This chapter reviews the diversity, evolutionary relationships, ecology, and conservation of
the Gulf of Guinea oceanic islands' endemic caecilian and anuran fauna. A total of nine …

Given Singapore's location at the confluence of important maritime trading routes, and that it
was established as a British East India Company trading post in 1819, it is unsurprising that …

Ancestral state reconstruction is a phylogenetic comparative method that involves estimating
the unknown trait values of hypothetical ancestral taxa at internal nodes of a phylogenetic …

Tetrapods (amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals) are model systems for global
biodiversity science, but continuing data gaps, limited data standardisation, and ongoing flux …

Mosquito-borne diseases (MBDs) threaten public health and food security globally. We
provide the first biogeographic description of the African mosquito fauna (677 species) and …

Tropical forests support two-thirds of the world's biodiversity, contribute to global climate
regulation, and support the culture and livelihoods of forest-dependent people. Much of …

Model organisms are crucial in research as they can provide key insights applicable to other
species. This study proposes the use of the amphibian species Hymenochirus boettgeri …

Secondary sympatry amongst sister lineages is strongly associated with genetic and
ecological divergence. This pattern suggests that for closely related species to coexist in …

The amphibians of the highlands and escarpments of Angola and Namibia are a diverse
group containing fifteen highland endemic or associated species. Both species richness and …

This chapter introduces and synthesizes food web dynamics within tropical and subtropical
wetlands, considering a range of organisms at different trophic levels, hydrological …