Background Rescuing amphibian diversity is an achievable conservation challenge.
Disease mitigation is one essential component of population management. Here we assess …

New World frogs recently placed in a single, enormous family (Brachycephalidae) have
direct development and reproduce on land, often far away from water. DNA sequences from …

The Puerto Rican coquí frog Eleutherodactylus coqui is both a cultural icon and a species
with an unusual natural history that has attracted attention from researchers in a number of …

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 …

We evaluate the alpha (within patch species richness), beta (spatial turnover among
patches) and gamma (landscape) diversity of frogs in a tropical montane cloud forest …

A major goal of ecology and evolutionary biology is to explain patterns of species richness
among clades. Differences in rates of net diversification (speciation minus extinction over …

We report the first phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequence data for the Central American
component of the genus Eleutherodactylus (Anura: Leptodactylidae: Eleutherodactylinae) …

This article documents the conservation status of the herpetofauna in the Pacific lowlands
and adjacent Balsas Basin and Chiapas Depression regions and the presents the results of …

Amphibians constitute a diverse yet still incompletely characterized clade of vertebrates, in
which new species are still being discovered and described at a high rate. Amphibians are …

We conducted a mark-recapture study of three subpopulations of Craugastor punctariolus at
a mid-elevation site in central Panama between 1999 and 2005. The study spans a period …