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A Preliminary Study on the Amphibian Community Structure in South Sudan (East Africa)

scientific article published on 3 June 2019

A new locality of presence for the world’s rarest turtle (Rafetus swinhoei) gives new hope for its survival

scientific article published in June 2020

A short review of the roles of climate and man in mammal extinctions during the Anthropocene

ANALYSIS OF ACTIVITY PATTERNS AND HABITAT USE OF RADIOTRACKED AFRICAN BURROWING PYTHONS, CALABARIA REINHARDTII ⬇️

scientific article

ARBOREAL HABITS AND VIPER BIOLOGY IN THE AFRICANRAINFOREST: THE ECOLOGY OF ATHERIS SQUAMIGER ⬇️

scientific article

Amphibians recorded in forest swamp areas of the River Niger Delta (southeastern Nigeria), and the effects of habitat alteration from oil industry development on species richness and diversity

scientific article published on 24 June 2004

An investigation into the composition, complexity and functioning of snake communities in the mangroves of south-eastern Nigeria

scientific article (publication date: September 2002)

Analysis of a herpetofaunal community from an altered marshy area in Sicily; with special remarks on habitat use (niche breadth and overlap), relative abundance of lizards and snakes, and the correlation between predator abundance and tail loss in…

scholarly article in Contributions to Zoology, vol. 74 no. 1-2, 2005

Analysis of current and future habitat distribution models for the African Spurred Tortoise, Centrochelys sulcata

scientific article published in 2022

Are endemic snakes with a narrow distribution more specialist than their wide-ranging counterparts? Evidence from the prey composition and morphometric correlates of the diet in Zamenis lineatus, a rat snake endemic to southern Italy

scientific article published in 2006

Aspects of the ecology of the tortoiseKinixys nogueyi(Lataste, 1886) in Togo and Nigeria (West Africa)

scientific article published on 12 December 2014

Assessing environmental requirements effects on forest fragmentation sensitivity in two arboreal rodents

Assessment of the Vulnerable Status of Kinixys homeana (Testudines: Testudinidae) for the IUCN Red List

scientific article published in 2006

Attacks by Nile Crocodiles (<i>Crocodylus niloticus</i>) on Humans and Livestock in the Sudd Wetlands, South Sudan

scientific article published in 2022

Attributes of basking sites of the European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis) in central Italy

scientific article published in 2015

A 28-years-long monitoring study suggests heavy decline and habitat shifts in three populations of a Mediterranean tortoise species

scientific article published on 27 August 2020

Cages Mitigate Predation on Eggs of Threatened Shorebirds: A Manipulative-Control Study

scientific article published on 18 July 2022

Can female adders multiply?

scientific article published in Nature

Changes in the Herpetofauna of a Fresh Water River in Southern Nigeria, after 20 Years of Development ⬇️

Checklist of the lizards of Togo (West Africa), with comments on systematics, distribution, ecology, and conservation

scientific article published in 2015

Chippaux, J.-Ph. (2006): Snake Venoms and Envenomations

scientific article published in 2007

Climate change threatens the survival of highly endangered Sardinian populations of the snake Hemorrhois hippocrepis

scientific article published in 2011

Climate-induced reaction norms for life-history traits in pythons

scientific article

Co-occurrence analyses show that non-random community structure is disrupted by fire in two groups of soil arthropods (Isopoda Oniscidea and Collembola)

scientific article published in 2010

Co-occurrence patterns in independently evolved groups of Mediterranean insectivorous vertebrates (lizards and shrews)

scientific article published in 2015

Community Ecology of Scincid Lizards in a Swamp Rainforest of South-Eastern Nigeria ⬇️

Community Ecology, Macro-Ecological Patterns, and Conservation of Tropical Beetles: An Introduction

scientific article published in 2021

Comparative Diets of Three Populations of an Aquatic Snake (Natrix Tessellata, Colubridae) from Mediterranean Streams with Different Hydric Regimes

scientific article published in May 2007

Comparative Food Habits and Body Size of Five Populations of Elaphe quatuorlineata: the Effects of Habitat Variation, and the Consequences of Intersexual Body Size Dimorphism on Diet Divergence

