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AMPHIBIA-REPTILIA
卷 40, 期 3, 页码 305-312出版社
BRILL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1163/15685381-20181087
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Acanthodactylus erythrurus; growth rates; population dynamics; Spain
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- Val I+ D predoctoral grant of the Ministry of Education, Investigation, Culture and Sport of the Regional Government of Valencia [ACIF/2016/331]
- European Social Fund
We calculated growth rate for the spiny-footed lizard (Acanthodactylus erythrurus) inhabiting coastal eastern Spain from long-term mark-recapture data. Growth curves differ between sexes, with males growing faster than females and achieving larger size maximums. In this population each sex reaches maturity at about 300 days of age, approximately 34% faster than males, and 28% faster than females studied in a population further south and west in Iberia. Our logarithmic growth model has an accuracy of 96.8% and high statistical significance (r = 0.96 for males and r = 0.97 for females). Although both the exponential curve of best fit for growth estimated for males (r = 0.81), and the linear curve of best fit estimated for females (r = 0.77) in a population from Cadiz (Busack and Jaksic, 1982) are also significant. The overlap between growth curves and the general data cloud of the population showed that at the end of the year the proportion of individuals younger than one year was 80% and the proportion of individuals older than one year was 20%. Our data, in agreement with calculated maximum life spans for males (1.9 years) and females (2.1 years) in Cadiz, suggest a life span of approximately two years for both sexes. Females seem to reproduce only in a unique season in their lives, at this locality, as in Cadiz (Busack and Klosterman, 1987) they likely lay only one clutch, whereas females in Morocco (Bons, 1962) may produce two.
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