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Journal of coastal conservation: a review on the anurofauna of Brazil’s sandy coastal plains. How much do we know about it?

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We gathered the available information about the anurofauna in Brazilian sand coastal plains (“restingas”) published since the 1966, which is the date of the first study we found that was conducted exclusively about anurans in these ecosystems. We made a compilation of available data found in publications and sought to finding a pattern on anuran communities of Brazilian sandy coastal plains. We found 63 published studies about anurans in remaining restingas along the Brazilian coast. We record the occurrence of 14,010 individuals, comprised of 145 amphibian species from 12 families. The species were distributed latitudinally in a peculiar way, and here, we discuss this distribution regarding the characteristics of the species. Our results showed that the available existing base still does not allow us to define the structural patterns of the anuran communities in sandy coastal plains in Brazil. The relative lack of studies about the anurofauna in “restingas” and the high rate of degradation are negative factors that can cause extinctions in these environments even before we understand the patterns and processes that act on anuran communities in restinga environments.

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This study was supported by grants from Conselho Nacional do Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico – CNPq (processes Nos. 304,791/2010-5 and 472,287/2012-5) and from Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ) to CFDR (“Programa Cientistas do Nosso Estado” – Process No. E-26/102.765.2012). JCFO thanks the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – CAPES for providing graduate fellowships. We also thank an anonymous review whose comments helped us to improve the original manuscript

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Table 3 List of amphibians, based on studies in restinga habitats from 1966 to January 2014, including the conservation status (IUCN, 2014) and the character of endemism (E) for restinga environment
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Oliveira, J.C.F., Rocha, C.F.D. Journal of coastal conservation: a review on the anurofauna of Brazil’s sandy coastal plains. How much do we know about it?. J Coast Conserv 19, 35–49 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11852-014-0354-8

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