23/Nov/2017 GARD members find that over 900 lizard species are known only from their type locality, out now in Diversity & Distributions    10/Oct/2017 Enav shows that nocturnal lizards in the Palearctic prefer tropical and desert habitats, published in Global Ecology and Biogeography    09/Oct/2017 First analysis of the global distributions of all tetrapods reveals the need for additional efforts to conserve reptile diversity, out now in Nature Ecology & Evolution    18/Sep/2017 - Rachel discovered that lizards which lay many eggs in one clutch lay fewer larger eggs on islands compared with their mainland counterparts, while lizards laying one or two eggs lay more frequently on islands compared to the mainland. published in the Journal of Biogeography    02/Feb/2017 - Alison shows that increasing numbers of species at lower latitudes do not influence lizard dietary niches, published in Global Ecology and Biogeography

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@post.tau.ac.il