About the Authors

H. Mauricio Ortega-Andrade

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mauricio.ortega@ikiam.edu.ec

Affiliations Grupo de Biogeografía y Ecología Espacial, Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam, Tena, Ecuador, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Casilla, Quito, Ecuador

Marina Rodes Blanco

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Grupo de Biogeografía y Ecología Espacial, Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam, Tena, Ecuador

Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Casilla, Quito, Ecuador, Instituto de Diversidad Biológica Tropical iBIOTROP, Museo de Zoología & Laboratorio de Zoología Terrestre, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador

Nereida Guerra Arévalo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Grupo de Biogeografía y Ecología Espacial, Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam, Tena, Ecuador

Karima Gabriela López de Vargas-Machuca

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Universidad de La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, España, Proyecto PARG, Ministerio del Ambiente y Agua, PNUD, Quito, Ecuador

Juan C. Sánchez-Nivicela

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Casilla, Quito, Ecuador, Instituto de Diversidad Biológica Tropical iBIOTROP, Museo de Zoología & Laboratorio de Zoología Terrestre, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador, Grupo de Investigación Evolución y Ecología de Fauna Neotropical, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá D.C., Colombia

Diego Armijos-Ojeda

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratorio de Ecología Tropical y Servicios Ecosistémicos (EcoSs-Lab), Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador

José Francisco Cáceres Andrade

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Parque Nacional Cajas ETAPA EP, Cuenca, Ecuador

Carolina Reyes-Puig

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Casilla, Quito, Ecuador, Instituto de Diversidad Biológica Tropical iBIOTROP, Museo de Zoología & Laboratorio de Zoología Terrestre, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador

Amanda Belén Quezada Riera

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Museo de Zoología de la Universidad del Azuay, Cuenca, Ecuador

Paul Székely

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratorio de Ecología Tropical y Servicios Ecosistémicos (EcoSs-Lab), Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador

Octavio R. Rojas Soto

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Instituto de Ecología, A. C., Xalapa, México

Diana Székely

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratorio de Ecología Tropical y Servicios Ecosistémicos (EcoSs-Lab), Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador

Juan M. Guayasamin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratorio de Biología Evolutiva, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales COCIBA, Instituto Biósfera USFQ, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador

Fausto Rodrigo Siavichay Pesántez

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro de Conservación de Anfibios AMARU, Cuenca, Ecuador

Luis Amador

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas, Doctorado en Ciencias m. Ecología y Evolución, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile

Raquel Betancourt

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Casilla, Quito, Ecuador

Salomón M. Ramírez-Jaramillo

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Proyecto PARG, Ministerio del Ambiente y Agua, PNUD, Quito, Ecuador

Bruno Timbe-Borja

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Museo de Zoología de la Universidad del Azuay, Cuenca, Ecuador

Miguel Gómez Laporta

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Proyecto PARG, Ministerio del Ambiente y Agua, PNUD, Quito, Ecuador

Juan Fernando Webster Bernal

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministerio del Ambiente y Agua, Quito, Ecuador

Luis Alfredo Oyagata Cachimuel

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministerio del Ambiente y Agua, Quito, Ecuador

Daniel Chávez Jácome

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas, Doctorado en Ciencias m. Ecología y Evolución, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile

Valentina Posse

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratorio de Ecología Tropical y Servicios Ecosistémicos (EcoSs-Lab), Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador

Carlos Valle-Piñuela

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministerio del Ambiente y Agua, Quito, Ecuador

Daniel Padilla Jiménez

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministerio del Ambiente y Agua, Quito, Ecuador

Juan Pablo Reyes-Puig

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Casilla, Quito, Ecuador, Fundación Ecominga/Fundación Oscar Efrén Reyes, Baños, Ecuador

Andrea Terán-Valdez

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro Jambatu de Investigación y Conservación de Anfibios, Fundación Jambatu, Quito, Ecuador

Luis A. Coloma

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro Jambatu de Investigación y Conservación de Anfibios, Fundación Jambatu, Quito, Ecuador

Ma. Beatriz Pérez Lara

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Casilla, Quito, Ecuador

Sofía Carvajal-Endara

Roles Data curation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro Jambatu de Investigación y Conservación de Anfibios, Fundación Jambatu, Quito, Ecuador

Miguel Urgilés

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Casilla, Quito, Ecuador

Mario H. Yánez Muñoz

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Casilla, Quito, Ecuador

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.