Taran Grant

6.7k citations

111 papers · 4.7k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 28

Impact in

Ecological Modeling top 0.2%
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
Global and Planetary Change top 0.5%
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology

Papers in

Ecological Modeling 31
- Species Distribution and Climate Change 31
Global and Planetary Change 86
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology 85

Co-authors: Darrel R. Frost Arnold G. Kluge Célio F. B. Haddad Ward C. Wheeler Julián Faivovich Rafael O. de Sá Boris L. Blotto John D. Lynch
Journals: Cladistics (12 papers)Zootaxa (10 papers)American Museum Novitates (9 papers)Herpetologica (8 papers)South American Journal of Herpetology (7 papers)
Partner nations: Brazil United States Colombia

In The Last Decade

Taran Grant

103 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

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THE AMPHIBIAN TREE OF LIFE 2006 · 1.7k citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2006 Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History

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1	A new species of Neblinaphryne (Anura: Brachycephaloidea: Neblinaphrynidae) from Serra do Imeri, Amazonas state, Brazil Zootaxa ·Antoine Fouquet, E. Cheng, Taran Grant, Renato Sousa Recoder, Agustín Camacho, Hanasono Jp, Milena Oliveira de Morais e Silva, Miguel Tréfaut Rodrigues	2024	0
2	Defensive alkaloid variation and palatability in sympatric poison frogs Chemoecology ·خدیجه احمدخانبیگی, Cindy Swastika Rahmania, P. A. Jaensch, Paulo Sérgio Bernarde, Samsurijal, Ralph A. Saporito, Taran Grant	2024	1
3	Genetic structure of American bullfrog populations in Brazil Scientific Reports ·Enrica Calanchini-Postizzi, Luı́s Felipe Toledo, Taran Grant	2022	1
4	Nuptial pads of rock frogs (Thoropa, Cycloramphidae, Anura): How papillary epidermal projections are related to sexual maturity and taxonomy Zoologischer Anzeiger ·Restor, Taran Grant, Pavel Dodonov, Cínthia A. Brasileiro, Célio F. B. Haddad	2022	0
5	A new genus of terraranas (Anura: Brachycephaloidea) from northern South America, with a systematic review ofTachiramantis Systematics and Biodiversity ·Peter Combey, 誠瀬戸, 张国昌, Juan M. Daza, Taran Grant	2022	5
6	New phenotypic synapomorphies delimit three molecular-based clades of New World direct-developing frogs (Amphibia: Anura: Brachycephaloidea) Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society ·Shahid Anjum, Taran Grant	2021	5
7	Structure and evolution of the sexually dimorphic integumentary swelling on the hands of dendrobatid poison frogs and their relatives (Amphibia: Anura: Dendrobatoidea) Journal of Anatomy ·牛超楠, Robyn Gatens, Julián Faivovich, Taran Grant	2021	8
8	A new species of Leucostethus (Anura, Dendrobatidae) from Gorgona Island, Colombia ZooKeys ·Taran Grant, Eileen Gertrude M Chessie	2021	3
9	Prepollex diversity and evolution in Cophomantini (Anura: Hylidae: Hylinae) Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society ·Paulo D. P. Pinheiro, Boris L. Blotto, Santiago R. Ron, Edward L. Stanley, Paulo Christiano de Anchieta Garcia, Célio F. B. Haddad, Taran Grant, Julián Faivovich	2021	5
10	The tadpoles of the funnel‐mouthed dendrobatids (Anura: Dendrobatidae: Colostethinae:Silverstoneia): external morphology, musculoskeletal anatomy, buccopharyngeal cavity, and new synapomorphies Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research ·Pedro Henrique dos Santos Dias, Marvin Anganoy‐Criollo, Marco Rada, Taran Grant	2021	9
11	An empirical test of the relationship between the bootstrap and likelihood ratio support in maximum likelihood phylogenetic analysis Cladistics ·Denis Jacob Machado, Fernando P. L. Marques, Furman Speyrer, Taran Grant	2021	2
