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Teixeira CDC, Trevelin LC, dos Santos-Costa MC, Prudente A, Silva DP. Synergistic effects of climate and landscape change on the conservation of Amazonian lizards. PeerJ 2022; 10:e13028. [PMID: 35368330 PMCID: PMC8973465 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.13028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2021] [Accepted: 02/08/2022] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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The leading causes of the worldwide decline in biodiversity are global warming, allied with natural habitat loss and fragmentation. Here, we propose an analysis of the synergistic effects of these two factors in 63 species of Amazonian lizards. We predicted that the high-climatic suitability areas of species would be significantly impacted by different deforestation scenarios and the resultant landscape structure and considered that forest-dwelling species would be especially susceptible to deforestation scenarios. We also pointed out species threatened by both drivers and suggested critical areas for their future conservation. According to our results, most species will face future reductions in suitable areas for their occurrence according to five different patterns, two of which represent significant risks for 15 species. Some of these species already deal with severe habitat loss and fragmentation of their current distribution ranges, whereas others will suffer a considerable area reduction related to future range shifts. We emphasize the importance of protected areas (PAs), especially indigenous lands, and the need to plan combined strategies involving PAs' maintenance and possible implementation of ecological corridors. Finally, we highlight eight species of thermoconformer lizards that constitute present and future conservation concerns related to the combined effects of climate change and habitat loss and that should be carefully evaluated in extinction risk assessments.
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- Programa de Pós Graduação em Biodiversidade e Evolução, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Pará, Brazil,Instituto Tecnológico Vale - Desenvolvimento Sustentável, Belém, Pará, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia e Zoologia de Vertebrados, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós Graduação em Biodiversidade e Evolução, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Pará, Brazil
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- COBIMA Lab, Departamento de Biologia, Instituto Federal Goiano - Campus Urutaí, Urutaí, Goiás, Brazil
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Kok PJR, Broholm TL, Mebs D. Thriving in a hostile world: Insights from the dietary strategy of two allopatric, closely related tepui summit endemic amphibians. Ecol Evol 2021; 11:8730-8742. [PMID: 34257924 PMCID: PMC8258209 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.7682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2020] [Revised: 04/02/2021] [Accepted: 04/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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To date, there has been no published investigation on the trophic diversity in any tepui summit vertebrate. In this paper, we analyzed the dietary composition of a tepui summit endemic toad, Oreophrynella quelchii from Roraima-tepui, and compared it with that of O. nigra from Kukenán-tepui, to examine to what extent diet differs between these two sister species across isolated, although neighboring, tepui tops. The digestive tracts of a total of 197 toads were dissected: 111 from O. quelchii and 86 from O. nigra. The diet composition of O. quelchii was relatively diverse, with 13 major prey categories; mites (Acari, 36.5%) and beetles (Coleoptera, 21.0%) numerically dominated its diet. Despite occurring on two different tepui summits, O. quelchii and O. nigra exhibited a similar diet composition, although in O. nigra mites (Acari, 42.4%) and hymenopterans (especially ants, 16.9%) numerically dominated the diet. The present data suggest that tepui summit Oreophrynella species are flexible in their diet and are active foragers that also feed on aquatic arthropods, successful strategies in tepui competitive environments.
