AMPHIBIANS OF RAMSAR SITE “BARDAČA WETLAND” – A CHECKLIST WITH ECOLOGICAL NOTES

Abstract

The goal of this study was to create a faunistic list of amphibians of the Ramsar site "Bardača Wetland" based on literature data and original field studies by the authors, with reference to certain aspects of the ecology of the recorded species. Field data were collected using the transect method, in the period from 2012 to 2022, providing data on nine species of amphibians. Presence of five species previously cited in literature sources was not confirmed. Therefore, the batrachofauna of the Ramsar site "Bardača Wetland" reliably consists of nine species of amphibians: two species of caudate amphibians (Lissotriton vulgaris and Triturus dobrogicus) and seven species of anurans (Bombina bombina, Bufo bufo, Bufotes viridis, Hyla arborea, Pelophylax kl. esculentus, Pelophylax ridibundus and Rana dalmatina). In this paper, the ecological data collected in the field (habitat types of adults and larvae, the season of their activity within the annual cycle, general state of populations of some species) and corresponding ecological data from literature sources are systematically presented, separately for each species.