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Distribution

  • Romano, A., Anderle, M., Forti, A., Partel, P., & Pedrini, P. (2018). Population density, sex ratio and body size in a population of Salamandra atra atra on the Dolomites. Acta Herpetologica, 13(2), 195–199
    (DOI:10.13128/Acta_Herpetol-22592)
  • Bonato, L., &Fracasso, G. (2003). Movements, distribution pattern and density in a population of Salamandra atra aurorae (Caudata: Salamandridae). Amphibia-Reptilia,24, 251-260
    (DOI:10.1163/156853803322440736)

Diet

  • Šunje, E., Courant, J., Vesnić, T., LukićBilela, L., &Van Damme, R. (2022). Patterns of variation in dietary composition among four populations of Alpine salamanders (Salamandra atra prenjensis). Amphibia-Reptilia,43(4), 331-345
    (DOI:10.1163/15685381-bja10100)

  • Roner, L., Costa, A., Pedrini, P., Matteucci, G., Leonardi, S., &Romano, A. (2020). A midsummer night’s diet : snap on trophic strategy of the alpine salamander, Salamandra atra. Diversity, 12, 202-218
    (DOI:10.3390/d12050202)

Pueriparity

  • Mulder, K.P., Alarcón-Ríos, L., Nicieza, A.G., Fleischer, R.C., Bell, R.C., &Velo-Antón, G. (2022). Independent evolutionary transitions to pueriparity across multiple timescales in the viviparous genus Salamandra. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution,167, 107347
    (DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107347)

  • Dinis, M., &Velo-Antón, G. (2017). How little do we know about the reproductive mode in the north African salamander, Salamandra algira? Pueriparity in divergent mitochondrial lineages of S. a. tingitana. Amphibia-Reptilia,38, 540-546
    (DOI:10.1163/15685381-00003121)

  • Liedtke, H.C., Müller, H., Hafner, J., Penner, J., Gower, D.J., Mazuch, T., Rödel, M.O., &Loader, S.P. (2017). Terrestrial reproduction as an adaptation to steep terrain in African toads. Proceedings of the Royal Society B : Biological Sciences,284
    (DOI:10.1098/rspb.2016.2598)

  • Velo-Antón, G., Zamudio, K.R., &Cordero-Rivera, A., (2012). Genetic drift and rapid evolution of viviparity in insular fire salamanders (Salamandra salamandra). Heredity (Edinb),108(971), 410-418
    (DOI:10.1038/hdy.2011.91)

  • Beukema, W., De Pous, P., Donaire, D., Escoriza, D., Bogaerts, S., Toxopeus, A.G., De Bie, C.A.J.M., Roca, J., &Carranza, S. (2010). Biogeography and contemporary climatic differentiation among Moroccan Salamandra algira. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society,101, 626-641
    (DOI:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01506.x)

  • Buckley, D., Alcobendas, M., García-París, M., &Wake, M.H. (2007): Heterochrony, cannibalism, and the evolution of viviparity in Salamandra salamandra. Evolution and Development,9(1), 105-115
    (DOI:10.1111/j.1525-142X.2006.00141.x)

  • García-París, M., Alcobendas, M., Buckley, D.,&Wake, D. B. (2003). Dispersal across contact zones in Iberian populations of fire salamanders (Salamanda salamandra) inferred from discordance of genetic and morphological traits. Evolution,57, 129-143
    (DOI:10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb00221.x)

  • Greven, H., (2003). Larviparity and pueriparity, in: Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Urodela. CRC Press, pp. 447–475
    (DOI:10.1201/9781482294347)

  • Greven, H. (1977). Comparative ultrastructural investigations of the uterine epithelium in the viviparous Salamandra atra Laur. and the ovoviviparous Salamandra salamandra (L.) (Amphibia, Urodela). Cell and Tissue Research, 181(2), 215-237
    (DOI:10.1007/BF00219982)

Colour phenotype

  • Bonato, L., &Steinfartz, S. (2005) Evolution of the melanistic colour in the Alpine salamander Salamandra atra as revealed by a new subspecies from the Venetian Prealps. Italian Journal of Zoology,72(3), 253-260
    (DOI:10.1080/11250000509356680)

Climate change

  • Feldmeier, S., Schmidt, B.R., Zimmermann, N.E., &Veith, M. (2020). Shifting aspect or elevation? The climate change response of ectotherms in a complex mountain topography. Diversity and Distributions,26(3), 1483–1495
    (DOI:10.1111/ddi.13146)

  • Ficetola, G.F., Colleoni, E., Renaud, J., Scali, S., Padoa-Schioppa, E., &Thuiller, W. (2016) Morphological variation in salamanders and their potential response to climate change. Climate Change Biology,22(6), 2013-2024
    (DOI:10.1111/gcb.13255)

Chytridiomycosis

  • Lötters, S., Kielgast, J., Sztatecsny, M., Wagner, N., Schulte, U., Werner, P., Rödder, D., Dambach, J., Reissner, T., Hochkirch, A., &Schmidt, B.R. (2012). Absence of infection with the amphibian chytrid fungus in the terrestrial Alpine salamander, Salamandra atra. Salamandra,48(1), 58-62
    (DOI:10.5167/uzh-62111)

Regeneration

  • Joven, A., Elewa, A., & Simon, A. (2019). Model systems for regeneration: salamanders. Development (Cambridge, England), 146(14), dev167700 (DOI:10.1242/dev.167700)

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