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Of Herpetology and SEH Ordinary General Meeting 14th european congress of herpetology and SEH ordinary general meeting 19-23 september 2007 porto, portugal programme & abstracts 19-23 September, 2007 Fundação Dr. António Cupertino de Miranda Porto - Portugal Organizing Committee Miguel A. Carretero (Portugal) José C. Brito (Portugal) Scientific Committee E. Nicholas Arnold (UK) José C. Brito (Portugal) Carles Carreras (Spain) Miguel A. Carretero (Portugal) Ylenia Chiari (USA) Nuno Ferrand (Portugal) D. James Harris (Portugal) Ulrich Joger (Germany) Petros Lymberakis (Greece) Adolfo Marco (Spain) Marcio Martins (Brazil) Robert W. Murphy (Canada) Göran Nilson (Sweden) Johannes Penner (Germany) Anton Stumpel (The Netherlands) Secretariat Bárbara Mendonça (Portugal) Executive Commission Diana Barbosa (Portugal), Silvia Carvalho (Portugal), Miguel Fonseca (Portugal), Anti- goni Kaliontzopoulou (Portugal), Alexandra Lima (Portugal), Alexandra Marques (Portugal), Fernando Martínez-Freiria (Spain), Ana Perera (Portugal), Catarina Rato (Portugal), Raquel Ribeiro (Portugal), Sara Rocha (Portugal), Neftalí Sillero (Portugal), Claudia Soares (Portugal), José Teixeira (Portugal), Raquel Vasconcelos (Portugal) 14th European Congress of Herpetology, Porto (Portugal), 19-23 September 2007. Ab- stract Book. PUBLISHED BY CIBIO, Campus Agrário de Vairão, R.ua Padre Armando Quintas, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal. PRINTED BY Tipografia Camões. Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. LEGAL DEPOSIT September 2007 Welcome Welcome Herpetologists! Two years ago, after the very successful 13th meeting of the European herpetologists held in Bonn where we were simple participants, the venue for the next congress was still uncertain. Three months later, our group decided to propose Porto as the venue for the 2007 meeting and found a warm support from the SEH Council. Not without a feel- ing of responsibility, now, the CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Re- cursos Genéticos (Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources) is very happy to host the 14th European Congress of Herpetology, including the Ordinary Gen- eral Meeting of Societas Europaea Herpetologica. Because you are many and CIBIO is small, the congress venue will be the Cupertino Miranda Foundation (Porto). Our group, mostly composed of young, enthusiastic Portuguese students developing their MSc and PhD theses at CIBIO, reinforced with the contribution of foreign re- searchers, will be at your disposal in the different organisation tasks. The University of Porto, the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), and several private institutions including Fundação Dr. António Cupertino de Miranda, Chimaira Verlag, Brill Publish- ers, Porto Turismo, Sogrape Vinhos and the Comissão de Viticultura da Região dos Vin- hos Verdes, among others, are providing the necessary economic and material support. All of them make this event possible. So, we welcome you most cordially and hope that the congress in out city will be scien- tifically successful, intellectually stimulant and personally enjoyable. So, we wish. Miguel A. Carretero and José C. Brito (The Organizing Committee) GENERAL INFORMATION Venue The 14th European Congress of Herpetology will be held at: Fundação Dr. António Cupertino de Miranda (Cupertino Miranda Foundation), Avenida da Boavista, 4245. PT-4100-140 Porto (Portugal) Tel.: (+351) 226101189; Fax: (+351) 226103412; Site: www.facm.pt Registration The registration desk is situated at Cupertino Miranda Foundation. It will be open: ♦ On Tuesday 18, September: 17:00-19:00 h; ♦ From Wednesday 19 to Saturday 22, September: 8:30-19:00 h; ♦ On Sunday 23 September, the desk will be closed (field excursion). Updated information and eventual changes in the programme will be posted in a board be near the registration desk. Participants are expected to pay their fees in cash upon arrival if they have not done it previously. They will also be asked to book the excursion and to register for the farewell party. Full registration includes: ♦ admission to all the sessions; ♦ congress bag and tourist information; ♦ programme and abstract book; ♦ proceedings volume of the 14th ECH to appear in 2008; ♦ cruise in river Douro and visit to Porto Wine cave. For the accompanying persons there will be a special programme including the cruise in river Douro and the visit to Porto Wine caves. Meals For lunch, Cupertino Miranda Foundation has a convenient restaurant for 260 people, which participants are encouraged to use. Organisation will provide discount lunch tick- ets for all the participants. Several other restaurants are available in the surroundings. For dinner, the city has plenty to offer. Please visit: http://www.portoturismo.pt/ index.php?m=3&s=5 Transports Please