81urn:lsid:arphahub.com:pub:EE60897E-EDEE-5EC8-86EB-7203BECD195DARPHA Conference AbstractsACA2603-3925Pensoft Publishers10.3897/aca.2.e465714657112586Conference AbstractVth International Congress on Biodiversity: „Taxonomy, Speciation and Euro-Mediterranean Biodiversity“Updated distribution and species composition of the amphibians and reptiles along the Lower Danube, BulgariaPopgeorgievGeorgihttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7625-88981NaumovBorislav2KornilevYuriiyukornilev@gmail.comhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8596-87281314VergilovVladislavhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7464-22631SlavchevMiroslav21LukanovSimeon2DyugmedzhievAngelhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3765-70762StoyanovAndrey†1DobrevDobrin†2TzankovNikolay†1National Museum of Natural History-BAS, Sofia, BulgariaNational Museum of Natural History-BASSofiaBulgariaInstitute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Sofia, BulgariaInstitute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem ResearchSofiaBulgariaDepartment of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna, Vienna, AustriaDepartment of Integrative Zoology, University of ViennaViennaAustriaUniversity of Vienna, Vienna, AustriaUniversity of ViennaViennaAustria
2019160920192e465713D1EE611-E003-560D-A562-E52DC01A5FD6345869214092019Georgi Popgeorgiev, Borislav Naumov, Yurii Kornilev, Vladislav Vergilov, Miroslav Slavchev, Simeon Lukanov, Angel Dyugmedzhiev, Andrey Stoyanov, Dobrin Dobrev, Nikolay TzankovThis is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
In a recently published paper (Popgeorgiev et al. 2019), we compiled for the first time published and unpublished data on localities of the herpetofaunal species observed up to ca. 10 km south of the Bulgarian Danube River. Overall, we identified 687 published records belonging to 62 cells of the 10×10 km MGRS grid. Another 1918 records with real coordinates of our unpublished data from the past ca. 13 years belong to 1269 cells of the 1×1 MGRS grid. As a result, 34 native species – 15 amphibians (4 salamanders and 11 frogs) and 19 reptiles (1 turtle, 2 tortoises, 8 lizards and 8 snakes), and one invasive turtle, have been recorded; further species findings are unlikely. This study further identifies areas that are under-sampled and species such as Pelophylax lessonae that are cryptic. Our data are especially relevant concerning the high economic incentives to change the hydrology of the Danube, which will likely negatively impact the biodiversity along the river and its surrounding.
Vth International Congress on Biodiversity: „Taxonomy, Speciation and Euro-Mediterranean Biodiversity“
ReferencesPopgeorgievGeorgi S.NaumovBorislavKornilevYurii V.VergilovVladislavSlavchevMiroslavLukanovSimeonDyugmegdzhievAngelStoyanovAndreyDobrevDobrinTzankovNikolay2019Diversity and Distribution of Amphibians and Reptiles in the Bulgarian Part of the Lower Danube978-1-5361-5664-5