| inferring ecological explanations for biogeographic boundaries of parapatric asian mountain frogs. | identifying and understanding the mechanisms that shape barriers to dispersal and resulting biogeographic boundaries has been a longstanding, yet challenging, goal in ecology, evolution and biogeography. characterized by stable, adjacent ranges, without any intervening physical barriers, and limited, if any, range overlap in a narrow contact zone, parapatric species are an interesting system for studying biogeographic boundaries. the geographic ranges of two parapatric frog species, feirana quad ... | 2018 | 29391060 |
| unveiling the roles of interspecific competition and local adaptation in phenotypic differentiation of parapatric frogs. | understanding how ecological processes affect phenotypic evolution has been and continues to be an important goal of ecology and evolutionary biology. interspecific competition for resources can be a selective force driving phenotypic differentiation that reduces competition among sympatric species (character divergence), enabling closely-related species to coexist. however, although patterns of character divergence are well documented in both empirical and theoretical researches, how local adap ... | 2020 | 32617086 |
| the tadpole of the swelled vent frog feirana quadranus (anura: ranidae): oral, chondrocranial and hyobranchial morphology. | | 2014 | 24871745 |
| postglacial colonization of the qinling mountains: phylogeography of the swelled vent frog (feirana quadranus). | the influence of pleistocene climatic fluctuations on intraspecific diversification in the qinling-daba mountains of east asia remains poorly investigated. we tested hypotheses concerning refugia during the last glacial maximum (lgm) in this region by examining the phylogeography of the swelled vent frog (feirana quadranus; dicroglossidae, anura, amphibia). | 2012 | 22848532 |