Age and size-related life-history traits of animals are influenced by a variety of factors. In
connection with climate, the effect of altitude on demographic parameters may differ among …

The Amazon forest has the highest biodiversity on Earth. However, information on
Amazonian vertebrate diversity is still deficient and scattered across the published, peer …

Geckos are a hyper-diverse, ancient, and globally distributed group. They have diverged
early from other squamates and thus can be expected to differ from them along multiple …

We here describe a new gekkotan lizard from the earliest Eocene (MP 7) of the Dormaal
locality in Belgium, from the time of the warmest global climates of the past 66 million years …

Hoplodactylus delcourti is a presumably extinct species of diplodactylid gecko known only
from a single specimen of unknown provenance. It is by far the largest known gekkotan …

In animals, the success of particular lineages can be measured in terms of their number of
species, the extent of their geographic range, the breadth of their habitats and ecological …

We describe a new species of leaf-toed gecko of the genus Phyllodactylus from María
Cleofas Island, the smallest island of Tres Marías Archipelago, Nayarit, México. Genomic …

Aim Climatic variation has long been regarded as a primary source of morphological
variation. However, there is mixed support for the adherence of reptiles to ecogeographical …

Recent years have witnessed a multitude of studies focusing on gekkotan adhesion. Intense
interest in this phenomenon was triggered by the discovery of the manner and magnitude of …

Exploitation of different locomotor substrates in different ecological niches has driven the
evolution of specialized morphological structures, and similar ecological demands, such as …