TY - JOUR
T1 - The role of indigenous and community conservation areas in herpetofauna conservation
T2 - A preliminary list for Santa Cruz tepetotutla, Oaxaca Mexico
AU - Simón-Salvador, Pablo Rogelio
AU - Arreortúa, Medardo
AU - Flores, Carlos A.
AU - Santiago-Dionicio, Hermes
AU - González-Bernal, Edna
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Pablo Rogelio Simón-Salvador et al.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The montane cloud forests of the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca (SMO) host a remarkable herpetofauna diversity and represent one of the most important areas of endemism for Mexico and Mesoamerica. Although the area has been previously studied, most of the extant records for this group are biased to locations accessed by paved roads. In addition, an important proportion of this territory is conserved by Indigenous and Community Conservation Areas (ICCA), but little information of the species occurring within these areas exists. Therefore, information on the distribution of many endemic taxa in this region to date is either underestimated or incomplete. With the aim of increasing the ecological and distributional knowledge of this group in remote areas, we carried out field surveys in Santa Cruz Tepetotutla Oaxaca, a locality 25 km in a straight line to the closest paved road that conserves 9,670 ha of land through the ICCAs modality. Surveys were made during 2018 and 2019, including both dry and wet seasons. A total of 40 species of amphibians and reptiles were recorded: 32.5% of these records represent distributional range extensions, while 20% represent altitudinal range extensions. A total of 17.5% are records of species under a high risk category, highlighting both the relevance of studying remote areas to increase species population knowledge and the role of community conservation actions for species persistence. Finally, our records include the rediscovery of Rhadinella schistosa, a species undetected for more than 50 years.
AB - The montane cloud forests of the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca (SMO) host a remarkable herpetofauna diversity and represent one of the most important areas of endemism for Mexico and Mesoamerica. Although the area has been previously studied, most of the extant records for this group are biased to locations accessed by paved roads. In addition, an important proportion of this territory is conserved by Indigenous and Community Conservation Areas (ICCA), but little information of the species occurring within these areas exists. Therefore, information on the distribution of many endemic taxa in this region to date is either underestimated or incomplete. With the aim of increasing the ecological and distributional knowledge of this group in remote areas, we carried out field surveys in Santa Cruz Tepetotutla Oaxaca, a locality 25 km in a straight line to the closest paved road that conserves 9,670 ha of land through the ICCAs modality. Surveys were made during 2018 and 2019, including both dry and wet seasons. A total of 40 species of amphibians and reptiles were recorded: 32.5% of these records represent distributional range extensions, while 20% represent altitudinal range extensions. A total of 17.5% are records of species under a high risk category, highlighting both the relevance of studying remote areas to increase species population knowledge and the role of community conservation actions for species persistence. Finally, our records include the rediscovery of Rhadinella schistosa, a species undetected for more than 50 years.
KW - Amphibians
KW - Endemic
KW - ICCAs
KW - Montane cloud forest
KW - Rediscovery
KW - Reptiles
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85104799901&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3897/zookeys.1029.62205
DO - 10.3897/zookeys.1029.62205
M3 - Artículo
C2 - 33935556
AN - SCOPUS:85104799901
SN - 1313-2989
VL - 2021
SP - 185
EP - 208
JO - ZooKeys
JF - ZooKeys
IS - 1029
ER -