Biogeographic processes have led to different evolutionary taxa occurring in the northern
and southern edges of the Alpine Mountains in Western Europe. The integrity of this diversity …

DAISIE aims to integrate information on current invasions across Europe through an online
freely available database of alien species (www. europe-aliens. org, Shirley and Kark 2006) …

Little is known about the terrestrial phase of high-altitude populations of European
amphibians, in spite of potentially important implications for conservation and management …

Genetic pollution through introgressive hybridization of local species by exotic relatives is a
major, yet neglected aspect of biological invasions, particularly in amphibians where human …

Recent phylogeographical studies have re-evaluated the role of refugia in central and
northern Europe for glacial persistence and postglacial assembly of temperate biota. Yet, on …

Considerable scientific, politic and economic attention has been directed to biological
invasions. Multiple pathways serve to introduce species to new environments and the …

Human introductions of exotic amphibians can have catastrophic effects on native species.
However, they usually remain unnoticed without genetic tools when species are difficult to …

Although they are frequently lumped together, reptiles and amphibians belong to two very
different zoological groups. Nevertheless, one fact is clear: while numerous reptile and …

In this chapter an 'alien'taxon (allochtonous, non-native, non-indigenous, exotic) is taken as
a species or subspecies which occurs outside its natural range (past or present) and …

The pet trade has grown in recent years and become the most important pathway for the
introduction of non-indigenous species of amphibians and reptiles worldwide. Amphibians …