Scientific research

 

Here I'll keep posting all my published scientific work to date. You can also visit my Researchgate profile and my Google scholar. Feel free to ask me for the complete text of any of my papers. 

 

 

Research papers

 

Albero L., Martínez-Solano Í., Tarroso P., Bécares E. 2025 Traditional agro-livestock areas support functional landscape connectivity for syntopic pond-breeding amphibians in Mediterranean ecosystems. Conservation Genetics, 26:643-656. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-025-01693-3   

 

Gálvez, Á., Alonso, M., Bisbal-Chinesta, J. F., Burgos, J., Candel, D., Gil, B., Gómez-Mercader, A., Mondéjar, Á., Ortega, C., Sánchez, R., Real, M., Rosillo, E., Vicent-Castelló, P., and Albero, L. 2023. Man-made infrastructures as accidental traps for herpetofauna in eastern Spain: incidence and modelling. Amphibia-Reptilia, 44(3):289–300. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685381-bja10139 

 

Albero, L., Martínez-Solano, Hermida M., A., Vera, M., Tarroso, P. and Bécares, E. 2023. Open areas associated with traditional agriculture promote functional connectivity among amphibian demes in Mediterranean agrosystems. Landscape Ecology, 38: 3045-3059. https:// doi.org/ 10. 1007/ s10980- 023- 01725-8.

 

Albero, L., Martínez-Solano, I., Arias, A., Lizana, M., and Bécares, E. 2021. Amphibian Metacommunity Responses to Agricultural Intensification in a Mediterranean Landscape. Land, 2021, 9: 924. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10090924 

 

Bisbal-chinesta, J.F., Tamar, K., Gálvez, Á., Albero, L., Vicent-castelló, P., Martín-burgos, L., Alonso, M., Sánchez, R., Ortega, C., Blain, H., 2019. Trade and stowaways : molecular evidence for human-mediated translocation of eastern skinks into the western Mediterranean. Amphibia-Reptilia. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685381-20191249 

 

 

Short notes

 

Benito, M., Pérez-Salerno, A., Gómez, S., Albero L., 2022. New cases of melanism in Chalcides striatus, Coronella austriaca, and Vipera seoanei from Burgos, northern Spain. Herpetology Notes 15, 687-689

 

Albero, L. 2022. Snakes on a plane: accidental translocation of a small colubrid (Macroprotodon cucullatus) via a commercial flight, with a review of similar events. Herpetology Notes 15, 23-26. 

 

Albero, L., Gálvez, Á., 2018. Nueva observación de competencia por interferencia en Natrix maura (Linnaeus, 1758). Butll. Soc. Catalana Herpetol. 25, 19–21. Link to paper: https://soccatherp.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/4-natrix-maura-competencia-intraespecifica.pdf 

 

Gálvez, Á., Albero, L., 2018. Nuevas citas de herpetofauna en la Plana de Requena-Utiel (Comunidad Valenciana). Bol. Asoc. Herpetol. Esp. 28, 25–32. Link to paper: http://www.herpetologica.org/BAHE/BAHE28(2)_[240]_05_Dist02.pdf

 

Bisbal-chinesta, J.F., Albero, L., Candel, D., 2017. Depredación por parte de un escorpión de agua Nepa cinerea (Heteroptera : Nepomorpha) de un Alytes obstetricans almogavarii. Bol. Asoc. Herpetol. Esp.  28, 22–25. Link to paper: 

http://www.herpetologica.org/BAHE/BAHE28(1)_[240]_04_HNat02.pdf


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