Raffael Ernst

Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt/M — Germany

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Amphibian and Reptile Biology(63), Species Distribution and Climate Change(34), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(18), Plant and animal studies(11), Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy(10)

Publications98 total

Critical tipping points in dung beetle communities: Implications for conservation in the Atlantic Forest biome
Insect Conservation and Diversity·2026Open Access
Angola’s northern escarpment forest is disappearing before our eyes
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2026
Biological invasions in the Anthropocene: Patterns, processes and hidden invasions in an alien amphibian model
Global Biodiversity Information Facility·2026Open Access
Atlantic Dung Beetle Traits: A comprehensive dataset of functional traits for dung beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabeidae, Scarabaeinae) in the Atlantic Forest
Biodiversity Data Journal·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Tourism puts Zanzibari reserve at a crossroads
Science·2025· 1 cited
Socio-economic drivers of bushmeat consumption in the northern Angolan province of Uíge
Oryx·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Rediscovery of a name-bearing type of Echinococcus multilocularis (Leuckart, 1863) by museum forensics: a cold case revisited
International Journal for Parasitology·2025Open Access
Matrix-protection rather than protected area conservation can safeguard multilevel amphibian diversity in Colombian agroforestry systems
Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment·2025Open Access
A roadmap for harlequin frog systematics, with a partial revision of Amazonian species related to Atelopus spumarius
Zootaxa·2025· 5 citedOpen Access
Eleutherodactylus johnstonei
2024
Phylogenetics and Integrative Taxonomy of African Water Snakes (Squamata: Colubridae: Grayia)
Herpetological Monographs·2024· 4 cited
Ongoing harlequin toad declines suggest the amphibian extinction crisis is still an emergency
Communications Earth & Environment·2023· 27 citedOpen Access
Climate-driven loss of taxonomic and functional richness in Brazilian Atlantic Forest anurans
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation·2023· 8 citedOpen Access
From Alien Species to Alien Communities: Host- and Habitat-Associated Microbiomes in an Alien Amphibian
Microbial Ecology·2023· 9 citedOpen Access
Low genetic diversity in a widespread whistling alien: A comparison of Eleutherodactylus johnstonei Barbour, 1914 (Eleutherodactylidae) and congeners in native and introduced ranges
NeoBiota·2022· 2 citedOpen Access
Back from the deaf: integrative taxonomy revalidates an earless and mute species, Hylodes grandoculis van Lidth de Jeude, 1904, and confirms a new species of Pristimantis Jiménez de la Espada, 1870 (Anura: Strabomantidae) from the Eastern Guiana Shield
Organisms Diversity & Evolution·2022· 11 citedOpen Access
Diversity, biogeography, and reproductive evolution in the genus Pipa (Amphibia: Anura: Pipidae)
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution·2022· 21 citedOpen Access
Giant Tree Frog diversification in West and Central Africa: Isolation by physical barriers, climate, and reproductive traits
Molecular Ecology·2021· 14 cited
Between sand, rocks and branches: an integrative taxonomic revision of Angolan Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820, with description of four new species
Vertebrate Zoology·2021· 10 citedOpen Access
Follow the forest: Slow resilience of West African rainforest frog assemblages after selective logging
Forest Ecology and Management·2021· 5 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Mark‐Oliver Rödel(19), Philippe J. R. Kok(10), Antoine Fouquet(9), Miguel Tréfaut Rodrigues(9), Stefan Lötters(6), Werner Conradie(5), Ignacio De la Riva(4), Giussepe Gagliardi‐Urrutia(4), Monique Hölting(4), K. Eduard Linsenmair(4), Santiago Castroviejo‐Fisher(4), Daniel M. Portik(4), David C. Blackburn(4), Eli Greenbaum(4), Adam D. Leaché(4), Michael Veith(4), Andrew J. Crawford(3), Frank Glaw(3), Jiřı́ Moravec(3), J. Celsa Señaris(3)