Descubrimientos y Publicaciones

2026

Curay, J., Gavilanez, M.M., Reyes-Puig, J.P. & Brito, J. (2026). Elevational patterns of taxonomic and functional diversity in small non-volant mammals of the upper Pastaza River basin, Ecuador. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 14:1903762. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2026.1903762 

Figueroa-Coronel, E., Cisneros-Heredia, D. F., Brito-Zapata, D., Carrión-Olmedo, J. C., & Reyes-Puig, C. (2026). A new rain frog of the genus Pristimantis (Anura, Craugastoridae) from the Cordillera del Cóndor, southeastern Ecuador. ZooKeys, (1282), 205–228. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1282.187506

Monteros, M. F., Holcomb, K., Baquero, L. E., & Wilson, M. (2026). Pleurothallis pembertonii (Orchidaceae, Pleurothallidinae), a new species from northwestern Ecuador in the Tropical Andes Biodiversity Hotspot. PhytoKeys, 276, 297–312. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.276.190930 

Parra-Sánchez, E., Baquero, L., Ordóñez-Blanco, J. C., Gil-Amaya, K., Edwards, D. P., & Morton, O. (2026). Dracula under siege: Persistent demand for a threatened and range-restricted orchid taxa. Biological Conservation, 321. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2026.111986

Plewnia, A., Boistel, R., Heine, C., Hildwein, T., Quezada-Riera, A. B., Terán-Valdez, A., Reyes-Puig, J. P., & Lötters, S. (2026). Metabarcoding and microtomography reveal new insights into the dietary niche of near-extinct amphibians. Journal of Vertebrate Biology, 75(25109), 25109.1-14. https://doi.org/10.25225/jvb.25109

Reyes-Puig, J. P., Yánez-Muñoz, M. H., Ron, S. R., Venegas, P. J., Ortega, J., Carrión-Olmedo, J. C., & Reyes-Puig, C. (2026). A new spiny frog of the genus Pristimantis (Anura, Strabomantidae) from the eastern slopes of the Ecuadorian Andes. ZooKeys, 1269, 83–105. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1269.162260

Reyes-Puig, J. P., Yánez-Muñoz, M. H., Urgilés-Merchán, M., Libke, Z., Ron, S. R., & Carrión-Olmedo, J. C. (2026). Two new terrestrial narrow-toed frogs Niceforonia: Strabomantidae, Anura) from remote unexplored mountains in the Ecuadorian Andes. PeerJ, 14, e21182. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.21182

Reyes-Puig, J.P., Grefa-Huatatoca, J., Grefa-Vargas, C. J., Weulersse, P., Konradowski, B., Ortiz, B., Vargas, R., Cerda, N., Cerda, J., Ríos-Alvear, G., Oscar Efrén Reyes, F., de Agua Santa, B., Clara, S., Ishpingo, F., Chalwayaku, E., & Santiago, M. (2026). Novel records of two tapir species in the eastern slopes of the Andes of Ecuador Colectivo Piatúa Resiste Forma de citar. The Ecuadorian Journal of Mammalogy AEM Mammalia Aequatorialis, 8(2), 137–147. https://doi.org/10.59763/mam.aeq.v8i2.166

Sánchez-Nivicela, J. C., Salinas-Tapia, J., Moya-Mejía, M. B., Calderón, N., & Carrión-Olmedo, J. C. (2026). AMPLIACIÓN DEL RANGO DE DISTRIBUCIÓN DE LA RANA DE TORRENTE DE RÍO NEGRO (HYLOSCIRTUS TOLKIENI SÁNCHEZ-NIVICELA ET AL., 2023), PRIMER REGISTRO DEL MACHO, CANTO DE ADVERTENCIA Y RELACIONES EVOLUTIVAS. Zootaxa. https://doi.org/10.22201/fc.25942158e.2026.2.1517

Troncoso, L., Echarri, F. J. T., Pilatasig, L., Ibadango, E., Mateus, A., Alonso-Pandavenes, O., Bermeo, A., Robayo, F. J., & Jost, L. (2026). Geological and Social Factors Related to Disasters Caused by Complex Mass Movements: The Quilloturo Landslide in Ecuador (2024). GeoHazards, 7(1). Scopus. https://doi.org/10.3390/geohazards7010004

Yánez-Muñoz, M. H., Vega-Yánez, M. A., Reyes-Puig, J. P., Lagla-Chimba, G., Paucar-Veintimilla, C., Nicolalde-Tapia, K., Urgilés-Merchán, M., Carrión-Olmedo, J. C., & Reyes-Puig, C. (2026). Update of species limits in the Pristimantis myersi clade (Anura: Craugastoridae), with the description of two new species from the western Andes of Ecuador. PeerJ, 14, e21075. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.21075

