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Understanding habitat selection by animal populations is one of the most relevant topics in ecology. In this study, we analyzed fine-scale habitat selection in a population of the salamander Speleomantes strinatii living in a Mediterranean forest environment. We used repeated surveys to estimate salamander abundance on 40 plots (12 m2) by...

Animal personality is a relatively neglected field in amphibian research. In this study we assessed the influence of stomach flushing, a non-lethal technique used in amphibian dietary studies, on the boldness behaviour of the cave salamander Speleomantes strinatii. The time of emergence from a shelter located in an unfamiliar environment (a...

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N-mixture models usually rely on a meta-population design, in which repeated counts of individuals in multiple sampling locations are obtained over time. The time-for-space substitution (TSS) in N-mixture models allows to estimate population abundance and trend of a single population, without spatial replication. This application could be of...

Ecological networks, usually depicting interactions among species, have been recently down-scaled to the individual level, permitting description of patterns of inter-individual resource variation that are usually hindered at the species level. Optimal diet theory (ODT) models, applied to prey–predator systems, predict different patterns of...

Reptile populations are relevant components of biodiversity in both temperate and tropical forests. However, in forest habitats reptiles are secretive and the complex structure of the environment makes it difficult to assess with confidence their abundance and density. In general, capture-mark-recapture (CMR) or distance sampling (DS) are used...

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