Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the landowners in Ambodiala and Antsikory who let
us survey their lands. We also thank our field assistants Romual
Randrianantenaina and Erosiniot Befidimanana for their great support
during fieldwork and James Herrera for his feedback that improved the
quality of the first draft of this manuscript. We also thank Miguel
Vences from Evolutionary Biology laboratory for genetic identification
of the frog species. This study was financially supported by the
Volkswagen Stiftung within the project ‘Diversity Turn in Land Use
Science’ (Grant number 11-76251-99-35/13 (ZN3119)) which is a
collaboration between the University of Gottingen, the University of
Antananarivo, Madagascar National Parks and the University of CURSA
(University Center of SAVA Region). TRF was supported by the German
Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) within the ‘Partnerships for Supporting
Biodiversity in Developing Countries’ initiative (Project Nr.57449386).
We collected data under the research permit
N°254/18/MEEF/SG/DGF/DSAP/SCB.Re granted by the Ministry for Water,
Ecology and Forest (MEEF), Antananarivo.