In recent decades, changes in climate have caused impacts on natural and human systems
on all continents and across the oceans and many species have shifted their geographic …

In this contribution, the aspects of reptile and amphibian speciation that emerged from
research performed over the past decade are reviewed. First, this study assesses how …

While most of the available studies on climate change effects on Lepidosauria focused on
changes in species distribution, none has focused on evaluating biogeographic and …

Temperature is a critical driver of ectotherm life‐history strategies, whereby a warmer
environment is associated with increased growth, reduced longevity and accelerated …

Climate change is rapidly transforming environments and poses a major threat to species
and ecosystems world-wide (Bellard et al., 2012; Parmesan & Yohe, 2003). Given the …

Environmental gradients constrain physiological performance and thus species' ranges,
suggesting that species occurrence in diverse environments may be associated with local …

Aim Until recently, complete information on global reptile distributions has not been widely
available. Here, we provide the first comprehensive climate impact assessment for reptiles …

Reptiles are sensitive to temperature changes as ectotherm animals. The climate warming
may pose more serious threat to reptiles. Although the behavior effect and reproduction …

Selection on complex traits can rapidly drive evolution, especially in stressful environments.
This polygenic selection does not leave intense sweep signatures on the genome, rather …

Species distributed across climatic gradients will typically experience spatial variation in
selection, but gene flow can prevent such selection from causing population genetic …