These results highlight the need for both a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying the origin of such an imbalance, and in identifying the critical thresholds that must not be crossed to guarantee the viability of sex-biased populations. Leer más.
We observed that climbing species present on average flatter heads than ground-dwelling species, as well as different evolutionary trajectories. These findings suggest the complex interplay between habitat use and morphological evolution in lizards, highlighting how distinct selective pressures drive divergent adaptations in different functional traits. Leer más.
Forest herpetofauna will likely face a northward distribution shift in the nearest decades. Forests of Northern Europe tend to become sanctuaries for herpetofauna diversity. By 2050 the greatest reduction in range is expected for Z. vivipara and V. berus. Leer más.
Adopting a conservative approach, we propose that the C. podiciferus species group contains at least 12 unconfirmed candidate species. Ancestral area reconstruction showed that the group originated and diversified in the highlands of the Talamancan montane forest ecoregion of Costa Rica and western Panama. Leer más.