Comparative ecology in sympatric<i>Podarcis muralis</i>and<i>P. sicula</i>(Reptilia: Lacertidae) from the historical centre of Rome: What about competition and niche segregation in an urban habitat?

scientific article published in 1993

Composition and structure of a snake assemblage in an altered tropical forest-plantation mosaic in Bangladesh

scientific article published in 2013

Conflict between insect conservation and public safety: the case study of a saproxylic beetle (Osmoderma eremita) in urban parks

article by Giuseppe Maria Carpaneto et al published 4 March 2010 in Journal of Insect Conservation

Conservation Implications of Rapid Shifts in the Trade of Wild African and Asian Pythons

article

Contrasted influences of moon phases on the reproduction and movement patterns of four amphibian species inhabiting different habitats in central Italy

article

Correlates of melanism in a population of adders (Vipera berus) from the Swiss Alps and comparisons with other alpine populations

Correlation between annual activity patterns of venomous snakes and rural people in the Niger Delta, southern Nigeria

scientific article published on 27 February 2013

Corrigendum to: “The Italian batrachofauna and its conservation status: a statistical assessment” [Biological Conservation 96 (2000) 197–208]

article

Country-based patterns of total species richness, endemicity, and threatened species richness in African rodents and insectivores

scientific article (publication date: 24 February 2011)

Detection of interannual population trends in seven herbivores from a West African savannah: a comparison between dung counts and direct counts of individuals

scientific article published in 2017

Diet of a guild of geckos in a fragmented, human‐altered African rainforest

scholarly article by Lorenzo Rugiero et al published June 2007 in African Journal of Herpetology

Diet of sympatric Gaboon Vipers (Bitis gabonica) and Nose‐horned Vipers (Bitis nasicornis) in southern Nigeria

article by Luca Luiselli & Godfrey C. Akani published December 2003 in African Journal of Herpetology

Diet of the semi‐aquatic snake,Afronatrix anoscopus(Colubridae) in southern Nigeria

Dietary relationships among coexisting anuran amphibians: a worldwide quantitative review ⬇️

scientific article published on 09 December 2011

Disentangling patch and landscape constraints of nested assemblages

scientific article published in 2014

Distance-Generated Field Density Estimates for the Threatened Sahel Tortoise Centrochelys sulcata

scientific article published on 8 November 2017

Distribution, natural history and morphometrics of the critically endangered Coluber hippocrepis populations of Sardinia: a review, with additional data and conservation implications

Diverse aging rates in ectothermic tetrapods provide insights for the evolution of aging and longevity ⬇️

journal article from 'Science' published in 2022

Diversity and conservation status of ungulates in the Mono Transboundary Biosphere Reserve, Togo (West Africa)

scientific article published on 3 July 2018

Diversity patterns and community characteristics of the fish assemblage of a West African lagoon

scientific article published in 2018

Do demographic aspects of neighbouring lizard populations differ? A case study with the common wall lizard, Podarcis muralis

scientific article published in 2008

Do lizard communities partition the trophic niche? A worldwide meta-analysis using null models

scientific article published on 26 February 2008

Does interspecific competition with a stronger competitor explain the rarity of an endangered snake on a Mediterranean island?

article

Ecological Distribution of the Geckos Tarentola mauritanica and Hemidactylus turcicus in the Urban Area of Rome in Relation to Age of Buildings and Condition of the Walls

scientific article published in 1999

Ecological characteristics of a recently described, critically endangered gecko species, endemic to Central Highland, Vietnam ⬇️

article by Vinh Quang Luu et al published 28 October 2020 in Tropical Zoology

Ecological correlates of threatened endemic island rodents

scholarly article published in 2012

Ecological observations on the Sardinian grass snake, Natrix natrix cetti

Ecological studies on a population of the water snake Grayia smythii in a rainforest swamp of the Niger Delta, Nigeria

scholarly article in Contributions to Zoology, vol. 70 no. 3, 2001

Effects of rainfall and geography on the comparative diets of eight rainbow lizard populations across Togo, Benin and Nigeria (West Africa)

