Human activities have fragmented amphibian habitats and affected amphibian diversity and distribution, but the ecology is poorly known. A four-year study assessed the diversity and …
The importance of patch quality for amphibians is frequently overlooked in distribution models. Here we demonstrate that it is highly important for the persistence of endemic and …
Monitoring and mapping of biological resources is a major concern from the conservation perspective, since the depletion of biodiversity is an irreversible change. In this study, we …
The oriental shrubfrog genus Philautus (Anura, Ranidae, Rhacophorinae) is a large group of direct-developing frogs that still holds several undescribed species on the Indian …
I Das, K Kunte - Journal of Herpetology, 2005 - BioOne
A new species of ranid frog of the genus Nyctibatrachus is described from Castle Rock, Karnataka State, Southwest India. The new species is compared with all known congeners …
A NA, G KN - Current Science, 2004 - archives.atree.org
Perhaps nothing in the recent past has stirred so much euphoria among the Indian taxonomists and scientists working on biodiversity as have the few reports on the dramatic …
A Dubois, RI Crombie, F Glaw - Alytes, 2005 - academia.edu
The present list concerns additions in the taxonomy of NEOBATRACHI (ie, recent amphibians, taxa represented by at least one species in the currently living fauna of our …
The genus Nyctibatrachus Boulenger 1882 (family Ranidae) is endemic to the Western Ghats mountain chain of southwestern India, and comprises ten described species (Dutta …
Tropical evergreen forests of Indian subcontinent, especially of the Western Ghats, are known hot spots of amphibian diversity, where many new anuran species await to be …