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Tracking the Pulse of the Dunes: Seasonal Metabolic Responses of Liolaemus arambarensis to Climatic Variability. [PDF]
J Exp Zool A Ecol Integr PhysiolABSTRACT Seasonal environmental fluctuations profoundly influence ectothermic vertebrates, regulating their physiology, metabolism, and life cycles. This study investigated the metabolic and morphometric seasonal dynamics of the subtropical sand lizard Liolaemus arambarensis, an endangered species endemic to the coastal dunes of southern Brazil.
Valgas AAN +5 more
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Lophyrus spinosus C. Duméril & A. Duméril, 1851, a case of mistaken identity [PDF]
Evolutionary Systematics, 2020 Lophyrus spinosus Duméril & Duméril, 1851 has been considered synonymous with Bronchocela marmorata Gray, 1845 since its original description.
Wolfgang Denzer +3 more
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Preliminary report on the herpetofaunal diversity of Batu Hampar Recreational Forest, Kedah, Malaysia [PDF]
Check List, 2021 Batu Hampar Recreational Forest (BHRF) is a lowland dipterocarp forest located in the northwestern region of Peninsular Malaysia and has not been surveyed for its herpetofauna until now.
Hong Zijia +3 more
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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2022 Background Snakebite envenoming is a neglected tropical disease that kills an estimated 81,000 to 138,000 people and disables another 400,000 globally every year. The World Health Organization aims to halve this burden by 2030.
I. Bolon +5 more
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Field surveys along habitat gradients revealed differences in herpetofauna assemblage in Margalla Hills National Park, Islamabad, Pakistan [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2021 This study was conducted to see whether herpetofaunal assemblage differed amongst hiking trails, undisturbed forest and urban areas within the Margalla Hills National Park, Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan.
Muhammad Rais +6 more
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2023 The world’s reptiles and amphibians are experiencing dramatic and ongoing losses in biodiversity, changes that can have substantial effects on ecosystems and human health.
Matthew J. Gray +14 more
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European Journal of Taxonomy, 2022 We herein present the first annotated anuran checklist for the Brazilian state of Amapá, eastern Amazonia, based on a thorough literature review. We recorded the occurrence of 111 species belonging to 13 anuran families distributed across 48 localities ...
Pedro P.G. Taucce +3 more
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Diversity, 2022 We quantified functional traits (escape strategy, sprint speed and predatory performance) and population density across 10 lizard species representing morphotype stages in the acquisition of burrowing snake-like morphotypes (BSLM), from Brazil.
Agustín Camacho +3 more
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Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2021 We trained a computer vision algorithm to identify 45 species of snakes from photos and compared its performance to that of humans. Both human and algorithm performance is substantially better than randomly guessing (null probability of guessing ...
A. Durso +5 more
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Herpetology 2024: Which lizard? [PDF]
, 2022 The article enumerates the lizard fauna of Borneo, and depicts the interesting species to be encountered by the participants of the 10th World Congress of ...
Wen, Wong Jye, Indraneil, Das
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