Publications by authors named "Alexandre Cluchier"
Offset sizing tools: A review of practices used in the field and their operationality.
J Environ Manage
November 2023
The mitigation hierarchy (avoid, minimize, restore/rehabilitate and, lastly, offset or compensate) is one of the key regulatory mechanisms that exists to include biodiversity protection in land-use planning. Implementing the mitigation hierarchy requires the use by practitioners (developers, environmental consultants and government agencies) of operational mitigation assessment methods, or offset sizing methods. This study focused on one aspect of operationality: usefulness.
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- - The study analyzes genetic data from 80 sphaerodactylid geckos in the Pristurus genus, revealing that P. rupestris consists of two distinct clades: an eastern clade in coastal Iran and Oman, and a western clade spanning central Oman to southern Jordan.
- - The eastern and western P. rupestris clades are completely different genetically, lacking shared alleles, though they show definable morphological differences that aren't precisely diagnostic.
- - The research concludes that P. rupestris applies to the eastern clade, while the western clade is temporarily named Pristurus sp. 1, and it supports the idea that P. celerrimus is the oldest species in the
Recent genetic works have suggested that the Iberian wall lizard Podarcis hispanicus (Steindachner, 1870) sensu lato is a species complex. Several forms have already been elevated to species rank and linked to available nomina, but at least three still have to be formally named, including the western Iberian forms currently designated as Podarcis hispanicus "type 1A", "type 1B" and "type 2". The aim of the present work is to assign a valid nomen to these taxa.
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