Latest fire salamander research
Newest papers on Salamandra salamandra in the HerpAtlas research library, updated automatically.
- Larval development and habitat usage of stream-breeding Fire salamanders in an urban environment
István Kiss, Judit Vörös, Andrew J. Hamer · Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae · 2022-10 · open access
- Improving trajectories of amphibians in wildlife passages
Guillaume Testud, Coline Canonne, Quentin Le Petitcorps et al. · Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution · 2022-10 · open access
Linear transport infrastructure can alter the viability of populations and wildlife passages are used to mitigate their impacts. The assessment of their outcomes is often limited to recording the use of the tunnels by a focal species. For amphibians, the effectiveness of tunnels is poorly evaluated…
- Factors determining the dorsal coloration pattern of aposematic salamanders.
Barzaghi B, Melotto A, Cogliati P et al. · Scientific reports · 2022-10 · open access
Introduction Variation of animal coloration has always caught the attention of naturalists –. The huge intra- and inter-specific variation of animal coloration is determined by the joint effect of multiple forces, including physiological constraints, sexual selection and natural selection –.…
- Distribution and conservation status of threatened endemic amphibians within the Aspromonte mountain region, a hotspot of Mediterranean biodiversity
Giuseppe Martino, Andrea Chiocchio, Antonino Siclari et al. · Nature Conservation · 2022-09 · open access
Amphibian biodiversity loss in recent years has exceeded that of all other groups of vertebrates. In this context, biodiversity hotspots represent priority targets for conservation in amphibian populations. However, little information is available on the distribution and conservation status of…
- Predicted current and future distribution of the fire salamander, Salamandra infraimmaculata in Turkey
Muammer Kurnaz · Gümüşhane University Institutional Repository · 2022-09 · open access
Although the fire salamander, Salamandra infraimmaculata, is relatively distributed in a broad area in the Middle East, it lives in a narrow area in southeast and south Anatolia in Turkey. The habitats of the species have been downgraded day by day, and its IUCN category is listed as "NT, and the…
- Host Identity Matters-Up to a Point: The Community Context of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Transmission.
Daversa DR, Bosch J, Manica A et al. · The American naturalist · 2022-09
- The Trophic Niche of Two Sympatric Species of Salamanders (Plethodontidae and Salamandridae) from Italy.
Lunghi E, Corti C, Biaggini M et al. · Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022-08 · open access
The trophic niche of a species is one of the fundamental traits of species biology. The ideal trophic niche of a species is realized in the absence of interspecific competition, targeting the most profitable and easy-to-handle food resources. However, when a competitor is present, species adopt…
- In vivo and ex vivo range of motion in the fire salamander Salamandra salamandra.
Herbst EC, Eberhard EA, Richards CT et al. · Journal of anatomy · 2022-08 · open access
Joint range of motion (RoM) analyses are fundamental to our understanding of how an animal moves throughout its ecosystem. Recent technological advances allow for more detailed quantification of this RoM (e.g. including interaction of degrees of freedom) both in ex vivo joints and in vivo…
- A Protocol for Prolonged Surgical Anaesthesia with Recovery in Fire Salamanders Using Tricaine Mesylate (MS-222): A Case Series.
Stathopoulou T, Light J, Lamas LP et al. · Laboratory animals · 2022-07
- Can antioxidant responses be induced by habitat fragmentation process?
Luciano Bani, Valerio Orioli, Roberto Giacchini et al. · Oikos · 2022-07 · open access
Animal populations are increasingly forced to live in small residual natural or semi‐natural areas due to habitat loss and fragmentation. Here, the viability of populations is often compromised by intrinsic threat factors typical of small and isolated populations, such as inbreeding depression,…
- Reliability of the post-hoc measurement on Salamandra salamandra.
Enrico Lunghi · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2022-07
- Highlight: Yellow is the New Black for Gobi Desert Lizards
Casey McGrath · Genome Biology and Evolution · 2022-07 · open access
An animal’s skin, fur, or feather colors can either be used to attract attention or avoid it, allowing individuals to entice a mate or to escape detection by predators. Pigmentation may also affect physiological features such as thermoregulation and susceptibility to UV damage. All of these…
- How Trophic Conditions Affect Development of Fire Salamander (Salamandra salamandra) Larvae: Two Extreme Cases
Paola Cogliati, Benedetta Barzaghi, Andrea Melotto et al. · Diversity · 2022-06 · open access
Reduced trophic resources can pose relevant constraints to the development of freshwater animals with complex life cycles. For amphibians, food deprived environments, such as high-altitude ponds and springs and groundwaters are frequently used for breeding. The aim of this study is to outline…
- Effects of Pine and Eucalypt ashes on bacterial isolates from the skin microbiome of the fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra).
