Land Use Explains the Distribution of Threatened New World Amphibians Better than Climate

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 8; no. 4; p. e60742
• Main Authors: Brum, Fernanda Thiesen, Gonçalves, Larissa Oliveira, Cappelatti, Laura, Carlucci, Marcos Bergmann, Debastiani, Vanderlei Júlio, Salengue, Elisa Viana, dos Santos Seger, Guilherme Dubal, Both, Camila, Bernardo-Silva, Jorge Sebastião, Loyola, Rafael Dias, da Silva Duarte, Leandro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 16.04.2013; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Agriculture - statistics & numerical data; Amphibia; Amphibians; Amphibians - classification; Analysis; Animals; Biodiversity; Biology; Climate; Climate and land use; Climate change; Climate effects; Complex variables; Conservation of Natural Resources; Ecology; Endangered & extinct species; Endangered species; Endangered Species - statistics & numerical data; Endemism; Genetic transformation; Human Activities; Land use; Land use controls; Models, Statistical; Phylogenetics; Phylogeny; Phylogeography; Reptiles & amphibians; Species richness; Threatened species; Transformation; Wildlife conservation; Brazil; Rio Grande do Sul Brazil

We evaluated the direct and indirect influence of climate, land use, phylogenetic structure, species richness and endemism on the distribution of New World threatened amphibians. We used the WWF's New World ecoregions, the WWFs amphibian distributional data and the IUCN Red List Categories to o...