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Amphibians and reptiles as palaeonvironmental proxies during the Late Pleistocene (MIS3): The case of Stratigraphic Unit V of El Salt, Alcoi, Spain
2021
The locality of El Salt (Alcoi, Spain) is a key site for understanding the extirpation of Neanderthals in the eastern part of Iberia. In this paper, we analyse an assemblage of amphibians and reptiles from Stratigraphic Unit V (45.2 ± 3.4 ka to 44.7 ± 3.4 ka), which corresponds to one of the last regional records of Neanderthals, to improve knowledge of the palaeoecology and palaeoclimate of this event. The assemblage comprises three anurans (Pelodytes sp., Alytes obstetricans, and Epidalea calamita), two lizards (Lacertidae indet. and Chalcides bedriagai), and five snakes (Colubridae indet., Coronella sp., Coronella sp./Zamenis sp., Natrix maura, and Vipera latastei). Palaeoclimatic recons…
Analysis of a herpetofaunal community from an altered marshy area in Sicily; with special remarks on habitat use (niche breadth and overlap), relativ…
2005
A field survey was conducted in a highly degraded barren environment in Sicily in order to investigate herpetofaunal community composition and structure, habitat use (niche breadth and overlap) and relative abundance of a snake predator and two species of lizard prey. The site was chosen because it has a simple community structure and thus there is potentially less ecological complexity to cloud any patterns observed. We found an unexpectedly high overlap in habitat use between the two closely related lizards that might be explained either by a high competition for space or through predator-mediated co-existence i.e. the prevention of the competitive exclusion of one lizard over the other. …
Aportaciones de la herpetofauna al conocimiento de la paleobiología y paleoclimatología del tramo temporal Pleistoceno Superior y Holoceno de la Comu…
2022
El periodo Cuaternario se caracteriza climáticamente por la alternancia de fases glaciales e interglaciales, y, asociadas a ellas, importantes fluctuaciones de la línea de costa. Dado que este marco temporal es altamente relevante en el campo de la evolución humana y, por ello, gran parte de su estudio se ha centrado en esta temática; también lo es para entender diversos aspectos de la historia natural de otros grupos de vertebrados, como es el caso de los reptiles y anfibios. Hasta ahora son escasos los estudios del componente herpetológico de las faunas de vertebrados en el este de la península ibérica durante el Pleistoceno Superior y Holoceno, habiéndose centrado fundamentalmente este e…