Luis A. Coloma

TL;DR: In this article, a recent mass extinction associated with pathogen outbreaks is tied to global warming, and the timing of losses in relation to changes in sea surface and air temperatures is analyzed.

TL;DR: It is shown that a recent mass extinction associated with pathogen outbreaks is tied to global warming, and it is proposed that temperatures at many highland localities are shifting towards the growth optimum of Batrachochytrium, thus encouraging outbreaks.

TL;DR: In a recent workshop with 88 Latin American herpetologists and conservationists, a signed resolution was presented to better understand the geographic extent of amphibian population declines, their possible causes, and the measures needed to improve Latin American scientists' ability to research the phenomenon and make effective management recommendations as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Stopping further global losses of amphibian populations and species requires an unprecedented conservation response.

TL;DR: This work reconstructed the biogeography of the poison frog clade (Dendrobatidae) using a novel method of ancestral area reconstruction and relaxed Bayesian clock analyses, and rejected an Amazonian center-of-origin in favor of a complex connectivity model expanding over the Neotropics.