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Dimitri de Araujo Costa
PeerJ Editor & Author
300 Points

Contributions by role
Editor 300

Contributions by subject area
Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science
Evolutionary Studies
Parasitology
Biodiversity
Ecology
Freshwater Biology
Bioinformatics
Conservation Biology
Genetics

Dimitri de Araujo Costa

PeerJ Editor & Author

Summary

Dr. Dimitri A. Costa is a Biologist, PhD Researcher and Permanent Professor of the Post-Graduate Programme in Aquatic Ecology and Fisheries (PPGEAP), Núcleo de Ecologia Aquática e Pesca da Amazônia (NEAP), Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Belém, Pará, Brasil.

He is also affiliated with the following:

Research Group for Integrated Biological Investigation (GIBI), Centre for Advanced Biodiversity Studies (CEABIO), Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Belém, Pará, Brasil.

PhD Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR), Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP), Portugal.

More information about Dr Costa's professional background can be found here:
http://lattes.cnpq.br/7509693462303861
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5399-2483

Aquaculture, Fisheries & Fish Science Ecology Ecosystem Science Freshwater Biology Genetics Taxonomy Zoology

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the multidisciplinary STM open access journal

Past or current institution affiliations

Universidade Federal da Paraíba
Universidade Federal do Pará
Universidade do Porto

Work details

PhD Researcher / Professor

Universidade Federal do Pará
November 2024
NEAP - Núcleo de Ecologia Aquática e Pesca da Amazônia
To study an unrevealed benthic macrofauna diversity from Amazon Estuary bioregion

PhD Researcher

Universidade do Porto
September 2018
Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research
Researcher in the fields of Environmental Sciences, Biodiversity, Taxonomy, Systematics, Phylogeny, Ecology, Environmental Education, Citizen Science, including research, education and extension

Student / Researcher

Universidade Federal da Paraíba
January 2005 - February 2020
Centre for Exact and Natural Sciences
Graduate degree in Biological Sciences, Master in Ecology and Environmental Monitoring, and PhD in Development and Environment, studying phylogeny, systematics, taxonomy, ecology, ocean literacy, environmental awareness, outstanding marine invertebrate research and rhodolith-algae-based-ecosystem, integrating in public school education

Websites

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  • Research Gate

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 1
  • Edited 3
February 3, 2026
Establishing a new methodology for annelid studies: a biometric study of the ragworm Hediste diversicolor (Müller, 1776)
João Almeida, Carlos Antunes, Bruno Spacek Godoy, Dimitri de Araujo Costa
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20736 PubMed 41660106

Academic Editor on

February 4, 2026
Time is of the essence: using archived samples in the development of a GT-seq panel to preserve continuity of ongoing genetic monitoring
Guilherme Caeiro-Dias, Megan J. Osborne, Thomas F. Turner
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20726 PubMed 41660103
February 3, 2026
No evidence for quorum sensing during egg hatching in the cestode Schistocephalus solidus
Emily V. Kerns, Sara Engel, Panna A. Codner, Jesse N. Weber
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20667 PubMed 41660068
December 19, 2025
Fish community structure and diversity in the Ningxia section of the main stream of the Yellow River in China
Jiacheng Liu, Shuhan Xiong, Peilun Li, Yanbin Liu, Yongjie Wang, Kai Liu, Jilong Wang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20228 PubMed 41438115