Tree cover and habitat type mediate taxonomic and phylogenetic anuran diversity in Southeastern Peru

Abstract Understanding the drivers that shape anuran diversity is crucial for identifying conservation hotspots, particularly as global anuran declines threaten the reduction of their ecosystem functions across food chains. While studies have examined the influence of environmental and anthropogenic factors, few have explored their effects on multiple facets of diversity or considered how their effects vary across habitat types. Using an extensive dataset from Southeastern Peru, Western Amazonia, we quantified taxonomic and phylogenetic anuran diversity and used linear mixed-effects models to assess how environmental and anthropogenic drivers influenced them.