The Caatinga is the largest seasonal dry tropical forest in South America and it has been
historically neglected in terms of its biodiversity. Regarding lizards, different studies led to …

Galápagos snakes are among the least studied terrestrial vertebrates of the Archipelago.
Here, we provide a phylogenetic analysis and a time calibrated tree for the group, based on …

Urbanization, with its cohort of environmental stressors, has a dramatic effect on wildlife,
causing loss of biodiversity and decline in population abundance customarily associated …

The recognition of cryptic diversity within geographically widespread species is gradually
becoming a trend in the highly speciose Neotropical biomes. The statistical methods to …

Behavior can help to establish dominance in intrasexual interactions, preventing more costly
aggressive interactions and improving access to mates. Distinct color morphs often correlate …

Zakaria N, Allahudin MIH, Ma'ad SNS, Sulaiman AA, Abdullah NA, Zamri MIM, Mamat MA,
Deraman MY. 2022. Diversity amphibians and reptiles at Sungai Kerteh mangrove forest …

In studies of animal behavior, a detailed description of behavioral displays of a species—the
ethogram—is a fundamental step in order to evaluate inter-and intra-sexual interactions. It …

In the middle course of the São Francisco River (SFR), inserted in the semiarid domain of
the Caatinga, there is an extensive field of palaeodunes which represents an important …

Only since the late 1980s have lizard specialists begun incorporating phylogenetic
information to the classification of leiosaurids. These are among the most enigmatic South …

Microendemism remains a poorly studied phenomenon within Brazil's Caatinga biome, yet
recent research has revealed a number of species complexes with diverging lineages …