The Conservation and Biogeography of Amphibians in the Caribbean

Description

An expansive and detailed review of the biology of Caribbean amphibians, considering their threats, conservation and outlook in a changing world. Amphibians are the group of vertebrates undergoing the fastest rate of extinction; it is urgent that we understand the causes of this and find means of protecting them.

This landmark illustrated volume brings together the leading experts in the field. As well as offering an overview of the region as a whole, individual chapters are devoted to each island or island-group and the measures used to protect their amphibians through legislation or nature reserves. The biological background of insular biogeography, including its methods, analysis and results, is reviewed and applied specifically to the problems of Caribbean amphibians – this includes a re-examination of patterns and general ideas about the status of amphibians in the Anthropocene.

The Conservation and Biogeography of Amphibians in the Caribbean offers an important baseline against which future amphibian conservation can be measured in the face of climate change, rising sea level and a burgeoning human population. Covers over 300 species. 

 

1. Theories of Insular Biogeography and Ecology Harold Heatwole and Neftalí Ríos-López

2. Amphibians of the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands R. Graham Reynolds and Sean T. Giery

3. The Amphibians of Cuba: integrative insight into the diversity and conservation of a highly vulnerable fauna Luis M. Díaz, Ansel Fong G., Alberto R. Estrada, Antonio Cádiz, Amnerys González, Rolando Fernández de Arcila, Irelis Bignotte-Giró, and Sixto J. Incháustegui

4. The Southwestern Caribbean Islands Harold Heatwole and Javier Sunyer

5. Amphibians of Jamaica K. Stephenson and B. Wilson

6. Status of amphibians in the Republic of Haiti: a review Neftalí Ríos-López

7. Status of amphibian conservation and decline in the Dominican Republic, Hispaniola Sixto J. Incháustegui and Luis M. Díaz

8. Amphibians and their history, distribution, and conservation in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Neftalí Ríos-López, Alberto R. Puente-Rolón, Nicole F. Angeli, Sondra I. Vega-Castillo, and Daniel Dávila-Casanova

9. Amphibians of the Lesser Antilles Robert Powell and Robert W. Henderson

10. Amphibians of Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire Gerard van Buurt

11. The Venezuelan Islands Harold Heatwole

12. Amphibians and their Conservation in Trinidad and Tobago Renoir J. Auguste, J. Roger Downie, Michael J. Jowers, Richard M. Lehtinen, Ryan S. Mohammed, and John C. Murphy

13. Amphibians of the Bocas Del Toro Archipelago, Republic of Panama Sandra P. Galeano, Layla Freeborn, and Ricardo Cossio

Sujets

• Sciences de la nature
• Sciences de l'environnement
• Life Sciences
• Amphibians
• Sciences et techniques
• Biology
• General officer
• Zoology
• Amphibian
• Ecology
• Animals
• General
• Caribbean
• 454 Life Sciences
• Science
• Zoologie

Informations

• Publié par: Pelagic Publishing
• Date de parution: 28 février 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9781784272685
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 25 Mo

Extrait

Amphibians in the Caribbean
The Conservation and Biogeography of Amphibians in the Caribbean
Edited by Neftalí Ríos-López and Harold Heatwole
Pelagic Publishing
Published by Pelagic Publishing
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The Conservation and Biogeography of Amphibians in the Caribbean
Copyright © 2023 Neftalí Ríos-López, Harold Heatwole and respective contributors to the various chapters
ISBN 978-1-78427-267-8 Hbk
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This book should be quoted as Ríos-López, N. and Heatwole, H. (eds) (2023) The Conservation and Biogeography of Amphibians in the Caribbean . London, Pelagic Publishing.
It is part of the series ‘Amphibian Biology’, comprising Volume 9: Status of Decline of Amphibians: Western Hemisphere, Part 5: The Caribbean.
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
https://doi.org/10.53061/HUCG2445
Cover image: Eleutherodactylus patriciae , a species endemic to the Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic. Photo © Luis M. Díaz (taken in 2011 at Valle Nuevo Scientific Reserve, Constanza).
Book frontispiece: Adult female Eleutherodactylus portoricensis , a species listed as Endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Taken at Cerro La Tabla (805 m asl; WGS84, 18° 3' 17.31" N, 66° 7' 23.35" W), Guayama, southeastern Puerto Rico, 2 November 2019. Photo © Neftalí Ríos-López
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Dedication

