Guillaume Gomard wrote:What will be your definition of "Europe" (which countries will it cover)?
Not the Canary Islands, not Lampedusa, Linosa etc., not Cyprus. Included, however, are the Asian Greek Islands in front of the Turkish western coast. The eastern border is a rather arbitrary longitudinal line of Crimea (Sea of Azov), although some fine tuning might happen. That means e.g. Salamandrella, Darevskia lindholmi, Elaphe dione and Vipera renardi are included. A smaller area than Glandt, as such. Going further east would mean that the book becomes too big for the layout we have in mind. For the same type of pragmatic reasons, also don't expect Ilian to draw every single morph of every single species. At this point, we are covering about 215 species, I believe.
Guillaume Gomard wrote:How are you going to proceed for the distribution maps
The maps will be constructed on a number of source, including the ones published last year by the SEH. This is not an atlas project, so no, we are not going to open the Pandora's box and collect point data.
Guillaume Gomard wrote:How could the people from the forum help you with this project?
Well, a number of you have already been helping. Some I will ask to review some material later on. Of course, I am not going to issue an open invitation, because (a) we don't need one and (b) it would be too much to handle. The forum itself is of course a valuable source of information (new insights in taxonomy, variability of species, ...). I have no clear enough idea at this point on how many pics we will include and how, but it is obvious that the authors already have a fair collection, I guess, with 3 of them having photographed nearly all of the species concerned.
Guillaume Gomard wrote:The vipera-lobby should be more active to have at least one viper on the cover
No worries, let's see how Ilian's drawing of gaditana turns out
Feel free to ask more, although we are not going to spoil the surprise too much, of course.