Museum specimens and citizen science initiatives are valuable sources of information on
how anthropogenic activities affect biodiversity and how species respond to rapid global …

512 Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Snakes from ecological and ultimate
(evolutionary) perspectives, but also from the simply mechanistic standpoint of the dynamics …

A relatively large amount of variation occurs in the reproductive ecology of tropical snakes,
and this variation is generally regarded as being a consequence of seasonality in climate …

We describe, through hypothesis testing and observations on life-history traits, the ecology
of the snake Philodryas nattereri in a semi-arid region in north-east Brazil, where it is …

In snakes, behavioral differences between sex and body size can positively influence
locomotor performance and metabolic rate. Evidence suggests that larger body size can …

Snakes have increasingly been bred as pets around the world. Few studies have addressed
the reproduction of boid snakes, and no study has addressed their reproductive cycles in …

The ecology of the genus Thamnodynastes has received little study, and problems with its
taxonomy have generated imprecise and incorrect data. We analyzed the reproductive …

Approximately 140 snake species are known to occur in the Atlantic Forest with nearly half
being endemic to this ecoregion. However, the Atlantic forest is one of the most threatened …

Aspects of natural history of the vine snake Oxybelis fulgidus from the northern region of
Brazil were inferred based on the analysis of 106 preserved specimens (55 males and 51 …

Two hypotheses have been proposed to explain the differences among species within
present-day communities: the competition-predation hypothesis (CPH) and the deep history …