Madagascar as a model region of species diversification

M Vences, KC Wollenberg, DR Vieites… - Trends in ecology & …, 2009 - cell.com
Tropical biotas provide excellent settings in which to explore mechanisms of evolutionary
diversification, yet these processes remain poorly understood. Pioneering work on …

Vast underestimation of Madagascar's biodiversity evidenced by an integrative amphibian inventory

DR Vieites, KC Wollenberg… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
Amphibians are in decline worldwide. However, their patterns of diversity, especially in the
tropics, are not well understood, mainly because of incomplete information on taxonomy and …

Global conservation of species' niches

JO Hanson, JR Rhodes, SHM Butchart, GM Buchanan… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Environmental change is rapidly accelerating, and many species will need to adapt to
survive. Ensuring that protected areas cover populations across a broad range of …

Patterns of endemism and species richness in Malagasy cophyline frogs support a key role of mountainous areas for speciation

KC Wollenberg, DR Vieites, A Van Der Meijden… - …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Cophyline narrow-mouthed frogs (Anura: Microhylidae) are a diverse endemic radiation of
Madagascar. Cophylines contain a high proportion of range restricted species and constitute …

An inordinate fondness for inconspicuous brown frogs: Integration of phylogenomics, archival DNA analysis, morphology, and bioacoustics yields 24 new taxa in the …

MD Scherz, A Crottini, C Hutter, A Hildenbrand… - Megataxa, 2022 - flore.unifi.it
Malagasy frogs of the subgenus Brygoomantis in the mantellid frog genus Mantidactylus
currently comprise 14 described species of mostly brown, riparian frogs. Data from DNA …

Spatial biodiversity patterns of Madagascar's amphibians and reptiles

JL Brown, N Sillero, F Glaw, P Bora, DR Vieites… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Madagascar has become a model region for testing hypotheses of species diversification
and biogeography, and many studies have focused on its diverse and highly endemic …

Effects of future climate change on the forests of Madagascar

D Hending, M Holderied, G McCabe, S Cotton - Ecosphere, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Global climate change is continuing to occur at an alarming rate. In addition to increases in
global weather extremes, melting of polar ice caps, and subsequent sea level rises, climate …

[PDF][PDF] Describing the smaller majority: integrative taxonomy reveals twenty-six new species of tiny microhylid frogs (genus Stumpffia) from Madagascar PDF-29 MB

A Rakotoarison, M Scherz, F Glaw… - Vertebrate …, 2017 - vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com
The genus Stumpffia BOETTGER, 1881 currently contains 15 named, small to miniaturized
frog species, classified in the endemic Malagasy subfamily Cophylinae of the family …

Extinction risks and the conservation of Madagascar's reptiles

RKB Jenkins, MF Tognelli, P Bowles, N Cox… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Background An understanding of the conservation status of Madagascar's endemic reptile
species is needed to underpin conservation planning and priority setting in this global …

Speciation across mountains: phylogenomics, species delimitation and taxonomy of the Liolaemus leopardinus clade (Squamata, Liolaemidae)

D Esquerré, D Ramírez-Álvarez… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2019 - Elsevier
Organisms rapidly diversifying across unstable environments such as mountain tops provide
substantial challenges for resolving evolutionary histories and delimiting species. The …