Agapow

AmphibianWeb

Armstrong

Atauri

Bastin

Bezaury-Creel

Bock

Brühl

Buckley

Böll

Camacho-Camacho

Camarillo

Campbell

Campos Rodríguez

Canseco-Márquez

Cardinale

Ceballos

Chao

Chen

Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas (CONANP)

Comisión para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO)

Consejo Estatal de Ecología de Hidalgo (COEDEH)

Crump

Davies

Duellman

Durant

Días-Fránces

Díaz

Fernández-Badillo

Flores-Villela

Frost

García

García-Herrera

Garstka

González-Hernández

Gómez Mendoza

Hammerson

Hernández Pérez

Hernández Salinas

Hsieh

Huitzil Mendoza

Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI)

IUCN

Kindt

Llorente-Bousquets

Luiselli

Mara

Martins

Martínez-Castellanos

Matias Ferrer

Meik

Mendoza-Quijano

Myers

Navas

Ochoa-Ochoa

Ortiz-Yusty

Ponce

Purvis

R Core Team

Ramírez-Bautista

Rebón-Gallardo

Rivas

Roth-Monzón

Rzedowski

Salazar-Arenas

Santos-Barrera

Schlesinger

Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (SEMARNAT)

Shine

Tews

Vargas-Santamaría

Vega-López

Velázquez

Vite-Silva

Vitt

Webb

Whitfield

Zaldívar-Riverón

PeerJ

Current global changes are putting both biodiversity and the processes that depend on it at risk. This is especially true for semi-arid regions and the flagship groups that inhabit them, such as amphibians and reptiles. Semi-arid regions are often thought to have lower biodiversity and thus have been overlooked, resulting in the underestimation of their biological richness. Therefore, the aim of this study was to conduct an inventory of amphibians and reptiles in the semi-arid municipality of Nopala de Villagrán, Mexico, and analyze its biodiversity in relation to the seasons, vegetation and microhabitat. During a year of fieldwork, we found 24 species in the area, most of them of low abundance, and one of which was recorded for the first time for the state of Hidalgo. We documented five amphibian species and 19 reptile species. We also found that observed species richness was higher in the rainy season and in xeric scrub vegetation, although only the season differences were significant according to rarefaction curves. Our findings highlight the importance of seasonality and vegetation type for the species that inhabit this semi-arid region. This study broadens our understanding of the importance of semi-arid regions and, by extension, that of other areas with similar characteristics.</jats:p

Andrea J. Roth-Monzón

Andrés Alberto Mendoza-Hernández

Oscar Flores-Villela

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Amphibian and reptile biodiversity in the semi-arid region of the municipality of Nopala de Villagrán, Hidalgo, Mexico

Appendix S1: Species list with MZFC accession numbers for each individual collected

Appendix S1: Species list with MZFC accession numbers for each individual collected

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