European green lizard

#photography #wildlife #lizard #bratislava #slovakia

Increasing land drying & drought will threaten water-sensitive species such as frogs 🐸. We examine their potential exposure risk under different warming scenarios | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02167-z | @NatureClimate

Now published in Peer Community Journal, #evolutionarybiology section: Color #polymorphism and conspicuousness do not increase #speciationrates in #Lacertids. https://doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.345

Lagarto ocelado por tierras del Alto Tajo.

https://eu.zonerama.com/bobfisherphoto/Photo/4751345/423251611

#photography #animals #lizard #AltoTajo #SistemaIbérico #Guadalajara

Contrary to expectations based on #phylogeography (topleft, blue boxes) or habitat similarity (red boxes), undisturbed communicative behavior was more similar between the more distant S. consobrinus and S. u. undulatus, than between S. u. hyacinthinus and either of those two, suggesting that behavioral plasticity and local adaptation to different selective pressures in each population underlie interpopulation variation in behavior.

Read in full: https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.13402

#Sceloporus #newpaper

Now available #OpenAccess in #Ethology, @EthoGes, our latest #NewPaper examines behavioral activity and signal use across three closely related populations of the
#Sceloporus undulatus species complex from diverse habitats across the United States to test the relative roles of habitat and phylogeography in shaping undisturbed communicative behavior.

The pace of climate-driven extinction is accelerating, new study shows
https://phys.org/news/2023-09-pace-climate-driven-extinction.html

Accelerating local extinction associated with very recent #ClimateChange https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.14303

"They surveyed populations of the Yarrow's spiny #lizard in 18 mountain ranges in southeastern #Arizona and analyzed the rate of #climate-related #extinction over time."

Greater Earless Lizard
Sierra County, NM

Don't you love those colors?

#WildlifeWednesday #photo #lizard #NewMexico

Four sub-species of sand-dragon lizards discovered in South #Australia are new to science, complete with indigenous names: https://bit.ly/3NEh5NV #conservation #Ctenophorus

Honored to see a Gila Monster in our Tucson, AZ USA yard today! This one was a different individual from the last one we saw. Comparing photographs, we noted the different patterns on the two venomous lizards!

#Tucson #SonoranDesert #Desert #Arizona #Environment #Ecosystem #Ecology #Nature #Lizard #Reptile #GilaMonster #NaturePhotography #PhotographersOfMastodon #Photography #Photo #Photographer #Wild #Outdoors #Nature #Naturalist #Conservation #BiologicalDiversity #Biodiversity

Last summer we had an anole #lizard that lived on our #sunflower #plants in the front #garden. It was there night and day, sleeping, catching bugs, hanging out, for many weeks. Maria Eva decided it needed a name - Lorenzo. Now we have a new set of #sunflowers growing and have been waiting for the return of this year’s Lorenzo. Yesterday, there he was, or possibly an offspring, so Maria Eva dubbed this one El Niño.

#gardening #UrbanWildlife #photography #nature #MacroPhotography #suburbia

Green lizards turn quickly to brown.
In seconds, to green they rebound.
Not to dodge predation
Or for thermoregulation
But to send social signals, we found.

Check out the full story w/ @DaisyHorr, Amy Payne, and @ProfessorKira in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology here (open access!!): https://rdcu.be/c7o0V

Congrats to MSc Jennifer Flores on her first-authored paper exploring habitat occupancy of #Sceloporus lizards in central Mexico! Out now in #Herpetologica #NewPaper #lizards
Link: https://meridian.allenpress.com/herpetologica/article-abstract/doi/10.1655/Herpetologica-D-22-00016/490364/Specific-Habitat-Elements-Refuges-and-Leaf-Litter?redirectedFrom=fulltext

A revised, high quality, leopard gecko (Eublepharis macularius) reference genome produced using PacBio HiFi and Hi-C. Get this, 1/2 the chromosomes were assembled as contigs!!! 😮
#Gecko #Genomics #PacBio #HiC #DNA #Herpetology #Science #Biology

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.20.523807v1

I was extremely lucky to spot this rarely seen tuatara through the undergrowth on Tiritiri Matangi island yesterday.

#wildlife #reptile #reptiles #animal #fauna #photography #WildlifePhoto

Urban #lizards share #genomic markers not found in forest-dwellers

#evolution

https://phys.org/news/2023-01-urban-lizards-genomic-markers-forest-dwellers.html

Thrilled to share our new article "Temperate Zone Isolation by Climate: An Extension of Janzen’s 1967 Hypothesis," in The American Naturalist https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/722558 #IsolationByEnvironment #IsolationByClimate #PopulationGenetics #Janzen1967 #Sceloporus #occidentalis #Phylogenetics

Common Lizard #Lizard #Reptile #reptilesofmastodon #nature #naturephotography #Perthshire #Scotland

We are hiring a post-doc to work on invasive and urban wall lizards here in Ohio! It’s a two-year, NSF-funded position including research and teaching, especially focused on those interested in pursuing a career at a PUI. Full details here: https://tinyurl.com/4f56up8a

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