HABITAT DIFFERENTIATION IN GENETIC LINEAGES OF THE CRIMEAN ROCK LIZARD DAREVSKIA LINDHOLMI (SAURIA, LACERTIDAE)
Journal: Russian Journal of Ecosystem Ecology
Year: 2024

The diversity of habitats affects the maintenance of biological diversity and the stability of ecosystems. Therefore, study of the ecological characteristics of the species habitats have a great importance. The object in the scope of our research is the Crimean rock lizard (Darevskia lindholmi), an endemic of the Crimean Mountains. Its genetic structure includes three differentiated and spatially isolated mitochondrial lineages – the “Central”, the “Southwestern”, and the “Common”. In addition,