Background Color traits in animals play crucial roles in thermoregulation, photoprotection,
camouflage, and visual communication, and are amenable to objective quantification and …

Amniotes possess astonishing variability in sex determination ranging from environmental
sex determination (ESD) to genotypic sex determination (GSD) with highly differentiated sex …

Global change and human expansion have resulted in many species extinctions worldwide,
but the geographic variation and determinants of extinction risk in particular guilds still …

Sky Islands are high-elevation environments that are separated by warmer, low elevations,
forming natural patches of unique montane habitat that often persist through changing …

Altered environments in urban areas are known to impact and change animal behaviour. In
particular, artificial light at night (ALAN) affects behaviour across taxonomic groups …

Species delimitation and species concepts have been a matter of debate among biodiversity
researchers in the last decades, resulting in integrative taxonomy approaches and the use of …

Namibia is mostly an arid and semi-arid country with a high number of reptile and fewer
amphibian species. We review the herpetological literature dealing with Namibian species …

This study summarizes the data of multiple surveys carried out at the Isalo Massif
(southwestern Madagascar), both within and outside the National Park limits between 2004 …

Phylogenetic relationships of sub-Saharan African natricine snakes are understudied and
poorly understood, which in turn has precluded analyses of the historical biogeography of …

In the past decade, DNA barcoding became increasingly common as a method for species
identification in biodiversity inventories and related studies. However, mainly due to …