[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 …

[PDF][PDF] Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. Part 10. Bat fauna of Iran

P Benda, K Faizolâhi, M Andreas, J Obuch… - Acta Societatis …, 2012 - nm.cz
A complete list of bat records available from Iran was compiled from literature and from new
records, based on field studies and examination of museum specimens. The record review …

Mammals of Italy: an annotated checklist

A Loy, G Aloise, L Ancillotto, FM Angelici, S Bertolino… - Hystrix, 2019 - iris.uniroma1.it
Checklists represent a basic tool for conservation and management of regional faunas.
However, our knowledge on species composition in a territory changes over time due to …

Comparing pseudo-absences generation techniques in Boosted Regression Trees models for conservation purposes: A case study on amphibians in a protected area

F Cerasoli, M Iannella, P D'Alessandro, M Biondi - PLoS One, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Boosted Regression Trees (BRT) is one of the modelling techniques most recently applied
to biodiversity conservation and it can be implemented with presence-only data through the …

Complex impact of an invasive crayfish on freshwater food webs

GF Ficetola, ME Siesa, F De Bernardi… - Biodiversity and …, 2012 - Springer
Invasive alien species can have complex effects on native ecosystems, and interact with
multiple components of food webs, making it difficult a comprehensive quantification of their …

[HTML][HTML] Addressing conservation measures through fine-tuned species distribution models for an Italian endangered endemic anuran

I Bernabo, M Biondi, V Cittadino, E Sperone… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Climate and land cover changes are the two most important stressors causing the decline of
amphibians' populations worldwide. Within the Mediterranean area, one of the global …

[PDF][PDF] Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. Part 11. On the bat fauna of Libya II

P Benda, F Spitzenberger, V Hanák… - Acta Societatis …, 2014 - researchgate.net
A complete list of bat records available from Libya was compiled from literature and from
new records, based on field studies and examination of museum specimens. The record …

The Early Pleistocene herpetofauna of Rivoli Veronese (Northern Italy) as evidence for humid and forested glacial phases in the Gelasian of Southern Alps

A Villa, HA Blain, M Delfino - Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Among the Early Pleistocene Italian fossil herpetofaunas, Rivoli Veronese is
remarkable in having yielded the youngest known allocaudates, represented by …

R ensch's rule and sexual dimorphism in salamanders: patterns and potential processes

E Colleoni, M Denoël, E Padoa‐Schioppa… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Body size is influenced by the interaction of multiple forces, whose effects can determine the
occurrence of sexual size dimorphism (SSD). R ensch's rule is the increase of SSD with …

Variability of Seasonal Trophic Niche in Two Sympatric Salamanders: Italian Cave Salamanders and Fire Salamanders

F Cianferoni, M Di Gregorio, C Corti… - …, 2024 - meridian.allenpress.com
The trophic niche is one of the most important ecological traits for any species, providing
information about trophic position in the food web, habitat preferences, and interspecific …