Habitat features affecting the small-scale distribution and longitudinal migration patterns of Calotriton asper in a Pre-Pyrenean population

Amphibia Reptilia

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 371-381

  Montori, Albert ^a   Llorente, Gustavo A ^a   Richter Boix, Àlex ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Abundance; Amphibia; Calotriton; Migration; Salamandridae

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ADULT; AMPHIBIAN; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MIGRATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PYRENEES;

AMPHIBIA; SALAMANDRIDAE; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 49049108483     PISSN: 01735373     EISSN: 15685381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853808785112048     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Arntzen, J.W. (1994): Speedy salamanders: sedentariness and migration of Chioglossa lusitanica. Rev. Esp. Herp. 8: 81-86.
2. Arntzen, J.W. (1995): Temporal and spatial distribution of the golden-striped salamander (Chioglossa lusitanica) along two mountain brooks in northern Portugal. Herpetol. J. 5: 213-216.
3. Baumgartner, N., Waringer, A., Waringer, J. (1999): Hydraulic microdistribution patterns of larval fire salamanders (Salamandm salamandra salamandm) in. the Weidlingbach near Vienna. Austria. Freshw. Biol. 41:31-41.
4. Bilby, R.E., Likens, G.E. (1980): Importance of organic debris dams in the structure anf function of stream ecosystems. Ecology 61: 1107-1113.
5. Bonato, L., Fracaso, G. (2003): Movements, distribution, pattern and density in a population of Salamandm atra aurorae (Caudata: Salamandridae). Amphibia-Reptilia 24:251-260.
6. Cananza, S., Amat, F. (2005): Taxonomy, biogeography and evolution oîEuproctus (Amphibia: Salamandridae), with the resurrection of the genus Calotriton and the description of a new endemic species from the Iberian Peninsula. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 145: 555-582.
7. Catenazzi, A. (1998): Ecologie d'une population de Salamandre tachetée au sud des Alpes. Travail de Diplôme, Institut de Zoologie, Fac. des Sciences, Université de Neuchâtel.
8. Chapman, D.G. (1951): Some properties of the hypergeometric distribution with applications to zoological censuses. University of California Publications on Statistics.
9. Clergue-Gazeau, M. (1971): L'Euprocte pyrénéen. Consequence de la vie cavernicole sur son développement et sa reproduction. Ann. Spéléol. 25: 825-960.
10. Clergue-Gazeau, M., Martinez-Rica, J.P. (1978): Les différents biotopes de l'urodèle pyrénéen, Euproctus asper. Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Toulouse 114: 461-471.
11. Clobert, J., Ims, R.A., Roussel, F. (2004): Causes, mechanisms and consequences of dispersal. In: Ecology, Genetics, and Evolution of Metapopulations, p. 307-335.
12. Hanski, I. Gaggiotti, O.E., Eds, Academic Press, London.
13. Daugherty, C.H., Sheldon, A.L. (1982): Age specific movement patterns of the tailed frog (Ascaphus tr-uei). Herpetológica 38: 468-474.
14. Funk, WC, Donnelly, M.A., Lips, K.R. (2005): Alternative views of amphibian toe-clipping. Nature 433: 193.
15. García-París, M., Montori, A., Henero, P. (2004): Amphibia (Lissamphibia). Fauna Ibérica, Vol. 24. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid.
16. Guillaume, O. (2006): Role of interspecific communication on spatial segregation in the sympatric salamanders Calotriton asper and Salamandm salamandra (Amphibia: Salamandridae). Bull. Soc. Herpetol. Fr. 118: 5-16.
17. Guillaume, O., Cavagnara, R (1998): Spatial and temporal distribution of Euproctus asper from hypogean and epigean populations: experimental and field work studies. Mém. Biospéol. XXV 52: 145-156.
18. Lancaster, J., Hildrew, A.G. (1993a): Flow refugia and the microdistribution of lotie Macroinvertebrates. J. N. Am. Benthol. Soc. 12: 385-393.