Yacelga, K., Taimal-Quelal, G., León, M., Rosales-Enríquez, O., & Jácome-Aguirre, G. (2026). Identification of Key Habitats for the Conservation of Three Bird Species in the Ecuadorian Chocó Biogeographic Region: A Diffuse Overlap Approach to Current and Future Ecological Niches. Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica, 52(1), 131–152. https://doi.org/10.18172/cig.6898

2025

Baquero, L., & Monteros, M. (2025). Dracula erythrocodon. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2025: e.T261803882A261803885. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2025-2.RLTS.T261803882A261803885.es 

Baquero, L., & Monteros, M. (2025). Dracula lafleurii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2025: e.T185817949A261806688. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2025-2.RLTS.T185817949A261806688.es 

Baquero, L., & Monteros, M. (2025). Dracula marinii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2025: e.T261803386A261803389. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2025-2.RLTS.T261803386A261803389.es 

Baquero, L., & Monteros, M.  (2025). Dracula mopsus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2025: e.T185818044A261806088. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2025-2.RLTS.T185818044A261806088.es 

Baquero, L., & Monteros, M.  (2025). Dracula morleyi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2025: e.T185818059A261805904. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2025-2.RLTS.T185818059A261805904.es 

Baquero, L., & Monteros, M. (2025). Dracula navarroorum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2025: e.T261803190A261803192. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2025-2.RLTS.T261803190A261803192.es 

Baquero, L., & Monteros, M. (2025). Dracula portillae. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2025: e.T181234088A261809279. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2025-2.RLTS.T181234088A261809279.es 

Baquero, L., & Monteros, M. (2025). Dracula simia. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2025: e.T185818309A261805228. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2025-2.RLTS.T185818309A261805228.es 

Baquero, L., & Monteros, M. (2025). Dracula sodiroi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2025: e.T185818319A261805031. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2025-2.RLTS.T185818319A261805031.es 

Baquero, L., & Monteros, M. (2025). Dracula trigonopetala. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2025: e.T261802700A261802703. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2025-2.RLTS.T261802700A261802703.es 

Baquero, L., & Monteros, M. (2025). Dracula tubeana. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2025: e.T185816393A261807366. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2025-2.RLTS.T185816393A261807366.es 

Bentley, A. G., Reyes-Puig, J. P., Hidalgo, A. B., Altamirano, J. A. H., Barragan-Paladines, M. E., Yánez-Muñoz, M. H., Almeida-Reinoso, D., Guerra, M. A., Arboleda, J., Culebras, J., Fiallos Moreno, D. A., Sáenz, J., Yoder, P. M., Best, D., Vizcarra Vásconez, R. S., Peñafiel Flores, M. G., Franchini, A., Carlson, E., Segovia Larrea, J. I., … Gren, E. C. K. (2025). Snake (Serpentes, Reptilia) diversity in Mera, Ecuador: A citizen-science approach to surveying a biodiversity hotspot of the western Amazon. Check List, 21(5), 945–969. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.15560/21.5.945

Castellanos, F. X., Simba, L., & Brito, J. (2025). New altitudinal record of Myotis moratellii Novaes et al., 2021 (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) in the northwestern foothills of Ecuador. Check List, 21(3), 506–514. https://doi.org/10.15560/21.3.506

Carrión-Olmedo, J. C., & Brito, J. (2025). Cryptic diversity on the genus Caenolestes (Caenolestidae: Paucituberculata) in the Ecuadorian Andes. PeerJ, 13, e19648. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19648

Damián-Parizaca, A., Monteros, M. F., Coayla Rimachi, D., Walston, J., & Mitidieri-Rivera, N. (2025). A new species of Pleurothallis (Pleurothallidinae, Orchidaceae) from the historic sanctuary of Machupicchu, Perú. PhytoKeys, 254, 29–40. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.254.142116 

Iturralde, G. A., Jiménez, M. M., Monteros, M. F., Martel, C., & Baquero, L. E. (2025). Telipogon cruentilabrum (Orchidaceae: Oncidiinae): A new species from mid-western Ecuador, long misidentified as T. dendriticus. Phytotaxa, 694(3), 271–280. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.694.3.6 

