I did not know many of these things about Lesbos when I first visited it as one of the faculty mentors of a National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experiences for Undergraduates … >>> Gonzalez Betancourt, V. H. American Entomologist, 69 (2), 38–39 (2023) Recent related articles in this category All articles in this category >>>
The Persian Squirrel (Sciurus anomalus) is a Southwest Asian species of squirrel with a single European Union population on the island of Lesvos in Greece. We evaluated the impact of land cover and tree density habitat variables on squirrel spatial distribution on the island. Our analysis was based on 240 localities of recorded occurrence of…
Vatera is a Late Pliocene (~2 Ma) locality in the southern part of Lesvos Island, Greece, in which a mainland fauna of large vertebrates has been found and systematically excavated. The fauna is composed of the typical European mammals of that time: horses (Equus), giraffes (Mitilanotherium), gazelles (Gazella), antelopes (Gazellospira), oxes (Leptobos), raccoon dogs (Nyctereutes),…