scientific article published in 2013

Exploring co-extinction correlates: the effects of habitat, biogeography and anthropogenic factors on ground squirrels–dung beetles associations

scientific article

Factors associated with occurrence, potential distribution and conservation of Polyphylla ragusae, an endemic Scarabaeidae (Melolonthinae) from Sicily

scientific article published in 2022

Farming Characteristics and the Ecology of Palea steindachneri (Trionychidae) in Vietnam ⬇️

scientific article published on 25 April 2020

Feeding Strategies of Co-occurring Newt Species across Different Conditions of Syntopy: A Test of the “Within-Population Niche Variation” Hypothesis

scientific article published on 07 May 2020

Flight initiation distance in relation to substratum type, sex, reproductive status and tail condition in two lacertids with contrasting habits

scientific article published in 2007

Food habits and daily activity patterns of the North African ocellated lizardTimon paterfrom northeastern Algeria

scientific article published on 28 September 2006

Food habits of Python sebae in suburban and natural habitats

scientific article published on 11 March 2003

Food habits of the snake Coluber viridijlavus in relation to prey availability

Food habits ofPython sebaein suburban and natural habitats

scientific article published in 2001

Food niche overlap between sympatric potential competitors increases with habitat alteration at different trophic levels in rain-forest reptiles (omnivorous tortoises and carnivorous vipers)

scientific article published on 20 October 2006

Foraging mode, relative prey size and diet breadth: A phylogenetically explicit analysis of snake feeding ecology

scientific article published on 22 March 2019

Frequency of tail autotomy in the African Olive Grass Snake,Psammophis ‘phillipsii’from three habitats in southern Nigeria

article published in 2002

Freshwater fishes of Lower Guinean forest streams: Aquaculture heavily impacts the structure and diversity of communities

scientific article published in 2019

From continental priorities to local conservation: a multi-level analysis for African tortoises

scientific article

From diurnal to nocturnal activity: a case study of night-light niche expansion in <i>Agama agama</i> lizards

scientific article published on 24 February 2021

Geographic patterns of predator niche breadth and prey species richness

scholarly article by Giuliano Milana et al published 7 November 2015 in Ecological Research

Growth patterns in free-ranging bank voles, Myodes glareolus (Schreber 1780) from a mountainous area in central Italy

scholarly article published in 2011

Habitat choice by melanistic and cryptically coloured morphs of the adder, Vípera berus

scientific article published in January 1994

Habitat structure and disturbance affect small mammal populations in Mediterranean forests

scientific article published on 06 December 2016

High philopatry can produce strong sexual competition in male adders, Vipera berus

Homalopsid Snakes: Evolution in the Mud

scientific article published in 2008

Inter-seasonal and inter-habitat variations in the diet of the African fire skink, Lygosoma fernandi, from southern Nigeria

scientific article published in 2014

Interactions between anthropogenic litter and birds: A global review with a 'black-list' of species

scientific article published on 21 November 2018

Introduced fish assemblages in a mosaic of urban ponds: evidence for species-area and diversity-dominance patterns

scientific article published on 24 December 2020

Is sexual size dimorphism in relative head size correlated with intersexual dietary divergence in West African forest cobras, Naja melanoleuca?

scholarly article in Contributions to Zoology, vol. 71 no. 4, 2002

Known from a handful of specimens: analyzing the worldwide patterns of occurrence and conservation of rodents and shrews recorded only from the type locality ⬇️

scientific article published in 2016

Large elapids and arboreality: the ecology of Jameson’s green mamba (Dendroaspis jamesoni) in an Afrotropical forested region

scholarly article in Contributions to Zoology, vol. 69 no. 3, 2000

Life history and age-dependent mortality processes in tropical reptiles ⬇️

scientific article published on 3 August 2019

Line-transect data may not produce reliable estimates of interannual sex-ratio and age structure variation in West African savannah ungulates ⬇️

