Vicente Sancho Alcayde. Ignacio Lacomba Andueza, José Vicente Bataller Gimeno, Antonio Pradillo Carrasco. 2015 Valencia. Conselleria d’Agricultura, Medi Ambient, Canvi Climàtic i Desenvolupament Rural. Generalitat Valenciana. En este contexto, durante los últimos años hemos desarrollado el proyecto LIFE+Trachemys, cofinanciado por la Comisión Europea, un proyecto pionero a nivel europeo y mundial para el control y erradicación de los galápagos exóticos invasores. Durante los tres años en los que se ha desarrollado el proyecto, hemos retirado del medio natural más de 22.000 ejemplares de tortugas invasoras, y hemos ensayado y aplicado diversas técnicas de captura, desarrollando a su vez actuaciones de recuperación de las poblaciones de galápagos autóctonos. Descargar pdf.

Xavier Santos , Arnaud Badiane, Cátia Matos. Oecologia, September 2015. We found contrasting responses among reptiles in terms of time since fire and those responses differed according to vegetation variables and habitat types. An unplanned fire in August 2012 provided the opportunity to compare reptile abundance values between pre-fire and the short term (1–2 years) after the fire. Most species exhibited a negative short-term response to the 2012 fire except Tarentola mauritanica, a gecko that inhabits large rocks, as opposed to other ground-dwelling species. In the reptiles studied, contrasting responses to time since fire are consistent with the habitat–accommodation model of succession. These differences are linked to specific microhabitat preferences and suggest that functional traits can be used to predict species-specific responses to fire. Leer más.

Francisco Javier Zamora-Camacho , Senda Reguera, Gregorio Moreno-Rueda. International Journal of Biometeorology pp 1-11. First online: 15 September 2015. we examined different thermal ecology and physiology capabilities of the lizard Psammodromus algirus along a 2200-m elevational gradient. We measured field (Tb) and laboratory-preferred (Tpref) body temperatures of lizards with different reproductive conditions, as well as ambient (Ta) and copper-model operative temperature (Te), which we used to determine thermal quality of the habitat (de), accuracy (db), and effectiveness of thermoregulation (de–db) indexes. Leer más.

we examined different thermal ecology and physiology capabilities of the lizard Psammodromus algirus along a 2200-m elevational gradient. We measured field (T_b) and laboratory-preferred (T_pref) body temperatures of lizards with different reproductive conditions, as well as ambient (T_a) and copper-model operative temperature (T_e), which we used to determine thermal quality of the habitat (d_e), accuracy (d_b), and effectiveness of thermoregulation (d_e–d_b) indexes.

Palacios, C., C. Urrutia, N. Knapp, M. F. Franch Quintana, A. Bertolero, G. Simon, L. du Preez & O. Verneau. Salamandra 51(3): 2015. We encountered two extreme haplotypes, with specimens with the endemic Spanish Catalonian haplotype A18 belonging to M. leprosa leprosa and others being clearly referable to M. leprosa saharica (cyt b haplotypes from clade B) that is otherwise typical from below the Atlas Mountain Range in Morocco. Short- and long-term directions for research as well as conservation management actions are suggested for this insufficiently studied species. Leer más.

The government declared the southern gastric brooding frog (Rheobatrachus silus), sharp-snouted torrent frog (Taudactylus acutirostris), and Mt Glorious torrent frog (Taudactylus diurnus) extinct in the wild. Leer más.