Lötters, S., Böning, P., Bailon, S., Castañeda, J. D. B., Boistel, R., Catenazzi, A., Chaparro, J. C., Chávez, G., Chujutalli, A., Coen, L., Coloma, L. A., Crawford, A. J., Culebras, J., Martínez, J. C. C., Daza, J. M., de la Riva, I., Ellwein, D. J., Ernst, R., Flechas, S. V., …, Reyes-Puig, J.P., …, Plewnia, A. (2025). A roadmap for harlequin frog systematics, with a partial revision of Amazonian species related to Atelopus spumarius. Zootaxa, 5571(1), 1–76. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5571.1.1

Monteros, M. F., Restrepo, E., Iturralde, G. A., Jiménez, M. M., & Baquero, L. E. (2025). Porroglossum hildeae sp. nov. (Orchidaceae), a new species from the threatened cloud forests of northwestern Ecuador. PhytoKeys, 263, 151–164. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.263.159826

Oleas, N. H., Jost, L., Ricardo, Z. C., Torres, C. G., Heredia, J., Bustamante, M., Romero-Saltos, H., Moreno-Armijos, M. P., Meerow, A. W., & Quintana, C. (2025). First records of the genus Pyrolirion Herb. (Liliopsida, Asparagales, Amaryllidaceae) in Ecuador. Check List, 21(1), 142–147. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.15560/21.1.142

Reyes-Puig, J. P., Urgiles-Merchán, M. A., Ortega-Andrade, H. M., Cisneros-Heredia, D. F., Carrión-Olmedo, J. C., & Yáñez-Muñoz, M. H. (2025). New Andean plump toad of the genus Osornophryne (Anura: Bufonidae) from Cerro Candelaria, Ecuador. PeerJ, 13, e19760. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19760

Rodríguez-Segovia, M. A., Simba, L., & Brito, J. (2025). New records of Sturnira koopmanhilli (McCarthy, Albuja & Alberico, 2006) (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) from western and eastern Ecuador. Check List, 21(2), 304–311. https://doi.org/10.15560/21.2.304

Taimal, J. G., Yacelga, K., León, M., & Jácome, G. (n.d.). DIVERSIDAD Y DISTRIBUCIÓN DE AVES EN LA ESTACIÓN EXPERIMENTAL EL CRISTAL EN EL CHOCÓ ECUATORIANO. Revista Ecuatoriana de Ornitología, (11), 44–45. https://doi.org/10.18272/reo.vi11.3671

Yánez-Muñoz, M. H., Reyes-Puig, J. P., Reyes-Puig, C., Lagla-Chimba, G., Paucar-Veintimilla, C., Urgiles-Merchán, M. A., & Carrión-Olmedo, J. C. (2025). High speciation in the cryptic Pristimantis celator clade (Anura: Strabomantidae) of the Mira river basin, Ecuador-Colombia. PeerJ, 13:e18680. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18680

Warren, I., Simba, L., & Brito, J. (2025). First record of Furipterus horrens (Cuvier, 1828) (Chiroptera, Furipteridae) in the Ecuadorian Andes. Check List, 21(2), 451–456. https://doi.org/10.15560/21.2.451

2024

 Baquero, L. E., Monteros, M. F., Iturralde, G. A., Jiménez, M. M., & Dueñas, R. (2024). Pleurothallis markgruinii, a new Pleurothallidinae (Orchidaceae) from northwestern Ecuador. Edinburgh Journal of Botany, 81, Article 2032, 1–18. doi:10.24823/EJB.2024.2032 

Franco-Mena, D., De la Riva, I., Vega-Yánez, M. A., Székely, P., Amador, L., Batallas, D., Reyes-Puig, J. P., Cisneros-Heredia, D. F., Venegas-Valencia, K., Galeano, S. P., Culebras, J., & Guayasamin, J. M. (2024). Simplifying the Centrolene buckleyi complex (Amphibia: Anura: Centrolenidae): A taxonomic review and description of two new species. PeerJ, 12(8). https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17712

Instituto Nacional Biodiversidad, Fundación Ecominga, Fundación Oscar Efren Reyes, Waska Amazonía. (2024). MAMÍFEROS GRANDES Y MEDIANOS. Serie de Publicaciones Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad. Publicación Miscelánea N° 20.

Iturralde, G. A., Jiménez, M. M., Martel, C., Baquero, L., Restrepo, E., Rodríguez-Prieto, A., Monteros, M. F., & Jost, L. (2024). Telipogon nigropurpureus (Orchidaceae: Oncidiinae): New insights on its morphology and distribution in Colombia and Ecuador. Phytotaxa, 647(2), 189–198. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.647.2.5 

Plewnia, A., Terán-Valdez, A., Culebras, J., Boistel, R., Paluh, D. J., Quezada Riera, A. B., Heine, C. H., Reyes-Puig, J. P., Salazar-Valenzuela, D., Guayasamin, J. M., & Lötters, S. (2024). A new species of harlequin toad (Bufonidae: Atelopus) from Amazonian Ecuador. Salamandra, 60(4), 237–253.

