Origin, Spread and Biology of the Invasive Plague Skink (Lampropholis delicata) in New Zealand

DG Chapple, JT Reardon, JE Peace - New Zealand lizards, 2016 - Springer
… al. 2016), the plague skink (Lampropholis delicata) is the only … The plague skink (known as
the delicate skink in its native … , especially compared to other widespread Australian species (…

Intraspecific hybridisation of an invasive lizard on Lord Howe Island

K Chaplin, KS Date, RD Bray, KA Miller… - Australian Journal of …, 2022 - CSIRO Publishing
… should continue to be treated as a single, widespread, but … Here we investigate whether
individuals from genetically divergent … Our previous phylogeographic study indicated substantial …

How do the physiological traits of a lizard change during its invasion of an oceanic island?

A Young, RO Anderson, A Naimo, LA Alton, CT Goulet… - Oecologia, 2022 - Springer
… Here, we studied the case of the delicate skinks (Lampropholis delicata) invading Lord
Howe Island (LHI), Australia. On LHI, the climate is different from the mainland source of the …

[PDF][PDF] Invasion Ecology of the Plague Skink (Lampropholis delicata) in Hawai 'i

T Smith - 2016 - scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu
… plague skink, Lampropholis delicata, an uncharacterized, cryptic, predatory invasive lizard
that is widespread in … delicata), also known as the delicate skink, metallic skink, and rainbow …

[PDF][PDF] A new species of skink lizard Calyptotis De Vis, 1886 from Queensland, Australia (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae).

RT HOSER - Australasian Journal of Herpetology - smuggled.com
… month stint, morphologically divergent lizards previously identified … of isolation for both putative
Lampropholis delicata” and C. … ) and the phylogenetic placement of the crocodile skinks (…

Behavioral syndromes vary among geographically distinct populations in a reptile

M Michelangeli, DG Chapple, CT Goulet… - Behavioral …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
… stable and could explain behavioral divergence in activity and … a widespread reptile, delicate
skink, Lampropholis delicata. … and that an individual’s personality corresponds with their …

Patterns of niche filling and expansion across the invaded ranges of an Australian lizard

R Tingley, MB Thompson, S Hartley, DG Chapple - Ecography, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… history of the delicate skink Lampropholis delicata to examine … forecasts than incorporating
phylogenetic differentiation, or … delicata, niche unfilling was more prevalent than niche …

Acclimation of thermal physiology to new basking regimes in a widespread Australian skink

RO Anderson, CT Goulet, DG Chapple - Journal of Thermal Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
skink Lampropholis delicata, which is a good model organism for such studies as it is a
widespread … We observed that delicate skinks from the low-basking regime exhibited narrower …

[HTML][HTML] Biological invasions as a selective filter driving behavioral divergence

DG Chapple, AC Naimo, JA Brand… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
… an invasive lizard (Lampropholis delicata) across three independent … of behavioral traits in
a widespread invasion. Given that … We collected 520 delicate skinks (Lampropholis delicata) …

Genetic structure, diversity and distribution of a threatened lizard affected by widespread habitat fragmentation

AF Senior, N Clemann, MG Gardner, KA Harrisson… - Conservation …, 2022 - Springer
Phylogenetic structure was evident within L. coventryi, with two main groups corresponding
to … Using mtDNA sequence divergence rates, we estimated the divergence time between the …