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sylvia hofmann

@sh-herptiles.bsky.social

#biogeography, #phylogenomics, #herpetologist, #High-Asia, #Himalaya; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sylvia-Hofmann

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Spannend zu sehen, wie LIB-Forschung auch außerhalb der Fachcommunity aufgegriffen wird — danke an RiffReporter für das Feature!
Ein gutes Beispiel dafür, wie Infrastruktur unbeabsichtigt Tierbewegungen beeinflussen kann. #LIBResearch

09.02.2026 08:22 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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A strong start to the CBD expert meeting on the draft global guidance for sustainable wildlife management! Day 1 featured rich, constructive discussions and valuable inputs from diverse perspectives, supported by #LIBResearch @leibnizlib.bsky.social Looking forward to continuing the review tomorrow.

09.02.2026 21:05 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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New in #Palaeogeography_Palaeoclimatology_Palaeoecology_683
"Diversification and historical biogeography of the Himalayan toad (Duttaphrynus himalayanus)"
Hofmann,S., Dubois,A., Ohler,A., @chrisdufresnes.bsky.social @isyeb.mnhn.fr et al.
#amphibian #paleoclimate_modelling
🐸 doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...

10.12.2025 09:08 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

just published: Diversification and historical biogeography of the Himalayan toad (Duttaphrynus himalayanus)☆ special issue, 3P
doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...

Temporary full access is available here:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1mEge73N%7...

08.12.2025 18:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Earth history and trait innovation drive the global radiation of modern toads | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences The distributions of species radiations reflect environmental changes driven by both Earth history (geological processes) and the evolution of biological traits (critical to survival and adaptation), ...

🫶🏻 nice study on modern toads: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1...

18.10.2025 09:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AI chatbots are already biasing research — we must establish guidelines for their use now The academic community has looked at how artificial-intelligence tools help researchers to write papers, but not how they distort the literature scientists choose to cite.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

17.09.2025 08:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Resolving taxonomic ambiguities in extant Himalayan lazy toads: A new species of the genus Scutiger (Anura, Megophryidae) from eastern Nepal | European Journal of Taxonomy

just published
europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ej...

05.06.2025 20:34 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Genetics or phenetics? Check out what best differentiates midwife toad taxa at various stage of their speciation continuum in our latest article freshly squeezed in Molecular Ecology with @batracofistro.bsky.social and many other co-authors!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

25.03.2025 15:54 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Between fruits, flowers and nectar: The extraordinary diet of the frog Xenohyla truncata Pollination and seed dispersal are determinants for plant survivorship. Among land vertebrates, mammals and birds stand out in these relationships wit…

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

07.03.2025 04:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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