User profiles for Matthijs P. van den Burg

MP van den Burg

MSc, current PhD student at MNCN
Verified email at biocore.es
Cited by 323

How to source and collate natural history information: a case study of reported prey items of Erythrolamprus miliaris (Linnaeus, 1758)

MP van den Burg - 2020 - digital.csic.es
Knowledge about species’ natural history, like observations of predator-prey interactions,
helps us to understand the width of food webs and ecological niches. However, collating (un)…

Post-hurricane relief facilitates invasion and establishment of two invasive alien vertebrate species in the Commonwealth of Dominica, West Indies

MP van den Burg, JLK Brisbane, CR Knapp - Biological Invasions, 2020 - Springer
Invasive alien species (IAS) are a main driver of current global change and contribute
significantly to decreases in biodiversity worldwide. To prevent new introductions and …

The continuing march of Common Green Iguanas: arrival on mainland Asia

MP van den Burg, SM Van Belleghem… - Journal for Nature …, 2020 - Elsevier
The popularity of the Common Green Iguana (Iguana iguana) as a pet has contributed to its
global occurrence as an invasive alien species. Early detection and control of alien I. iguana …

The Lesser Antillean Iguana (Iguana delicatissima) on St. Eustatius: Genetically Depauperate and Threatened by Ongoing Hybridization

MP van den Burg, PG Meirmans… - Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
… Iguana iguana photo taken by TP van Wagensveld, all other photos by MP van den Burg. …
Iguana iguana photo taken by TP van Wagensveld, all other photos by MP van den Burg. …

An integrative approach to assess non‐native iguana presence on Saba and Montserrat: Are we losing all native Iguana populations in the Lesser Antilles?

MP van den Burg, M Goetz, L Brannon… - Animal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
… allele scoring were performed following van den Burg et al. (… with those from IguanaBase
(van den Burg et al., 2021c) to … an additional assignment analysis following van den Burg et al. (…

[PDF][PDF] The global need to address threats from invasive alien iguanas

…, N Thomas‐Moko, MP van den Burg… - Animal …, 2021 - library.iucn-isg.org
Common Green Iguanas (Iguana iguana) and Spiny-tailed Iguanas (Ctenosaura similis and
C. pectinata) are native to Neotropical regions. These reptiles have been redistributed …

Illegal trade of morphologically distinct populations prior to taxonomic assessment and elevation, with recommendations for future prevention

MP van den Burg, BJ Weissgold - Journal for Nature Conservation, 2020 - Elsevier
The negative impacts of international wildlife trafficking are well known, and such negative
impacts can be even more pronounced for insular species. This dynamic market needs close …

[HTML][HTML] ACDC, a global database of amphibian cytochrome-b sequences using reproducible curation for GenBank records

MP van den Burg, S Herrando-Pérez, DR Vieites - Scientific Data, 2020 - nature.com
Genetic data are a crucial and exponentially growing resource across all biological sciences,
yet curated databases are scarce. The widespread occurrence of sequence and (meta)…

A genus-wide analysis of genetic variation to guide population management, hybrid identification, and monitoring of invasions and illegal trade in Iguana (Reptilia …

MP van den Burg, F Grandjean, D Schikorski… - Conservation Genetics …, 2021 - Springer
… free availability on figshare (van den Burg et al. 2021a). … all five loci compared to results in
van den Burg et al. (2018b), … hybridization on both islands (van den Burg et al. 2018b, 2020a), …

Hurricane‐associated population decrease in a critically endangered long‐lived reptile

MP van den Burg, H Madden, TP van Wagensveld… - Biotropica, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… Eustatius, possibly due to the population's low genetic diversity (van den Burg, Meirmans,
et al., 2018; van Wagensveld & van den Burg, 2018), although a detailed study on fecundity …