J.L.H.was supported by a Spanish MINECO grant IJCI-2015-23618;Project funds were provided by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science[CGL2012-32459,CGL2016-76918 AEI/FEDER,UE to P.S.F.].
The demographic trend of a species depends on the dynamics of its local populations,which can be compromised by local or by global phenomena.However,the relevance of local and global phenomena has rarely been investig...
The present study aims to determine,by histological examination,the female reproductive cycle of specimens of Kulzer’s rock lizards collected in a mountainous region in Lebanon.Females of Phoenicolacerta kulzeri foll...
This work is framed within projects CGL2017-88122-P and BFU 2009-09359 financed by the Spanish Government.
Despite it is widely accepted that intrapopulation variation is fundamental to ecological and evolutionary processes,this level of information has only recently been included into network analysis of species/populatio...
supported by the Ministry of Education and Sciences of Kazakhstan (Grant No. 1850/GF4);the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDPA20050201);the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (Grant No. 2015DFR30790);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31672270)
Phenotypic traits are usually correlated with the environment where organism occurs. In this study, the distribution of Eremias velox in the eastern periphery of its range was specified, and its morphological variatio...
Financial support was provided by grants from Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation (LY17C030003);Natural Science Foundation of China (31270571);Science and Technology Bureau of Sanya (2013YD08)
Measuring climatic niche position and breadth may help to determine where species can occur over space and time. Using GIS-based and phylogenetic comparative methods, we investigated global patterns of variation in cl...
supported by grants from Chinese Ministry of Education (20070319006);the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions
Phylogeographic studies of Eremias lizards (Lacertidae) in East Asia have been limited, and the impact of major climatic events on their population dynamics remains poorly known. This study aimed to investigate popu...
supported by the Korean Ministry of Environment as "The Eco-Technopia 21 Project (#052-091-080)"
Information on habitat use is critical in sizing protected areas for endangered reptile species. To investigate habitat use, home range, and hibernaculum of the endangered Mongolian Racerunner(Eremias argus), we radio...
Acknowledgements The work was carried out in compli- ance with laws of China. Financial support for this research was provided by the local government of Anhui Province to XF Xu (KJ2010A249) and Anhui Province Natural Science Foundation to LG Luo (10040606Q46). Thanks to Cheng- Feng Tang, Li Ma, Yong-Long Chert, Xian-Yu Tian and Yong Jin for help with this research.
Sexual size dimorphism (SSD) has long attracted the attention of biologists, and life-history variation is thought to play an important role in the evolution of SSD. Here we quantified SSD and female reproductive tr...
A new record of Acanthodactylus cantoris from Sistan and Baluchistan in southeastern Iran is presented in this paper,and this lizard is found occurring in the coastal area of the Persian Gulf from Govater to Chabahar....
Based on extensive field work in the northern Zagros Mountains, a new subspecies of Darevskia raddei (Boettger, 1892) from the west Azerbaijan Province, northwestern Iran is described. The new subspecies is distingu...