Abstract Context Disentangling the effect of environment and biological interaction on community composition with observational data, within environmental filtering framework, is challenging because two processes produce non independent results. Objectives Adopting N-mixture models symmetric interactions, we aimed at estimating differential effects landscape structure biotic interactions local ...

The locality of El Salt (Alcoi, Spain) is a key site for understanding the extirpation Neanderthals in eastern part Iberia. In this paper, we analyse an assemblage amphibians and reptiles from Stratigraphic Unit V (45.2 ± 3.4 ka to 44.7 ka), which corresponds one last regional records Neanderthals, improve knowledge palaeoecology palaeoclimate event. comprises three anurans (Pelodytes sp., Alyt...

In the Abruzzi village of Cocullo (Italy), each year, on May 1st, local snake hunters (known as Serpari) display colubrids, captured in wild, to commemorate ancient ritual San Domenico. The ascomycete Ophidiomyces ophidiicola (Oo) is causative agent ophidiomycosis, an emerging disease with sublethal effects. Skin lesions, such dysecdysis, edematous, crusty or necrotic scales, swellings, nodules...