Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

T Newbold, LN Hudson, SLL Hill, S Contu, I Lysenko… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Human activities, especially conversion and degradation of habitats, are causing global
biodiversity declines. How local ecological assemblages are responding is less clear—a …

Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives (Amphibia: Athesphatanura: Dendrobatidae)

T Grant, DR Frost, JP Caldwell, RON Gagliardo… - Bulletin of the American …, 2006 - BioOne
The known diversity of dart-poison frog species has grown from 70 in the 1960s to 247 at
present, with no sign that the discovery of new species will wane in the foreseeable future …

Underestimation of species richness in Neotropical frogs revealed by mtDNA analyses

A Fouquet, A Gilles, M Vences, C Marty, M Blanc… - PLoS one, 2007 - journals.plos.org
Background Amphibians are rapidly vanishing. At the same time, it is most likely that the
number of amphibian species is highly underestimated. Recent DNA barcoding work has …

Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives revisited (Anura: Dendrobatoidea)

T Grant, M Rada, M Anganoy-Criollo, A Batista… - South American Journal …, 2017 - BioOne
Despite the impressive growth of knowledge on the phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison
frogs and their relatives (Dendrobatoidea) over the past decade, many problems remain to …

[LLIBRE][B] Architecture follows nature-biomimetic principles for innovative design

I Mazzoleni - 2013 - books.google.com
This full-color volume proposes an innovative methodology that uses the functional aspects
of nature to inspire improvements in building design and form, encouraging designers to …

Female preferences for aposematic signal components in a polymorphic poison frog

ME Maan, ME Cummings - Evolution, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Aposematic signals may be subject to conflicting selective pressures from predators and
conspecifics. We studied female preferences for different components of aposematic …

Amphibians and reptiles of Guyana, South America: illustrated keys, annotated species accounts, and a biogeographic synopsis

CJ Cole, CR Townsend… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - meridian.allenpress.com
Guyana has a very distinctive herpetofauna. In this first ever detailed modern accounting,
based on voucher specimens, we document the presence of 324 species of amphibians and …

Distance-dependent defensive coloration in the poison frog Dendrobates tinctorius, Dendrobatidae

JB Barnett, C Michalis… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Poison dart frogs provide classic examples of warning signals: potent toxins signaled by
distinctive, conspicuous coloration. We show that, counterintuitively, the bright yellow and …

Refugial isolation and secondary contact in the dyeing poison frog Dendrobates tinctorius

BP Noonan, P Gaucher - Molecular ecology, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Recent palaeoclimactic research suggests that fluctuating environmental conditions
throughout the Pleistocene of Amazonia occurred with previously unrecognized frequency …

Phylogenomic analysis of evolutionary relationships in Ranitomeya poison frogs (Family Dendrobatidae) using ultraconserved elements

MR Muell, G Chávez, I Prates, WX Guillory… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2022 - Elsevier
The use of genome-scale data in phylogenetics has enabled recent strides in determining
the relationships between taxa that are taxonomically problematic because of extensive …