Current state of knowledge of páramo amphibians in Colombia: Spatio temporal trends and information gaps to be strengthened for effective conservation

LP Saboyá Acosta… - Tropical Conservation …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background and Research Aims: Globally, Colombia is the country with the largest extent of
Páramos (delimited in 36 complexes) and with the greatest number of amphibian species in …

Ongoing harlequin toad declines suggest the amphibian extinction crisis is still an emergency

S Lötters, A Plewnia, A Catenazzi, K Neam… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Biodiversity loss is extreme in amphibians. Despite ongoing conservation action, it is difficult
to determine where we stand in overcoming their extinction crisis. Among the most …

Combining predictive distribution methods and life history to reduce geographic distribution shortfalls for two rocky Cerrado endemic leaf frogs

ACH Del Prette, RF de Magalhães, P Lemes… - Journal for Nature …, 2024 - Elsevier
Species-focused conservation requires accurate knowledge of geographic distribution to
effectively categorize species in red lists, assess threats, and plan conservation initiatives. In …

Integrative species delimitation uncovers hidden diversity within the Pithecopus hypochondrialis species complex (Hylidae, Phyllomedusinae) and its phylogeography …

RF Magalhães, EKS Ramos, LN Bandeira… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite their limited vagility and pronounced habitat heterogeneity in the tropics, many
anuran species have unexpectedly extensive geographic ranges. One prominent example …

Update on distribution and conservation status of amphibians in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea: Conclusions based on field surveys, environmental …

A Borzée, SN Litvinchuk, K Ri, D Andersen, TY Nam… - Animals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary In this study, we used field and literature surveys, call recordings,
photographs, landscape models and molecular tools to estimate the presence, range and …

Climate change threatens amphibians and species representation within protected areas in tropical wetlands

MO Neves, O Broennimann, HK Mod… - Journal of Applied …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Protected areas (PAs) are crucial for biodiversity conservation, yet climate change threatens
their long‐term effectiveness by displacing species distributions. Among the most climate …

[HTML][HTML] Cryptic diversity in Brazilian endemic monkey frogs (Hylidae, Phyllomedusinae, Pithecopus) revealed by multispecies coalescent and integrative approaches

EKS Ramos, RF de Magalhaes, NCS Marques… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2019 - Elsevier
Even though Brazil is the world leader in amphibian diversity, a significant part of its richness
remains unknown or hidden under cryptic taxa. Here, we used model-based species …

Integrative taxonomic reassessment of Odontophrynus populations in Argentina and phylogenetic relationships within Odontophrynidae (Anura)

AL Martino, JM Dehling, U Sinsch - PeerJ, 2019 - peerj.com
Amphibians are the most vulnerable vertebrates to biodiversity loss mediated by habitat
destruction, climate change and diseases. Informed conservation management requires …

[PDF][PDF] A new species of harlequin toad (Bufonidae: Atelopus) from Amazonian Ecuador.

A Plewnia, A Terán-Valdez, J Culebras, R Boistel… - …, 2024 - researchgate.net
For nearly four decades, harlequin toads, genus Atelopus, have suffered unparalleled
population declines. While this also results in limited understanding of alphataxonomic …

The amphibian extinction crisis is still an emergency

S Lötters, A Plewnia, A Catenazzi, K Neam… - 2023 - researchsquare.com
Anthropogenic biodiversity loss is extreme in amphibians. Despite ongoing conservation
action, it is difficult to determine where we stand in overcoming their extinction crisis 1, 2 …