Cryptic species as a window on diversity and conservation

D Bickford, DJ Lohman, NS Sodhi, PKL Ng… - Trends in ecology & …, 2007 - cell.com
The taxonomic challenge posed by cryptic species (two or more distinct species classified as
a single species) has been recognized for nearly 300 years, but the advent of relatively …

Ecophylogenetics: advances and perspectives

N Mouquet, V Devictor, CN Meynard… - Biological …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Ecophylogenetics can be viewed as an emerging fusion of ecology, biogeography and
macroevolution. This new and fast‐growing field is promoting the incorporation of evolution …

The interplay of past diversification and evolutionary isolation with present imperilment across the amphibian tree of life

W Jetz, RA Pyron - Nature ecology & evolution, 2018 - nature.com
Human activities continue to erode the tree of life, requiring us to prioritize research and
conservation. Amphibians represent key victims and bellwethers of global change, and the …

The use of bioacoustics in anuran taxonomy: theory, terminology, methods and recommendations for best practice

J Koehler, M Jansen, A Rodriguez, PJR Kok, LF Toledo… - Zootaxa, 2017 - biotaxa.org
Vocalizations of anuran amphibians have received much attention in studies of behavioral
ecology and physiology, but also provide informative characters for identifying and …

The amphibian tree of life

DR Frost, T Grant, J Faivovich, RH Bain, A Haas… - Bulletin of the American …, 2006 - BioOne
The evidentiary basis of the currently accepted classification of living amphibians is
discussed and shown not to warrant the degree of authority conferred on it by use and …

Vast underestimation of Madagascar's biodiversity evidenced by an integrative amphibian inventory

DR Vieites, KC Wollenberg… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
Amphibians are in decline worldwide. However, their patterns of diversity, especially in the
tropics, are not well understood, mainly because of incomplete information on taxonomy and …

Underestimation of species richness in Neotropical frogs revealed by mtDNA analyses

A Fouquet, A Gilles, M Vences, C Marty, M Blanc… - PLoS one, 2007 - journals.plos.org
Background Amphibians are rapidly vanishing. At the same time, it is most likely that the
number of amphibian species is highly underestimated. Recent DNA barcoding work has …

State of the world's amphibians

A Catenazzi - Annual review of environment and resources, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The Anthropocene is characterized by a widespread biodiversity crisis that is rivaling
prehistoric mass extinctions. Amphibians are the most threatened class of vertebrates. In …

[图书][B] Extinction in our times: global amphibian decline

JP Collins, ML Crump, TE Lovejoy III - 2009 - books.google.com
For over 350 million years, thousands of species of amphibians have lived on earth, but
since the 1990s they have been disappearing at an alarming rate, in many cases quite …

Preserving the tree of life

GM Mace, JL Gittleman, A Purvis - science, 2003 - science.org
Phylogenies provide new ways to measure biodiversity, to assess conservation priorities,
and to quantify the evolutionary history in any set of species. Methodological problems and a …