visit: http://www.portoturismo.pt/index.php?m=3&s=8 and also the congress site: http://webpages.icav.up.pt/pessoas/herpmeeting/Herpmeeting_home.htm 14th European Congress of Herpetology and SEH Ordinary General Meeting, Porto (Portugal), 19-23 September 2007 2007 September 19-23 (Portugal), Porto Meeting, General Ordinary SEH and Herpetology of Congress European 14th 4 Changes in the programme Eventual changes will be announced in the information board next to the registration desk. Please, check. Congress photo A picture of all participants will be taken and put in the congress web-site to be downloaded. Posters Authors are requested to fix their posters (100 x 150 cm) at the Cupertino Miranda Foundation in the marked panels. Fixation materials will be provided. Oral presentations Speakers should provide a copy of their presentations (CD or USB flash disk) at least two hours before the presentation. It should be delivered at the congress PC room and tested the proper working. No private computers will be allowed. Technical advice will be available. Oral communications will last 10 minutes maximum, with additional 5 minutes for discussion. CALL FOR PAPERS: PROCEEDINGS VOLUME A Proceeding volume containing peer-reviewed papers presented to the 14th ECH will be published. The articles will be limited to 8 printed pages including tables and figures (maximum 20,000 characters including spaces minus 4000 characters by each figure). For other details including the text arrangement and the file for- mats, please, consult the instructions to the authors of Amphibia-Reptilia (http:// www.brill.nl/AuthorsInstructions/AMRE.pdf). Manuscripts are to be submitted electronically to: [email protected] Deadline for submission is November 30, 2007. 14th European Congress of Herpetology and SEH Ordinary General Meeting, Porto (Portugal), 19-23 September 2007 2007 September 19-23 (Portugal), Porto Meeting, General Ordinary SEH and Herpetology of Congress European 14th 5 Table of Contents PROGRAMME OVERVIEW 9 DETAILED PROGRAMME 11 PLENARY LECTURES & SPECIAL TALK 35 ORAL PRESENTATIONS 41 POSTER PRESENTATIONS 164 LIST OF PARTICIPANTS 324 AUTHOR INDEX 334 Programme Overview 14th European Congress of Herpetology and SEH Ordinary General Meeting, Porto (Portugal), 19-23 September 2007 Wednesday 19 September Thursday 20 September Friday 21 September Saturday 22 September Sunday 23 September 08:30 Arrival and registration Departure for 09:00 Plenary Lecture Plenary Lecture Plenary Lecture excursion (N.Ferrand) (R.Murphy & N.L.Orlov) (P.Lymberakis) 09:30 Opening Ceremony 10:00 Coffee break Coffee break Coffee break Plenary Lecture (E.N.Arnold) 10:20 Session 3a: 11:00 Coffee break Workshop: Session 4a: Workshop: Session 5a: Workshop: Ecology & Phylogeogr. Life History Monitoring Distribution Conservation Session 1a: Physiology Workshop: 11:20 Morphology & 10 Insular Snakes Systematics 12:20 Lunch break Lunch break Lunch break Lunch break Lunch Session 1b: Session 3b: Workshop: Workshop: Workshop: Session 5b: Workshop: 14:00 Morphology & Ecology & Insular Snakes Phylogeogr. Monitoring Distribution Conservation Systematics Physiology 16:00 Coffee break Coffee break Session 4b: Coffee break Coffee break Life History Session 1c: Special talk 16:20 Morphology & (W.Böhme) Systematics Poster Session 2: Workshop: Workshop: Workshop: session Behaviour Ecotoxicology Phylogeogr. Conservation 14th OGM 17:00 Roundtable: Workshop: SEH Indiv.identification Sea Turtles 18:00 Reception in Porto Wine cave 19:00 Cruise in river Douro Return from excursion 20:00 Farewell party Detailed Programme 14th European Congress of Herpetology and SEH Ordinary General Meeting, Porto (Portugal), 19-23 September 2007 Wednesday, 19 September (morning) 08:30 – 09:30 Arrival and registration ROOM 1 ROOM 2 09:30 – 10:00 Opening Ceremony 10:00 – 11:00 Plenary Lecture: Transmarine colonisation by reptiles and its consequences E. N. Arnold 11:00 – 11:20 Coffee break 12 11:20 – 12:20 Session 1a: Morphology & Systematics 11:20 – 12:20 Workshop: Insular Snakes Chairpersons: W. Böhme, J. Hallermann Chairpersons: M. Martins, G. Nilson 11:20 – 11:40 Comparative analysis of taxonomic and morphological diversity of 11:20 – 11:35 Seasonal and sexual patterns of microhabitat use by the golden agamids (Agamidae, Acrodonta, Sauria, Reptilia) of China, southeast lancehead, Bothrops insularis Asia and north Eurasia M. Martins & O. A. V. Marques N. Ananjeva & Y. Wang 11:40 – 12:00 Comparison of mitochondrial DNA, morphological and skeletal 11:35 – 11:50 Does a gigantic insular snake grow faster or live longer to be muscle protein data between island and mainland populations of the gigantic? Evidence from a long-term field study green toad, Bufo viridis, in Giresun, Turkey M. Hasegawa & A. Mori U. Bulbul, B. Kutrup, E. Çakır, Z. Çolak- Yılmaz & H. Onay-
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