In a recent publication in Global Ecology and Biogeograpy, I present a vast dataset of over 20 body size, ecological, thermal biology, geographic, phylogenetic and life history traits for global lizards.
| Over the past 12 years I have been collecting trait data on lizards to complement GARD’s geographic data and allow asking interesting ecological, evolutionary and biogeographic questions – as well as, hopefully, informing conservation decisions. To this end I've now published geographical, morphological, ecological, physiological and life history data for the 6,657 known species of lizards. In the data paper I present descriptive statistics regarding these traits and point to avenues for future research using the dataset. |  Scincus scincus (Photo: Simon Jamison) |
I hope these data will facilitate more study into the biology of these most fascinating of creatures, and that the database publication will encourage others to add yet more data and to correct errors I surely have made when assembling them.
Author: Shai Meiri
Author: Shai Meiri
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