Toxic toad invasion of Wallacea: A biodiversity hotspot characterized by extraordinary endemism

Sean B Reilly; Guinevere O U Wogan; Alexander L Stubbs; Evy Arida; Djoko T Iskandar; Jimmy A McGuire

doi:10.1111/gcb.13877

Toxic toad invasion of Wallacea: A biodiversity hotspot characterized by extraordinary endemism

Glob Chang Biol. 2017 Dec;23(12):5029-5031. doi: 10.1111/gcb.13877. Epub 2017 Oct 6.

Authors

Sean B Reilly^{1

2}, Guinevere O U Wogan^{1

3}, Alexander L Stubbs^{1

2}, Evy Arida⁴, Djoko T Iskandar⁵, Jimmy A McGuire^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley, CA, USA.
² Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
³ Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
⁴ Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Bogor, Indonesia.
⁵ School of Life Sciences and Technology, Institute of Technology, Bandung, Indonesia.

PMID: 28833907
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13877

Abstract

(a) A map of Wallacea showing islands invaded by Duttaphrynus melanostictus in red, islands inhabited by Varanus komodoensis in blue, and localities of genetic samples in yellow points. (b) A D. melanostictus from Lombok Island. (c) Environmental niche model for the Sunda Islands clade of D. melanostictus projected into Wallacea. Green color indicates very high suitability, yellow color indicates high suitability, and orange color indicates moderate suitability.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Animal Distribution*
Animals
Biodiversity*
Bufonidae / physiology*
Introduced Species*
Lizards / physiology
Pacific Islands