Hung Out to Dry: Choice of Priority Ecoregions for Conserving Threatened Neotropical Anurans Depends on Life-History Traits

Rafael Dias Loyola; Carlos Guilherme Becker; Umberto Kubota; Célio Fernando Baptista Haddad; Carlos Roberto Fonseca; Thomas Michael Lewinsohn

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002120

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Hung Out to Dry: Choice of Priority Ecoregions for Conserving Threatened Neotropical Anurans Depends on Life-History Traits

Rafael Dias Loyola ,

* E-mail: avispa@gmail.com

Affiliations Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, Departmento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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Carlos Guilherme Becker,

Affiliation Departmento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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Umberto Kubota,

Affiliation Departmento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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Célio Fernando Baptista Haddad,

Affiliation Departmento de Zoologia, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brazil
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Carlos Roberto Fonseca,

Affiliation Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Thomas Michael Lewinsohn

Affiliation Departmento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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Hung Out to Dry: Choice of Priority Ecoregions for Conserving Threatened Neotropical Anurans Depends on Life-History Traits

Rafael Dias Loyola,
Carlos Guilherme Becker,
Umberto Kubota,
Célio Fernando Baptista Haddad,
Carlos Roberto Fonseca,
Thomas Michael Lewinsohn

Published: May 7, 2008
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002120

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Referee Comments: Referee 1

Posted by PLOS_ONE_Group on 12 May 2008 at 18:46 GMT

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There are a few grammatical errors that need to be corrected.

I would've liked to see a comparison with other methods of identifying conservation areas, ie taking into account phylogeny or higher level taxonomic diversity.

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