Traits of lizards of the world: Variation around a successful evolutionary design

How many species of mammals are there?

(2018) Connor J Burgin et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Diversification rates are more strongly related to microhabitat than climate in squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes)

(2017) Melissa Bars-Closel et al.   EVOLUTION

The Eurasian hot nightlife: Environmental forces associated with nocturnality in lizards

(2017) Enav Vidan et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Population density-range size relationship revisited

(2017) Maria Novosolov et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The fast-slow life-history continuum in insular lizards: a comparison between species with invariant and variable clutch sizes

(2017) Rachel Schwarz et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The global distribution of tetrapods reveals a need for targeted reptile conservation

(2017) Uri Roll et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Life-History Patterns of Lizards of the World

(2016) Daniel O. Mesquita et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Fully-sampled phylogenies of squamates reveal evolutionary patterns in threat status

(2016) João Filipe Riva Tonini et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Late Quaternary reptile extinctions: size matters, insularity dominates

(2016) Alex Slavenko et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Small, rare and trendy: traits and biogeography of lizards described in the 21st century

(2016) S. Meiri   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Combining phylogenomic and supermatrix approaches, and a time-calibrated phylogeny for squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes) based on 52 genes and 4162 species

(2016) Yuchi Zheng et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

How the most northern lizard, Zootoca vivipara, overwinters in Siberia

(2016) Daniil I. Berman et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles

(2015) Nathan P. Myhrvold et al.   ECOLOGY

Body sizes and diversification rates of lizards, snakes, amphisbaenians and the tuatara

(2015) Anat Feldman et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Late bloomers and baby boomers: ecological drivers of longevity in squamates and the tuatara

(2014) Inon Scharf et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes

(2013) R Pyron et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Are lizards feeling the heat? A tale of ecology and evolution under two temperatures

(2013) Shai Meiri et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

PASTIS: an R package to facilitate phylogenetic assembly with soft taxonomic inferences

(2013) Gavin H. Thomas et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The conservation status of the world’s reptiles

(2012) Monika Böhm et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The island syndrome in lizards

(2012) Maria Novosolov et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Repeated Origin and Loss of Adhesive Toepads in Geckos

(2012) Tony Gamble et al.   PLoS One

The ecology of lizard reproductive output

(2011) Shai Meiri et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Evolution of reproductive life histories in island birds worldwide

(2011) R. Covas   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A comparative study of clutch size, range size, and the conservation status of island vs. mainland lacertid lizards

(2010) Ignacio Siliceo et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Erosion of Lizard Diversity by Climate Change and Altered Thermal Niches

(2010) B. Sinervo et al.   SCIENCE

RATES AND PATTERNS IN THE EVOLUTION OF SNAKE-LIKE BODY FORM IN SQUAMATE REPTILES: EVIDENCE FOR REPEATED RE-EVOLUTION OF LOST DIGITS AND LONG-TERM PERSISTENCE OF INTERMEDIATE BODY FORMS

(2008) Matthew C. Brandley et al.   EVOLUTION

Evolution and ecology of lizard body sizes

(2008) Shai Meiri   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Clutch-size: A Comparative Study, with Special Reference to African Birds

(2008) R. E. Moreau   IBIS

The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space

(2008) Walter Jetz et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY