17/Oct/2019 - Shai explores the drivrs of neonate body size in amniotes and finds that larger size are probably the ancestral state of the group. published in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society    25/Oct/2019 - GARDians explore number and size of reptile offspring exhibiting viviparity. published in Journal of Animal ecology   

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 (~10,000 species).
The first version of this database has now been published 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