Reyes-Puig, J. P., Yánez-Muñoz, M. H., Libke, Z., Vinueza, P., & Carrión-Olmedo, J. C. (2024). Phylogenetic diversity of the Pristimantis anaiae species group, with a description of a new species of Pristimantis (Anura, Strabomantidae) from Cerro Candelaria, Tungurahua, Ecuador. Evolutionary Systematics, 8(1), 101–118. https://doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.8.118855

Ríos-Alvear, G., Meneses, P., Ortega-Andrade, H. M., Santos, C., Muzo, A., López, K. G., Bentley, A. G., & Villamarín, F. (2024). Key connectivity areas in the Llanganates-Sangay Ecological Corridor in Ecuador: A participative multicriteria analysis based on a landscape species. Landscape and Urban Planning, 246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105039

Tallini, L. R., Acosta León, K., Chamorro, R., Osorio, E. H., Bastida, J., Jost, L., & Oleas, N. H. (2024). Alkaloid Profiling and Anti-Cholinesterase Potential of Three Different Genera of Amaryllidaceae Collected in Ecuador: Urceolina Rchb., Clinanthus Herb. And Stenomesson Herb. Life, 14(8). Scopus. https://doi.org/10.3390/life14080924

Torres-Jiménez, J., Seger, S. M., Acosta-López, C., Gavilánez, M. M., Kohn, S., Narváez, F., Laguna, A., Monteros, M., Ramírez-Piedra, H., Lucero-Toapanta, D., & Armas, C. (2024). Remarkable records of jaguars and Andean bears in northwestern Ecuador: Implications for human-wildlife conflicts. Neotropical Biology and Conservation, 19(4), 495–503. doi:10.3897/neotropical.19.e129163

Viteri-Basso, E., Reyes-Puig, J. P., Reyes-Puig, C., & Ríos-Alvear, G. (2024). Shadows in the forest: Uncovering unusual colouration records in mammals from the Ecuadorian Tropical Andes. Biodiversity Data Journal, 12. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.12.E137463

2023

Clark, J. L., Fierro-Minda, A., Exe, N., Johnson, M., Tribble, C. M., & Jost, L. (2023). Bomarea pastazensis (Alstroemeriaceae), an exceptionally small new species from the eastern Andean slopes of Ecuador. PhytoKeys, 235, 31–42. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.3897/PHYTOKEYS.235.110525

Instituto Nacional De Biodiversidad, Fundación Ecominga, Waska Amazonía, & Sumak Kawsay In Situ. (2023). ANFIBIOS Y REPTILES DEL CORREDOR ECOLÓGICO LLANGANATES-SANGAY (WWF). Serie de Publicaciones Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad. Publicación Miscelánea N° 17. World Wildlife Fund.

Iturralde, G. A., Monteros, M. F., Jiménez, M. M., Martel, C., & Baquero, L. E. (2023). Telipogon pillaropatatensis (Oncidiinae): A new species from the east-central Andes of Ecuador. Lankesteriana, 23(3), 495–509. doi:10.15517/lank.v23i3.58100

Jiménez, M. M., Vélez-Abarca, L., Mashendo-Jimbicti, V., Garzón-Suárez, H. X., Monteros, M. F., & Wilson, M. (2023). Five new species of Pleurothallis (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) in subsection Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae from southeastern Ecuador. Phytotaxa, 607(3), 161–181. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.607.3.1 

Jost, L., Yanez-Muñoz, M. H., Brito, J., Reyes-Puig, C., Reyes-Puig, J. P., Guayasamín, J. M., Ron, S. R., Quintana, C., Iturralde, G., Baquero, L., Monteros, M., Freire-Fierro, A., Fernández, D., Mendieta-Leiva, G., Morales, J. F., Karremans, A. P., Vázquez-García, J. A., Salazar, G. A., Hágsater, E., … Arana, M. (2023). Eponyms are important tools for biologists in the Global South. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 7(8), 1164–1165. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02102-z

Kuethe, J. R., Montesinos, K., Garzón-Suárez, H. X., & Jost, L. (2023). A large new species of Passiflora, supersect. Laurifolia, ser. Quadrangulares (Passifloraceae) from the sub-Amazonian forests of Ecuador, with notes on its taxonomic alliance and distribution. Phytotaxa, 619(4), 277–284. https://doi.org/10.11646/PHYTOTAXA.619.4.2

Monteros, M. F., Restrepo, E., Iturralde, G. A., Jiménez, M. M., & Baquero, L. E. (2023). Contributions to the Lepanthes (Orchidaceae) knowledge in Ecuador: A new species from Cordillera del Toisán and new records for the country. Phytotaxa, 622(3), 204–214. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.622.3.3 

Monteros, M. F., Robayo, J., & Pozo-Zamora, G. M. (2023). Distribution and depredation notes of Moustached Puffbird Malacoptila mystacalis (Bucconidae) in northwestern Ecuador. Revista Ecuatoriana de Ornitología, 9, 114–118. 

