A5077821700- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Turtle Biology and Conservation
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Plant and animal studies
- Marine animal studies overview
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Mollusks and Parasites Studies
- Veterinary Pharmacology and Anesthesia
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Tendon Structure and Treatment
- Leech Biology and Applications
- Reproductive tract infections research
- Genetic and Environmental Crop Studies
Universitat de Girona
2019-2025
Universidade do Porto
2015-2025
Universitat de Barcelona
2012-2018
Centro de Estudos em Geografia e Ordenamento do Territorio
2016-2018
Institut de Biologia Evolutiva
2018
University of Minho
2016
Fundació Salut i Envelliment UAB
2012
Biogipuzkoa Health Research Institute
2012
The red-eared slider turtle, Trachemys scripta elegans, is among the most over-exploited animals and still exported annually from USA all over world.Once introduced into its new environment, feral populations may arise pose threats to local biodiversity ecosystem functioning.In France, it in fact considered as a risk for Mediterranean pond Mauremys leprosa, European Emys orbicularis, they compete resources habitat.Freshwater turtles are also host variety of parasites including protozoans...
Abstract Adaptive ecological differentiation among sympatric populations is promoted by environmental heterogeneity, strong local selection and restricted gene flow. High flow, on the other hand, expected to homogenize genetic variation therefore prevent adaptation. Understanding how adaptation can persist at spatial scale which flow occurs has remained an elusive goal, especially for wild vertebrate populations. Here, we explore roles of natural nonrandom (isolation breeding time habitat...
The Common Toad Bufo bufo is the amphibian with highest rates of road mortality in many European countries. This elevated incidence kills has frequently been associated migration to breeding sites. In this study, we analysed network Catalonia (NE Spain), and investigated related causative factors on four roads near a site Pyrenees. Results suggest that high rate due combination factors: toad abundance, traffic density quality water bodies for breeding. On whether deaths occurred at specific...
Mediterranean temporary ponds (MTPs) are crucial breeding sites for local amphibians, a faunal group in decline the mainly due to wetland destruction. Although disappearance of lentic habitats other regions world has been ameliorated by creation and restoration wetlands, these tactics remain untested wetlands. To evaluate amphibian colonization dynamics artificial MTPs north-eastern Iberian Peninsula, we monitored two (one high-diversity area low-diversity area) over 2 years. We selected...
Recently burnt and logged habitats challenge the persistence of animal populations. Insects like cicadas, which survive belowground during fire logging, are exposed to hostile conditions due increased predation limited resources when they emerge as adults. This study investigates combined effects wildfire post-fire salvage logging on survival, spatial behavior, habitat selection cicada Lyristes plebejus in Mediterranean pine forests. A total 63 individuals were captured, tagged, released...
In flammable ecosystems, forest dynamics are affected by fire suppression, climate change and changes in land use that cause the frequency intensity of fires to diverge from natural regimes. Although afforestation provides new habitats for species, can reverse its benefits penalizing species. Shorter recurrence may also affect capacity original recover with post-fire salvage logging adding picture having both direct indirect effects on birds. To identify underlying factors driving temporal...
Abstract Hybrid zones are natural laboratories allowing insights in genetic processes like lineage diversification, speciation and introgression. Using large sampling, 15 microsatellite loci a mitochondrial marker, we examined the Pyrenean contact zone of three pond turtle taxa ( Emys orbicularis , E . o galloitalica occidentalis ). The Pyrenees biogeographically important region separating many lineages endemic to Iberian Peninsula from their Western European counterparts. We discovered...
An average of 213,000 ha European forest is affected by fire every year, with 90% this area corresponding to Mediterranean countries. The timber the burned forests usually harvested clearcutting over large areas be used mainly as bioenergy. Recent scientific evidence has shown strong impact that these "salvage logging" practices have on ecosystem. However, owners and companies largely ignore academic debate, salvage logging decisions are taken for economic, practical emotional reasons. We...
Special thanks to all respondents (Suppl. Mat. Appendix A3-Contributors / Respondents) and who have contributed diffusion promotion of the Roadkills survey: Road Ecology Group on Facebook, Asociacion Herpetologica Granadina, Espanola (AHE), Herpnet individuals also believed appropriate disclosure survey. Thanks an anonymous reviewer for English linguistic advising comments suggestions that greatly improved last version manuscript. M. Franch C. Silva are funded by a grant (UMINHO/...
This paper presents a road surface scanning system that operates with trichromatic line scan camera light emitting diode (LED) lighting achieving resolution under millimeter. It was part of project named Roadkills-Intelligent systems for surveying mortality amphibians in Portuguese roads, sponsored by the Science and Technology Foundation. A trailer developed order to accommodate complete standalone power generation, computer image capture recording, controlled operate day or night without...
Abstract Mammal species globally exhibit distribution patterns conditioned by environmental conditions and human impact. The Mediterranean basin provides an ideal system to study these effects due its diverse climate, habitat conditions. In this work, we aim assess the impact of landscape heterogeneity anthropization degree on terrestrial mammal diversity in region. Accordingly, deployed over 300 camera traps across 28 sites for 3 months. Detected (weighing more than 1kg) were classified as...
Species can occupy different realised niches when sharing the space with other congeneric species or living in allopatry. Ecological niche models are powerful tools to analyse and their changes over time space. Analysing how species’ shift is paramount ecology. Here, we examine ecological of three wall lizards six study areas: areas where each occurs alone; they occur together pairs. We compared vary depending on coexistence, by quantifying overlap between pairs populations R package...
Amphibians living in streams are often subjected to spates. These waterfloods the main cause of organism drift and mortality, these effects can be confounded with population decline. Discrimination between decline natural fluctuations unpredictable habitats requires study dynamics through monitoring long data series. We conducted a 21-year demographic field survey newt (Calotriton asper) eastern Pyrenees. Our results indicate that adult showed high response heavy rainfall. Maximal rainfall...
The global degradation of wetlands is increasing their susceptibility to invasions, which greatly determined by a niche overlap between native and invasive species. We analyze its role in regulating the coexistence Mediterranean stripe-necked terrapin Mauremys leprosa Red-eared Slider Trachemys scripta elegans coastal wetland. analyzed both water chemistry landscape attributes, using variance-partitioning analysis isolate variance explained each set variables. Then, influence environmental...
Road networks are the main source of mortality for many species. Amphibians, which in global decline, most road-killed fauna group, due to their activity patterns and preferred habitats. Many different methodologies have been applied modeling relationship between environment road-kills events, such as logistic regression. Here, we compared performance five regression techniques relate amphibians’ road-kill frequency environmental variables. For this, surveyed three country roads northern...