Large‐scale DNA‐based survey of frogs in Amazonia suggests a vast underestimation of species richness and endemism

By jean-pierre vacher, Jérôme Chave, F. Ficetola, Guilhem Sommeria-Klein, S. Tao, C. Thébaud, M. Blanc, A. Camacho, José Cassimiro, T. Colston and 17 more. Journal of Biogeography, 2020

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Mapping Amazonian biodiversity accurately is a major challenge for integrated conservation strategies and to study its origins. However, species boundaries and their respective distribution are notoriously inaccurate in this region. Here, we generated a georeferenced database of short mtDNA sequences from Amazonian frogs, revised the species richness and the delimitation of bioregions of the Eastern Guiana Shield and estimated endemism within these bioregions.

Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, Molecular Biology

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