TY  - GEN
AU  - Zamora-Camacho,Francisco Javier
AU  - Comas,Mar
AU  - Zamora-Camacho,Francisco Javier
AU  - Comas,Mar
TI  - Evolutionary Ecology of Lizards
SN  - books978-3-0365-4052-8
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Basel
PB  - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
KW  - Research & information: general
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Biology, life sciences
KW  - Animals & society
KW  - enhanced vegetation index
KW  - Lacerta
KW  - Mediterranean
KW  - niche partitioning
KW  - Sauria
KW  - Timon
KW  - colouration
KW  - social signals
KW  - Psammodromus algirus
KW  - lizards
KW  - altitudinal gradient
KW  - Indochina
KW  - Southeast Asia
KW  - phylogeny
KW  - Indo-Australian Archipelago
KW  - Bent-toed geckos
KW  - karst
KW  - conservation
KW  - high elevation
KW  - hyperoxia
KW  - sprint performance
KW  - thermal performance curve
KW  - thermal preference
KW  - lizard
KW  - autotomy
KW  - tail
KW  - locomotion
KW  - performance
KW  - temperature
KW  - predation
KW  - n/a
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Except for latitudinal and elevational extremes, lizards range across a vast variety of biotopes worldwide, including environments as disparate as deserts, prairies, temperate woodlands, rainforests, or anthropic habitats. Although most species thrive on the ground, numerous lizards are fossorial, arboreal, and even aquatic, found in either fresh- or seawater. With lizards being ectotherms, accurate thermoregulation and other physiological adaptations are in most cases fundamental for their survival in such a variety of habitats. Moreover, lizard coloration may mediate thermoregulation, reproduction, and social status, among others. Lizards have also evolved some unusual antipredator adaptations, such as tail autotomy. Consequently, the astonishing morphological, ecological, and functional diversity of lizards results from extremely intense selective pressures, oftentimes opposing, many of whose interrelationships have yet to be disentangled. This Special Issue provides the international scientific community with an integrative meeting point to discuss and synthesize the current knowledge on the evolutionary pathways and mechanisms that led to today's lizards
UR  - https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/5472
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/84489
ER  -