 Carlos A. Peres

Carlos Augusto Peres () (born 1963) is a Brazilian field biologist and conservation biologist who works in the Amazon rainforest and other neotropical forest regions on questions involving wildlife and biological conservation.His research interests are in the large-scale patterns of large-bodied vertebrate diversity and abundance in Amazonian forests; the effects of different forms on human disturbance, including hunting, habitat fragmentation and wildfires, on Amazonian forest vertebrates; and reserve selection and design criteria in relation to regional gradients of biodiversity value and implementation costs.