Habitat loss and fragmentation are the primary causes of global population decline of
amphibians and reptiles. In Brazil, that hosts an extraordinary herpetofaunal richness …

Scientists still poorly understand how biotic interactions and dispersal limitation jointly
interact and affect the ability of species to track suitable habitats under climate change. Here …

Natural environments disturbed by human activities can suffer from species extinctions, but
some can still harbor high taxonomic diversity. However, disturbances may have impacts …

Aim Amphibians exhibit two basic reproductive modes, terrestrial and aquatic, each with
different ecophysiological constraints related to evaporative water loss. We hypothesize that …

Aim Habitat split isolates forest fragments where terrestrial adults of many amphibian
species live from aquatic‐breeding sites where their larvae develop, causing population …

There is a great need to understand the effects of man-made land transformation on
freshwater biodiversity, because agricultural landscapes provide habitat for many aquatic …

Rampant deforestation has caused the loss and fragmentation of natural habitats, which has
precipitated a global biodiversity crisis. Research on how land-use change contributes to a …

Anthropogenic habitat disturbances often create discontinuity between the multiple classes
of natural habitats that many species need to complete their life cycles. This process, termed …

Amphibian populations are threatened globally by stressors, including diminishing
availability of suitable wetland breeding sites, altered hydroregimes driven by changing …

Despite widespread acceptance of the utility of population modeling and advocacy of this
approach for a more ecologically relevant perspective, it is not routinely incorporated in …