Human activities alter biogeographical patterns of reptiles on Mediterranean islands

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 214-222

  Ficetola, Gentile Francesco ^a   Padoa schioppa, Emilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alien species; Anthropocene; Elevation; Human influence; Island area; isolation; Macaronesia; Mediterranean Sea; Species richness; Topography

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOTIC FACTOR; COLONIZATION; DATA SET; EXTINCTION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; ISOLATION EFFECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPTILE; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; MACARONESIA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

REPTILIA;

EID: 60149113033     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2008.00433.x     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Anonymous (2003) Etude des plans de gestion des sites MEDWETCOAST -site de Zembra. Coastal Protection and Planning Agency, Ministry of Environment, Republic of Tunisia.
2. Blackburn, T.M., Cassey, P., Duncan, R.P., Evans, K.L. & Gaston, K.J. (2004) Avian extinction and mammalian introductions on oceanic islands. Science, 305, 1955-1958.
3. Blackburn, T.M., Cassey, P. & Lockwood, J.L. (2008) The island biogeography of exotic bird species. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 17, 246-251.
4. Blondel, J. & Aronson, J. (1999) Biology and wildlife of the Mediterranean region. Oxford University Press, New York.
5. Bollen, K.A. & Long, J.S. (1993) Testing structural equation models. Sage, Newbury Park, CA.
6. Bowerman, B.L. & O'Connell, R.T. (1990) Linear statistical models. PWS-Kent, Boston.
7. Bryman, A. & Cramer, D. (1990) Quantitative data analysis for social scientists. Routledge, London.
8. Buckley, L.B. & Jetz, W. (2007) Insularity and the determinants of lizard population density. Ecology Letters, 10, 481-489.
9. Burnham, K.P. & Anderson, D.R. (2002) Model selection and multimodel inference: A practical information-theoretic approach. Springer Verlag, New York.
10. Capula, M., Luiselli, L., Bologna, M.A. & Ceccarelli, A. (2002) The decline of the Aeolian wall lizard, Podarcis raffonei: Causes and conservation proposals. Oryx, 36, 66-72.
11. Castanet, J. & Guyetant, R. (1989) Atlas de répartition des amphibiens et reptiles de France. SociétéHerpétologique de France, Paris.
12. Chown, S.L., Gremmen, N.J.M. & Gaston, K.J. (1998) Ecological biogeography of southern ocean islands: Species-area relationships, human impacts, and conservation. The American Naturalist, 152, 562-575.
13. Cox, N., Chanson, J.S. & Stuart, S.N. (2006) The status and distribution of reptiles and amphibians of the Mediterranean basin. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
14. Crutzen, P.J. (2002) Geology of mankind. Nature, 415, 23.
15. Daget, P. (1977) Le bioclimat méditerranéen: caractères généraux, modes de caractérisation. Vegetatio, 34, 1-20.
16. Delaguerre, M. & Cheylan, M. (1992) Atlas de répartition des batraciens et reptiles de Corse. Parc Naturel Régional de Corse-Ecole Pratique de Hautes Etudes, Pampelune.
17. Diamond, J.M. (1969) Avifaunal equilibria and species turnover rates on the Channel Islands of California. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 64, 57-63.
18. Dormann, C.F. (2007) Effects of incorporating spatial autocorrelation into the analysis of species distribution data. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 16, 129-138.
19. Dormann, C.F., McPherson, J.M., Araújo, M.B., Bivand, R., Bolliger, J., Carl, G., Davies, R.G., Hirzel, A., Jetz, W., Kissling, W.D., Kühn, I., Ohlemüller, R., Peres-Neto, P.R., Reineking, B., Schröder, B., Schurr, F.M. & Wilson, R. (2007) Methods to account for spatial autocorrelation in the analysis of species distributional data: A review. Ecography, 30, 609-628.
20. Foufopoulos, J. & Ives, A.R. (1999) Reptile extinctions on land-bridge islands: Life-history attributes and vulnerability to extinction. The American Naturalist, 153, 1-25.
21. Griffith, D.A. & Peres-Neto, P.R. (2006) Spatial modelling in ecology: The flexibility of eigenfunction spatial analyses. Ecology, 87, 2603-2613.
22. IUCN (2007) 2007 IUCN red list of threatened species. http://www.iucnredlist.org/ (accessed 15 February 2008).
