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Stefan Lötters
Researcher at University of Trier
Publications - 26
Citations - 2878
Stefan Lötters is an academic researcher from University of Trier. The author has contributed to research in topics: Chytridiomycosis & Atelopus. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 21 publications receiving 2612 citations. Previous affiliations of Stefan Lötters include University of Mainz.
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Recent introduction of a chytrid fungus endangers Western Palearctic salamanders
An Martel,Mark Blooi,Connie Adriaensen,P. Van Rooij,Wouter Beukema,Matthew C. Fisher,Rhys A. Farrer,Benedikt R. Schmidt,Ursina Tobler,Koichi Goka,Karen R. Lips,Carly R. Muletz,Kelly R. Zamudio,Jaime Bosch,Stefan Lötters,Emma Wombwell,Emma Wombwell,Trenton W. J. Garner,Andrew A. Cunningham,A. Spitzen-van der Sluijs,Sebastiano Salvidio,R. Ducatelle,Kouki Nishikawa,Tao Thien Nguyen,Jonathan E. Kolby,I. Van Bocxlaer,Franky Bossuyt,Frank Pasmans +27 more
TL;DR: Results show that B. salamandrivorans is restricted to, but highly pathogenic for, salamanders and newts (Urodela), and likely originated and remained in coexistence with a clade of salamander hosts for millions of years in Asia.
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Catastrophic Population Declines and Extinctions in Neotropical Harlequin Frogs (Bufonidae: Atelopus)1
Enrique La Marca,Karen R. Lips,Stefan Lötters,Robert Puschendorf,Roberto Ibáñez,José Vicente Rueda‐Almonacid,Rainer Schulte,Christian Marty,Fernando Castro,Jesús Manzanilla-Puppo,Juan E. García-Pérez,Federico Bolaños,Gerardo Chaves,J. Alan Pounds,Eduardo Toral,Bruce E. Young +15 more
TL;DR: Widespread declines and extinctions in Atelopus may reflect population changes in other Neotropical amphibians that are more difficult to survey, and the loss of this trophic group may have cascading effects on other species in tropical ecosystems.
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Confronting Amphibian Declines and Extinctions
Joseph R. Mendelson,Karen R. Lips,Ronald W. Gagliardo,George B. Rabb,James P. Collins,James E. Diffendorfer,Peter Daszak,D Roberto Ibáñez,Kevin C. Zippel,Dwight P. Lawson,Kevin Wright,Simon N. Stuart,Claude Gascon,Hélio Ricardo Silva,Patricia A. Burrowes,Rafael L. Joglar,Enrique La Marca,Stefan Lötters,Louis H. Du Preez,Ché Weldon,Alex D. Hyatt,José Vicente Rodriguez-Mahecha,Susan Hunt,Helen Robertson,Brad Lock,Christopher J. Raxworthy,Darrel R. Frost,Robert C. Lacy,Ross A. Alford,Jonathan A. Campbell,Gabriela Parra-Olea,Federico Bolaños,José Joaquin Calvo Domingo,Tim Halliday,James B. Murphy,Marvalee H. Wake,Luis A. Coloma,Sergius L. Kuzmin,Mark R. Stanley Price,Kim M. Howell,Michael Lau,Rohan Pethiyagoda,Michelle D. Boone,Michael J. Lannoo,Andrew R. Blaustein,Andrew P. Dobson,Richard A. Griffiths,Martha L. Crump,David B. Wake,Edmund D. Brodie +49 more
TL;DR: Stopping further global losses of amphibian populations and species requires an unprecedented conservation response.
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High Levels of Diversity Uncovered in a Widespread Nominal Taxon: Continental Phylogeography of the Neotropical Tree Frog Dendropsophus minutus
Marcelo Gehara,Marcelo Gehara,Andrew J. Crawford,Andrew J. Crawford,Victor G. D. Orrico,Ariel Rodríguez,Stefan Lötters,Antoine Fouquet,Lucas S. Barrientos,Francisco Brusquetti,Ignacio De la Riva,Raffael Ernst,Giuseppe Gagliardi Urrutia,Frank Glaw,Juan M. Guayasamin,Monique Hölting,Martin Jansen,Philippe J. R. Kok,Axel Kwet,Rodrigo Lingnau,Mariana L. Lyra,Jiří Moravec,José P. Pombal,Fernando J. M. Rojas-Runjaic,Arne Schulze,J. Celsa Señaris,Mirco Solé,Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues,Evan Twomey,Célio F. B. Haddad,Miguel Vences,Jörn Köhler +31 more
TL;DR: The results, at a spatial scale and resolution unprecedented for a Neotropical vertebrate, confirm that widespread amphibian species occur in lowland South America, yet at the same time a large proportion of cryptic diversity still remains to be discovered.
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Niche shift versus niche conservatism? Climatic characteristics of the native and invasive ranges of the Mediterranean house gecko (Hemidactylus turcicus)
Dennis Rödder,Stefan Lötters +1 more
TL;DR: Differences in climatic niches in the native and invaded ranges of the Mediterranean house gecko (Hemidactylus turcicus) in terms of commonly applied climate variables in ENMs are assessed to indicate that the degree of conservatism of niche largely varies among predictors and variable sets applied.