A Review of the Influence of the Urbanization on the Vertebrate Fauna in the City of Plovdiv

Mollov, Ivelin A.; Georgiev, Dilian; Todorova, Borislava; Stoycheva, Sl.; Velcheva, Iliana; Nikolov, Bogdan

doi:10.1080/13102818.2009.10818410

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“…The studies of reptiles in urban environment were focused on abundance and spread of invasive species (Gibbons et al , ), impact of landscape changes and habitat fragmentation on native fauna species richness (e.g. Mollov et al , ; Kolbe et al , ). Further, studies of reptiles in urban areas investigated impacts of biotic factors like human presence (Teixeira et al , ), diet changes (Wolfe, Bateman & Fleming, ), parasite loads (Lazić et al , ), as well as abiotic factors like temperature (Tiatragul et al , ), light (Perry et al, ), noise (Mancera Alarcon, ), roads (Andrews et al , ) and pollution (Croteau et al , ), on different morphological, behavioural and physiological traits of reptiles with the (implicit) aim of discovering mechanisms of dealing with increased environmental disturbance and stress.…”

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Urbanization and the common wall lizard (Podarcis muralis) in the Pannonian basin, Serbia: nowhere safe?

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Numerous studies of urban environment impact on wildlife imply urbanization can have both negative and positive effects. Phenotypic variation of pileus in the common wall lizard (Podarcis muralis) was analysed to determine whether urbanization levels can be associated with developmental instability induced by environmental stress. Pileus developmental pathways and instability in natural, suburban and urban populations were quantified by patterns of size and shape, fluctuating asymmetry (FA), modular organization and integration, allometric trajectories and frequency of phenodeviants. Our results show high asymmetry and modular structure of pileus with the high frequency of phenodeviants for natural, suburban and urban populations indicating elevated developmental instability in all three habitat types. However, some peculiarities were observed comparing habitats – the lowest level of FA and integration in urban populations and unexpectedly high level of FA and frequency of phenodeviants in the natural population. In addition, significant correlations between symmetric and asymmetric shape patterns, and presence of modular organization for all three habitat types suggest that genetic/environmental and developmental parcellation are somewhat aligned. Our results indicate that pileus morphology varies in a complex manner and future studies that link physiological, behavioural and morphological parameters to demographic parameters and fitness are necessary to fully understand how environmental stress affects developmental instability.

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Urbanization and the common wall lizard (Podarcis muralis) in the Pannonian basin, Serbia: nowhere safe?

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“…Recently the amphibians and reptiles in the South Park in Sofia were studied by Emin [5]. Data about herpetofauna of the Botanical garden in the city of Varna were published by Delov et al [6].The most extensive research of amphibians and reptiles in urban environment were carried out for the Herpetofauna in the city of Blagoevgrad territory of the city of Plovdiv [7][8][9][10][11][12][13].…”

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Herpetofauna in the city of Blagoevgrad, south-western Bulgaria

Pulev¹,

Sakelarieva²

2013

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Conflict of Interests:The authors have no competing interests in relation to the work described. AbstractThe city of Blagoevgrad and its surroundings (about 16.4 km 2 ) were researched in order to establish the diversity, distribution and level of synanthropy of the amphibian and reptile species. Data about the herpetofauna were obtained in the period 1988-2012. Totally 25 species were registered -10 amphibians and 15 reptiles. The number of species, discovered around the city, was 23, and 6 of them were not found within the administrative boundaries of the city. The different urban zones are inhabited by 19 species. They represent 37% of the amphibians and 31% of the reptiles, found in Bulgaria, and 64% of the amphibians and 60% of the reptiles, distributed in the Blagoevgrad municipality, which is very high species richness. The herpetofauna has found quite favourable conditions in the territory of the city as a whole, and especially in the sparsely populated and built up areas and city periphery. The presence of great variety of urban habitats and the pattern of situation of the city residential districts are very important for the successful adaptation of herpetofauna for inhabiting in urban environment. The high species richness could be explained also by the fact, that comparatively great number of amphibians and reptiles are hemerodiaphoric species, which easily exist in landscapes, transformed by man. The results from the case study of the herpetofauna in Blagoevgrad show that the urban areas could provide good conditions for the wild animals and could be places of substantial biological diversity.

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Mollov¹,

Georgiev²

2015

Vertebrates and Invertebrates of European Cities:Selected Non-Avian Fauna

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A Review of the Influence of the Urbanization on the Vertebrate Fauna in the City of Plovdiv

Abstract: The current paper reviews the available literary data as well as original unpublished data on the distribution and the species' richness of the vertebrate fauna (Pisces, Amphibia, Reptilia and Mammalia)

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Urbanization and the common wall lizard (Podarcis muralis) in the Pannonian basin, Serbia: nowhere safe?

Urbanization and the common wall lizard (Podarcis muralis) in the Pannonian basin, Serbia: nowhere safe?

Herpetofauna in the city of Blagoevgrad, south-western Bulgaria

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