The good, the bad and the ugly of COVID-19 lockdown effects on wildlife conservation: Insights from the first European locked down country

R Manenti, E Mori, V Di Canio, S Mercurio… - Biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic zoonosis has determined extensive lockdowns worldwide that
provide an unprecedented opportunity to understand how large-scale shifts of human …

Neglected juveniles; a call for integrating all amphibian life stages in assessments of mitigation success (and how to do it)

SO Petrovan, BR Schmidt - Biological Conservation, 2019 - Elsevier
Road networks are central drivers of biodiversity loss and their impacts are rapidly
expanding. Pond-breeding amphibians are highly vulnerable to road impacts because they …

[HTML][HTML] Updated distribution and biogeography of amphibians and reptiles of Europe

N Sillero, J Campos, A Bonardi, C Corti, R Creemers… - Amphibia-reptilia, 2014 - brill.com
A precise knowledge of the spatial distribution of taxa is essential for decision-making
processes in land management and biodiversity conservation, both for present and under …

N-mixture models reliably estimate the abundance of small vertebrates

GF Ficetola, B Barzaghi, A Melotto, M Muraro… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Accurate measures of species abundance are essential to identify conservation strategies. N-
mixture models are increasingly used to estimate abundance on the basis of species counts …

Volunteer Conservation Action Data Reveals Large-Scale and Long-Term Negative Population Trends of a Widespread Amphibian, the Common Toad (Bufo bufo)

SO Petrovan, BR Schmidt - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Rare and threatened species are the most frequent focus of conservation science and
action. With the ongoing shift from single-species conservation towards the preservation of …

[PDF][PDF] Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans in the Ruhr District, Germany: history, distribution, decline dynamics and disease symptoms of the salamander plague

V Schulz, A Schulz, M Klamke, K Preissler… - Salamandra, 2020 - academia.edu
The chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal), recently introduced from Asia
to Europe, causes mortality in numerous species of salamanders and newts and has led to …

Effectiveness of small road tunnels and fences in reducing amphibian roadkill and barrier effects at retrofitted roads in Sweden

JO Helldin, SO Petrovan - PeerJ, 2019 - peerj.com
Schemes to reduce road impacts on amphibians have been implemented for decades in
Europe, yet, several aspects on the effectiveness of such schemes remain poorly …

Continental‐scale determinants of population trends in European amphibians and reptiles

M Falaschi, R Manenti, W Thuiller… - Global Change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The continuous decline of biodiversity is determined by the complex and joint effects of
multiple environmental drivers. Still, a large part of past global change studies reporting and …

Pesticide exposure affects reproductive capacity of common toads (Bufo bufo) in a viticultural landscape

E Adams, C Leeb, CA Brühl - Ecotoxicology, 2021 - Springer
Amphibian populations are declining worldwide at alarming rates. Among the large variety
of contributing stressors, chemical pollutants like pesticides have been identified as a major …

Estimating patterns of reptile biodiversity in remote regions

GF Ficetola, A Bonardi, R Sindaco… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The incompleteness of information on biodiversity distribution is a major issue for
ecology and conservation. Researchers have made many attempts to quantify the amount of …