Background and Research Aims: Globally, Colombia is the country with the largest extent of
Páramos (delimited in 36 complexes) and with the greatest number of amphibian species in …

The process of adaptive radiation—the proliferation of species from a single ancestor and
diversification into many ecologically different forms—has been of great interest to …

A number of studies indicate that tropical arthropods should be particularly vulnerable to
climate warming. If these predictions are realized, climate warming may have a more …

Current ecological and evolutionary research are increasingly moving from species-to trait-
based approaches because traits provide a stronger link to organism's function and fitness …

Dispersal is a central process in ecology and evolution. It strongly influences the dynamics
of spatially structured populations and affects evolutionary processes by sha** patterns of …

There is an urgent need for comprehensive global biodiversity data, particularly for highly
threatened taxa such as frogs. Some of the most dramatic frog population declines, globally …

Human activities often replace native forests with warmer, modified habitats that represent
novel thermal environments for biodiversity. Reducing biodiversity loss hinges upon …

Habitat conversion is driving biodiversity loss and restructuring species assemblages across
the globe. Responses to habitat conversion vary widely, however, and little is known about …

We evaluated five non-mutually exclusive hypotheses driving the biogeographic regions of
anuran species in the Amazonia. We overlaid extent-of-occurrence maps for anurans 50× 50 …

Global herpetofauna faces threats by habitat loss and degradation, with amphibian and
reptile species maintenance in human-modified landscapes not only depending on forest …