SquamBase—A database of squamate (Reptilia: Squamata) traits

S Meiri - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Motivation I present a database that contains information on multiple key traits for all 11,744
recognised species of squamates worldwide. The database encompasses key traits and a …

[HTML][HTML] Global biogeographic regions for ants have complex relationships with those for plants and tetrapods

R Wang, JM Kass, C Chaudhary, EP Economo… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
On a global scale, biodiversity is geographically structured into regions of biotic similarity.
Delineating these regions has been mostly targeted for tetrapods and plants, but those for …

Diversity gradients of terrestrial vertebrates–substantial variations about a common theme

T Raz, A Allison, LJ Avila, AM Bauer, M Böhm… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental factors, such as temperature, precipitation, and elevation, explain most of the
variation in species richness at the global scale. Nevertheless, richness patterns may have …

Evoregions of fleas and their small mammalian hosts: Do they coincide?

BR Krasnov, GI Shenbrot - Parasitology, 2023 - cambridge.org
Combining the biogeography and phylogenetic patterns of parasite-host associations allows
a better understanding of the history of parasite–host interactions, which can be achieved …

Validating the timing of New World monkey dispersal routes by lineage dispersal modeling and description of the Amazonian eastward route

P Löwenberg-Neto - Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 2024 - Springer
New World monkeys (NWM) comprise a group of extant and extinct taxa exclusive to the
Neotropics. Lineage dispersal modeling was employed to test the validity of previously …