New stratigraphically constrained palaeoenvironmental reconstructions for the first human settlement in Western Europe: The Early Pleistocene herpetofaunal …

C Sanchez-Bandera, O Oms, HA Blain… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Early Pleistocene sites of Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3 (Guadix-Baza
Basin, SE Spain) have yielded abundant Oldowan lithic artifacts and one hominin tooth …

[PDF][PDF] Salamandra común–Salamandra salamandra (Linnaeus, 1758)

G Velo-Antón, D Buckley - 2015 - digital.csic.es
La historia biogeográfica de S. salamandra es bastante compleja. Los datos genéticos
analizados hasta la fecha apuntan a una colonización del centro y norte de Europa en el …

Contribution of the palaeoherpetofauna (Amphibia & Squamata) to

HA Blain - Treballs del Museu de Geologia de Barcelona, 2009 - raco.cat
La présente publication est une étude des restes fossiles d'amphibiens et de squamates
provenant de 34 gisements espagnols, datés du Pliocène supérieur au Pléistocène moyen …

Paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic proxies to the Early Pleistocene hominids of Barranco León D and Fuente Nueva 3 (Granada, Spain) by means of their …

HA Blain, S Bailon, J Agustí, B Martínez-Navarro… - Quaternary …, 2011 - Elsevier
Because most amphibians are water dependent and most reptiles are temperature
dependent, the climatic and/or environmental parameters in their immediate environment …

Applying the UDA-ODA discrimination technique to a herpetological association: the case of the Middle Palaeolithic site of El Salt (Alcoi, Spain)

R Marquina-Blasco, A Fagoaga, VD Crespo… - Archaeological and …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract El Salt (Middle Palaeolithic; Alcoi, Spain) is a key site for understanding the
disappearance of Neanderthals in the eastern Iberian Peninsula, a process that is observed …

The relative influence of climate, environmental heterogeneity, and human population on the distribution of vertebrate species richness in south-eastern Spain

G Moreno-Rueda, M Pizarro - acta oecologica, 2007 - Elsevier
In view of the many factors affect species richness, this study examines the relative influence
of environmental heterogeneity, climate, human disturbance and spatial structure with …

A revisit to the Early Pliocene site of Abla (Guadix-Baza Basin, southern Spain)

P Piñero, J Agustí, HA Blain, MT Alberdi, ÁB Lapaz… - Geobios, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Guadix-Baza Basin (southern Spain) displays one of the best continental
records from the Late Miocene to the Middle Pleistocene in western Europe, with many …

[HTML][HTML] Integration of molecular, bioacoustical and morphological data reveals two new cryptic species of Pelodytes (Anura, Pelodytidae) from the Iberian Peninsula

J Diaz-Rodriguez, M Gehara, R Marquez, M Vences… - Zootaxa, 2017 - mapress.com
Parsley frogs (Pelodytes) comprise the only genus in the family Pelodytidae, an ancient
anuran lineage that split from their closest relatives over 140 million years ago. Pelodytes is …

Prey availability, prey selection, and trophic niche width in the lizard Psammodromus algirus along an elevational gradient

G Moreno-Rueda, E Melero, S Reguera… - Current …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Mountains imply enormous environmental variation, with alpine habitats entailing harsh
environments, especially for ectotherms such as lizards. This environmental variability also …

Age structure of a lizard along an elevational gradient reveals nonlinear lifespan patterns with altitude

M Comas, S Reguera, FJ Zamora-Camacho… - Current …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Lifespan is one of the main components of life history. Shorter lifespans can be expected in
marginal habitats. However, in the case of ectotherms, lifespan typically increases with …