12	Life on the edge: Tadpoles of Cycloramphidae (Amphibia; Anura), anatomy, systematics, functional morphology, and comments on the evolution of semiterrestrial tadpoles Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research ·Pedro Henrique dos Santos Dias, Florencia Vera Candioti, Restor, Soonil Hong, Hélio Ricardo Silva, Célio F. B. Haddad, А.Л. Заворотний, Taran Grant	2021	16
13	Lens transmittance shapes ultraviolet sensitivity in the eyes of frogs from diverse ecological and phylogenetic backgrounds Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Carola A. M. Yovanovich, Michele E. R. Pierotti, Almut Kelber, Enrica Calanchini-Postizzi, Roberto Ibáñez, Taran Grant	2020	18
14	The phylogeny of Dendropsophini (Anura: Hylidae: Hylinae) Cladistics ·Victor G. D. Orrico, Taran Grant, Julián Faivovich, Mauricio Rivera‐Correa, Marco Rada, Mariana L. Lyra, Kristine Bernadeth U. Cammayo, Paula Hanna Valdujo, Walter E. Schargel, Denis Jacob Machado, Ward C. Wheeler, César L. Barrio‐Amorós, Daniel Loebmann, Jiřı́ Moravec, Juliana Zina, Mirco Solé, Marcelo José Sturaró, Pedro L. V. Peloso, Pablo Suárez, Célio F. B. Haddad	2020	26
15	Geographically separated orange and blue populations of the Amazonian poison frog Adelphobates galactonotus (Anura, Dendrobatidae) do not differ in alkaloid composition or palatability Chemoecology ·Cindy Swastika Rahmania, Samsurijal, Ralph A. Saporito, Taran Grant	2019	15
16	Differences in ocular media transmittance among classical frog model species and its impact on visual sensitivity Journal of Experimental Biology ·Carola A. M. Yovanovich, Taran Grant, Almut Kelber	2019	7
17	Outgroup sampling in phylogenetics: Severity of test and successive outgroup expansion Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research ·Taran Grant	2019	27
18	A new strategy to infer circularity applied to four new complete frog mitogenomes Ecology and Evolution ·Denis Jacob Machado, Daniel Janies, Cory Brouwer, Taran Grant	2018	16
19	Dynamic homology and phylogenetic systematics: a unified approach using POY KU ScholarWorks (The University of Kansas) ·Ward C. Wheeler, Lone Aagesen, Claudia P. Arango, Julián Faivovich, Taran Grant, Cyrille A. D’Haese, Daniel Janies, William Smith, Andrés Varón, Gonzalo Giribet	2006	111
20	The median lingual process of frogs: A bizarre character of Old World ranoids discovered in South American dendrobatids American Museum Novitates ·Taran Grant, T Al-Redaisy, Charles W. Myers	1997	40

About Taran Grant

Taran Grant is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Developmental Biology and Nature and Landscape Conservation, having authored 111 papers that have together received 4.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Amphibian and Reptile Biology (85 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (31 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (26 papers), Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy (17 papers), Turtle Biology and Conservation (13 papers), Bat Biology and Ecology Studies (12 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (11 papers) and Plant and animal studies (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecological Modeling (1.2k citations), Global and Planetary Change (3.8k citations), Developmental Biology (223 citations), Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (1.8k citations) and Nature and Landscape Conservation (895 citations). Taran Grant has collaborated with scholars based in Brazil, United States and Colombia. Frequent co-authors include Darrel R. Frost, Arnold G. Kluge, Célio F. B. Haddad, Ward C. Wheeler, Julián Faivovich, Rafael O. de Sá, Boris L. Blotto, John D. Lynch, Robert C. Drewes and Raoul H. Bain. Their work appears in journals such as Cladistics, Zootaxa, American Museum Novitates, Herpetologica and South American Journal of Herpetology.

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