Snake Island Has Approximately 1 Snake per Square Meter
2024年9月26日 · The island’s isolation from mainland Brazil has allowed its snake population to thrive without any natural predators. There is an estimated one snake per square meter (1 …
Influence of geographic predictors on beta diversity of insular snakes …
2023年11月1日 · Geographic factors drive the patterns of beta diversity in islands. Habitat isolation shapes beta diversity in snakes. The degree of community nestedness is positively …
How Urban Isolation Could Make Snakes More Vulnerable to
2022年6月6日 · “If tiger snake populations isolated by urbanisation are suffering from lower genetic diversity, they can lose their ability to adapt in order to survive ever-changing …
Area and distance from mainland affect in different ways richness …
2019年3月14日 · The nearer and greater islands are very important to the maintenance of snake species richness, but we emphasize the need to conserve endemic species from isolated …
Islands and Snakes: Isolation and Adaptive Evolution
2019年8月1日 · Islands and Snakes contains 13 chapters describing ecological systems with foci on snakes and their ecological roles on islands around the world. Each chapter is written by …
Vipers on the Scene: Assessing the Relationship Between
2023年4月18日 · Climatic niche evolution is an important driver of speciation since niche divergence and niche conservatism may result in reproductive isolation. Here, we test whether …
Islands and Snakes : Isolation and Adaptive Evolution
2019年7月1日 · An introductory chapter presents a review and perspective on the historical importance of island ecology and how snakes have contributed to our understanding of …
Preface | Islands and Snakes: Diversity and Conservation - Oxford …
In 2019, we published the first volume Islands and Snakes: Isolation and Adaptive Evolution. Our overall aim in collecting and publishing contributions to that volume was to illustrate how …
KEY WORDS: Batesian mimicry, ecological speciation, predation, reproductive isolation. Batesian mimicry––in which a palatable species (the “mimic”) gains protection from predation by …
Batesian mimicry promotes pre- and postmating isolation in a snake …
2022年4月15日 · This selection might form the basis for both pre- and postmating isolation, respectively. We tested for such selection in a snake mimicry complex by placing clay replicas …