Tropical Africa is home to an astonishing biodiversity occurring in a variety of ecosystems.
Past climatic change and geological events have impacted the evolution and diversification …

Ephemeral resource patches (ERPs)–short lived resources including dung, carrion,
temporary pools, rotting vegetation, decaying wood, and fungi–are found throughout every …

The species richness and calling activity of an anuran community inhabiting an agricultural
wetland area at 1645 m asl near Butare, Rwanda, was assessed using visual and acoustic …

Frogs in the genus Amnirana (family Ranidae) are widely distributed across sub-Saharan
Africa and present a model system for exploring the relationship between diversification and …

Abstract The Mascarene ridged frog, Ptychadena mascareniensis, is a species complex that
includes numerous lineages occurring mostly in humid savannas and open forests of …

1. By DC Blackburn & DB Wake (for full contact details, see the list after References). The
title of this contribution should be cited as “Class Amphibia Gray, 182. In: Zhang, Z.-Q.(Ed.) …

Loss of natural habitat due to land-use change is one of the major threats to biodiversity
worldwide. It not only affects the diversity of local species communities (alpha diversity) but …

This chapter reviews the diversity, evolutionary relationships, ecology, and conservation of
the Gulf of Guinea oceanic islands' endemic caecilian and anuran fauna. A total of nine …

Aim The origin of the amphitropic Mediterranean Basin and southern African disjunction
(European–African amphitropical disjunction; EAAD) pattern is generally attributed to recent …

Aim To infer the colonization history of reed frog species endemic to the oceanic islands of
São Tomé and Príncipe, Hyperolius molleri and H. thomensis, we quantified …