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- Philippe J. R. Kok
- Department of Ecology and Vertebrate ZoologyUniversity of ŁódźŁódźPoland
- The Natural History MuseumLondonUK
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- Institute of Legal MedicineGoethe University of FrankfurtFrankfurtGermany
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Fouquet A, Marinho P, Réjaud A, Carvalho TR, Caminer MA, Jansen M, Rainha RN, Rodrigues MT, Werneck FP, Lima AP, Hrbek T, Giaretta AA, Venegas PJ, Chávez G, Ron S. Systematics and biogeography of the Boana albopunctata species group (Anura, Hylidae), with the description of two new species from Amazonia. SYST BIODIVERS 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2021.1873869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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- Antoine Fouquet
- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR 5174, CNRS, IRD, Université Paul Sabatier, Bâtiment 4R1 31062 cedex 9, 118 Route de Narbonne, Toulouse, 31077, France
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- Laboratório de Anuros Neotropicais, Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Naturais do Pontal, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Ituiutaba, MG, Brazil
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR 5174, CNRS, IRD, Université Paul Sabatier, Bâtiment 4R1 31062 cedex 9, 118 Route de Narbonne, Toulouse, 31077, France
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Centro de Aquicultura, I.B., Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil
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- Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
- Institute of Organismic and Molecular Evolution, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Terrestrial Zoology, Research Institute and Nature Museum Senckenberg, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Biociências, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Anuros Neotropicais, Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Naturais do Pontal, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Ituiutaba, MG, Brazil
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- Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
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A New Species of Alopoglossus Boulenger (1885) (Squamata, Alopoglossidae) from the Lowlands of the Eastern Guiana Shield, with Assessment of the Taxonomic Status of A. copii surinamensis. J HERPETOL 2020. [DOI: 10.1670/20-032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Torres-Carvajal O, Venegas PJ, Sales Nunes PM. Description and Phylogeny of a New Species of Andean Lizard (Gymnophthalmidae: Cercosaurinae) from the Huancabamba Depression. SOUTH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY 2020. [DOI: 10.2994/sajh-d-18-00069.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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- Omar Torres-Carvajal
- Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Avenida 12 de Octubre 1076 y Roca, Apartado 17-01-2184, Quito, Ecuador
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- División de Herpetología-Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad, Santa Rita № 105 Of. 202, Urb. Huertos de San Antonio, Surco, Lima, Perú
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- Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Centro de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia, Av. Professor Moraes Rego, s/n. Cidade Universitária CEP 50670-901, Recife, PE, Brazil
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Fang JM, Vásquez-Restrepo JD, Daza JM. Filling the gaps in a highly diverse Neotropical lizard lineage: a new and endemic genus of Cercosaurinae (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) with the description of two new species from the Northern Andes of Colombia. SYST BIODIVERS 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2020.1783714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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- José M. Fang
- Grupo Herpetológico de Antioquia, Instituto de Biología, Universidad de Antioquia, calle 67 # 53-108, A.A. 1226, Medellín, Colombia
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- Grupo Herpetológico de Antioquia, Instituto de Biología, Universidad de Antioquia, calle 67 # 53-108, A.A. 1226, Medellín, Colombia
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- Grupo Herpetológico de Antioquia, Instituto de Biología, Universidad de Antioquia, calle 67 # 53-108, A.A. 1226, Medellín, Colombia
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Vásquez-Restrepo JD, Ibáñez R, Sánchez-Pacheco SJ, Daza JM. Phylogeny, taxonomy and distribution of the Neotropical lizard genus Echinosaura (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae), with the recognition of two new genera in Cercosaurinae. Zool J Linn Soc 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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The family Gymnophthalmidae is a highly diverse Neotropical lizard clade. Although multiple phylogenetic and taxonomic studies have reshaped our understanding of gymnophthalmid systematics and diversity, many groups remain understudied. This is the case for the cercosaurine genus Echinosaura, which includes eight species of small riparian lizards distributed across lower Central America and northern South America. Here, we present a comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of Echinosaura, including DNA data for all species of the genus for the first time. To rigorously test the relationships of all Echinosaura, we have assembled the largest molecular dataset of cercosaurine lizards to date. Our analysis refutes the monophyly of Echinosaura, with E. apodema and E. sulcarostrum not closely related to the remaining species. To remedy the polyphyly of Echinosaura, we describe two new genera for E. apodema and E. sulcarostrum. Morphological distinctiveness and biogeography further support these taxonomic changes. In light of our phylogenetic results, we review the species-level taxonomy of the redefined Echinosaura based on morphological and genetic variation. We resurrect E. centralis and designate a neotype given the absence of type and topotypic material. In addition, we provide taxonomic accounts for each species and analyse their patterns of geographic distribution.