Reyes-Puig, J. P., Reyes-Puig, C., Pacheco-Esquivel, J., Recalde, S., Recalde, F., Recalde, D., Salazar, J., Peña, E., Paredes, S., Robalino, M., Flores, F., Paredes, V., Sailema, E., & Ríos-Alvear, G. (2023). First insights in terrestrial mammals monitoring in the Candelaria and Machay Reserves in the Ecuadorian Tropical Andes. Biodiversity Data Journal, 11. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.E98119

Reyes-Puig, J. P., Urgilés-Merchán, M., Franco-Mena, D., Guayasamin, J. M., Batallas, D., & Reyes-Puig, C. (2023). Two new species of terrestrial frogs of the Pristimantis gladiator complex (Anura, Strabomantidae) from the Ecuadorian Andes, with insights on their biogeography and skull morphology. ZooKeys, 2023(1180), 257–293. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1180.107333

2022

Monteros, M. F., Mogrovejo, A. L., Iturralde, G. A., & Baquero, L. E. (2022). Masdevallia purocafeana, a new species of Orchidaceae from Cordillera del Toisán, northwestern Ecuador. Phytotaxa, 547(3), 223–231. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.547.3.1 

Monteros, M. F., Restrepo, E., & Baquero, L. E. (2022). Platystele finleyae (Pleurothallidinae), a new species from northwestern Ecuador. Lankesteriana, 22(1), 63–72. doi:10.15517/lank.v22i1.50869 

Reyes-Puig, J. P., Recalde, D., Recalde, F., Koch, C., Guayasamin, J. M., Cisneros-Heredia, D. F., Jost, L., & Yánez-Muñoz, M. H. (2022). A spectacular new species of Hyloscirtus (Anura: Hylidae) from the Cordillera de Los Llanganates in the eastern Andes of Ecuador. PeerJ, 10. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14066

Reyes-Puig, J. P., Reyes-Puig, C., Franco-Mena, D., Jost, L., & Yánez-Muñoz, M. H. (2022). Strong differentiation between amphibian communities on two adjacent mountains in the Upper Rio Pastaza watershed of Ecuador, with descriptions of two new species of terrestrial frogs. ZooKeys, 2022(1081), 35–87. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1081.71488

2021

Clark, J. L., & Jost, L. (2021). New Circumscriptions Add Two Northern Andean Species To Kohleria (gesneriaceae). PhytoKeys, 179, 99–110. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.3897/PHYTOKEYS.179.65990

Duque, F. G., Rodriguez-Saltos, C. A., Monteros, M. F., & Wilczynski, W. (2021). Transmission of high-frequency vocalizations from hummingbirds living in diverse habitats. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 132(1), 148–160. 

Monteros, M. F. (2021). Orchids of San Marcos Lake, Cayambe Coca National Park, Ecuador [Guía de campo]. The Field Museum.

Monteros, M. F., Baquero, L. E., & Vieira-Uribe, S. (2021). A new Pseudolepanthes (Pleurothallidinae: Orchidaceae) from northwest Ecuador. Lankesteriana, 21(1), 5–10. doi:10.15517/lank.v21i1.45877 

Ortega-Andrade, H. M., Rodes Blanco, M., Cisneros-Heredia, D. F., Guerra Arévalo, N., López De Vargas-Machuca, K. G., Sánchez-Nivicela, J. C., Armijos-Ojeda, D., Andrade, J. F. C., Reyes-Puig, C., Riera, A. B. Q., Székely, P., Soto, O. R. R., Székely, D., Guayasamin, J. M., Pesántez, F. R. S., Amador, L., Betancourt, R., Ramírez-Jaramillo, S. M., Timbe-Borja, B., …, Reyes-Puig, J. P., …, Muñoz, M. H. Y. (2021). Red List assessment of amphibian species of Ecuador: A multidimensional approach for their conservation. PLoS ONE, 16(5 May). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251027

Sherwin, W. B., Chao, A., Jost, L., & Smouse, P. E. (2021). Erratum: Information theory broadens the spectrum of molecular ecology and evolution: (Trends in Ecology and Evolution 32:12, p:948–963, 2017) (Trends in Ecology & Evolution (2017) 32(12) (948–963), (S0169534717302550), (10.1016/j.tree.2017.09.012)). Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 36(10), 955–956. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2021.07.005