19. Lancaster, J., Hildrew, A.G. (1993b): Characterizing instream. flow refugia. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 50: 1663-1675.
20. McCarthy, M.A., Parris, K.M. (2004): Clarifying the effect of toe clipping on frogs with Bayesian statistics. J. Applied Ecol. 41:780-786.
21. Montori, A. (1988): Estudio sobre la biología y ecología del tritón pirenaico Euproctus asper (Dugès, 1852) en La Cerdanya. Doctoral Thesis, Universität de Barcelona.
22. Montori, A. (1990): Skeletochronological results in the pyrenean newt Euproctus asper (Dugès, 1852) from one prepyrenean population. Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool. Paris 13: 209-211.
23. Montori, A. (199.1): Alimentación de los adultos de Euproctus asper (Dugès, 1852) en la montaña media del prepirineo catalán (España). Rev. Esp. Herp. 5: 23-36.
24. Montori, A. (1997): Trophic segregation between the Pyrenean Newt (Eupmctus asper) and the Brown Trout (Salmo tmttafario). In: Herpetologia Bonnensis, p. 273-278. Böhme, W., Bischoff, W., Ziegler, T., Eds, Societas Europea Herpetológica.
25. Montori, A., Herrero, P. (2004): Caudata. In: Amphibia, Lissamphibia, Fauna Ibérica, Vol. 24, p. 43-275. Ramos, M.A., Ed., Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid.
26. Montori, A., Llórente, G.A., Santos, X., Carretero, M.A. (2002): Eupmctus asper. In: Atlas y Libro Rojo de los Anfibios y Reptiles de España, p. 48-50. Pleguezuelos, J.M., Márquez, R., Lizana, M., Eds, Dirección General de Conservación de la Naturaleza- Asociación Herpetológica Española, Madrid.
27. Montori, A., Tierno de Figueroa, J.M., Santos, X. (2006): The diet of the Brown Trout Salmo trutta (L.) during the reproductive period: size-related and sexual effects. Int. Rev. of Hydrobiol. 91: 438-450.
28. Pechmann, J.H.K., Scott, D.E., Semlitsch, R.D., Caldwell, J.P., Vitt, L.J., Gibbons, J.W (1991): Declining amphibian populations: The problem of separating human impacts from natural fluctuations. Science 253: 892-895.
29. Petranka, J.W., Sih, A. (1986): Environmental instability, competition and density dependent growth, and survivorship of a stream-dwelling salamander. Ecology 67: 729-736.
30. Poschadel, J.R., Rudolph, A., Warbeck, A., Plath, M. (2005): Influence of visual and chemical cues on the aggregation behavior of Pyrenean mountain newts. Eupmctus asper (Urodela, Salamandridae). Subterran. Biol. 3: 63-68.
31. Poschadel, J.R., Rudolph, A., Plath, M. (2007): Non-visual mate choice in the Pyrenean mountain newt (Eupmctus asper): females prefer small males. Acta Ethologica 10: 35-40.
32. Resh, V.H., Brown, A.V., Covich, A.P., Gurtz, M.E., Li, H.W., Minshall, G.W., Reice, S.R., Sheldon, A.L., Wallace, J.B., Wissmann, R.C. (1988): The role of disturbance in stream, ecology. J. N. Am. Benthol. Soc. 7: 433-455.
33. Schaub, M., Giménez, O., Schmidt, B.R., Pradel, R. (2004): Estimating survival and temporary emigration, in the multistate capture-recapture framework. Ecology 85: 2107-2113.
34. Schlaepfer, M.A. (1998): Use of a fluorescent powder marking technique on small terrestrial anurans. Herpetol. Rev. 29: 25-26.
35. Stoneburner, D.L. (1978): Salamander drift: observations on the two-lined salamander (Eurycea bislineata). Freshw. Biol. 8: 291-293.
36. Thiesmeier, B. (1992): Comparative experiments on larval drift of five European urodelan species in a water channel-preliminary results. In: Proc. 6th Ord. Gen Meet SEHBudapest, p. 439-442. Korsos, Z., Kiss, I., Eds, Societas Europea Herpetologica.
37. Thiesmeier, B., Schuhmacher, H. (1990): Causes of larval drift of the fire salamander Salamandm salamandm terrestris, and its effects on population dynamics. Oecologia 82: 259-263.
38. Waters, T.F. (1972): The drift of stream insects. Ann. Rev. Entomol. 17: 253-272.