Reptile and Amphibian Foraging Ecology
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Herpetology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2024) | Viewed by 232
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Today, foraging ecology includes a wide range of different approaches, techniques and objectives. As such, direct observations of foraging behavior, as well as experimental designs for its study in the lab and the field are frequent in the scientific literature, using amphibians and reptiles as suitable models.
In addition, the Special Issue aims to show the present-day state-of-the-art foraging of amphibians and reptiles from the perspective of a wide range of topics. We will take into account ecology and behavior studies related with foraging ecology, dietary analysis, morphological and physiological adaptations to particular diets of amphibians and reptiles. The objective is to cover these topics with representative examples of studies conducted using different available methodologies as field foraging behavior, macroscopic studies of the diet, metabarcoding, stable isotopes and biomechanical analyses, along with physiological studies on dietary adaptations. Our interest is to include examples from a large representation of different clades of amphibians and reptiles from all continents and principal biomes.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Dietary analyses with macroscopic and/or molecular techniques (metabarcoding);
- Analyses of diets of amphibians and reptiles from present day data and fossil remains with stable isotopes;
- Experimental studies of sensory capabilities related to foraging ecology;
- Studies of morphological and behavioral dietary adaptations;
- Field studies of foraging activity and behavior of amphibians and reptiles;
- Meta-analyses of amphibian and reptilian communities in temperate, desert or tropical environments.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Ana Pérez-Cembranos
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- foraging
- amphibians
- reptiles
- diet
- metabarcoding
- stable isotopes
- feeding ecology
