BACKGROUND Comparing patterns of terrestrial and marine defaunation helps to place
human impacts on marine fauna in context and to navigate toward recovery. Defaunation …

Over the past two decades, comparative biological analyses have undergone profound
changes with the incorporation of rigorous evolutionary perspectives and phylogenetic …

The primary rationale for the use of phylogenetically based statistical methods is that
phylogenetic signal, the tendency for related species to resemble each other, is ubiquitous …

1. Although the home range is a fundamental ecological concept, there is considerable
debate over how it is best measured. There is a substantial literature concerning the …

Aim The aim was to determine how reptile populations respond to anthropogenic habitat
modification and determine whether species traits and environmental factors influence such …

It is commonly argued that sexual size dimorphism (SSD) in lizards has evolved in response
to two primary, nonexclusive processes:(1) sexual selection for large male size, which …

Squamate reptiles (snakes, lizards, and amphisbaenians) serve as model systems for
evolutionary studies of a variety of morphological and behavioral traits, and phylogeny is …

Anthropogenic activity is driving population declines and extinctions of large-bodied, fruit-
eating animals worldwide. Loss of these frugivores is expected to trigger negative cascading …

Daily animal movements are usually limited to a discrete home range area that scales
allometrically with body size, suggesting that home-range size is shaped by metabolic rates …

Climate change is putting the fate of ectothermic animals at stake because their body
temperature closely tracks environmental temperatures. The ability to adjust thermal limits …