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Aligning Conservation Priorities Across Taxa in Madagascar with High- Resolution Planning Tools. 2008 (Science 320: 222-226). We present an analysis of conservation priorities in Madagascar encompassing broad taxonomic and geographic breadth and spatial resolution, showing that multitaxonomic, high-resolution approaches are critical for identifying areas likely to promote the persistence of the majority of species. This analysis has immediate relevance in Madagascar, where the government is tripling its protected-area network, and the approach is transferable to other global priority areas. |
 Rapid
diversification and dispersal during global warming periods by plethodontid
salamanders. 2007 (PNAS 104:19903-19907). The
disjunct and highly asymmetric Holarctic distribution of plethodontid
salamanders has long been a biogeographic puzzle. Here we investigated
the phylogenetic relationships, origin and diversification of these
salamanders in the Holarctic, proposing new hypotheses on the historic
biogeography of this group. |
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Discovery
of the first Asian plethodontid salamander. 2005 (Nature 435:87-90). 98%
of plethodontid salamanders occur in the Americas, with few representatives
in the Mediterranean. The first Asian plethodontid ever discovered
has important implications both in the biogeography and diversification
of the most speciose family of salamanders. This new species is also
a completely new clade and we placed it in a new genus: Karsenia. |
Clutch
piracy in an amphibian. 2004 (Nature 431:
305-8). The
biology of the european common frog, Rana temporaria, has
widely been studied during the last century. I discovered a new behavioural
pattern for this species and for amphibians in general. It consists
in the amplexus of males with clutches as they would do with females,
resulting in multiple paternity. |
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