Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity

By E. Pianka, L. Vitt. 2003

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Vicariance and endemism in a Neotropical savanna hotspot: distribution patterns of Cerrado squamate reptiles (2011, background): “…ability and small ranges (Gaston, 1996), high habitat and microhabitat fidelity, and extensive variation in lifehistory parameters (Greene, 1997; Pianka & Vitt, 2003), may provide detailed data on distribution patterns, information critical to conservation strategies based on evolutionary and…”
A monographic catalogue on the systematics and phylogeny of the South American iguanian lizard family Liolaemidae (Squamata, Iguania) (2008, background): “In general for lizards, it has often been observed that herbivory has evolved many times in different clades (Cooper & Vitt 2002; Pianka & Vitt 2003), mostly in species characterized by large body size and high preferred metabolic temperatures, and occurring in warm environments, a pattern…”
Breaking the Social–Non‐social Dichotomy: A Role for Reptiles in Vertebrate Social Behavior Research? (2013, background): “Squamate reptiles, in particular, communicate using chemosensory cues that are not detectable by the human senses (Burghardt 1970; Pianka & Vitt 2003).”
Optimal foraging constrains macroecological patterns: body size and dietary niche breadth in lizards (2008, background): “Lizards have proven to be ideal models for ecological studies because they are taxonomically diverse, exhibit a wide range of body sizes, are easily sampled and their diets can be quantitatively summarized and compared (Pianka & Vitt, 2003).”
A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes (2013, background): “Squamates a re pr ently found on every continent except Antarctica, and in the Indian and Pacifi c O eans, and span many diverse ecologies and body forms, from limbless burrowers t o arboreal gliders (summarized in [2-4]).”
Hot, dry and different: Australian lizard richness is unlike that of mammals, amphibians and birds (2010, background): “Pianka & Vitt (2003) illustrated how Ctenotus species are clustered around central Australia.”
A fresh framework for the ecology of arid Australia (2011, background): “Reptiles are amixture of Gondwanan lineages and northern arrivals in the Miocene (Hutchinson and Smith, 2006), with the lizard radiation in arid Australia especially notable (Oliver et al., 2009; Pianka and Vitt, 2003).”
Chemosensory assessment of rival competitive ability and scent-mark function in a lizard, Podarcis hispanica (2007, background): “…chemical communication is important in lizard social behaviour, allowing lizards to derive complex information regarding species, sex, reproductive status, familiarity, relatedness, fluctuating asymmetry or even size-specific information (e.g. Pianka & Vitt 2003; Shine et al. 2003; Labra 2006).”
Fecundity Selection and the Evolution of Reproductive Output and Sex-Specific Body Size in the Liolaemus Lizard Adaptive Radiation (2011, background): “However, since brood mass and offspring number in lizards have been observed to be described by a negative genetic correlation (Sinervo 2000; Pianka and Vitt 2003; Shine 2005), where departures from this trade-off result in lower fitness mediated by stabilizing selection on the opposing Evol Biol (2”
Biases in the current knowledge of threat status in lizards, and bridging the ‘assessment gap’ (2016, unknown): “Lizards (here including the squamate suborders Sauria and Amphisbaenia) are highly diverse and nearly cosmopolitan, with a plethora of life styles, reproductive characteristics, sizes, shapes and colours- and threats (Pianka and Vitt, 2003).”
Beyond 'nasty neighbours' and 'dear enemies'? Individual recognition by scent marks in a lizard (Podarcis hispanica) (2008, background): “Numerous studies have shown that chemical stimuli allow recognition of sex, reproductive status, familiarity, relatedness and even size-specific information in squamates (e.g. Cooper 1998; Pianka & Vitt 2003; Shine et al. 2003; Labra 2006).”