Neil Rowntree wrote: seems you managed the herps/family balancing act quite well!
Let’s just say that opinions differ about that
Bobby Bok wrote:Peter Oefinger wrote:Beautiful variety of Salamanders - Why do they have so many species compared to Europe...
That would be the influence of the ice ages / lack of refugia I guess...
Yet, still it is puzzling how e.g. the running water niches are not more used in Europe. You even get salamanders that practically only eat salamanders; it’s amazing. I never tried to find out if the European fossil record suggests a richer salamander fauna prior to the glaciations.