Tobar Suarez, F., López, M. F., Gavilanes, M. J., Monteros, M. F., Santander García, T., & Graham, C. H. (2021). Three new endemic species of Lepanthes (Orchidaceae, Pleurothallidinae) from the highlands of Ecuador. PhytoKeys, 180, 111–132. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.180.62671 

Villafañe-Trujillo, Á. J., Kolowski, J. M., Cove, M. V., Medici, E. P., Harmsen, B. J., Foster, R. J., Hidalgo-Mihart, M. G., Espinosa, S., Ríos-Alvear, G., Reyes-Puig, C., Reyes-Puig, J. P., Da Silva, X. M., Paviolo, A., Cruz, P., & López-González, C. A. (2021). Activity patterns of tayra (Eira barbara) across their distribution. Journal of Mammalogy, 102(3), 772–788. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyaa159

Yánez-Muñoz, M. H., Reyes-Puig, J. P., Batallas-Revelo, D., Broaddus, C., Urgilés-Merchán, M., Cisneros-Heredia, D. F., & Guayasamin, J. M. (2021). A new Andean treefrog (Amphibia: Hyloscirtus bogotensis group) from Ecuador: An example of community involvement for conservation. PeerJ, 9. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11914

Yánez-Muñoz, M. H., Torres-Carvajal, O., Reyes-Puig, J. P., Urgiles-Merchán, M. A., & Koch, C. (2021). A new and very spiny lizard (Gymnophthalmidae: Echinosaura) from the Andes in northwestern Ecuador. PeerJ, 9. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12523

2020

Baquero, L. E., & Monteros, M. F. (2020). A new tall and exceptional species of Lepanthes from north-west Ecuador (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae). Lankesteriana, 20(3), 331–338. doi:10.15517/lank.v20i3.44602 

Duque, F. G., Rodriguez-Saltos, C. A., Uma, S., Nasir, I., Monteros, M. F., Wilczynski, W., & Carruth, L. L. (2020). High-frequency hearing in a hummingbird. Science Advances, 6, eabb9393. 

Fernández-Fernández, D. M., Jost, L., & Dellinger, A. S. (2020). Two new species of Meriania (Melastomataceae) from eastern Ecuador. Phytotaxa, 458(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.458.1.1

Pérez, Á. J., Romoleroux, K., Zapata, N., Cevallos, D., Yela, H., Jost, L., & Tobar, F. (2020). Nuevo registro, redescubrimiento y notas taxonómicas de Orchidaceae de Ecuador. Neotropical Biodiversity, 6(1), 88–97.https://doi.org/10.1080/23766808.2020.1752097

Reyes-Puig, C., Maynard, R. J., Trageser, S. J., Vieira, J., Hamilton, P. S., Lynch, R., Culebras, J., Kohn, S., Brito, J., & Guayasamin, J. M. (2020). A new species of Noblella (Amphibia: Strabomantidae) from the Río Manduriacu Reserve on the Pacific slopes of the Ecuadorian Andes. Neotropical Biodiversity, 6(1), 162–171. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1080/23766808.2020.1809287

Reyes-Puig, C., Wake, D. B., Kotharambath, R., Streicher, J. W., Koch, C., Cisneros-Heredia, D. F., Yánez-Muñoz, M. H., & Ron, S. (2020). Two extremely rare new species of fossorial salamanders of the genus Oedipina (Plethodontidae) from northwestern Ecuador. PeerJ, 8. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9934 

2010 – 2019

Chao, A., Chiu, C.-H., & Jost, L. (2010). Phylogenetic diversity measures based on Hill numbers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 365(1558), 3599–3609. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0272

Chao, A., Chiu, C.-H., & Jost, L. (2014). Unifying species diversity, phylogenetic diversity, functional diversity, and related similarity and differentiation measures through hill numbers. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 45, 297–324. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-120213-091540

Chao, A., Chiu, C.-H., & Jost, L. (2016a). Phylogenetic Diversity Measures and Their Decomposition: A Framework Based on Hill Numbers. In Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation (Vol. 14, pp. 141–172). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22461-9_8

Chao, A., Chiu, C.-H., & Jost, L. (2016b). Statistical challenges of evaluating diversity patterns across environmental gradients in mega-diverse communities. Journal of Vegetation Science, 27(3), 437–438. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12420

