Denoël, M., & Dufresnes, C. (2025). The alien marsh frog cocktail: Distribution, causes and pathways of a global amphibian invasion. Biological Conservation, 306, 111120. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111120
While some biological invasions are well documented globally, others, more cryptic, are often underestimated despite multiple local warnings. This is the case of the marsh frog (Pelophylax ridibund...
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Pille, F., Salomon, L., Comau, A.-C., Tendron, P., Duret, C., & Denoël, M. (2025). One frog to rule them all: Wide environmental niche of invasive marsh frogs induces large co-occurrence patterns with native amphibian prey in ponds. Hydrobiologia, 852, 2207-2219. doi:10.1007/s10750-024-05620-4
Invasive alien anurans are introduced worldwide in freshwater ecosystems where they can have a strong impact on native organisms such as amphibians. The risk for natives is dependent on the degree ...
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Dufresnes, C., Dubey, S., Wielstra, B., Jablonski, D., & Denoël, M. (2024). Panacea or nemesis? Re-assessing the reliability of serum albumin intron 1 for genotyping Western Palearctic water frogs. Alytes, 41 (1-4), 5-17.
Water frogs (genus Pelophylax) are one of the most widespread and diverse, but also most invasive amphibians of the Western Palearctic region. As such, Pelophylax studies face the challenge of iden...
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Dufresnes, C., Monod-Broca, B., Bellati, A., Canestrelli, D., Ambu, J., Wielstra, B., Dubey, S., Crochet, P.-A., Denoël, M.* , & Jablonski, D.*. (2024). Piecing the barcoding puzzle of Palearctic water frogs (Pelophylax) sheds light on amphibian biogeography and global invasions. Global Change Biology, 30 (3), 17180. doi:10.1111/gcb.17180
Palearctic water frogs (genus Pelophylax) are an outstanding model in ecology and evolution, being widespread, speciose, either threatened or threatening to other species through biological invasio...
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Padilla, P., Herrel, A., & Denoël, M. (2024). Invading new climates at what cost? Ontogenetic differences in the thermal dependence of metabolic rate in an invasive amphibian. Journal of Thermal Biology, 121, 103836. doi:10.1016/j.jtherbio.2024.103836
Global warming can either promote or constrain the invasive potential of alien species. In ectotherm invaders that exhibit a complex life cycle, success is inherently dependent on the capacity of e...
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Padilla, P., Herrel, A., & Denoël, M. (December 2023). What makes a great invader? Anatomical traits as predictors of locomotor performance and metabolic rate in an invasive frog. Journal of Experimental Biology, 226 (24), 246717. doi:10.1242/jeb.246717
Invasive species are characterized by their ability to establish and spread in a new environment. In alien populations of anurans, dispersal and fitness-related traits such as endurance, burst perf...
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Padilla, P., Herrel, A., & Denoël, M. (2023). May future climate change promote the invasion of the marsh frog? An integrative thermo-physiological study. Oecologia, 202 (2), 227-238. doi:10.1007/s00442-023-05402-0
Climate change and invasive species are two major drivers of biodiversity loss and their interaction may lead to unprecedented further loss. Invasive ectotherms can be expected to tolerate temperat...
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Pille, F., Pinto, L., & Denoël, M. (2023). Functional and temporal facets of predation by marsh frogs across the aquatic-terrestrial ecotone of ponds and implications in the context of biological invasions. Freshwater Biology, 68 (12), 2184-2196. doi:10.1111/fwb.14186
1. Freshwater vertebrate predators can exert trophic control over aquatic and littoral communities. Among these predators, post-metamorphic anurans exhibit a biphasic trophic spectrum by foraging i...
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Denoël, M., Duret, C., Lorrain-Soligon, L., Padilla, P., Pavis, J., Pille, F., Tendron, P., Ficetola, G. F., & Falaschi, M. (2022). High habitat invasibility unveils the invasiveness potential of water frogs. Biological Invasions, 24 (11), 3447-3459. doi:10.1007/s10530-022-02849-9
Determining the invasibility of habitats by alien species is crucial for understanding their spread potential, the habitats the most at risk and to implement adequate management actions. This is ur...
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Duret, C., Pille, F., & Denoël, M. (2022). Efficiency of aquatic PIT‑tag telemetry, a powerful tool to improve monitoring and detection of marked individuals in pond environments. Hydrobiologia, 849 (11), 2609-2619. doi:10.1007/s10750-022-04888-8
Identifying and tracking individuals across time are a prerequisite to uncover key traits of their ecology and behavior. However, obtaining fine-grain individual data at multiple locations, especia...
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Pille, F., Pinto, L., & Denoël, M. (2021). Predation pressure of invasive marsh frogs: a threat to native amphibians? Diversity, 13 (11), 595. doi:10.3390/d13110595
Anurans have been introduced in many parts of the world and have often become invasive
over large geographic areas. Although predation is involved in the declines of invaded amphibian populations, ...
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Dufresne, C.* , Denoël, M.* , Di Santo, L., & Dubey, S. (July 2017). Multiple uprising invasions of Pelophylax water frogs, potentially inducing a new hybridogenetic complex. Scientific Reports, 7, 6506. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-06655-5
The genetic era has revolutionized our perception of biological invasions. Yet, it is usually too late to understand their genesis for efficient management. Here, we take the rare opportunity to re...