Amphibian and Reptile Adaptation: Biodiversity and Monitoring
A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Diversity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 758
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ecology; behaviour and conservation of amphibians and reptiles
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Amphibians and reptiles are distributed on all continents except Antarctica, and occur in a variety of habitats, from rainforests to deserts. In recent decades, their populations around the globe have faced mounting pressure from climate change, disease, habitat loss, pollution, and the impacts of invasive species. Understanding the physiological, behavioural, and ecological adaptations that enable these species to survive or even thrive in diverse and often challenging conditions is paramount for their conservation and the development and application of monitoring methods, such as long-term population surveys, remote sensing, and environmental DNA analysis, is needed to track the health status of species populations, their distribution and diversity. This knowledge could be used for informing effective conservation strategies for preservation of global biodiversity and the stability of ecosystems.
This Special Issue is dedicated to research focused on monitoring the biodiversity of amphibians and reptiles from a regional scale (understanding and comparing population dynamics and interactions) to a global scale (how the life history characteristics of species in different parts of the world can contribute to their conservation).
We encourage experimental studies with novel, non-invasive monitoring methods that provide valuable new data on species phenology and adaptive capabilities, but review studies that analyse existing data to produce new knowledge are also welcome.
Dr. Simeon P. Lukanov
Dr. Georgi Popgeorgiev
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- conservation
- disease
- ecological factors
- environment
- habitat loss
- population dynamics
- pollution
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