Publications

2025

Nava Martinez M £, Amador L £, Wiley DLF, McDaniels C & Barrow LN. (2025). Population genomics of four co-distributed frog species in a barrier island system. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, blae063, https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blae063. £ = These authors contributed equally to this work.

2024

Franco-Mena D, De la Riva I, Vega-Yánez MA, Székely P, Amador L, Batallas D, Reyes-Puig JP, Cisneros-Heredia DF, Venegas-Valencia K, Galeano SP, Culebras J, Guayasamin JM. (2024). Simplifying the Centrolene buckleyi complex (Amphibia: Anura: Centrolenidae): a taxonomic review and description of two new species. PeerJ 12:e17712 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17712

Narváez AE, Ayala-Varela F, Cuadrado S, Cruz-García K, Yánez-Muñoz MH, Amador L (2024) Updated distribution of the brown anole in continental Ecuador: a case of urban spaces favoring the establishment of an opportunistic exotic species. BioInvasions Records 13(2): 373– 384, https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2024.13.2.07 

Amador L, Arroyo-Torres I, Barrow LN. (2024). Machine learning and phylogenetic models identify predictors of genetic variation in Neotropical amphibians. Journal of Biogeography 51,  909–923. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14795

2022

Amador L, Leaché AD, Victoriano PF, Hickerson MJ, D'Elía G. (2022). Genomic scale data shows that Parastacus nicoleti encompasses more than one species of burrowing continental crayfishes and that lineage divergence occurred with and without gene flow. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 169, 107443. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107443

2021

Ortega-Andrade HM, Rodes Blanco M, Cisneros-Heredia DF, Guerra Arévalo N, López de Vargas-Machuca KG, Sánchez-Nivicela JC, Armijos-Ojeda D, Cáceres Andrade JF, Reyes-Puig C, Quezada Riera AB, Székely P, Rojas Soto OR, Székely D, Guayasamin JM, Siavichay Pesántez FR, Amador L, Betancourt R, et al. (2021) Red List assessment of amphibian species of Ecuador: A multidimensional approach for their conservation. PLoS ONE 16(5): e0251027. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251027

Amador L, Victoriano PF, D’Elía G. (2021). Molecular species delimitation reveals hidden specific diversity within a freshwater burrowing crayfish (Decapoda: Parastacidae) from southern Chile. Systematics and Biodiversity. DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2020.1865471

2020

D’Elía G , Canto H. J , Ossa G , Verde-Arregoitia LD , Bostelmann E, Iriarte A, Amador L , Quiroga-Carmona M, Hurtado N, Cadenillas R, Valdez L. (2020). Lista actualizada de los mamíferos vivientes de Chile. Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Chile, 69(2): 67-98

Cruz-García K, Cisneros-Heredia DF, Sánchez-Nivicela JC, Amador L. (2020). New records of four reptile species (Lepidosauria, Squamata) from the province of Guayas, southwestern Ecuador. Check List, 16(3): 765-772. https://doi.org/10.15560/16.3.765

2019

Amador L, Soto‐Gamboa,M, Guayasamin JM. (2019). Integrating alpha, beta, and phylogenetic diversity to understand anuran fauna along environmental gradients of tropical forests in western Ecuador. Ecology and Evolution, 9: 11040– 11052. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5593

2018

Amador L, Parada A, D’Elía G, Guayasamin JM. (2018). Uncovering hidden specific diversity of Andean glassfrogs of the Centrolene buckleyi species complex (Anura: Centrolenidae). PeerJ, 6: e5856 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5856

2017

Amador L, Cruz F, Ayala-Varela F, Nárvaez A, Torres-Carvajal O. (2017). First record of the invasive Brown Anole, Anolis sagrei Duméril & Bibron, 1837 (Squamata: Iguanidae: Dactyloinae), in South America. Check List, 13(2): 2083. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.2.2083

Amador L, Arteaga A, Gómez C, López-Caro J, Londoño-Guarnizo C. (2017). Northernmost new records of Enyalioides touzeti Torres-Carvajal, Almendáriz, Valencia, Yánez-Muñoz & Reyes, 2008 (Sauria: Hoplo­cercidae) from Ecuador: altitudinal and latitudinal distribution extension, new provincial and biogeographical record. Check List, 13(1): 2032. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.1.2032

Escribano-Avila G, Cervera L, Ordóñez-Delgado L, Jara-Guerrero A, Amador L, Paladines B, Briceño J, Parés-Jiménez V, Lizcano DJ, Duncan DH, Espinosa CI. (2017). Biodiversity patterns and ecological processes in Neotropical dry forest: the need to connect research and management for long-term conservation. Neotropical Biodiversity, 3: 107-116. DOI: 10.1080/23766808.2017.1298495

2015

Salazar-Valenzuela D, Martins A, Amador-Oyola L, Torres-Carvajal O. (2015). A new species and country record of threadsnakes (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae: Epictinae) from northern Ecuador. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation, 8(1) [Special Section]: 107–120.

2013

Amador L, Brito G. (2013). Notas sobre la distribución y conservación de Ceratophrys stolzmanni (Steindachner, 1882) (Anura: Ceratophryidae) en Ecuador. Revista Cientifica YACHANA, 2(2): 119-122.