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Selection of artificial warrens following the restocking of na endangered keyst...
Encarnação, Claudia; Sabino-Marques, Helena; Pinheiro, Paula; Santos, Sara Maria; Alves, Paulo Célio; Mira, AntónioThe European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) is an endangered species native to the Iberian Peninsula, playing a vital ecological role in Mediterranean ecosystems as prey for several threatened predators. Conservation efforts have been implemented to halt its decline, with a particular focus on the Iberian rabbit subspecies (Oryctolagus cuniculus algirus). Many conservation programmes involve restocking and habi...
Tell me where you go, and I’ll tell you where you die: landscape connectivity a...
Pinto, Tiago; Santos, Sara Maria; Mira, António; Sillero, NeftaliHuman overpopulation, development, and consequent activities such as land conversion and linear infrastructure expansion, are currently some of the main threats to biodiversity. Amphibians are especially affected because they depend on both aquatic and terrestrial habitats to complete their life cycles, which can be negatively impacted by roads, due to reduced landscape connectivity. Understanding animal moveme...
Relatedness reveals a strong road effect on female bat genetic connectivity
Medinas, Denis; Ribeiro, Vera; Barbosa, Soraia; Valerio, Francesco; Marques, João Tiago; Rebelo, Hugo; Paupério, Joana; Santos, Sara MariaThe effective management of species with small and fragmented populations requires an in-depth understanding of how the effects of human-induced habitat disturbance shape the structure and gene flow at fine spatial scales. Identification of putative environmental barriers that affect individual exchange among subpopulations is imperative to prevent extinction risks. Here, we investigated how landscape affects t...
Importance of water availability for amphibian roadkill in a Mediterranean land...
Pinto, Tiago; Santos, Sara Maria; Mira, António; Sillero, NeftaliRoads can negatively impact ecosystems by fragmenting habitats and affecting animal movements and behaviour. One of the major noticeable effects of roads is animal mortality by vehicle collisions, a paramount threat to wildlife, especially for amphibians. In the context of reduced water availability, particularly in the Mediterranean region, amphibians are projected to be one of the most negatively affected ani...
Disentangling wildlife–cattle interactions in multi-host tuberculosis scenarios...
Ferreira, Eduardo; Duarte, Elsa; Cunha, Mõnica Vieira; Mira, António; Santos, Sara MariaEcological interactions involving wildlife (wild mammals) and cattle Bos taurus are considered fundamental drivers of animal tuberculosis (TB) caused by Mycobacterium bovis at the wildlife–livestock interface. Despite recent insights about the role of direct and indirect interactions on TB dynamics, a mechanistic evaluation of studies addressing patterns of wildlife–cattle interaction at the global level is lac...
Ecological filtering shapes the impacts of agricultural deforestation on biodiv...
Hua, Fangyuan; Wang, Weiyi; Nakagawa, Shinichi; Liu, S; Miao, X; Yu, L; Du, Z; Abrahamczyk, S; Santos, Sara Maria; Salgueiro, Pedro; Mira, AntonioThe biodiversity impacts of agricultural deforestation vary widely across regions. Previous efforts to explain this variation have focused exclusively on the landscape features and management regimes of agricultural systems, neglecting the potentially critical role of ecological filtering in shaping deforestation tolerance of extant species assemblages at large geographical scales via selection for functional t...
Using the dead to infer about the living: Amphibian roadkill spatiotemporal dyn...
Pinto, Tiago; Sillero, Neftali; Mira, António; Santos, Sara MariaRoads represent one of the main sources of wildlife mortality, population decline, and isolation, especially for low-vagility animal groups. It is still not clearly understood how wildlife populations respond to these negative effects over space and time. Most studies on wildlife road mortality do not consider the spatial and temporal components simultaneously, or the imperfect roadkill detection, both of which...
Microtus duodecimcostatus rato-toupeira-mediterrânico
Santos, Sara Maria; Cerveira, Ana; Mendes, TiagoEspécie com hábitos fossadores. Ocupa habitats abertos naturais (prados e pastagens), semi-abertos (montado) ou agrícolas (pomares de citrinos, culturas de herbáceas em regadio, orlas de bosques e plantações de sobreiros) com elevada cobertura herbácea e na proximidade de bermas (Cotilla & Palomo 2007, Santos et al. 2010, 2011). Em áreas de montado, pode ocupar os locais junto às raízes das árvores (Santos et a...
Microtus lusitanicus rato-toupeira
Cerveira, Ana; Santos, Sara Maria; Paupério, JoanaEspécie de hábitos fossadores. Ocupa diversos habitats, desde prados ou pastagens com elevada cobertura herbácea, áreas agrícolas (pomares, olivais, outras culturas), bermas ou sebes,até habitats semi-urbanos (relvados de jardins; Santos et al. 2010b, 2011). Prefere áreas com solos macios e húmidos, onde constrói galerias subterrâneas (Mira & Mathias 2007, Santos et al. 2011). Pode ser encontrada desde o nível ...
Erinaceus europaeus ouriço-cacheiro
Medinas, Denis; Santos, Sara MariaOcupa uma grande diversidade de habitats, desde áreas com elevada cobertura arbórea (bosques, floresta) até áreas mais abertas e humanizadas (Nores 2007, García et al. 2009). Localmente, pode ser encontrado em bermas de caminhos e de estradas, sebes, áreas agrícolas, parques e jardins urbanos, ou campos de golf (García et al. 2009, Bom 2020). Apresentam atividade crepuscular/noturna (Nores 2007) e um período de...