Changes in reptile and amphibian communities across urbanization ...

We found that species richness tended to be somewhat lower (10–20%) in cities as compared to surrounding areas.

Article on Changes in reptile and amphibian communities across urbanization gradients in eastern North America, published in Global Ecology and Conservation ...

Change in amphibian and reptile communities along a rural to urban ...

Species-level hypotheses: 1) Species that increase or decrease when comparing cities to surrounding rural buffers (i.e. "urban exploiters" vs. "urban avoiders") ...

Reptile and Amphibian Diversity and Abundance in an Urban ...

Urbanization is a major contributor to habitat loss and fragmentation and is considered a global threat to biodiversity. We studied reptile ...

Impacts of fragmentation and the conservation value of small patches

Reptile and amphibian diversity and abundance in an urban landscape: Impacts of fragmentation and the conservation value of small patches.

Reptiles and Amphibians - Threats and Concerns

Declines in amphibian and reptile populations have been and are being observed. Herpetofauna across the globe face threats from both known ...

Change in amphibian and reptile communities along a rural to urban ...

Using citizen science data on amphibian and reptile distributions, we ask whether species representation in communities changes predictably moving from buffers ...

Urbanization increases stochasticity and reduces the ecological ...

Urbanization not only profoundly alters landscape profiles, ecosystems and vertebrate faunal diversity but also disturbs microbial communities by increasing ...

Amphibian ecology and conservation in the urbanising world: A review

Urbanisation currently threatens over one-third of the world's known amphibian species. The main threats of urbanisation to amphibian populations are ...

Town and Country Reptiles: A Review of Reptilian Responses to ...

Similarly, Barrett and Guyer (2008) found that unlike amphibian species, reptile species significantly increased in urban watersheds in western ...

The effects of urbanization on North American amphibian species

We examined existing research on breeding habitats, life-history stages, movement patterns, and habitat use relative to urbanization. We found amphibians as a ...

Special Issue : Urban Ecology of the Amphibians and Reptiles - MDPI

This leads to a reduction in their diversity compared to natural conditions and changes in the structure of their populations and communities. Scientific ...

Urbanisation generates multiple trait syndromes for terrestrial animal ...

Using a dataset encompassing six terrestrial faunal taxa (amphibians, bats, bees, birds, carabid beetles and reptiles) across 379 cities on 6 continents, we ...

Long-term changes in the diversity of amphibian communities ...

The examined settlements are characterized by a high concentration of small water bodies and different degrees of urbanization. A decrease in ...

A global assessment of research on urban ecology of reptiles ...

Our database comprised 278 articles dealing with biological responses to urbanisation of 493 species across 45 countries, comprising 658 cases ...

Effects of Urbanization and Climate Change on the Physiology of ...

As a class of vertebrates, amphibians and reptiles are a part of the larger ecosystem that faces the risk of extinction at least in the next 50 years. Most ...

(PDF) Reptile and Amphibian Diversity and Abundance in an Urban ...

2021) , western fence lizards appear more urbantolerant than side-blotched lizards because they are found throughout more urbanized and ...

20 Changes in Amphibian and Reptile Communities - DOI

Abstract. The loss of over half of Wisconsin's wetlands and more than 99% of its prairies and oak savannas has radically altered conditions for reptiles an.

Amphibians and Reptiles | US Forest Service Research and ...

Numerous reptile and amphibian species are threatened by habitat degradation or loss, disease, introduced non-native species, and a changing ...

20. Changes in Amphibian and Reptile Communities - De Gruyter

More recently, reptiles and amphibians have confronted impacts from urban sprawl, shoreline development, persistent pollution problems (like mercury and ...