Hot, dry and different: Australian lizard richness is unlike that of mammals, amphibians and birds

By G. Powney, R. Grenyer, C. Orme, I. P. Owens, Shai Meiri. 2010

165 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecological Modeling

1. Shai Meiri
2. M. Novosolov
3. A. Feldman
4. D. G. Chapple
5. D. Pincheira‐Donoso
6. R. Tingley
7. A. Bauer
8. I. Das

In Ecology

1. T. Doherty
2. Chris R. Dickman
3. Shai Meiri
4. J. Woinarski
5. D. Pincheira‐Donoso
6. D. G. Chapple
7. R. Tingley
8. G. Colli

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. A. Feldman
2. Shai Meiri
3. D. Pincheira‐Donoso
4. D. G. Chapple
5. M. Novosolov
6. A. Bauer
7. I. Das
8. O. Torres‐Carvajal

Citations in the corpus

• How many reptiles are killed by cats in Australia? (2018, background): “…richness of the Australian reptile fauna, with species richness highest for many groups in more arid areas (Pianka 1969, 1981; 1989; Morton and James 1988; Powney et al. 2010; Cogger 2014), with some indication that density of reptiles is also highest in arid areas of Australia (Read et al. 2012).”
• Addressing knowledge gaps in reptile conservation (2016, background): “Geographic patterns of reptile diversity can differmarkedly from those of other vertebrate groups (e.g., Powney et al., 2010), and thus future studies should evaluate the extent to which including threatened reptiles in conservationplanning shifts conservationpriorities (Bode et al., 2008), once…”
• Biases in the current knowledge of threat status in lizards, and bridging the ‘assessment gap’ (2016, unknown): “Alternatively, the huge number of lizard species in Australia (Powney et al., 2010; Wilson and Swan, 2013) may have discouraged anyone from undertaking such a task.”
• Are lizards feeling the heat? A tale of ecology and evolution under two temperatures (2013, background): “Thus, for example, ambient temperatures are often closely correlated with lizard species richness (Schall & Pianka, 1978; Currie, 1991, cf. Powney et al., 2010).”
• A continental‐scale analysis of feral cat diet in Australia (2015, background): “Lizard species richness is highest in the central deserts and tropical north-east and north-west, and decreases with greater actual evapotranspiration (Schall & Pianka, 1978; Powney et al., 2010) – parameters that closely parallel those for which we recorded the highest reptile consumption by cats.”