidae). Acta Zoologica 85: 257–262.
5. Mesquita DO, Costa GC, Zatz MG. 2004. Ecology of Aparasphenodon brunoi in a Restinga in southeastern Brazil. Phyllomedusa 3: 51–60.
4. Costa GC, Vieira GHC, Teixeira RD, Garda AA, Colli GR, Báo SN. 2004. An ultrastructural comparative study of the sperm of Hyla and Scinax (Amphibia: Anura: Hylidae). Zoomorphology 123: 191–197.
3. Garda AA, Costa GC, Colli GR, Báo SN. 2004. The spermatozoa of the family Pseudidae (Anura, Amphibia), with a test of the hypothesis of correlation between ultrastructure and reproductive modes in anurans. Journal of Morphology 261: 196–205.
2. Colli GR, Caldwell JP, Costa GC, Gainsbury AM, Garda AA, Mesquita DO, Filho CMMR, Soares AHB, Silva VN, Valdujo PH, Vieira GHC, Vitt LJ, Werneck FP, Wiederhecker HC, Zatz MG, 2003. A new species of Cnemidophorus (Squamata, Teiidae) from the Cerrado biome in central Brazil. Occasional Papers, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History 14: 1–14.
1. Colli GR, Costa GC, Garda AA, Mesquita, DO, Kopp K, Péres Jr AK, Valdujo PH, Vieira GHC, Wiederhecker HC. 2003. A critically endangered new species of Cnemidophorus (Squamata, Teiidae) from Cerrado enclave in southwestern Amazonia, Brazil. Herpetologica 59: 76–88.
