| Titre : | Assessing population status and conservation of endangered Marmaris salamander, Lycisalamandra flavimembris (Mutz and Steinfartz, 1995), in southwestern Turkey (2020) |
| Auteurs : | Dilara Arslan, Auteur ; Çağdaş Yaşar, Auteur ; Akın İzgin, Auteur ; Kerim Cicek, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Herpetology Notes (13 June, 2020) |
| Article en page(s) : | 531-541 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés : | TdV ; Turquie ; Salamandridae ; Espèce menacée |
| Résumé : | The Marmaris salamander is an endemic and endangered amphibian species in Southwestern Anatolia. Here, we estimated some population parameters of the Marmaris salamander by conducting a total of 40 days of intensive sampling across 5 different sites. We marked 323 salamanders with visible implant elastomer between 2017 and 2019 and recaptured 46 of them. The population consists of 36% juveniles, 27.9 % males, and 35.9% females with a female-biased sex ratio (m: f= 0.77) was observed. We estimated population density per site to be between 10 and 42 indiv./ha. The capture probability ranged from 0.15 to 0.54 and the survival rate ranged from 0.53 to 0.86 among the populations. Based purely on models of habitat suitability, the geographic distribution of the Marmaris salamander is likely to shrink by 9–62% in the next 30-50 years. The most important threats are land use conversion, climate change, and forest fires. If no action is taken some populations of the species might go extinct. |
| En ligne : | https://www.biotaxa.org/hn/article/view/59331 |



