Impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity are a prominent area of research in climate change.
However, little is known about the effects of abrupt climate change and climate catastrophes …

Mountain systems harbor an evolutionarily unique and exceptionally rich biodiversity,
especially for amphibians. However, the associated elevational gradients and underlying …

Body size is one of the most influential traits affecting many ecological and physiological
processes across animal and plant taxa. Studies of the environmental factors shaping body …

Motivation Amphibians are a diverse vertebrate group with more than 8,000 species, which
is an important part of major terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems. Unfortunately …

Aim The species that compose local communities possess unique sets of functional and
ecological traits that can be used as indicators of biotic and abiotic variation across space …

The amphibians of the highlands and escarpments of Angola and Namibia are a diverse
group containing fifteen highland endemic or associated species. Both species richness and …

Emergent infectious disease caused by the fungal pathogens Batrachochytrium
dendrobatidis (Bd) and Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal) represents one of the …

Tropical montane cloud forest harbors great species diversity in a small area of the planet
and has a high proportion of endemics. At the local scale, species richness is low, but …

Predator-prey interactions are fundamental to understand how energy flows in trophic food
webs. Frogs play a central role in Neotropical food webs, as they are prey and predators for …

Aim The links between taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity and how these vary
geographically are key to understanding how historical and contemporary processes have …