We suggest that the shorter activity seasons in temperate regions may have acted as ‘natural lockdowns’ that delayed the annihilating effects of Bd in susceptible species. Leer más.

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Results indicate that wild populations from different subspecies have significantly different skin microbiome composition, as do wild and captive-bred groups from the same subspecies. Leer más.

Our results also indicated that V. aspis and V. latastei occupy ecologically complementary areas, yet exhibit overlap within a sub-Mediterranean ecotone. Both species prefer habitats with high plant richness, suggesting an affinity for undisturbed environments offering greater prey density. Leer más.

The relevance of weather events is strongly different on each population and depends on environmental conditions of each population, especially lizard abundance itself, the island surface, geographical location and degree of exposure to weather events. Leer más.