scientific article published on 27 March 2020

Living in Patchy Habitats: Substrate Selection by Basking Sympatric Lizards in Contrasted Anthropogenic Habitats in Western France

scientific article published in 2022

Living with aliens: Suboptimal ecological condition in semiaquatic snakes inhabiting a hot spot of allodiversity

scientific article published on 18 September 2019

Lizard community structure and spatial resource use along a forest-savannah-urban habitat gradient in the Dahomey Gap (West Africa)

scientific article published on 07 February 2022

Lizards and the city: A community study of Lacertidae and Gekkonidae from an archaeological park in Rome

scientific article published in November 2019

Local distribution, habitat use, and diet of two supposed 'species' of the Psammophis 'phillipsi' complex (Serpentes: Colubridae), sympatric in southern Nigeria

scientific article published in 2004

Long-term population dynamics in a Mediterranean aquatic snake

scientific article published in 2011

Macro-ecological patterns of a prey–predator system: rodents and snakes in West and Central Africa

scientific article published on 2 January 2014

Mass-related differences in metabolic rate and fasting endurance explain divergence in seasonal activity of Mediterranean lizards

scientific article published in 2022

Modelling correlates of microhabitat use of two sympatric lizards: a model selection approach

scientific article published in 2009

Modern analyses on an historical data set: skull morphology of Italian red squirrel populations

scientific article

Negative density dependence of sympatric Hinge-back Tortoises (Kinixys erosa and K. homeana) in West Africa ⬇️

scientific article published in 2008

Negative effect of the wild boar (Sus scrofa) on the population size of the wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) in forest habitats of Sardinia

scientific article published on 01 September 2015

Non-marine mammals of Togo (West Africa): an annotated checklist ⬇️

scientific article published in June 2016

Non-native invasive species as paradoxical ecosystem services in urban conservation education

scientific article published on 14 March 2018

Non-random structure of a guild of geckos in a fragmented, human-altered, African rainforest

scholarly article by Luca Luiselli et al published 9 November 2006 in Ecological Research

Null model analysis of lizard communities in five urban parks of Rome

scientific article published in 2007

Null models, co-occurrence patterns, and ecological modelling of a Mediterranean community of snakes

scientific article published in 2006

Observations on habitat, reproduction and feeding of Boiga blandingi (Colubridae) in south-eastern Nigeria

article by Godfrey C. Akani et al published 1998 in Amphibia-Reptilia

On threats analysis approach applied to a Mediterranean remnant wetland: Is the assessment of human-induced threats related to different level of expertise of respondents?

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Perceptions and attitudes towards climate change in fishing communities of the Sudd Wetlands, South Sudan

scientific article published in 2022

Phylogeography of the Vipera ursinii complex (Viperidae): mitochondrial markers reveal an east-west disjunction in the Palaearctic region

Population dynamics of medium and large mammals in a West African gallery forest area and the potential effects of poaching ⬇️

scientific article

Predicting elusiveness: potential distribution model of the Southern smooth snake, Coronella girondica, in Italy ⬇️

scientific article published in July 2009

Preface

Preliminary surveys of the terrestrial vertebrate fauna (mammals, reptiles, and amphibians) of the Edumanon Forest Reserve, Nigeria

scientific article published on 3 July 2014

Quantifying threats in a Mediterranean wetland: are there any changes in their evaluation during a training course?

Recent distribution data and conservation status of the leopard (Panthera pardus) in the Niger Delta (Nigeria)

scientific article published in October 2016

Reproductive strategies of sympatric Bitis gabonica and Bitis nasicornis (Viperidae) in the Niger Delta (Port Harcourt, Nigeria): preliminary data

article by Francesco M. Angelici et al published 1998 in Amphibia-Reptilia

Salad with Clams: Prey Choice of an Intentionally Carnivorous Turtle

scientific article published on 25 November 2021

Salvaguardia dell'erpetofauna nel territorio di Alpe-Adria

scientific article published in 2008

Seasonal Changes in the Diet of Testudo hermanni hermanni in Central Italy

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Seasonal activity patterns and diet divergence of three sympatric Afrotropical tortoise species (genus Kinixys)

