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Biogeographic Regionalization of South American Anurans

, 2019
The interest in recognizing spatial patterns of species co-distributions has long led biogeographers and macroecologists to classify the world in biogeographic regions.
Vasconcelos, TS, Prado, Vitor H. M., Provete, DB, DaSilva, FR, DosSantos, TG, Santos, Tiago G. dos, Provete, Diogo B., Vasconcelos, Tiago S. [UNESP], Silva, Fernando R. da, Prado, VHM   +9 more
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Parasitic infections of anurans from a freshwater creek community in Delta State, Niger Delta of Nigeria

Helminthologia, 2017
The parasitic infections of 125 anurans belonging to 13 taxa from Ase community in Delta State in the Niger Delta of Nigeria was investigated. An overall prevalence of 77.6% was recorded and the 32 parasites recovered included one pentastomid, four ...
Aisien M. S. O., Ugbomeh A. P., Awharitoma A. O.   +2 more
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Conservation translocations for amphibian species threatened by chytrid fungus: A review, conceptual framework, and recommendations

Conservation Science and Practice, 2021
Emerging infectious diseases are an increasingly prominent threat to biodiversity. However, traditional methods in conservation generally have limited efficacy in the face of disease threats.
Ben C. Scheele, Matthijs Hollanders, Emily P. Hoffmann, David A. Newell, David B. Lindenmayer, Michael McFadden, Deon J. Gilbert, Laura F. Grogan   +7 more
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Geographic variation of body size in New World anurans: energy and water in a balance

Ecography, 2018
The validity of Bergmann’s rule, perhaps the best known ecogeographical rule, has been questioned for ectothermic species. Here, we explore the interspecific version of the rule documenting body size gradients for anurans across the whole New World and ...
T. Amado, C. Bidau, M. Á. Olalla‐Tárraga   +2 more
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Species composition and similarities among anuran assemblages of forest sites in southeastern Brazil Composição de espécies e similaridades entre taxocenoses de anuros de áreas florestais do sudeste do Brasil

Scientia Agricola, 2007
Neotropical forests show high anuran species richness, but some Brazilian forest formations, like cerradão, semideciduous forests and restingas, remain poorly known.
Jaime Bertoluci, Ricardo Augusto Brassaloti, José Wagner Ribeiro Júnior, Vívian Maria de Faria Nasser Vilela, Henrique Oliveira Sawakuchi   +4 more
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How hibernation in frogs drives brain and reproductive evolution in opposite directions

eLife, 2023
Environmental seasonality can promote the evolution of larger brains through cognitive and behavioral flexibility but can also hamper it when temporary food shortage is buffered by stored energy.
Wenbo Liao, Ying Jiang, Long Jin, Stefan Lüpold   +3 more
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Tropical anurans mature early and die young: Evidence from eight Afromontane Hyperolius species and a meta-analysis

PLoS ONE, 2017
Age- and size-related life-history traits of anuran amphibians are thought to vary systematically with latitude and altitude. Because the available data base is strongly biased towards temperate-zone species, we provide new estimates on eight ...
U. Sinsch, J. Dehling
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Geographical Patterns of Functional Diversity of South American Anurans

, 2019
A critical step in designing efficient spatial prioritization plans is to find the best network of sites that preserve multiple biodiversity facets. Conservation biogeography has increasingly been using functional diversity (FD) as an alternative metric ...
Vasconcelos, TS, Prado, Vitor H. M., Provete, DB, DaSilva, FR, DosSantos, TG, Santos, Tiago G. dos, Provete, Diogo B., Vasconcelos, Tiago S. [UNESP], Silva, Fernando R. da, Prado, VHM   +9 more
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Opportunistic habitat use: widespread and non-threatened anurans in Brazilian caves [PDF]

Neotropical Biology and Conservation
Anurans are highly sensitive vertebrates whose ecological distribution is strongly shaped by environmental conditions, particularly moisture availability and habitat stability.
Vinícius da Fontoura Sperandei, Wilian Vaz-Silva, Cássio Cardoso Pereira, Francisco Leonardo Tejerina-Garro   +3 more
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Patterns of Species Richness, Range Size, and Their Environmental Correlates for South American Anurans

, 2019
Species richness and range size gradients have been correlated with environmental conditions at broad spatial scales, yet these effects are commonly context-dependent for different geographical regions.
Vasconcelos, TS, Prado, Vitor H. M., Provete, DB, DaSilva, FR, DosSantos, TG, Santos, Tiago G. dos, Provete, Diogo B., Vasconcelos, Tiago S. [UNESP], Silva, Fernando R. da, Prado, VHM   +9 more
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