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Conservation of a Flagship Species: Health Assessment of the Pink Land Iguana, Conolophus Marthae

PLoS ONE, 2022
The pink land iguana, Conolophus marthae, is one of four species of iguanas (three terrestrial and one marine) in the Galápagos Islands, and the only one listed as critically endangered by the IUCN.
Hans D Westermeyer, Giuliano Colosimo, Gabriele Gentile   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

First Morphological Description of the Galápagos Pink Iguana (Conolophus Marthae) Hatchling: A Critical Step for Its Conservation [PDF]

PeerJ
The Galapagos pink iguana (Conolophus marthae) is endemic to Wolf Volcano on Isabela Island in the Galapagos archipelago. Due to its remote and hard-to-access habitat, the recently discovered and critically small wild population of the pink iguana has ...
Diego Páez-Rosas, Gregory A Lewbart, Walter Chimborazo   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

The Design of an Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Node for Tracking Pink Iguanas

Sensors, 2019
The design of wireless sensor nodes for animal tracking is a multidisciplinary activity that presents several research challenges both from a technical and a biological point of view.
Alexandro Catini, Corrado Di Natale, Gabriele Gentile   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

Assessment and validation of miniaturized technology for the remote tracking of critically endangered Galápagos pink land iguana (Conolophus marthae)

Animal Biotelemetry, 2020
Background Gathering ecological data for species of conservation concern inhabiting remote regions can be daunting and, sometimes, logistically infeasible.
Pierpaolo Loreti, Lorenzo Bracciale, Giuliano Colosimo, Carlos Vera, Glenn P. Gerber, Massimiliano De Luca, Gabriele Gentile   +6 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Painted black: Iguana melanoderma (Reptilia, Squamata, Iguanidae) a new melanistic endemic species from Saba and Montserrat islands (Lesser Antilles) [PDF]

ZooKeys, 2020
The Lesser Antilles, in the Eastern Caribbean, is inhabited by three Iguana species: the Lesser Antillean iguana Iguana delicatissima, which is endemic to the northernmost islands of the Lesser Antilles, the introduced common iguana from South America ...
Michel Breuil, David Schikorski, Barbara Vuillaume, Ulrike Krauss, Matthew N. Morton, Elizabeth Corry, Nicolas Bech, Mišel Jelić, Frédéric Grandjean   +8 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Galápagos Pink Land Iguana (Conolophus Marthae): Conservation and Management Plan 2022–2027

, 2023
The Galápagos pink land iguana (Conolophus marthae) is categorised as Critically Endangered. The entire distribution of pink iguanas is within the protected area of the Galápagos National Park (GNP), which is managed by the Galápagos National Park ...
Paula A Castaño, Gabriele Gentile, Washington Tapia   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Locating Nesting Sites for Critically Endangered Galápagos Pink Land Iguanas (Conolophus marthae)

Animals
Invasive alien species control is recognized worldwide as a priority action to preserve global biodiversity. However, a lack of general life history knowledge for threatened species can impede the effectiveness of conservation actions.
Marco Gargano, Giuliano Colosimo, Lorenzo Garizio, Paolo Gratton, Gregory A. Lewbart, Glenn P. Gerber, Pierpaolo Loreti, Alexandro Catini, Lorenzo Bracciale, Massimiliano De Luca, Francesca Mastrangeli, Christian Sevilla, Gabriele Gentile   +12 more
doaj   +2 more sources

A Spatially Explicit Distribution Model to Support Conservation Strategies for Isolated Small‐Ranged Species: A Case Study From Galápagos

Diversity and Distributions, Volume 32, Issue 6, June 2026.
This study aimed to test the effectiveness of a hierarchical, spatially explicit, Bayesian modelling framework combining Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation (INLA) with Stochastic Partial Differential Equation (SPDE) as an alternative to traditional ...
Marco Gargano, S. Marta, Lorenzo Garizio, Paolo Gratton, G. Colosimo, Glenn P. Gerber, G. Lewbart, Christian Sevilla, Gabriele Gentile   +8 more
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Novel Herpesvirus in the Critically Endangered Galapagos Pink Land Iguana

Acta Tropica
Virus surveillance in wildlife is important to understanding ecosystem health, taxonomy, and evolution. Nevertheless, viruses in reptiles, and specifically in squamates, continue to be understudied.
Ainoa Nieto-Claudin, Giuliano Colosimo, Gabriele Gentile   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

First Evidence of Recruitment in Critically Endangered Galápagos Pink Land Iguanas (Conolophus Marthae)

Conservation Science and Practice
We present the first estimate of population dynamics parameters for critically endangered Galápagos pink land iguanas, Conolophus marthae, leveraging mark‐recapture data collected between 2006 and 2021.
Paolo Gratton, Giuliano Colosimo, Gabriele Gentile   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources