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EXILE - EXobIoLogy on Earth

2020/39/D/NZ8/02399

Keywords:

Adaptations Amphibians Climate Change Critical temperature Evaporative Water Loss Paleosurfaces Reptiles Thermoregulation

Descriptors:

  • NZ8_001:
  • NZ8_002:
  • NZ8_003:

Panel:

NZ8 - Evolutionary and environmental biology: evolution, ecology, population biology, biodiversity, biogeography

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Łódzki

woj. łódzkie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr Philippe Jacques Robert Kok 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 4

Call: SONATA 16 - announced on 2020-09-15

Amount awarded: 1 767 318 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2021-10-01

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2026-09-30

Project duration:: 60 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Pending project

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (4)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (1)
  1. New methodology in amphibian bone staining indicates differential lifespans in two tepui summit anurans (Oreophrynella quelchii, Bufonidae and Pristimantis aureoventris, Craugastoridae)
    Authors:
    Lakinga, A.E., Studzian, M., Pułaski, Ł., Kok, P.J.R.
    Academic press:
    The European Zoological Journal (rok: 2025, tom: 92(1), strony: 1399–1412), Wydawca: Taylor & Francis
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1080/24750263.2025.2576242 - link to the publication
  2. Lost paradise—anthropogenic pressure alters microbial functional diversity in an endangered endemic toad-habitat system
    Authors:
    Kok, P.J.R., Urbaniak, M.
    Academic press:
    ISME Communications (rok: 2025, tom: 5(1), strony: ycaf239), Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/ismeco/ycaf239 - link to the publication
  3. Lost in space and time: robust demography and enhanced resilience buffer adverse environmental effects in a highly isolated and sedentary pre-pleistocene landscape vertebrate
    Authors:
    Philippe J. R. Kok, Tessa L. Broholm, Loïc van Doorn, Bruno Ferreto Fiorillo, Carl Smith
    Academic press:
    BMC Ecology and Evolution (rok: 2024, tom: 24:125, strony: 46039), Wydawca: Springer Nature
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1186/s12862-024-02314-2 - link to the publication
  4. Amphibian supercooling capacity is not limited to sub-zero thermal environments
    Authors:
    Philippe J.R. Kok, Bruno B. Wisse, Marlena Kapuściak, Margarita Lampo
    Academic press:
    Scientific Reports (rok: 2025, tom: 15, strony: 40311), Wydawca: Springer Nature
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1038/s41598-025-24105-5 - link to the publication
  1. The Shared Evolutionary History of South America's Mountain Biotas: Genetic Evidence from Amphibians and Reptiles
    Authors:
    Ivan Prates, Antoine Fouquet, Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues, and Philippe J. R. Kok
    Book:
    Andean Herpetofauna (rok: 2025, tom: 1, strony: 119-133), Wydawca: Springer Nature
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/978-3-032-00074-3_7 - link to the publication