Distribution, extent, and evolution of plant consumption by lizards

By W. E. Cooper Jr., L. Vitt. 2002

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

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Citations in the corpus

Correlations between lizard cranial shape and diet: A quantitative, phylogenetically informed analysis (2005, background): “As discussed by Cooper & Vitt (2002), the variety of ways of reporting data in studies of lizard diets makes comparison of studies problematic.”
The Influence of Plant Secondary Metabolites on the Nutritional Ecology of Herbivorous Terrestrial Vertebrates (2005, background): “Lizards Herbivory is relatively rare in lizards; only 3% of all species are herbivorous (120 species; Cooper & Vitt 2002).”
Geographical gradients of marine herbivorous fishes: patterns and processes (2005, unknown): “In terms of evolutionary history, carnivory is often the ancestral condition from which herbivory evolved in several marine invertebrate groups (Vermeij and Lindberg 2000) and terrestrial lizards (Cooper and Vitt 2002).”
Evolution and ecology of lizard body sizes (2008, background): “While most lizards are carnivorous, Cooper & Vitt (2002) estimated that some 12% of lizard species include a significant amount of plant material (> 10”
ECOLOGY, LIFE-HISTORY, AND BEHAVIOR IN THE AUSTRALIAN SCINCID GENUS EGERNIA, WITH COMMENTS ON THE EVOLUTION OF COMPLEX SOCIALITY IN LIZARDS (2003, background): “Although omnivory and herbivory have evolved numerous times in Iguania, Scleroglossa, and Scincomorpha (including Scincidae; Cooper and Vitt, 2002), only between 0.8 to 2.0% of extant species are herbivorous (using the criterion of >90% plant volume in the diet; Cooper and Vitt, 2002; Pough, 1973).”
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…”
Stability and persistence of food webs with omnivory: Is there a general pattern? (2012, background): “In addition, members of many vertebrate groups are known to feed on multiple trophic levels (Vadas 1990, O’Donoghue et al. 1995, Cooper and Vitt 2002, Persson et al. 2007).”