Temperature profoundly affects the rate and trajectory of embryonic development, and
thermal extremes can be fatal. In viviparous species, maternal behaviour and physiology …

In recent decades, changes in climate have caused impacts on natural and human systems
on all continents and across the oceans and many species have shifted their geographic …

The designation of taxonomic units has important implications for the understanding and
conservation of biodiversity. Eurasian vipers are a monophyletic group of viperid snakes …

Predicting population dynamics is a fundamental problem in applied ecology. Temperature
is a potential driver of short‐term population dynamics, and temperature data are widely …

Destruction of habitat due to urban sprawl, pollution, and deforestation has caused
population declines or even extinction of many of the world's approximately 2,600 snake …

Most species reproduce seasonally, even in the tropics where activity occurs year‐round.
Squamate reptiles provide ideal model organisms to clarify the ultimate (adaptive) reasons …

Understanding the process animals follow to select habitat, rather than just documenting the
habitat they use, will improve our ability to predict how the animals use habitat in other …

Globally, biodiversity is declining, and a major driver of this decline is climate change;
consequently, we need ways to evaluate the vulnerability of species to this change. We …

Numerous works have related phylogeographical patterns of north African Mediterranean
biota to Pleistocene climatic oscillations. The application of complementary paleoclimate …

Most reptiles are oviparous (egg-laying), but viviparity (live-bearing) has evolved about 100
times in lizards and snakes. Geographic biases in the distribution of viviparous species …