Estudio de los rasgos funcionales en los anfibios del Bosque Seco Ecuatorial

Abstract

Abstract: This workseeks to take advantage of the existing biological collections, to obtain relevant morphometric information of the amphibians that inhabit the Equatorial Dry Forest, by taking measurements of the most representative morphometric functionals and obtaining these data to be able to evaluate the main functional traits for in this way to be able to understand the ecological role that these amphibian species fulfill in the dry forests of western Ecuador. To present the quantitative data we will use descriptive statistics to describe the morphological space since in amphibians the functional features of the body such as body size that is associated with the flow and recycling of nutrients, sexualdimorphism, communication such as the mating song, reproductive efficiency, prey items in their diet such as width of mouth and escape from predators suchas size of femur, etc.; This will help us to understand and understand the relationship that amphibians have with their ecosystem and the availability of resources and how these functional characteristics based on the requirements of an ecosystem allow them to be or not.