For example, the number of species we encountered in the HG was expected to increase at lower elevation (Abebe et al., 2013; Das and Das, 2015), as was the case especially for HG in the “Large, transitional” group. Greater HG diversity also corresponded with areas of higher rainfall and temperature in the Sangay parish, as has been reported for Nicaraguan (Mendez et al., 2001) and Peruvian HG (Perrault-Archambault and Coomes, 2008)