Amazonia (defined herein as the Amazon basin) is home to the greatest concentration of
biodiversity on Earth, providing unique genetic resources and ecological functions that …

Amphibians have undergone important evolutionary transitions in reproductive modes and
life-cycles. We compare large-scale macroevolutionary patterns in these transitions across …

Simple Summary Intergenerational justice entitles future generations to the maximum
retention of Earth's biodiversity. The 2022 United Nations COP 15,“Ecological Civilisation …

Complex parenting has been proposed to contribute to the evolutionary success of
vertebrates. However, the evolutionary routes to complex parenting and the role of parenting …

Kinosternon is the most speciose genus of extant turtles, with 22 currently recognized
species, distributed across large parts of the Americas. Most species have small …

Major historical landscape changes have left significant signatures on species
diversification. However, how these changes have affected the build-up and maintenance of …

The outstanding biodiversity of the Guiana Shield has raised many questions about its
origins and evolution. Frogs of the genera Adelastes, Otophryne and Synapturanus form an …

For a set of binary unrooted subtrees generating all binary unrooted trees compatible with
them, ie generating their stand, is one of the classical problems in phylogenetics. Here, we …

Determining the relative importance of dispersal and vicariance events across neotropical
regions is a major goal in biogeography. These events are thought to be related to important …

With more than 600 recognized species, the genus Pristimantis is already the most diverse
among vertebrates, but described species only represent a fraction of the actual diversity in …