Urgent trade embargo on live Asian species is needed to prevent a virulent disease from wiping out European newts and salamander populations. Leer más.
Como ya os comenté hace unos meses, la Concejalía de Cultura del Ayuntamiento de Oviedo nos ha dado un proyecto para realizar un documental sobre las curiosas poblaciones de salamandras que habitan en esta ciudad, y de las que ya he hablado varias veces en este blog. Leer más.
Laurane Winandy, Mélanie Colin, and Mathieu Denoël. Behavioral Ecology first published online February 3, 2016. Temporal and habitat partitioning at the diel scale between native and alien species might promote their coexistence, but diel change can also imply a cost in the overall reduction of the time allocated to essential activities, showing that species interactions remain complex. Leer más.
Los argentinos compran anfibios debido al aumento del miedo por el Zika en Argentina, y el anuncio del gobierno de que el Aedes Aegypti (mosquito portador de ambos virus) se ha mostrado resistente a las fumigaciones. Leer más.
When it comes to finally getting round to reading a book, there isn’t much that I’ll read cover-to-cover or at least attempt. Cold Blood: Adventures with reptiles and amphibians was one of these wonderfully well written natural history books and I’m about to analyse why now. First of all the book has been authored by a man who is a lecturer in creative writing at Bath Spa University. Leer más.