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- Juan D Vásquez-Restrepo
- Grupo Herpetológico de Antioquia (GHA), Instituto de Biología, Universidad de Antioquia, calle, laboratorio, Medellín, Colombia
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- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá, Republic of Panama
- Sistema Nacional de Investigación, Secretaría Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (SENACYT), Apartado, Panamá, Republic of Panama
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Grupo Herpetológico de Antioquia (GHA), Instituto de Biología, Universidad de Antioquia, calle, laboratorio, Medellín, Colombia
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Kok PJR, Nicolaï MPJ, Lathrop A, MacCulloch RD. Anomaloglossus meansi sp. n., a new Pantepui species of the Anomaloglossus beebei group (Anura, Aromobatidae). Zookeys 2018:99-116. [PMID: 29861648 PMCID: PMC5974005 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.759.24742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2018] [Accepted: 04/09/2018] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Recent extinctions and drastic population declines have been documented in the Guiana Shield endemic frog genus Anomaloglossus, hence the importance to resolve its alpha-taxonomy. Based on molecular phylogenies, the literature has long reported the occurrence of an undescribed species in the Pakaraima Mountains of Guyana in the Pantepui region. We here describe this new taxon and demonstrate that in addition to divergence at the molecular level the new species differs from congeners by a unique combination of morphological characters, notably a small size (maximum SVL in males 18.86 mm, maximum SVL in females 21.26 mm), Finger I = Finger II when fingers adpressed, Finger III swollen in breeding males, fringes on fingers absent, toes basally webbed but lacking fringes, in life presence of a thin dorsolateral stripe from tip of snout to tip of urostyle, and a black throat in preserved males (immaculate cream in females). Virtually nothing is known about the ecology of the new species. We suggest the new species to be considered as Data Deficient according to IUCN standards.
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- Philippe J R Kok
- Amphibian Evolution Lab, Department of Biology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Biology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C6, Canada
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- Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C6, Canada
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Marques-Souza S, Prates I, Fouquet A, Camacho A, Kok PJR, Nunes PMS, Dal Vechio F, Recoder RS, Mejia N, Teixeira Junior M, Barrio-Amorós C, Cassimiro J, Dias Lima J, Aurélio de Sena M, Rodrigues MT. Reconquering the water: Evolution and systematics of South and Central American aquatic lizards (Gymnophthalmidae). ZOOL SCR 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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- Sergio Marques-Souza
- Laboratório de Herpetologia; Departamento de Zoologia; Instituto de Biociências; Universidade de São Paulo; São Paulo Brazil
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- Department of Vertebrate Zoology; National Museum of Natural History; Smithsonian Institution; Washington DC USA
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- Laboratoire Écologie, Évolution, Interactions des Systèmes Amazoniens (LEEISA); Université de Guyane, CNRS Guyane; Cayenne French Guiana
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia; Departamento de Zoologia; Instituto de Biociências; Universidade de São Paulo; São Paulo Brazil
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- Biology Department; Amphibian Evolution Lab; Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Brussels Belgium
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- Departamento de Zoologia; Universidade Federal de Pernambuco; Recife Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia; Departamento de Zoologia; Instituto de Biociências; Universidade de São Paulo; São Paulo Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia; Departamento de Zoologia; Instituto de Biociências; Universidade de São Paulo; São Paulo Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia; Departamento de Zoologia; Instituto de Biociências; Universidade de São Paulo; São Paulo Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia; Departamento de Zoologia; Instituto de Biociências; Universidade de São Paulo; São Paulo Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia; Departamento de Zoologia; Instituto de Biociências; Universidade de São Paulo; São Paulo Brazil
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- Instituto de Pesquisas Científicas e Tecnológicas do Estado do Amapá; Núcleo de Biodiversidade; Macapá Amapá Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia; Departamento de Zoologia; Instituto de Biociências; Universidade de São Paulo; São Paulo Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia; Departamento de Zoologia; Instituto de Biociências; Universidade de São Paulo; São Paulo Brazil
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Affiliation(s)
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX USA
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