Diversity and evolution of macrohabitat use, body size and morphology in a monophyletic group of Neotropical pitvipers (Bothrops)

By M. Martins, M. S. Araújo, R. J. Sawaya, Renato Nunes. 2001

151 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Paleontology

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Shai Meiri
2. A. Feldman
3. M. Martins
4. Christopher L. Parkinson
5. Pasquale Raia
6. M. Novosolov

In Global and Planetary Change

1. A. Feldman
2. Shai Meiri
3. M. Martins
4. Christopher L. Parkinson
5. Pasquale Raia
6. M. Novosolov
7. Y. Itescu
8. D. Pincheira‐Donoso

In Paleontology

1. Jennafer A. Evans
2. Christopher L. Parkinson
3. Shai Meiri
4. Allyson M. Fenwick
5. R. Gutberlet
6. A. Feldman

Citations in the corpus

• Phylogeny and Ecology Determine Morphological Structure in a Snake Assemblage in the Central Brazilian Cerrado (2008, unknown): “For example, morphological shifts associated with arboreality or fossoriality have occurred independently in phylogenetically unrelated species, suggesting an ecological origin, whereas occurrence of specific morphologies throughout particular clades suggests origin much deeper in the evolutionary h”
• Diet and habitat use of two sympatric species of Philodryas (Colubridae), in south Brazil (2005, background): “The more slender body and longer tail length of P. olfersii may be explained by its markedly arboreal habits (Lillywhite and Henderson, 1993; Martins et al., 2001), as a slender body and mass reduction are advantageous for arboreal snakes (see Lillywhite and Henderson, 1993).”
• Morphological and molecular evidence for phylogeny and classification of South American pitvipers, genera Bothrops, Bothriopsis, and Bothrocophias (Serpentes: Viperidae) (2009, background): “Numerous ecological and evolutionary studies (e.g. Martins et al., 2001; Martins, Marques & Sazima, 2002; Araújo & Martins, 2006) have traditionally used these species groups as well, recognizing alternatus, neuwiedi, jararaca, atrox, jararacussu (part of the atrox group in Table 1), and taeniatus…”
• Length–mass allometry in snakes (2013, background): “Arboreal species, for example, are generally more slender and have longer tails than terrestrial species (Guyer & Donnelly, 1990; Lillywhite & Henderson, 1993; Martins et al., 2001), and burrowing or aquatic species may differ even more from above-ground active snakes (Murphy, 2007; and see below).”
• Composition and natural history of a Cerrado snake assemblage at Itirapina, São Paulo state, southeastern Brazil (2008, background): “It is a semiarboreal species (Martins et al. 2001), but it was found more frequently on the ground (N = 32) than on the vegetation (N = 4).”