Afonso M, Coelho L, Jesus F et al. · The Science of the total environment · 2022-06 · open access
- Record of abundance of Salamandra salamandra (Linnaeus, 1758) in its southernmost European populations: S. s. longirostris
R. Arroyo‐Morales, Adrián Martín-Taboada, J. Juan–Rueda et al. · Arxius de Miscel·lània Zoològica · 2022-05 · open access
In Europe, the southernmost subspecies of salamandra is Salamandra salamandra longirostris, found in the south of the Iberian Peninsula. This subspecies, whose populations are currently in decline, has been proposed as a species due to its genetic differentiation and isolation by distance. In one…
- The Arsenic-Antimony Creek at Sauerbrunn/Burgenland, Austria: A Toxic Habitat for Amphibians.
Adlassnig W, Schmidt B, Jirsa F et al. · International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022-05 · open access
(1) Background: All Austrian amphibians are affected by the degradation of habitats. Mining contributes to habitat destruction by the formation of spoil heaps and mine drainage waters. In Stadtschlaining/Burgenland, antimony mining led to increased arsenic (As) and antimony (Sb) concentrations in…
- Oviparity, viviparity or plasticity in reproductive mode of the olm Proteus anguinus: an epic misunderstanding caused by prey regurgitation?
Hans Recknagel, Ester Premate, Valerija Zakšek et al. · Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde · 2022-04 · open access
Abstract Cave animals are biological models of fast evolutionary change induced by transition to extreme subterranean environments. But their concealed lifestyle makes it inherently difficult to study life-history changes. Therefore, currently very little is known on the reproduction of cave…
- A New Disease Caused by an Unidentified Etiological Agent Affects European Salamanders.
Manenti R, Mercurio S, Melotto A et al. · Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022-03 · open access
New pathologies are causing dramatic declines and extinctions of multiple amphibian species. In 2013, in one fire salamander population of Northern Italy, we found individuals with undescribed cysts at the throat level, a malady whose existence has not previously been reported in amphibians. With…
- A near-natural experiment on factors influencing larval drift in Salamandra salamandra.
Schafft M, Wagner N, Schuetz T et al. · Scientific reports · 2022-02 · open access
The larval stage of the European fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) inhabits both lentic and lotic habitats. In the latter, they are constantly exposed to unidirectional water flow, which has been shown to cause downstream drift in a variety of taxa. In this study, a closed artificial creek,…
- The Midwife Toad Challenge After (Half) a Century
Jan W. Arntzen · Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution · 2022-02 · open access
The evolutionary biologist Paul Kammerer (1880–1926) purportedly demonstrated that environmentally induced character states are carried over to the next generation(s), therewith providing evidence for Lamarckian evolution. Kammerer’s work is generally seen as contentious but has also been valued as…
- COI Metabarcoding Provides Insights into the Highly Diverse Diet of a Generalist Salamander, Salamandra salamandra (Caudata: Salamandridae)
Adam Joseph Doncheff Marques, Vanessa A. Mata, Guillermo Velo‐Antón · Diversity · 2022-01 · open access
DNA metabarcoding has proven to be an accessible, cost-effective, and non-invasive tool for dietary analysis of predators in situ. Although DNA metabarcoding provides numerous benefits in characterizing diet—such as detecting prey animals that are difficult to visually identify—this method has seen…
- Movement patterns within an urban population of fire salamanders highlight the importance of conserving small habitat patches
István Kiss, Judit Vörös, Andrew J. Hamer · Journal of Zoology · 2021-12
- Microplastics increase susceptibility of amphibian larvae to the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.
Bosch J, Thumsová B, López-Rojo N et al. · Scientific reports · 2021-11 · open access
Introduction Microplastics (MPs) are a widely emerging class of pollutants of global concern. They are plastic particles < 5 mm in size that originate either from primary (i.e., manufactured products) or secondary sources (i.e., fibres and fragments resulting from the breakdown of larger plastic…
- Measuring athletic performance in post-metamorphic fire salamanders.
de Rysky E, Roberta B, Andrea C et al. · BMC research notes · 2021-10 · open access
Objective Athletic performances are dynamic movements that are physically challenging and often predict individual success in ecological contexts. They stem from a complex integration of multiple phenotypic traits-e.g., morphological, physiological and behavioural-that dictate animal survival and…
- Multiple paternity in the pueriparous North African fire salamander, Salamandra algira, supports polyandry as a successful mating strategy in low fecundity Salamandra lineages
Lucía Alarcón-Ríos, Guillermo Velo‐Antón · Amphibia-Reptilia · 2021-10
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