23. Kadmon, R. & Allouche, O. (2007) Integrating the effects of area, isolation, and habitat heterogeneity on species diversity: A unification of island biogeography and niche theory. The American Naturalist, 170, 443-454.
24. Kalmar, A. & Currie, D.J. (2006) A global model for island biogeography. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 15, 72-81.
25. Kerr, J.T., Kharouba, H.M. & Currie, D.J. (2007) The macroecological contribution to global change solutions. Science, 316, 1581-1584.
26. Kreft, H., Jetz, W., Mutke, J., Kier, G. & Barthlott, W. (2008) Global diversity of island floras from a macroecological perspective. Ecology Letters, 11, 116-127.
27. Lanza, B. & Poggesi, M. (1986) Storia naturale delle isole satelliti della Corsica. Istituto Geografico Militare, Firenze.
28. Lever, C. (2003) Naturalized amphibians and reptiles of the world. Oxford University Press, New York.
29. Lomolino, M.V. (2000) Ecology's most general, yet protean pattern: The species-area relationship. Journal of Biogeography, 27, 17-26.
30. Lomolino, M.V. (2002) '...there are areas too small, and areas too large, to show clear diversity patterns...' R.H. MacArthur (1972: 191). Journal of Biogeography, 29, 555-557.
31. MacArthur, R.H. & Wilson, E.O. (1967) The theory of island biogeography. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
32. Malkmus, R. (2004) The amphibians and reptiles of Portugal, Madeira and the Azores archipelago. Koeltz Scientific Books, Koenigstein.
33. Muggeo, V.M.R. (2003) Estimating regression models with unknown break-points. Statistics in Medicine, 22, 3055-3071.
34. Nogués-Bravo, D., Araújo, M.B., Romdal, T. & Rahbek, C. (2008) Scale effects and human impact on the elevational species richness gradients. Nature, 453, 216-219.
35. Pérez-Mellado, V., Hernández-Estévez, J.A., García-Díez, T., Terrassa, B., Ramón, M.M., Castro, J., Picornell, A., Martín-Vallejo, J. & Brown, R. (2008) Population density in Podarcis lilfordi (Squamata, Lacertidae), a lizard species endemic to small islets in the Balearic Islands (Spain). Amphibia-Reptilia, 29, 49-60.
36. Pleguezuelos, J.M., Márquez, R. & Lizana, M. (2002) Atlas y libro rojo de los Anfibios y Reptiles de España. Dirección General de Conservación de la Naturaleza-Asociación Herpetologica Española, Madrid.
37. R Development Core Team (2007) R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna (http://www.r-project.org/).
38. Rangel, T.F.L.V.B., Diniz-Filho, J.A.F. & Bini, L.M. (2006) Towards an integrated computational tool for spatial analysis in macroecology and biogeography. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 15, 321-327.
39. Sala, O.E., Chapin, F.S., Armesto, J.J., Berlow, E., Bloomfield, J., Dirzo, R., Huber-Sanwald, E., Huenneke, L.F., Jackson, R.B., Kinzig, A., Leemans, R., Lodge, D.M., Mooney, H.A., Oesterheld, M., Poff, N.L., Sykes, M.T., Walker, B.H., Walker, M. & Wall, D.H. (2000) Biodiversity - global biodiversity scenarios for the year 2100. Science, 287, 1770-1774.
40. Sax, D.F., Gaines, S.D. & Brown, J.H. (2002) Species invasions exceed extinctions on islands worldwide: A comparative study of plants and birds. The American Naturalist, 160, 766-783.
41. Sindaco, R., Doria, G., Razzetti, E. & Bernini, F. (2006) Atlas of Italian amphibians and reptiles. Polistampa, Firenze.
42. Steadman, D.W. (1993) Biogeography of Tongan birds before and after human impact. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 90, 818-822.
43. Stohlgren, T.J., Barnett, D.T., Flather, C., Fuller, P., Peterjohn, B., Kartesz, J.T. & Master, L.L. (2006) Species richness and pattern of invasion in plants, birds, and fishes in the United States. Biological Invasions, 8, 427-447.
44. Sultana, J. & Falzon, V. (2002) Wildlife of the Maltese islands. BirdLife Malta, Malta.
45. Toms, J.D. & Lesperance, M.L. (2003) Piecewise regression: A tool for identifying ecological thresholds. Ecology, 84, 2034-2041.
46. Whittaker, R.J. (1995) Disturbed island ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 10, 421-425.
47. Whittaker, R.J. & Fernández-Palacios, J.M. (2007) Island biogeography. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
48. Williamson, M., Gaston, K.J. & Lonsdale, W.M. (2001) The species-area relationship does not have an asymptote! Journal of Biogeography, 28, 827-830.
49. Wilson, E.O. (2002) The future of life. Little Brown, London.
50. Wright, D.H. (1983) Species-energy theory: An extension of species-area theory. Oikos, 41, 496-506.