Gonzalo Albaladejo- Doctor of Philosophy Macroecology and Conservation
- Research Fellow at University College London
Gonzalo Albaladejo
- Doctor of Philosophy Macroecology and Conservation
- Research Fellow at University College London
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research (University College London)
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October 2017 - February 2018
September 2017 - March 2018
April 2012 - October 2014
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Anthropogenic-driven environmental changes are pushing species to the limits of their habitats. More often species are restricted to relic or suboptimal habitats that present the minimum requirements to sustain species populations. In this scenario of accelerated environmental change and biodiversity loss, is fundamental to understand why species c...
Anthropogenic driven environmental changes are pushing species to the limits of their habitats. More often species are restricted to relic or suboptimal habitats that present the minimum requirements to sustain species populations. In this scenario of acerated environmental change and biodiversity loss, is fundamental to understand why species are...
Seed dispersal by scatter‐hoarder corvids is key for the establishment of important tree species from the Holarctic region such as the walnut (Juglans regia). However, the factors that drive animal decisions to cache seeds in specific locations and the consequences of these decisions on seed fate are poorly understood.
We experimentally created fou...
Human-induced environmental changes have a direct impact on species populations, with some species experiencing declines while others display population growth. Understanding why and how species populations respond differently to environmental changes is fundamental to mitigate and predict future biodiversity changes. Theoretically, species life-hi...
Life-history theory posits that species pace of life can be described based on species life-history traits: fast species, which have short lifespans and produce numerous offspring; and slow species, which have long lifespans but fewer offspring. A continuum of life-history strategies can be defined between these two extremes. Theoretically, these l...
The sense of olfaction has been traditionally considered of low relevance in bird biology. In particular, the location of cached seeds by scatter-hoarder corvids is assumed to depend on spatial memory, whereas no study has demonstrated the use of olfaction to detect these seeds. In this study we tested whether olfaction might play a role in the pre...
The salamander plague, caused by the amphibian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal), is one of the most devastating amphibian diseases, currently threatening the entire Western Palearctic caudate diversity with extinction. Apparently of Asian origin and recently introduced into Europe, Bsal is known from currently ca. 80 sites in...
Climatic conditions changing over time and space shape the evolution of organisms at multiple levels, including temperate lizards in the family Lacertidae. Here we reconstruct a dated phylogenetic tree of 262 lacertid species based on a supermatrix relying on novel phylogenomic datasets and fossil calibrations. Diversification of lacertids was acco...
Biodiversity continues to decline under the effect of multiple human pressures. We give a brief overview of the main pressures on biodiversity, before focusing on the two that have a predominant effect: land-use and climate change. We discuss how interactions between land-use and climate change in terrestrial systems are likely to have greater impa...
SUMMARY.—Scatter-hoarder birds can play a key role in the dispersal and recruitment of forest tree species through caching seeds, but accurate evaluation of their importance in this respect would require detailed monitoring of post-dispersal seed fate. To quantify seed fate under wild conditions researchers often use visual marks to locate the seed...
Islands tend to have lower species richness, more endemic species, and more pronounced extinction rates than mainland ecosystems. It makes island biota particularly vulnerable to habitat degradation, hunting and invasive species. As a consequence, many species have gone extinct on islands worldwide, especially on oceanic islands. The loss of these...
The distribution of non-commercial large cephalopods is still largely unknown in
spite of their important ecological role as top-predators in the oceans. Here we compile a
large dataset of opportunistic findings of more than fifty giant/large cephalopods in the
Canary Islands showing that the archipelago holds one of the highest rates of occurrence...
Reptiles are the animals with the most described coccidian species among all vertebrates. However, the co-evolutionary relationships in this host–parasite system have been scarcely studied. Paperna & Landsberg (South African Journal of Zoology, 24, 1989, 345) proposed the independent evolutionary origin of the Eimeria-like species isolated from rep...
Zusammenfassung Die Gesprenkelte Kanareneidechse, Gallotia intermedia, ist eine für Teneriffa endemische Art. Sie kommt in zwei getrennten Populationen vor, eine im Nordwesten der Insel (in den Klippen von Los Gigantes) und eine in der Nähe der Südspitze (Klippen von Guaza). Die Populationen sind jeweils recht klein, 280 ‒ 460 beziehungsweise circa...
Gallotia, es un género endémico de lacértidos de Canarias representado por 7 especies actuales (Arnold, 1973; 2007; Arnold et al., 2007) y de 10 a 13 subespecies de lagartos (Bischoff, 1985; López-Jurado, 1991). Los lagartos gigantes de las islas occidentales, pertenecientes al clado "simonyi", se creían extintos hasta la década de 1970 cuando se r...
Antecedentes: En 1935 don Telesforo Bravo visitó el roque atraído por las leyendas de los pescadores sobre la existencia de lagartos gigantes, allí capturó dos ejemplares que en 1983 Báez & Bravo afirmaron que pertenecían a la especie Gallotia simonyi. Posteriormente, en 1985, Aurelio Martín describió esta población como una nueva subespecie, Gallo...
Questions
Questions (2)
Hello Community,
I'm compiling trait information of vertebrates and I was wonder if anyone knows about good papers or other types of documents where I can find information related to the dispersal distances, capabilities or proxies to these two measures. I know that for mammals and birds there is information available but reptiles, like usual, seems to be a little bit neglected in this aspect. Any helo will be more than welcome :)
Thanks,
Gonzalo
I'm looking for some information about the impact of natural and artificial traps in populations of lizards and reptiles, with special interest in the species present in the Macanesia.
