Fire Salamander, Salamandra salamandra, niche selection in Central European conditions

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41210/24:101206

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.salamandra-journal.com/index.php/contents/2024-vol-60/2149-kovar,-r-,-m-brabec,-p-moravec-t-husak/file" target="_blank" >https://www.salamandra-journal.com/index.php/contents/2024-vol-60/2149-kovar,-r-,-m-brabec,-p-moravec-t-husak/file</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Fire Salamander, Salamandra salamandra, niche selection in Central European conditions

Original language description

We analyzed data from 3,546 occurrence records of Fire Salamanders (Salamandra salamandra) from the territory of the Czech Republic where it has a heterogeneous distribution pattern. Its occurrence in terrestrial habitats adjacent to breeding streams is characterized by a mean distance of 103 m, maximum 1,321 m, from the nearest stream. Based on a logistic GLM (generalized linear model) analysis we determined the Fire Salamanders’ climatic and habitat associations at landscape scale in the Czech Republic. The main limiting factors for its dispersal include the proximity of small shallow streams in rolling landscapes, the pH of these streams, the presence of broad-leaf or mixed forests, humidity, solar irradiation, and severity of winters. While the absence of suitable breeding habitats is the main limiting factor for their occurrence in more expansive lowlands, factors such as lower temperatures, lower humidity, and the absence of broad-leaf and mixed forests begin to play a role with increasing altitude. Unlike cold temperatures, low amounts of precipitation and higher temperatures do not act as limiters in the Czech Republic. Fire Salamanders respond to the colder climate of higher altitudes with intensified summer activity and the purely bimodal nature of their activity (with spring and autumn peaks) tends to fade at higher altitudes.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10103 - Statistics and probability

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Salamandra

ISSN

0036-3375

e-ISSN

0036-3375

Volume of the periodical

60

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

129-146

UT code for WoS article

001228712900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85194585581