Mesoamerican Hylid Frog Habitat Suitability Models for Adult and Tadpole Life Stages

A 2026 study models the current and future distributions of ten Mesoamerican hylid frog species under climate change scenarios. The dataset, created by Hibraim Adán Pérez-Mendoza and shared on figshare, integrates correlative models, microclimatic simulations, and physiological limits to compare adult-only and tadpole-based habitat suitability predictions. Results project substantial range contractions, with tadpole models predicting suitable areas averaging only about 4% of adult ranges.

Use Cases

• Comparing habitat suitability predictions for different life stages based on adult and tadpole distribution models.
• Assessing climate change impacts on species ranges based on projected future distributions under dispersal and non-dispersal assumptions.
• Evaluating the influence of physiological limits, like critical thermal maxima, on predicted climatically suitable areas.
• Studying the spatial fragmentation of larval habitats based on simulated seasonal pond availability.

Strengths

• Models ten distinct Mesoamerican hylid frog species.
• Integrates multiple modeling approaches: correlative models, microclimatic simulations, and physiological filtering.
• Provides both current and future climate projections for distributions.
• Explicitly compares results from adult-only and tadpole-based models, a noted methodological gap.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The authors note that data scarcity may bias results for the tadpole models.

Provenance

Source

Hibraim Adán Pérez-Mendoza via figshare.

Collection Method

Modeled using MaxEnt, mechanistic microhabitat simulations for ponds, and filtered by critical thermal maxima thresholds.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-11 11:29:27; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Mesoamerica.