Among vertebrates, defensive behaviours have been reviewed for fishes, salamanders,
reptiles, birds, and mammals, but not yet for anuran amphibians. Although several defensive …

Aim Arthropods as vertebrate predators is a generally overlooked aspect in ecology due to
the cryptic nature of these events, the relatively small size of arthropods and the difficulty in …

While crypsis is a prominent antipredator adaptation, the role of the brain in predator-driven
evolution remains controversial. Resolving this controversy requires contextualizing the …

Reptiles have been considered by some to be of “minor importance,” and their
disappearance has been suggested to “not make much difference one way or the other”(Zim …

In this paper, 374 incidents of frog predation by spiders are reported based on a
comprehensive global literature and social media survey. Frog-catching spiders have been …

Aims The environmental and socio‐economic impacts of alien species need to be quantified
in a way that makes impacts comparable. This allows managers to prioritize their control or …

World population growth demands an accelerated increase in food production especially
that of animal origin. One of the main global challenges is to couple such a production with …

Public databases in taxonomy, phylogenetics and geographic and fossil occurrence records
are key research tools that provide raw materials, on which broad-scale analyses and …

Anthropogenic habitat alterations cause biodiversity loss, which in turn negatively affects
ecosystem functioning and services, and thus human well-being. To be able to consider …

Living vertebrates vary drastically in body size, yet few taxa reach the extremely minute size
of some frogs and teleost fish. Here we describe two new species of diminutive terrestrial …