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Alan Bare Member Joined: 10 Jun 2005 No. of posts: 3  View other posts in this topic |
Posted: 10 Jun 2005
Topic: Hello Everyone
HI! Im new to this forum so i thought i would introduce myself. I am a mature student at Durham Uni reading Environmental Science and currently live in Middlesbrough. I am a keen Herpetoculturalist and have several years experience in the hobby, i have been a lifelong naturalist and am a member of the North East Reptile Group (NERG). If there are any of you members from my neck of the woods, give me a shout it would be good to hear from you. Additionally, i am about to start my dissertation roughly themed on... relationships between amphibians and invertebrate interactions in upland pools (this is a rough outline as i am just beginning to form a definitive research objective), so if any of you can offer advise or direct me in the direction of relative research papers/journals your help will be appreciated. I look forward to talking to you all in the near future. Kind Regards Alan Bare |
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Alan Bare Member Joined: 10 Jun 2005 No. of posts: 3 View other posts in this topic |
Posted: 11 Jun 2005
Topic: Iom Mick, hi! my good fellow herperos!
Hi Mick, I also joined yesterday so....hello from a fellow newbie!!!! Alan |
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Alan Bare Member Joined: 10 Jun 2005 No. of posts: 3 View other posts in this topic |
Posted: 11 Jun 2005
Topic: Size and growth rate of sub adults
Hi folks, right, im working as a research assistant during my summer hols identifying inverts for a conservation monitoring scheme. While sorting the samples as the pitfall traps come in i have found a sub-adult L.vivipara. Now my question is..... if adults give birth to newborn that measure around 4cm, then a specimen measuring 6.5cm must be this years young right? i have bred geckos and i know that they grow very rapidly over the first few months although i dont know if lacertids have the same growth rate. The reason why i ask is that i am sorting mays invert traps now and it was in one of those. Now i believe that the adults give birth in july and this specimen is 2cm bigger than a new born so it must have been around for a little while earlier than may. It was from Hedley Hope in county Durham which isnt the warmest of places so i found it interesting that it could be from an early brood. Any thoughts? Alan |
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