Hung Out to Dry: Choice of Priority Ecoregions for Conserving Threatened Neotropical Anurans Depends on Life-History Traits

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dc.contributor.authorLoyola, Rafael Dias
dc.contributor.authorBecker, Carlos Guilherme
dc.contributor.authorKubota, Umberto
dc.contributor.authorBaptista Haddad, Celio Fernando [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorFonseca, Carlos Roberto
dc.contributor.authorLewinsohn, Thomas Michael
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
dc.contributor.institutionUniv Vale Rio dos Sinos, Sao Leopoldo
dc.date.accessioned2014-05-20T14:00:15Z
dc.date.available2014-05-20T14:00:15Z
dc.date.issued2008-05-07
dc.description.abstractBackground: 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 ecoregions, we separated species into those with aquatic larvae (AL) or terrestrial development (TD), as this life-history trait affects their response to habitat disturbance. The conservation target of 100% of species representation was attained with a set of 66 ecoregions. Among these, 30 were classified as priority both for species with AL and TD, 26 were priority exclusively for species with AL, and 10 for species with TD only. Priority ecoregions for both developmental modes are concentrated in the Andes and in Mesoamerica. Ecoregions important for conserving species with AL are widely distributed across the Neotropics. When anuran life histories were ignored, species with AL were always underrepresented in priority sets.Conclusions/Significance: The inclusion of anuran developmental modes in prioritization analyses resulted in more comprehensive coverage of priority ecoregions-especially those essential for species that require an aquatic habitat for their reproduction-when compared to usual analyses that do not consider this life-history trait. This is the first appraisal of the most important regions for conservation of threatened Neotropical anurans. It is also a first endeavor including anuran life-history traits in priority area-selection for conservation, with a clear gain in comprehensiveness of the selection process.en
dc.description.affiliationUniv Estadual Campinas, Inst Biol, Programa Posgrad Ecol, São Paulo, Brazil
dc.description.affiliationUniv Estadual Campinas, Inst Biol, Dept Zool, São Paulo, Brazil
dc.description.affiliationUniv Estadual Paulista, Dept Zool, São Paulo, Brazil
dc.description.affiliationUniv Vale Rio dos Sinos, Sao Leopoldo, Sao Leopoldo, Brazil
dc.description.affiliationUnespUniv Estadual Paulista, Dept Zool, São Paulo, Brazil
dc.description.sponsorshipConselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
dc.description.sponsorshipFundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
dc.description.sponsorshipCoordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
dc.description.sponsorshipIdCNPq: 140267/2005-0
dc.description.sponsorshipIdCNPq: 302512/2005-5
dc.description.sponsorshipIdCNPq: 305428/2005-5
dc.description.sponsorshipIdCNPq: 306049/2004-0
dc.description.sponsorshipIdFAPESP: 04/13132-3
dc.description.sponsorshipIdFAPESP: 04/15482-1
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dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002120
dc.identifier.citationPlos One. San Francisco: Public Library Science, v. 3, n. 5, p. 8, 2008.
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0002120
dc.identifier.fileWOS000261642400041.pdf
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.lattes0458077399058762
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/21314
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000261642400041
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherPublic Library Science
dc.relation.ispartofPLOS ONE
dc.relation.ispartofjcr2.766
dc.relation.ispartofsjr1,164
dc.rights.accessRightsAcesso aberto
dc.sourceWeb of Science
dc.titleHung Out to Dry: Choice of Priority Ecoregions for Conserving Threatened Neotropical Anurans Depends on Life-History Traitsen
dc.typeArtigo
dcterms.licensehttp://www.plos.org/about/open-access/license/
dcterms.rightsHolderPublic Library Science
unesp.author.lattes0458077399058762[4]
unesp.author.orcid0000-0001-5323-2735[1]
unesp.author.orcid0000-0001-5950-5343[6]
unesp.author.orcid0000-0002-7044-5764[4]
unesp.campusUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Instituto de Biociências, Rio Claropt

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