| vegetable and animal food sorts found in the gastric content of sardinian wild boar (sus scrofa meridionalis). | authors report results emerging from gastric content analysis from n. 96 wild boars hunted in sardinia isle, during the hunting tide (2001-2005), from november to january. mean ph of the gastric content was 3.77 +/- 0.69. mean total capacity (tc) of each stomach was 1702 +/- 680 g. mean stuff ratio (cw/tc) between the content weight (cw) and stomachs tc was 0.45. food categories found in animal stomachs were: 19 categories of vegetal species (allium spp., arbutus unedo, arisarum vulgare, avena f ... | 2007 | 17516948 |
| evolutionary history of podarcis tiliguerta on corsica and sardinia. | podarcis tiliguerta is a wall lizard endemic to the mediterranean islands of corsica and sardinia. previous findings of high mtdna and morphological diversity have led to the suggestion that it may represent a species complex. here, we analysed mitochondrial and nuclear markers (mtdna, 3110 bp; 6 ndna loci, 3961 bp) in p. tiliguerta sampled from thirty-two localities across corsica and sardinia. | 2017 | 28103805 |
| altitudinal variation of the thermal biology and running performance in the lizard podarcis tiliguerta. | we studied, in the field and laboratory, aspects of the thermal biology in two populations of the lizard podarcis tiliguerta along a 1450 m altitudinal gradient. body temperatures (tb) at high altitudes average lower, are more variable, but are more elevated above environmental temperatures than at sea level. lizards partially reduced the impact of altitudinal changes in thermal loads through presumable subtle behavioural adjustments. a comparison of the thermal preferences in the laboratory, th ... | 1989 | 28312838 |
| digging up the roots of an insular hotspot of genetic diversity: decoupled mito-nuclear histories in the evolution of the corsican-sardinian endemic lizard podarcis tiliguerta. | mediterranean islands host a disproportionately high level of biodiversity and endemisms. growing phylogeographic evidence on island endemics has unveiled unexpectedly complex patterns of intra-island diversification, which originated at diverse spatial and temporal scales. we investigated multilocus genetic variation of the corsican-sardinian endemic lizard podarcis tiliguerta with the aim of shedding more light on the evolutionary processes underlying the origin of mediterranean island biodive ... | 2017 | 28253846 |