Stephen Blair Hedges (in his late 30s) presumably at the parking lot of the Greyhound Bus Station in University Park campus, Pennsylvania State University (Pennsylvania, USA) in April 1994. Cuban herpetologist Alberto R. Estrada took this picture as part of a one-week working session, between Blair’s house and his facility at Müller Laboratory (University Park), with material collected by Estrada in 1993 from Cuba. This work resulted in the descriptions of Eleutherodactylus glamirus , E. iberia , and E. tetajulia , which were published elsewhere in separate papers. S. Blair Hedges has contributed to the taxonomy, phylobiogeography, evolution, and conservation of the Caribbean amphibians in profound and significant ways: by the time of this volume, Blair ' s legacy includes 298 publications (10 of these books and monographs) in 43 years of publishing, and continuing; he has authored and coauthored the description of 36 species of amphibians in which 21 are from the Caribbean islands. His work – an ongoing endeavour – has motivated younger generations of herpetologists into applying the methodic and rigorous approach to the study of amphibians and their conservation in the Caribbean.


Calling male Eleutherodactylus auriculatus . Cupeyal del Norte, Guantánamo, Cuba. Photo © Luis M. Díaz.
Contents
Contributors
Preface

1 Theories of Insular Biogeography and Ecology
Harold Heatwole and Neftalí Ríos-López
2 Amphibians of the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands
R. Graham Reynolds and Sean T. Giery
3 The Amphibians of Cuba: integrative insight into the diversity and conservation of a highly vulnerable fauna
Luis M. Díaz, Ansel Fong G., Alberto R. Estrada, Antonio Cádiz, Amnerys González, Rolando Fernández de Arcila, Irelis Bignotte-Giró, and Sixto J. Incháustegui
4 Amphibians of the Southwestern Caribbean Islands
Harold Heatwole and Javier Sunyer
5 Amphibians of Jamaica
Kimberly Stephenson and Byron Wilson
6 Status of Amphibians in the Republic of Haiti: a review
Neftalí Ríos-López
7 Status of Amphibian Conservation and Decline in the Dominican Republic, Hispaniola
Sixto J. Incháustegui and Luis M. Díaz
8 Amphibians and their History, Distribution, and Conservation in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
Neftalí Ríos-López, Alberto R. Puente-Rolón, Nicole F. Angeli, Sondra I. Vega-Castillo, and Daniel Dávila-Casanova
9 Amphibians of the Lesser Antilles
Robert Powell and Robert W. Henderson
10 Amphibians of Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire
Gerard van Buurt
11 Amphibians of the Venezuelan Islands
Harold Heatwole
12 Amphibians and their Conservation in Trinidad and Tobago
Renoir J. Auguste, J. Roger Downie, Michael J. Jowers, Richard M. Lehtinen, Ryan S. Mohammed, and John C. Murphy
13 Amphibians of the Bocas del Toro Archipelago, Republic of Panama
Sandra P. Galeano, Layla Freeborn, and Ricardo Cossio

Glossary
Subject Index
Taxonomic Index
Contributors
EDITORS
RÍOS-LÓPEZ, Neftalí , University of Puerto Rico–Humacao Campus, Call Box 860, Humacao, Puerto Rico, 00792.
[e-mail]
HEATWOLE, Harold , Department of Zoology, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia.
[e-mail]
AUTHORS
ANGELI, Nicole F. , Division of Fish and Wildlife, Department of Planning and Natural Resources, Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands, USA.
[e-mail]
AUGUSTE, Renoir J. , Department of Life Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.
[e-mail]
BIGNOTTE-GIRÓ, Irelis , Centro Oriental de Ecosistemas y Biodiversidad (BIOECO), Museo de Historia Natural ' Tomás Romay ' , Enramadas # 601, Santiago de Cuba 90100, Cuba.
[e-mail]
CÁDIZ, Antonio , Department of Biology, University of Miami, 215 Cox Science Center, 1301 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, USA.
[e-mail]
COSSIO, Ricardo , University of Veterinary Medicine, Institute of Zoology, Bünteweg 17, 30559 Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany.
[e-mail]
DÁVILA-CASANOVA, Daniel , Puerto Rico Biodiversity Conservation Office, Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Metropolitan Campus, P.O. Box 19597, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00919; Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Puerto Rico–Río Piedras Campus, P.O. Box 70377, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00936.
[e-mail]
DÍAZ, Luis M. , Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Cuba. Obispo #61 Esquina Oficios, Plaza de Armas, Habana Vieja, CP 10100, Cuba.
[e-mail]
DOWNIE, J. Roger , School of Life Sciences, Graham Kerr Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom.
[e-mail]
ESTRADA, Alberto R. , 13355 SW 9th Ct APT 415 H, Pembroke Pines, FL 33027, USA.
[e-mail]
FERNÁNDEZ de ARCILA, Rolando , Centro Nacional de Áreas Protegidas. Calle 18A, #4114 e/ 43 y 47, Playa, La Habana, Cuba.
[e-mail]
FONG, Ansel , Centro Oriental de Ecosistemas y Biodiversidad (BIOECO), Museo de Historia Natural ' Tomás Romay ' , Enramadas # 601, Santiago de Cuba 90100, Cuba.
[e-mail]
FREEBORN, Layla , Department of Biological Sciences, Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 4249 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.
[e-mail]
GALEANO, Sandra P. , Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Bogotá, Colombia and Grupo Herpetológico de Antioquia, Instituto de Biología, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.
[e-mail]
GIERY, Sean T. , Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.
[e-mail]
GONZÁLEZ, Amnerys , Centro Nacional de Áreas Protegidas. Calle 18A #4114 e/ 43 y 47, Playa, La Habana, Cuba.
[e-mail]
HENDERSON, Robert W. , Vertebrate Zoology, Milwaukee Public Museum, 800 W. Wells St., Milwaukee, WI 53233, USA.
[e-mail]
INCHÁUSTEGUI, Sixto J. , Grupo Jaragua, El Vergel 33, Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana.
[e-mail]
JOWERS, Michael J. , CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, 4485–661 Vairão, Portugal. Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain.
[e-mail]
LEHTINEN, Richard M. , Department of Biology, The College of Wooster, 931 College Mall, Wooster, Ohio 44691, USA.
[e-mail]
MOHAMMED, Ryan , Biological Department, Auburn University, Alabama, USA.
[e-mail]
MURPHY, John C. , Science and Education, Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60616, USA.
[e-mail]
POWELL, Robert , Department of Biology, Avila University, 11901 Wornall Road, Kansas City, MO 64145, USA.
[e-mail]
PUENTE-ROLÓN, Alberto R. , Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico–Mayagüez Campus, Carr. 108 Barrio Miradero Km 1.3, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, 00681-9012.
[e-mail]
REYNOLDS, R. Graham , Department of Biology, University of North Carolina Asheville, One University Heights, Asheville, NC 28804, USA.
[e-mail]
STEPHENSON, Kimberly , Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica.
[e-mail]
SUNYER, Javier , Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias y Technología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua-León, León, Nicaragua.
[e-mail]
van BUURT, Gerard , Kaya Oy Sprock 18, Curaçao, Dutch West Indies.
[e-mail]
VEGA-CASTILLO, Sondra I. , Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico–Arecibo Campus, Carreter.