scientific article published in 2003

Seasonal and habitat-related changes in bird assemblage structure: applying a diversity/dominance approach to Mediterranean forests and wetlands

scientific article published on 16 April 2015

Seasonal variation in habitat use in sympatric Afrotropical semi-aquatic snakes, Grayia smythii and Afronatrix anoscopus (Colubridae)

scientific article published in 2005

Secondary Rain Forests are not Havens for Reptile Species in Tropical Mexico

Sexual size dimorphism and natural history traits are correlated with intersexual dietary divergence in royal pythons (python regius)from the rainforests of southeastern Nigeria

scientific article published in 1998

Snakes of Arabia

scientific article published in 2008

Spatial Niche Expansion at Multiple Habitat Scales of a Tropical Freshwater Turtle in the Absence of a Potential Competitor

scientific article published on 01 February 2021

Spatial Turnover and Knowledge Gaps for African Chelonians Mirror those of African Small Mammals: Conservation Implications

scientific article

Spatial turnover and knowledge gap of African small mammals: using country checklists as a conservation tool

scientific article

Spatio-temporal Foraging Dynamics in Two Coexisting Harvester Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

scholarly article by Luigi Solida et al published 2 February 2014 in Journal of Insect Behavior

Species richness and distribution of Neotropical rodents, with conservation implications

article

Stomach flushing affects survival/emigration in wild lizards: a study case with rainbow lizards (Agama agama) in Nigeria

article by Godfrey Akani et al published 2011 in Amphibia-Reptilia

Surveying an endangered saproxylic beetle, Osmoderma eremita, in Mediterranean woodlands: a comparison between different capture methods

Surveys of mammal communities in a system of five forest reserves suggest an ongoing biotic homogenization process for the Niger Delta (Nigeria)

scientific article published on 11 June 2015

Survival probability of a population of Madagascar spider tortoises (Pyxis arachnoides)

Temporal and spatial segregation in an assemblage of Afrotropical subterranean snakes

scientific article published in 2014

The Italian batrachofauna and its conservation status: a statistical assessment

article

The Natural History and Management of the Gopher Tortoise

scientific article published in 2008

The Snakes of Europe

scientific article published in 2008

The conservation status of the world’s reptiles

article

The decline of the Aeolian wall lizard, Podarcis raffonei: causes and conservation proposals

scientific article published in January 2002

The desire for variety: Italian wall lizard (Podarcis siculus) populations introduced to the United States via the pet trade are derived from multiple native-range sources

article

The diet of juvenile adders, Vipera berus, in an alpine habitat

The ghost of a recent invasion in the reduced feeding rates of spitting cobras during the dry season in a rainforest region of tropical Africa?

article

The least speciose amongst the most speciose - Natural history correlates of mono- and bispecific genera of Rodentia and Soricomorpha.

scientific article published on 11 May 2017

The turtle is in the details: microhabitat choice by Testudo hermanni is based on microscale plant distribution

article

Thermal ecology and reproductive cyclicity of the snake Natrix tessellata in south-eastern Austria and central Italy: a comparative study

scholarly article by Petra Zimmermann & Luca Luiselli published 1997 in Amphibia-Reptilia

Trade in live reptiles, its impact on wild populations, and the role of the European market ⬇️

Turtles and Tortoises Are in Trouble

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Understanding the influence of non-wealth factors in determining bushmeat consumption: Results from four West African countries

scientific article published in 2019

Using faecal samples in lizard dietary studies

What is driving the community structure of insects in arid ecosystems of Southern Africa? An example with blister beetles (Coleoptera: Meloidae)

scientific article published on 2 January 2016

When the method for mapping species matters: defining priority areas for conservation of African freshwater turtles

scientific article published in 2011

Who does bask longer? A comparison between elapid and viperid snakes in the field and in experimental conditions

scientific article published in November 2018

Why do males and females of Python regius differ in ectoparasite load?

scientific article published in 2006

Wild meat hunting and use by sedentarised Baka Pygmies in southeastern Cameroon

scientific article published on 17 September 2020

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