Chao, A., & Jost, L. (2012a). Coverage-based rarefaction and extrapolation: Standardizing samples by completeness rather than size. Ecology, 93(12), 2533–2547. https://doi.org/10.1890/11-1952.1

Chao, A., & Jost, L. (2012b). DIVERSITY MEASURES. In Encyclopedia of Theoretical Ecology (pp. 203–207). https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-105007482937&partnerID=40&md5=ad57377e11e329f4b665a2bc730668d9

Chao, A., & Jost, L. (2015). Estimating diversity and entropy profiles via discovery rates of new species. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 6(8), 873–882. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12349

Chao, A., Jost, L., Hsieh, T. C., Ma, K. H., Sherwin, W. B., & Rollins, L. A. (2015). Expected Shannon entropy and Shannon differentiation between subpopulations for neutral genes under the finite island model. PLoS ONE, 10(6). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0125471

Chao, A., Wang, Y. T., & Jost, L. (2013). Entropy and the species accumulation curve: A novel entropy estimator via discovery rates of new species. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 4(11), 1091–1100. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12108

Chiu, C.-H., Jost, L., & Chao, A. (2014). Phylogenetic beta diversity, similarity, and differentiation measures based on Hill numbers. Ecological Monographs, 84(1), 21–44. https://doi.org/10.1890/12-0960.1

Franco-Mena, D., Reyes-Puig, J. P., & Yánez-Muñoz, M. H. (2019). Pristimantis tinguichaca Brito, Ojala-Barbour, Batallas & Almendariz, 2016 (Anura, Strabomantidae): Range extension and notes on variation in color pattern. Check List, 15(5), 857–862. https://doi.org/10.15560/15.5.857

Gaggiotti, O. E., Chao, A., Peres-Neto, P., Chiu, C.-H., Edwards, C., Fortin, M.-J., Jost, L., Richards, C. M., & Selkoe, K. A. (2018). Diversity from genes to ecosystems: A unifying framework to study variation across biological metrics and scales. Evolutionary Applications, 11(7), 1176–1193. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12593

Garzón-Santomaro, C., Segarra, P., López, K. G., Alvaro, B., Vega-Yánez, M., Monteros, M., Herrera-Madrid, M., Freire, E., Moreno-Cardenas, P., Valdiviezo-Rivera, J., Tobar-Suárez, F., Ramírez Jaramillo, S. M., Pozo-Zamora, G. M., & Yánez-Muñoz, M. H. (2019). Metodologías aplicadas para el diseño del corredor ecológico y propuesta de áreas naturales de conservación de la provincia de El Oro. En C. Garzón-Santomaro, F. Prieto-Albuja, J. L. Mena-Jaén y J. Brito (Eds.), Propuesta para el establecimiento del Subsistema de Áreas Naturales Protegidas y Diseño del corredor ecológico de la provincia de El Oro: Una guía para el desarrollo de estrategias de investigación, conservación y manejo de la biodiversidad orense (cap. VII, pp. 303–345). GADPEO–INABIO.

Jost, L. (2010a). Independence of alpha and beta diversities. Ecology, 91(7), 1969–1974. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1890/09-0368.1

Jost, L. (2010b). The relation between evenness and diversity. Diversity, 2(2), 207–232. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.3390/d2020207

Jost, L. (2019). What do we mean by diversity?: The path towards quantification. Metode, 2019(9), 55–61. https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.9.11472

Jost, L., Archer, F., Flanagan, S., Gaggiotti, O., Hoban, S., & Latch, E. (2018). Differentiation measures for conservation genetics. Evolutionary Applications, 11(7), 1139–1148. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12590

Jost, L., Devries, P., Walla, T., Greeney, H., Chao, A., & Ricotta, C. (2010). Partitioning diversity for conservation analyses. Diversity and Distributions, 16(1), 65–76. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2009.00626.x

Jost, L., & Iturralde, G. (2017). A showy new Platystele (Pleurothallidinae: Orchidaceae) from northwest Ecuador. Lankesteriana, 17(1), 55–60. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.15517/lank.v17i1.28479

Jost, L., & Shepard, A. (2017). Four new Teagueia (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) from the upper Río Pastaza watershed of East-Central Ecuador. Lankesteriana, 17(2), 261–278. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.15517/lank.v17i2.30159

Meerow, A. W., Jost, L., & Oleas, N. (2015). Two new species of endemic ecuadorean Amaryllidaceae (Asparagales, Amaryllidaceae, Amarylloideae, Eucharideae). PhytoKeys, 48(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.48.4399

Ramírez-Jaramillo, S. M., Allan-Miranda, N. A., Salazar, M., Jácome-Chiriboga, N. B., Robayo, J., Marcayata, A., Reyes-Puig, J. P., & Yánez-Muñoz, M. H. (2018). A review of vertebrate preys consumed by falco sparverius in south America and new records for Ecuador. Hornero, 33(1), 51–57.

