Paul Székely

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

Summary

Paul Székely is an Associate Professor at Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador. He completed his Ph.D. in biology in 2010 at Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania, working mainly on the ecology of the European spadefoot toads (Pelobates fuscus and P. syriacus). His main research interests are the systematics, biogeography, evolutionary ecology, behaviour, and conservation of amphibians. Additionally, he has a broad expertise in protected areas management, having worked in and coordinated several conservation projects. Since 2014, he is working in Southern Ecuador.

Biodiversity Biogeography Evolutionary Studies Taxonomy Zoology

Past or current institution affiliations

Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja

University of Constantza

Work details

Associate Professor

Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja

April 2017

Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas

Websites

August 20, 2024

Simplifying the Centrolene buckleyi complex (Amphibia: Anura: Centrolenidae): a taxonomic review and description of two new species

Daniela Franco-Mena, Ignacio De la Riva, Mateo A. Vega-Yánez, Paul Székely, Luis Amador, Diego Batallas, Juan P. Reyes-Puig, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, Khristian Venegas-Valencia, Sandra P. Galeano, Jaime Culebras, Juan M. Guayasamin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17712 PubMed 39193520

February 8, 2023

Feeding ecology of the Terciopelo pit viper snake (Bothrops asper) in Ecuador

Amaru Loaiza-Lange, Diana Székely, Omar Torres-Carvajal, Nicolás Tinoco, David Salazar-Valenzuela, Paul Székely

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14817 PubMed 36785705

July 15, 2021

Age, size and body condition do not equally reflect population response to habitat change in the common spadefoot toad Pelobates fuscus

Dan Cogălniceanu, Florina Stănescu, Diana Székely, Theodor-Sebastian Topliceanu, Ruben Iosif, Paul Székely

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11678 PubMed 34316392

February 21, 2019

What does a Pacman eat? Macrophagy and necrophagy in a generalist predator (Ceratophrys stolzmanni)

Diana Székely, Fernando P. Gaona, Paul Székely, Dan Cogălniceanu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6406 PubMed 30809435

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April 23, 2019

Noblella thiuni sp. n., a new (singleton) species of minute terrestrial-breeding frog (Amphibia, Anura, Strabomantidae) from the montane forest of the Amazonian Andes of Puno, Peru

Alessandro Catenazzi, Alex Ttito

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6780 PubMed 31065457