Our integrated approach provides us with the power to accurately quantify the origin, timing and mode of island colonisation. This framework helps to clarify the biogeographical and evolutionary history of island populations, with important implications for conservation and management of island biodiversity. Leer más.
La víbora hocicuda es una especie discreta y ampliamente distribuida por la Península Ibérica. Pero su extrema rareza y las malas relaciones con el ser humano mantienen algunas incógnitas sobre su biología y, sobre todo, plantean una pregunta de difícil respuesta: ¿es posible planificar su conservación? Leer más.
The study suggests that human-facilitated introductions from various geographical origins, with numerous regions colonized through continental Italy during two distinct periods, are responsible for the recurrent entry of individuals belonging to the European lineage of T. mauritanica into the Mediterranean and Macaronesia. Leer más.
Results were compatible with a TSD pattern with males generated at low and females at high incubation temperatures. Estimated pivotal temperature coincided with the temperature producing lower embryonic mortality, evidencing selection towards balanced sex ratios. Leer más.
Midwife Toads The Genus Alytes: History, Ecology, Systematics, Captive Breeding (2023). Midwife toads of the genus Alytes form a small group of primarily Iberian anurans. These fascinating toads hold cultural and scientific recognition on account of their distinctive, bell-like peeping call and their unusual strategy of paternal care, all of which trump their small, brown appearance and the rarity of encountering them in the wild. Leer más,
