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Climatic variables and altitude as predictors of anuran species richness and number of reproductive modes in Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 May 2010

Tiago da Silveira Vasconcelos ,
Tiago Gomes dos Santos ,
Célio Fernando Baptista Haddad  and
Denise de Cerqueira Rossa-Feres
Tiago da Silveira Vasconcelos*
Affiliation:
Programa de Pós Graduação em Zoologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Caixa Postal 199, 13506-900 Rio Claro, SP, Brazil
Tiago Gomes dos Santos
Affiliation:
Programa de Pós Graduação em Zoologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Caixa Postal 199, 13506-900 Rio Claro, SP, Brazil
Célio Fernando Baptista Haddad
Affiliation:
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Caixa Postal 199, 13506-900 Rio Claro, SP, Brazil
Denise de Cerqueira Rossa-Feres
Affiliation:
Departamento de Zoologia e Botânica, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 15054-000 São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
*
1Corresponding author. Email: zoologia@ig.com.br
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Abstract:

Because anuran species are highly dependent on environmental variables, we hypothesized that anuran species richness and the number of reproductive modes from different Brazilian localities vary according to climatic and altitudinal variables. Published data were compiled from 36 Brazilian localities and climatic and altitudinal data were extracted from an available database. A partial redundancy analysis (pRDA) showed that 23.5% of the data set's variation was explained by climatic and altitudinal data, while the remaining 76.5% remained unexplained. This analysis suggests that other factors not analysed herein may also be important for predicting anuran species richness and the number of reproductive modes in Brazil. Altitude and total annual rainfall were positively correlated with anuran species richness and the number of reproductive modes, and total annual rainfall was strongly associated with these two biotic variables in the triplot of pRDA. The positive association of total annual rainfall and the negative association of the concentration of annual rainfall were already expected based on physiological and reproductive requirements of anurans. On the other hand, temperature was not associated with richness or the number of reproductive modes.

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AmphibiaBrazilian biomesclimatic effectsherpetologymeta-analysisredundancy analysis

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Journal of Tropical Ecology , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , July 2010 , pp. 423 - 432
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