[HTML][HTML] Species list of the European herpetofauna–2020 update by the Taxonomic Committee of the Societas Europaea Herpetologica

J Speybroeck, W Beukema, C Dufresnes, U Fritz… - Amphibia-Reptilia, 2020 - brill.com
The last species list of the European herpetofauna was published by Speybroeck, Beukema
and Crochet (2010). In the meantime, ongoing research led to numerous taxonomic …

Finding answers in the dark: caves as models in ecology fifty years after Poulson and White

S Mammola - Ecography, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The use of semi‐isolated habitats such as oceanic islands, lakes and mountain summits as
model systems has played a crucial role in the development of evolutionary and ecological …

Integrating landscape ecology and the assessment of ecosystem services in the study of karst areas

C Canedoli, GF Ficetola, D Corengia, P Tognini… - Landscape …, 2022 - Springer
Context A landscape is defined as a “system of ecosystems” and this is a model in which
karst areas can easily be integrated. In karst areas, much of the connectivity between the …

Differences between microhabitat and broad-scale patterns of niche evolution in terrestrial salamanders

GF Ficetola, E Lunghi, C Canedoli… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
The extent to which closely related species share similar niches remains highly debated.
Ecological niches are increasingly analysed by combining distribution records with broad …

Environmental suitability models predict population density, performance and body condition for microendemic salamanders

E Lunghi, R Manenti, M Mulargia, M Veith, C Corti… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Species can show strong variation of local abundance across their ranges. Recent analyses
suggested that variation in abundance can be related to environmental suitability, as the …

Applying species distribution models to caves and other subterranean habitats

S Mammola, B Leroy - Ecography, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last two decades there has been an exponential increase in the use of correlative
species distribution models (SDMs) to address a variety of topics in ecology, biogeography …

High‐stakes species delimitation in eyeless cave spiders (Cicurina, Dictynidae, Araneae) from central Texas

M Hedin - Molecular ecology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A remarkable radiation of completely eyeless, cave‐obligate spider species (Cicurina) has
been described from limestone caves of Texas. This radiation includes over 50 described …

The importance of natural history and species-specific approaches in amphibian ex-situ conservation

CJ Michaels, BF Gini, RF Preziosi - The Herpetological Journal, 2014 - ingentaconnect.com
Due to the importance of ex-situ components of the response to the on-going amphibian
extinction crisis, the numbers of captive amphibian species and populations is growing …

Four years monitoring of the endangered European plethodontid salamanders

L Coppari, M Di Gregorio, C Corti, S Merilli, M Mulargia… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
The ongoing biodiversity crisis is strongly threatening amphibians, mostly because of their
peculiar physiology, their sensitivity to climate change and the spread of diseases. Effective …

Islands within islands: diversification of tailless whip spiders (Amblypygi, Phrynus) in Caribbean caves

LA Esposito, T Bloom, L Caicedo-Quiroga… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2015 - Elsevier
Islands have played a key role in understanding species formation ever since Darwin's work
on the Galapagos and Wallace's work in the Malay Archipelago. Like oceanic islands …