Massimo Capula

TL;DR: The results suggest that the main hotspots of biodiversity for terrestrial vertebrates may be extensively influenced by the climate change projected to occur over the coming decades, especially in the Mediterranean bioregion, posing serious concerns for biodiversity conservation.

TL;DR: A five-year mark-recapture study at Sella Nevea, a montane site in the Carnic Alps, provided information on diets, growth rates, and reproductive output in an Italian population of the wide-ranging grass snake, Natrix natrix, to provide an index of ‘costs of reproduction’ in this population.

TL;DR: Activity patterns and activity patterns were rather similar in the two lacertid lizards, and Podarcis muralis appeared to be the only species inhabiting humid places with dense vegetation, while P. sicula was numerically more abundant than P. muralis in sunny and dry spots.

TL;DR: En nous fondant sur une etude de 5 ans par marquage-recapture sur une population of viperes polymorphes dans les Alpes, nous avons demontre that dans cette population les femelles noires sont capables de se reproduire significativement plus souvent que les Femelles cryptiques.

TL;DR: Electrophoretic data and comparative species distributions suggest that Podarcis sicula recently colonized the Aeolian Islands, and it has competed successfully with P. raffonei in this area, greatly reducing the range of the latter and causing the extinction of most of its populations.