MB170P116 Ecology of amphibians and reptiles

Annotation

Please note, the lectures are given in the Czech language. English version of the course can be requested in advance if there are at least 3 students.
External factors: adaptation to water shortage in frogs and toads; thermal biology of reptiles; population ecology: reproductive strategies in frogs and toads; population regulation in giant turtles; invasions; evolutionary ecology: life history strategies, clutch size, egg incubation; Dollo principle and evolution of viviparity; legless lizards and evolution of locomotion; coloration and predation pressure in snakes; behavioural ecology: mating and spacing systems, the evolution of territoriality in
lizards, male combat and its consequences in snakes and lizards; foraging and feeding strategies in snakes and turtles; antipredatory behaviour in newts; community
ecology: lizard communities in deserts; speciation and extinctions on islands:
Caribbean amphibians and reptiles; rapid evolution of lizards on the Canary Islands; ecomorphs of anoles and their evolution.

Literature

Kentwood D. Wells (2007) The Ecology and Behavior of Amphibians

Laurie J. Vitt, Eric R. Pianka (Eds) 1994: Lizard Ecology, Princeton University Press

Stephen M. Reilly, Lance B. McBrayer, Donald B. Miles (Eds) 2007: Lizard Ecology, Cambridge University Press

Losos J. 2011: Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree: Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Anoles, 528 pp.

Henderson R. W. and Powell R. (Eds.)2007. Biology of the boas and pythons. Eagle Mountain, Utah, Eagle Mountain Publishing, LC.

 

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