Road to Recovery: An Ecological Overview of the Jambato Harlequin Toad (Bufonidae: Atelopus ignescens) at Its Last Known Locality, the Angamarca Valley, Ecuador

July 29, 2024

In the era of biodiversity decline, harlequin frogs (genus Atelopus) have become an example for amphibian conservation. The jambato, Atelopus ignescens, is a harlequin frog species that was believed to have gone extinct in the late 1980s, until a single population was rediscovered in Angamarca…