Editing Alpine salamander (section)

=== Habitat ===
As [[Terrestrial animal|terrestrial]] organisms, these salamanders live on land.<ref name="DE MEESTER-2020" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Werner |first1=Philine |last2=Lötters |first2=Stefan |last3=Schmidt |first3=Benedikt R. |last4=Engler |first4=Jan O. |last5=Rödder |first5=Dennis |date=2013-03-27 |title=The role of climate for the range limits of parapatric European land salamanders |journal=Ecography |volume=36 |issue=10 |pages=1127–1137 |doi=10.1111/j.1600-0587.2013.00242.x |issn=0906-7590}}</ref> ''S. atra'' tend to live underneath stones or logs, or in rocky crevices in their mountainous habitat.<ref name="DE MEESTER-2020" /> They also are [[Diurnality|diurnal]], and most active in the day with periods of inactivity, rest, or sleep at night.<ref name="Romano-2018" /> They will engage in nocturnal activity on a weather-dependent basis.<ref name="Helfer-2012">{{Cite journal |last1=Helfer |first1=V. |last2=Broquet |first2=T. |last3=Fumagalli |first3=L. |date=October 2012 |title=Sex-specific estimates of dispersal show female philopatry and male dispersal in a promiscuous amphibian, the alpine salamander ( Salamandra atra ) |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05742.x |journal=Molecular Ecology |language=en |volume=21 |issue=19 |pages=4706–4720 |doi=10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05742.x|pmid=22934886 |s2cid=22175429 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> Ideal weather for alpine salamanders is rainy or post-rain, at temperatures between {{convert|3|and|18|°C|°F|1}}.<ref name="Romano-2018" />