Associated costs of mitigation-driven translocation in small lizards

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dc.contributor.authorBarrientos Yuste, Rafael
dc.contributor.authorMegĂ­a Palma, Rodrigo
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-20T13:55:27Z
dc.date.available2024-06-20T13:55:27Z
dc.date.issued2021-04-06
dc.description.abstractMitigation-driven translocations represent an increasingly common management solution to reduce animal mortality and habitat loss caused by human development. Although they currently outnumber other translocation types, there is a lack of scientific approaches to evaluate the outcome of this management tool. We designed an experimental translocation with two groups of translocated males and two of control males of a small (6-14 g) lizard (totaling 120 individuals). Our results suggest that translocated individuals covered longer distances (53 vs. 18 m) from their respective release points in one month (on average), although this distance diminished over time. Displacing longer distances was associated with a body condition impoverishment and an increase in parasitization by ectoparasites. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that finds a positive relationship between covering longer distances and an increase in the number of mites. This was also explained by the initial mite load that lizards had, suggesting that controlling the infestation by mites is energetically demanding for lizards, being traded by locomotor activity. At least for those individuals in poorer body condition, we recommend the implementation of soft release (gradually accustoming individuals to their new environment by previously releasing them into controlled conditions) and deparasitization before accomplishing a mitigationdriven translocation.
dc.description.departmentDepto. de Biodiversidad, EcologĂ­a y EvoluciĂłn
dc.description.facultyFac. de Ciencias BiolĂłgicas
dc.description.refereedTRUE
dc.description.sponsorshipComunidad de Madrid
dc.description.sponsorshipInstituto de CiĂŞncias, Tecnologias e Agroambiente da Universidade do Porto
dc.description.sponsorshipFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
dc.description.statuspub
dc.identifier.citationBarrientos R, MegĂ­a-Palma R. Associated costs of mitigation-driven translocation in small lizards. Amphib-Reptilia. 2021;42(3):275-82.
dc.identifier.doi10.1163/15685381-bja10040
dc.identifier.essn1568-5381
dc.identifier.issn0173-5373
dc.identifier.officialurlhttps://doi.org/10.1163/15685381-bja10040
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/105141
dc.issue.number3
dc.journal.titleAmphibia-Reptilia
dc.language.isoeng
dc.page.final282
dc.page.initial275
dc.publisherBrill
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/CAM/Programa de atracciĂłn de talento investigador/2018T1/AMB10374
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
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dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject.cdu591.5
dc.subject.cdu597.6
dc.subject.keywordCorrective measures
dc.subject.keywordEnvironmental impact
dc.subject.keywordHabitat loss
dc.subject.keywordHoming behaviour
dc.subject.keywordHuman development
dc.subject.keywordPsammodromus algirus
dc.subject.keywordRoad ecology
dc.subject.keywordTranslocation
dc.subject.ucmEcologĂ­a (BiologĂ­a)
dc.subject.ucmAnfibios
dc.subject.unesco2401.06 EcologĂ­a Animal
dc.subject.unesco2401 BiologĂ­a Animal (ZoologĂ­a)
dc.titleAssociated costs of mitigation-driven translocation in small lizards
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dc.volume.number42
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