Reyes-Puig, C., Reyes-Puig, J. P., Velarde-Garcéz, D. A., Dávalos, N., Mancero, E., Navarrete, M. J., Yánez-Muñoz, M. H., Cisneros-Heredia, D. F., & Ron, S. R. (2019). A new species of terrestrial frog Pristimantis (Strabomantidae) from the upper basin of the Pastaza river, Ecuador. ZooKeys, 2019(832), 113–133. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.832.30874

Reyes-Puig, J. P., Reyes-Puig, C., Ron, S., Ortega, J. A., Guayasamin, J. M., Goodrum, M., Recalde, F., Vieira, J. J., Koch, C., & Yánez-Muñoz, M. H. (2019). A new species of terrestrial frog of the genus Noblella Barbour, 1930 (Amphibia: Strabomantidae) from the Llanganates-Sangay Ecological Corridor, Tungurahua, Ecuador. PeerJ, 2019(8). https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7405

Reyes-Puig, J. P., & Yánez-Muñoz, M. H. (2012). Una nueva especie de Pristimantis (Anura: Craugastoridae) del corredor ecológico Llangantes-Sangay, Andes de Ecuador. Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia, 52(6), 81–91. https://doi.org/10.1590/s0031-10492012000600001 

Salazar, G. A., & Jost, L. (2012). Quechua, a new monotypic genus of Andean Spiranthinae (Orchidaceae). Systematic Botany, 37(1), 78–86. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1600/036364412X616657

Sherwin, W. B., Chao, A., Jost, L., & Smouse, P. E. (2017). Information Theory Broadens the Spectrum of Molecular Ecology and Evolution. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 32(12), 948–963. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2017.09.012

Vieira-Uribe, S., & Jost, L. (2015). A colorful new species of Neooreophilus (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) from the eastern Andes of Colombia and Ecuador. Lankesteriana, 15(3), 213–217. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.15517/lank.v15i3.21752

Wilson, M., Frank, G. S., Jost, L., Pridgeon, A. M., Vieira-Uribe, S., & Karremans, A. P. (2017). Phylogenetic analysis of Andinia (Pleurothallidinae; orchidaceae) and a systematic re-circumscription of the genus. Phytotaxa, 295(2), 101–131. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.295.2.1

Wilson, M., Jiménez, M. M., Jost, L., Kay, A., Frank, G., & Baquero R., L. E. (2018). A new species of Pleurothallis (Orchidaceae, Pleurothallidinae) from northwestern Ecuador with affinities to both subgenera Ancipitia and Scopula. Phytotaxa, 343(3), 249–258. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.343.3.5

Yánez-Muñoz, M. H., Reyes-Puig, C., Reyes-Puig, J. P., Velasco, J. A., Ayala-Varela, F., & Torres-Carvajal, O. (2018). A new cryptic species of Anolis lizard from northwestern South America (Iguanidae, Dactyloinae). ZooKeys, 2018(794), 135–163. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.794.26936

Yánez-Muñoz, M. H., Toral-Contreras, E., Meza-Ramos, P. A., Reyes-Puig, J. P., Bejarano-Muñoz, E. P., Mueses-Cisneros, J. J., & Paucar, D. (2012). New country records for five species of Pristimantis Jiménez de la Espada, 1870 from Ecuador. Check List, 8(2), 286–290. https://doi.org/10.15560/8.2.286 

2005 – 2009 

Chao, A., Jost, L., Chiang, S. C., Jiang, Y.-H., & Chazdon, R. L. (2008). A two-stage probabilistic approach to multiple-community similarity indices. Biometrics, 64(4), 1178–1186. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0420.2008.01010.x

Hardy, O. J., & Jost, L. (2008). Interpreting and estimating measures of community phylogenetic structuring. Journal of Ecology, 96(5), 849–852. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2008.01423.x

Jost, L. (2006). Entropy and diversity. Oikos, 113(2), 363–375. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2006.0030-1299.14714.x

Jost, L. (2007). Partitioning diversity into independent alpha and beta components. Ecology, 88(10), 2427–2439. https://doi.org/10.1890/06-1736.1

Jost, L. (2008). GST and its relatives do not measure differentiation. Molecular Ecology, 17(18), 4015–4026. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03887.x

Jost, L. (2009). D vs. GST: Response to Heller and Siegismund (2009) and Ryman and Leimar (2009). Molecular Ecology, 18(10), 2088–2091. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04186.x