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Juan M. Guayasamin is affiliated with Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador. Their research primarily centers around Environmental Science, with a significant focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

They have contributed extensively to topics including Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Animal and Plant Science Education, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Fish biology, ecology, and behavior, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, and Bat Biology and Ecology Studies.

Their recent publications reflect a diverse range of subjects. Some notable papers include:

  • Human impacts outpace natural processes in the Amazon, 2023, Science
  • Red List assessment of amphibian species of Ecuador: A multidimensional approach for their conservation, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Glassfrogs of Ecuador: Diversity, Evolution, and Conservation, 2020, Diversity
  • Temperature dependence of metabolic rate in tropical and temperate aquatic insects: Support for the Climate Variability Hypothesis in mayflies but not stoneflies, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Evolutionary genomics of oceanic island radiations, 2023, Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Jaime Culebras
  • Daniela Franco-Mena
  • Juan Pablo Reyes-Puig
  • Ignacio De la Riva
  • Sebastian Steinfartz

Their research has been published in journals such as PeerJ, PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports, Neotropical Biodiversity, and ZooKeys. They have published six papers in PeerJ, and three papers each in PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports, Neotropical Biodiversity, and ZooKeys.

Best Publications

  • Amphibian fungal panzootic causes catastrophic and ongoing loss of biodiversity

    Ben C. Scheele;Ben C. Scheele;Frank Pasmans;Lee F. Skerratt;Lee Berger

  • Phylogenetic systematics of Glassfrogs (Amphibia: Centrolenidae) and their sister taxon Allophryne ruthveni

    Juan Manuel Guayasamin;Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher;Linda Trueb;José Ayarzagüena

  • High Levels of Diversity Uncovered in a Widespread Nominal Taxon: Continental Phylogeography of the Neotropical Tree Frog Dendropsophus minutus

    Marcelo Gehara;Marcelo Gehara;Andrew J. Crawford;Andrew J. Crawford;Victor G. D Orrico;Ariel Rodríguez

  • Narrow thermal tolerance and low dispersal drive higher speciation in tropical mountains.

    Nicholas R. Polato;Brian A. Gill;Alisha A. Shah;Miranda M. Gray

  • Human impacts outpace natural processes in the Amazon

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  • To name or not to name: Criteria to promote economy of change in Linnaean classification schemes.

    Miguel Vences;Juan M. Guayasamin;Aurélien Miralles;Ignacio De La Riva

  • Explaining Andean megadiversity: the evolutionary and ecological causes of glassfrog elevational richness patterns

    Carl R. Hutter;Juan M. Guayasamin;John J. Wiens

  • Climate variability predicts thermal limits of aquatic insects across elevation and latitude

    Alisha A. Shah;Brian A. Gill;Andrea C. Encalada;Alexander S. Flecker

  • Neotropical diversification seen through glassfrogs

    Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher;Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher;Juan M. Guayasamin;Alejandro Gonzalez-Voyer;Carles Vilà

  • Phylogenetic relationships of glassfrogs (Centrolenidae) based on mitochondrial and nuclear genes.

    Juan M. Guayasamin;Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher;José Ayarzagüena;Linda Trueb

  • Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences

    Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Eliécer E. Gutiérrez;Eliécer E. Gutiérrez;Alain Dubois;Cristian Simón Abdala

  • Cryptic species diversity reveals biogeographic support for the 'mountain passes are higher in the tropics' hypothesis.

    B. A. Gill;B. C. Kondratieff;K. L. Casner;A. C. Encalada

  • Glass frogs (Centrolenidae) of Yanayacu Biological Station, Ecuador, with the description of a new species and comments on centrolenid systematics

    Juan M. Guayasamin;Martín R. Bustamante;Diego Almeida-Reinoso;W. Chris Funk

  • Chytridiomycosis as a possible cause of population declines in Atelopus cruciger (Anura: Bufonidae)

    Elisa Bonaccorso;Juan M. Guayasamin;Diana Méndez;Richard Speare

  • Evolutionary genomics of oceanic island radiations.

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  • Five new (extinct?) species of Atelopus (Anura: Bufonidae) from Andean Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru

    Luis A. Coloma;William E. Duellman;C Ana Almendáriz;Santiago R. Ron

  • A Revision of Species Diversity in the Neotropical Genus Oreobates (Anura: Strabomantidae), with the Description of Three New Species from the Amazonian Slopes of the Andes

    José M. Padial;Juan Carlos Chaparro;Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher;Juan M. Guayasamin

  • Red List assessment of amphibian species of Ecuador: A multidimensional approach for their conservation.

    H. Mauricio Ortega-Andrade;Marina Rodes Blanco;Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia;Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia;Nereida Guerra Arévalo

  • Male principal investigators (almost) don't publish with women in ecology and zoology.

    Patricia E. Salerno;Patricia E. Salerno;Mónica Páez-Vacas;Juan M. Guayasamin;Jennifer L. Stynoski;Jennifer L. Stynoski

  • Phylogenetic systematics, ecology, and conservation of marsupial frogs (Anura: Hemiphractidae) from the Andes of southern Ecuador, with descriptions of four new biphasic species.

    Sofía Carvajal-Endara;Luis A. Coloma;Manuel A. Morales-Mite;Juan M. Guayasamin

  • Comparative Phylogeography Reveals Cryptic Diversity and Repeated Patterns of Cladogenesis for Amphibians and Reptiles in Northwestern Ecuador.

    Alejandro Arteaga;R. Alexander Pyron;Nicolás Peñafiel;Paulina Romero-Barreto

  • The complex evolutionary history of the tympanic middle ear in frogs and toads (Anura).

    Martín O. Pereyra;Molly C. Womack;J. Sebastián Barrionuevo;Boris L. Blotto;Boris L. Blotto

  • Phenotypic plasticity raises questions for taxonomically important traits: a remarkable new Andean rainfrog (Pristimantis) with the ability to change skin texture

    Juan M. Guayasamin;Tim Krynak;Katherine Krynak;Jaime Culebras

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrea C. Encalada
Andrea C. Encalada Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Kelly R. Zamudio
Kelly R. Zamudio Cornell University
W. Chris Funk
W. Chris Funk Colorado State University
Cameron K. Ghalambor
Cameron K. Ghalambor Norwegian University of Science and Technology
N. LeRoy Poff
N. LeRoy Poff Colorado State University
Alexander S. Flecker
Alexander S. Flecker Cornell University
Steven A. Thomas
Steven A. Thomas University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Santiago R. Ron
Santiago R. Ron Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
Ben C. Scheele
Ben C. Scheele Australian National University
José M. Padial
José M. Padial American Museum of Natural History

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