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200 00$aEvolutionary Ecology of Lizards
210   $aBasel$cMDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute$d2022
215   $a1 online resource (88 p.)
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330   $aExcept for latitudinal and elevational extremes, lizards range across a vast variety of biotopes worldwide, including environments as disparate as deserts, prairies, temperate woodlands, rainforests, or anthropic habitats. Although most species thrive on the ground, numerous lizards are fossorial, arboreal, and even aquatic, found in either fresh- or seawater. With lizards being ectotherms, accurate thermoregulation and other physiological adaptations are in most cases fundamental for their survival in such a variety of habitats. Moreover, lizard coloration may mediate thermoregulation, reproduction, and social status, among others. Lizards have also evolved some unusual antipredator adaptations, such as tail autotomy. Consequently, the astonishing morphological, ecological, and functional diversity of lizards results from extremely intense selective pressures, oftentimes opposing, many of whose interrelationships have yet to be disentangled. This Special Issue provides the international scientific community with an integrative meeting point to discuss and synthesize the current knowledge on the evolutionary pathways and mechanisms that led to today's lizards.
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610   $aaltitudinal gradient
610   $aautotomy
610   $aBent-toed geckos
610   $acolouration
610   $aconservation
610   $aenhanced vegetation index
610   $ahigh elevation
610   $ahyperoxia
610   $aIndo-Australian Archipelago
610   $aIndochina
610   $akarst
610   $aLacerta
610   $alizard
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610   $aMediterranean
610   $an/a
610   $aniche partitioning
610   $aperformance
610   $aphylogeny
610   $apredation
610   $aPsammodromus algirus
610   $aSauria
610   $asocial signals
610   $aSoutheast Asia
610   $asprint performance
610   $atail
610   $atemperature
610   $athermal performance curve
610   $athermal preference
610   $aTimon
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615  7$aBiology, life sciences
615  7$aResearch and information: general
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