The drums of war are beating louder: Media coverage of brown bears in Romania [PDF]
Nature Conservation, 2022 The increasing demand for resources to meet the needs of our society has transformed the environment and increased the likelihood of human-wildlife interactions.
Andra Claudia Neagu +2 more
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Documenting six decades of change in herpetofauna occurrence patterns in a mountain ecosystem [PDF]
Scientific ReportsHigh-quality distribution data are essential for conservation planning but, are often scarce for mountain ecosystems. We integrated six decades of published and unpublished distribution records of herpetofauna from a mountain national park in Romania ...
Dan Cogălniceanu +7 more
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Age, size and body condition do not equally reflect population response to habitat change in the common spadefoot toad Pelobates fuscus [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Urbanization impacts biodiversity both directly through physical expansion over land, and indirectly due to land use conversion and human behaviors associated with urban areas.
Dan Cogălniceanu +5 more
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Unravelling the origin of the common wall lizards (Podarcis muralis) in south-eastern Europe using mitochondrial evidence [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2022 The origin of the common wall lizards (Podarcis muralis) populations in south-eastern Europe (namely in Bulgaria and Romania), representing the north-eastern range border of this species, was addressed using mitochondrial DNA.
Oleksandra Oskyrko +7 more
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Body coloration and mechanisms of colour production in Archelosauria: the case of deirocheline turtles [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Animal body coloration is a complex trait resulting from the interplay of multiple mechanisms. While many studies address the functions of animal coloration, the mechanisms of colour production still remain unknown in most taxa.
Jindřich Brejcha +7 more
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Free-Living Aquatic Turtles as Sentinels of Salmonella spp. for Water Bodies
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021 Reptile-associated human salmonellosis cases have increased recently in the United States. It is not uncommon to find healthy chelonians shedding Salmonella enterica. The rate and frequency of bacterial shedding are not fully understood, and most studies
Sonia M. Hernandez +19 more
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South Sustainability, 2023 El presente estudio registró a seis especies de peces de arrecife alimentándose de organismos epibiontes localizados en el caparazón y extremidades en individuos de la tortuga verde (Chelonia mydas) a través del buceo con SCUBA frente a la costa norte ...
Diego Cuba +2 more
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Hearing in the Juvenile Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas): A Comparison of Underwater and Aerial Hearing Using Auditory Evoked Potentials [PDF]
, 2016 Sea turtles spend much of their life in aquatic environments, but critical portions of their life cycle, such as nesting and hatching, occur in terrestrial environments, suggesting that it may be important for them to detect sounds in both air and water.
Eckert, Scott A. +4 more
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Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2020 The Elongated Tortoise, Indotestudo elongata (Family Testudinidae) is one of the five land tortoises having distribution in India. For the first time, we report a new distributional record for this species from Valmiki Tiger Reserve region of Bihar.
Arif +6 more
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