Vodozemci smederevskog kraja – pregled dosadašnjih istraživanja, distribucija i biogeografska pripadnost
Amphibians of the Smederevo region - an overview of previous research, distribution and biogeographical affiliation
2021
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The territory of the municipality Smederevo is historically important for
the research of the batrachofauna of Serbia and the whole region. However,
after the extensive research conducted during the mid-XX century (Karaman,
1948), there were no further systematic research until the renewed
interest in the faunistic and biogeographic research during the last decade
that resulted in publishing The Red Books of Fauna of Serbia I and II – Amphibians
and Reptiles. Smederevo municipality is situated in the transitional
area between the ecoregions of the Pannonian steppe and forest-steppe and
the Balkan mixed forests. Still, it is among the least forested municipalities
in Serbia and urbanization and industrialization had led to the change in
the water regime of the surface waters and the great extent of polution by
the sewage and industrial waste.
Smederevo is still among the areas with large diversity of the amphibian
species – there have been detected 12 of 21 amphibian species for Serbia in
total, and association to different chorotipes, and associaton of these species
with different chorotypes confirms mixing of the faunal elements from
the North, East and South. However, as much as three amphibian species,
of which some were for the first time in our country detected in Smederevo
(Balkan Spadefoot Toad, Danube Crested Newt), are present only as the
literature entries, without subsequent confirmation in the field. This could
be a result of the lack of the aimed, systematic research since the species in
question are secretive, fossorial, aquatic or active only at night or during the
humid weather conditions, but it could also result from the change of the
water regime throughout the municipality and loss of the adequate habitat,
to which these species are especially vulnerable. It is also important to mention
the effect of the climate changes, that lead to the extreme temperatures
and frequent drougths that lead to the further draining of the wetlands and
surface waters. A few species of amphibians are potentially present in our municipality,
especially in the southern parts or along the Great Morava river. As for
the reptilian fauna of our municipality, it is necessary to conduct detailed,
systematic research of the amphibian fauna, in order to find out the exact
distribution of all amphibian species, especially those that are documented
only as the literature entries or their potential presence is expected in
our area.
Keywords:
Amphibia; Faunistika; Rasprostranjenje; Horotipi; KonzervacijaSource:
Smederevski zbornik, 2021, 7, 11-40Funding / projects:
- Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia, institutional funding - 200007 (University of Belgrade, Institute for Biological Research 'Siniša Stanković') (RS-MESTD-inst-2020-200007)