Government and international agencies have highlighted the need to focus global change
research efforts on tropical ecosystems. However, no recent comprehensive review exists …

The conservation field is experiencing a rapid increase in the amount, variety, and quality of
spatial data that can help us understand species movement and landscape connectivity …

Mountains receive a greater proportion of precipitation than other environments, and thus
make a disproportionate contribution to the world's water supply. The Luquillo Mountains …

Topography is commonly viewed as a passive backdrop on which vegetation grows. Yet, in
certain circumstances, a bidirectional feedback may develop between the control of …

Species that are geographically widespread may exist across environmentally
heterogeneous landscapes that could influence patterns of occupation and phylogeographic …

With shifts in island area, isolation, and cycles of island fusion–fission, the role of Quaternary
sea-level oscillations as drivers of diversification is complex and not well understood. Here …

Conducting managed species translocations and establishing climate change refugia are
adaptation strategies to cope with projected consequences of global warming, but …

The Red-eyed Coquí, Eleutherodactylus antillensis, is a terrestrial frog endemic to the
Puerto Rican Bank (Puerto Rico and numerous islands and cays off its eastern coast), in the …

Aim Current species distributions are shaped by present and past biotic and abiotic factors.
Here, we assessed whether abiotic factors (habitat availability) in combination with past …

Climate and land-use changes are major threats to amphibian conservation. However,
amphibians on tropical oceanic islands appear to have been overlooked with regards to …