Tarentola diet

Here, we examined the possible effects of anthropogenic disturbances and modifications of a natural habitat, which still might look as natural, in comparison with a truly unaltered natural habitat, on the feeding ecology of Tarentola mauritanica geckos. For this, we compared two contiguous small islands with similar environmental characteristics (climate, vegetation, topography, etc), but highly contrasting differences in urbanization and anthropogenic influence (actual unaltered natural habitats vs. apparently natural habitats but with anthropic disturbances; see methods). In each island, we estimated habitat structure, availability of invertebrates in the habitat, and the diet composition (based on fecal contents), diet selection patterns and body size and condition of geckos.