Global Warming and Long-Distance Spread of Invasive Discoglossus pictus (Amphibia, Alytidae): Conservation Implications for Protected Amphibians in the Iberian Peninsula

Our results show a strong climatic niche overlap between D. pictus and targeted species in the Iberian Peninsula, including endemic Discoglossus species. Future projections of climatic change suggest that climatic suitability will increase for all species, both inside and outside the Natura 2000 network, with the only exception being a moderate and widespread decrease for Pelodytes punctatus. However, these positive trends are reversed within Natura 2000 sites where most species are explicitly targeted, jeopardizing the effectiveness of protected areas in a long-distance dispersal scenario. Leer más.

Mediterranean green turtle population recovery increasingly depends on Lake Bardawil, Egypt

Our data confirm the continued importance of these beaches for the Mediterranean green turtle population and underscore the reliance of this endangered population on a man-made lagoon for recent increases in clutch counts at monitored beaches. The results highlight the utility of satellite telemetry to inform conservation status assessments and establishing conservation at both nesting and foraging sites across the population. Leer más.

Rock island melody remastered: two new species in the Afroedura bogerti Loveridge, 1944 group from Angola and Namibia

The new Namibian material is recovered as a sister species to A. donveae, from which it differs mostly by the colour of the iris (copper versus black) and dorsal colouration. Material from the first elevational gradient of the escarpment in Benguela Province, Angola was found to be more closely related to A. bogerti than A. wulfhaackei. The differences between these two species are more subtle, although the new species exhibits higher mid-body scale rows (79.5 versus 74.8), different dorsal colouration and supranasal scales always in contact (versus 57% in contact). Leer más.

Genomic Analyses Reveal Association of ASIP with a Recurrently evolving Adaptive Color Pattern in Frogs

Our findings demonstrate that this cryptic color pattern evolved rapidly and recurrently in terrestrial anurans, and therefore constitutes an ideal system to study repeated evolution. Leer más.

Recolectar, sembrar y liberar: mujeres huitoto evitan que tortugas taricaya desaparezcan del río Putumayo

Claudia Flores, originaria del pueblo indígena huitoto, lidera los esfuerzos de conservación de la tortuga taricaya (Podocnemis unifilis) en Tres Esquinas, pequeña comunidad de apenas 10 familias en la Amazonía peruana. En cinco años de trabajo han logrado liberar alrededor de 5500 crías de tortuga taricaya en el río Putumayo. Leer más.

Global Warming and Long-Distance Spread of Invasive Discoglossus pictus (Amphibia, Alytidae): Conservation Implications for Protected Amphibians in the Iberian Peninsula

Mediterranean green turtle population recovery increasingly depends on Lake Bardawil, Egypt

Rock island melody remastered: two new species in the Afroedura bogerti Loveridge, 1944 group from Angola and Namibia

Genomic Analyses Reveal Association of ASIP with a Recurrently evolving Adaptive Color Pattern in Frogs

Recolectar, sembrar y liberar: mujeres huitoto evitan que tortugas taricaya desaparezcan del río Putumayo

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