Korsikan ikusitako anfibio eta narrastiak - Anfibios y reptiles vistos en Córcega (2019)

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Publicado: 04 Mayo 2020

CHARCA PARA EL FOMENTO DE LA BIODIVESIDAD EN LOS HUERTOS URBANOS DE ROJALES

ANSE y el Ayuntamiento de Rojales construyen una pequeña charca dentro de las instalaciones de los Huertos Urbanos de este Municipio como medida de fomento y mejora de la biodiversidad de este espacio verde. Leer más.

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Publicado: 04 Mayo 2020

Special issue on emerging diseases and infections in herpetofauna

As many of you will be aware, we are experiencing unprecedented declines in biodiversity globally in an event that biologists have named the sixth mass extinction. The two biggest obstacles facing the natural world are habitat loss and anthropogenic environment change, particularly for amphibians and even some species of reptiles. However, emerging infectious diseases are also partially responsible for large scale declines and the extinction of species, such as in the case with the amphibian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) which was described formally in 1998 but has been identified to drive declines before this. In 2013, another pathogenic fungus in the genus was identified after causing an unprecedented decline in fire salamanders in the Netherlands: B. salamandrivorans (Bsal). Bsal threatens salamander species around the world, although for now it appears to be confined to Europe and Asia. Leer más.

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Publicado: 04 Mayo 2020

The Role of Artificial Breeding Sites in Amphibian Conservation: a Case Study in Rural Areas in Central Spain

—Amphibians in rural landscapes often utilize various types of artificial constructions originally designed for irrigation, livestock supply, or other purposes (e.g., water tanks or cattle troughs) as breeding sites. These sites potentially function as local refugia; however, their importance for amphibian communities has yet to be widely assessed. Here we evaluate the role of artificial constructions in the persistence of amphibian populations in rural areas of central Spain, focusing on two species of conservation concern: the Common Midwife Toad, Alytes obstetricans (Laurenti 1768), and the Parsley Frog, Pelodytes punctatus (Daudin 1802). Leer más.

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Publicado: 02 Mayo 2020

Bolitoglossa copinhorum • Integrative Systematic Revision of Bolitoglossa celaque (Caudata: Plethodontidae), with A New Species from the Lenca Highlands of Honduras

The diversity of the tropical climbing salamander genus Bolitoglossa (Magnadigita) in Honduras has been underestimated historically, with 11 new species having been described in the past quarter-century. Bolitoglossa celaque is known to occur in three disjunct mountain ranges across the Lenca Highlands region of southwestern Honduras, and previous studies have independently demonstrated differences in mitochondrial genealogy and genome size between populations to the east and west of the Mejocote–San Juan Depression. Leer más.

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Publicado: 01 Mayo 2020