This study was funded by a“Bielefeld Young Researchers'Fund"grant awarded by Bielefeld University(Germany)to I.D.M.under the code BYRF2021-DamasMoreira.
Urbanization occurs at a global scale,imposing dramatic and abrupt environmental changes that lead to biodiversity loss.Yet,some animal species can handle these changes,and thrive in such artifcial environments.One po...
This study was possible thanks to the project:CGL2015-68139-C2-1-P;“Dinámica de la variación genética y respuesta adaptativa en las Podarcis insulares”financed by of the Ministerio Español de Economia y competitividad and European Regional Development Fund(ERDF);IA supported by FPI/2006/2017 and research funds from the Conselleria d’Educació,Cultura i Universitats(Govern de les Illes Balears,Spain),co-financed by the ERDF.
Dietary studies are essential to unravel the functioning of ecosystems and ultimately to understand biodiversity.This task,which at first may seem simple,becomes especially complex in those cases of omnivorous species...
The invasive snake Hemorrhois hippocrepis colonized the island of Ibiza(Balearic Islands)in 2003 as stowaways inside trunks of olive trees imported for gardening.It has quickly spread since 2010,posing a threat to the...
Funding was provided by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology to R.Rebelo(UID/BIA/00329/2019);M.Mota-Ferreira(SFRH/BD/95202/2013);ARDITI-Madeira's Regional Agency for the Development of Research,Technology and Innovation to R.Rocha(M1420-09-5369-FSE-000002);the LIFE+Berlengas project.M.Mota-Ferreira was also supported by the Interreg Europe project INVALIS-Protecting European Biodiversity from Invasive Alien Species(PGI05271)。
Invasive species are a major threat to island biodiversity,and their eradications have substantially contributed to the conservation of island endemics.However,the consequences of eradications on the trophic ecology o...
The Iberian wall lizard Podarcis hispanica forms part of a species complex with several morphologically and geneti- cally distinct types and populations, which may or may not be reproductively isolated. We analyzed wh...
A critical review of the evolutionary biology of Iberian and North African lizard members of the genus Podarcis(Lacertidae)based on phylogeny,phylogeography,morphometrics,behavior,ecology and physiology is presented.T...