4/Oct/2022 - Anna Zimin explored the prevalence and drivers of live-bearing in repties. published in Global Ecology and Biogeography    1/May/2022 - Gabriel used advanced mehods to model IUCN threat status for all global reptiles. published in PLoS Biology    13/Oct/2021 - Gopal explores global tetrapod phylogenetic endemism patterns. published in Science Advances   

The Global Assessment of Reptile Distributions (GARD) has been working for over a decade now to create the first global distribution database of reptile species.
We are an informal, largely-unfunded consortium of scientists from across the world that work together to gather species-level data on the global reptile distributions (>11,500 species mapped, as of August 2021).
The first version of this database has now been published in 2017 in Nat. E&E exploring conservation priorities for all global tetrapods.

Global reptile richness, from Roll et al. 2017 Nat E&E

The new database is being analyzed to identify patterns and drivers of richness, endemism, congruence with other taxa, and threat, and to model distributions under climate change.

For further details contact Shai Meiri - uncshai@tauex.tau.ac.il

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For an ISF funded project we are looking for excellent graduate students and post-docs