Hung out to dry: choice of priority ecoregions for conserving threatened neotropical anurans depends on life-history traits.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the Neotropics, nearly 35% of amphibian species are threatened by habitat loss, habitat fragmentation, and habitat split; anuran species with different developmental modes respond to habitat disturbance in different ways. This entails broad-scale strategies for conserving biodiversity and advocates for the identification of high conservation-value regions that are significant in a global or continental context and that could underpin more detailed conservation assessments towards such areas.

Methodology/principal findings

We identified key ecoregion sets for anuran conservation using an algorithm that favors complementarity (beta-diversity) among ecoregions. Using the WWF's Wildfinder database, which encompasses 700 threatened anuran species in 119 Neotropical

SUBMITTER: Loyola RD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2361192 | biostudies-literature | 2008 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature