last edit: June 2024

pdf files are available for most papers: press the links. If not working write Shai at: [email protected]

​Datasets are available at the GARD webpage at
http://www.gardinitiative.org/data.html

 

Books:

Bar, A., Haimovitch, G. and Meiri, S. 2021. Field guide to the amphibians and reptiles of Israel. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt Am Main.

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Peer-Reviewed Papers 

​Papers in Press:
Chaitanya, R., Naniwadekar, R. and Meiri, S. Why did the hornbill not cross the river? Upland habitats rather than a physical barrier limit the distribution of the Brown hornbill. Journal of Biogeography, In Press.

Zimin, A.,. Zimin, S. V., Grismer, L. L., Bauer, A. M., Chapple, D. G., Dembitzer, J., Roll, U. and Meiri, S. Microhabitat and adhesive toepads shape gecko limb morphology. Integrative Zoology, in Press.


Published papers

Dubiner, S., Vardi, R., Meiri, S*. and Levin, E*. 2024. Stressed reptiles pay the metabolic price of war. Ecology e4370. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.4370.
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Liberman, Y-R., Ben-Ami, F. and Meiri, S. 2024. Artificial cover objects as a tool for the survey and conservation of herpetofauna. Biodiversity and Conservation https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-024-02840-x

Flanagan, T., Shea, G. M., Meiri, S., Roll, U., Tingley, R. and Chapple, D. G. 2024. New data and taxonomic changes influence our understanding of biogeographic patterns: A case study in Australian skinks. Journal of Zoology, DOI: 10.1111/jzo.13173

Vardi, R., Baram, A., Mitrani, A., Dubiner, S., Levin, E. and Meiri, S. 2024. Reproduction and tail bifurcation in the wedge-snouted skink, Chalcides sepsoides. Reptiles & Amphibians 31: e21405.

Meiri, S. 2024. SquamBase – a database of squamate (Reptilia: Squamata) traits. Global Ecology and Biogeography 33: e13812. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13812.

Oskyrko, O., Mi, C., Meiri, S. and Du, W. 2024. ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles. Scientific Data 11: 243. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03079-5

Dubiner, S., Anderson, R. O., Moreno, D. M. A., Avila, L. J., Boada-Viteri, E., Castillo, M., Chapple, D. G., Chukwuka, C. O., Cree, A., Cruz, F. B., Colli, G. R., Das, I., Delaugerre, M. J., Du, W-G., Dyugmedzhiev, A., Doan, T. M., Escudero, P., Farquhar, J., Gainsbury, A. M., Gray, B. S., Grimm-Seyfarth, A., Hare, K. M., Henle, K., Ibargüengoytía, N., Itescu, Y., Jamison, S., Jimenez-Robles, O., Labra, A., Laspiur, A., Liang, T., Ludgate, J. L., Luiselli, L., Martín, J., Matthews, G., Medina, M., Méndez-de-la-Cruz, F. R., Miles, D. B., Mills, N. E., Miranda-Calle, A. B., Monks, J. M., Morando, M., Moreno Azocar, D. L., Murali, G., Pafilis, P., Pérez-Cembranos, A., Pérez-Mellado, V., Peters, R., Pizzatto, L., Pincheira-Donoso, D., Plummer, M. V., Schwarz, R., Shermeister, B., Shine, R., Theisinger, O., Theisinger, W., Tolley, K. A., Torres-Carvajal, O., Valdecantos, S., Van Damme, R., Vitt, L. J., Wapstra, E., While, G. M., Levin, E., and Meiri, S. 2024. A global analysis of field body temperatures of active squamates in relation to climate and behaviour. Global Ecology and Biogeography doi: 10.1111/geb.13808. 

Marom, N., Peretz, A. O., Lazagabaster, I. A., Meiri, M. and Meiri, S. 2024. Water voles of Lake Hula: assessing their past, present, and future. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 70: 34. doi.org/10.1007/s10344-024-01781-8

Dubiner, S., Meiri, S. and Levin, E. and 2024. Seasonal remodeling of visceral organs in the invasive desert gecko Tarentola annularis. Integrative Zoology, doi: 10.1111/1749-4877.12814.

Wotherspoon, L., Caetano, G. H. O., Roll, U., Meiri, S., Tingley, R. and Chapple, D. G. 2024. Inferring the extinction risk of Data Deficient and Not Evaluated Australian Squamates. Austral Ecology. doi: 10.1111/aec.13485.

Raz, T., Allison, A., Avila, L. J., Bauer, A. M., Böhm, M., Caetano, G. H. O., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Doughty, P., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., Martins, M., Morando, M., Murali, G., Nagy, Z. T., Nogueira, C. C., Novosolov, M., Oliver, P. M., Passos, P., Pincheira-Donoso, D., Sindaco, R., Slavenko, A., Torres-Carvajal, O., Uetz, P., Wagner, P., Zimin, A., Roll, U. and Meiri, S. 2024. Diversity gradients of terrestrial vertebrates - substantial variations about a common theme. Journal of Zoology, doi:10.1111/jzo.13130.

Lindken, T., Anderson, C. V., Ariano-Sanchez, D., Barki, G., Biggs, C., Bowles, P., Chaitanya, R., Cronin, D.  T., Jahnig, S. C., Jeschke, J.  M., Kennerley, R.  J., Lacher, T. E., Luedtke, J. A., Liu, C., Long, B., Mallon, D., Martin, G. M., Meiri, S., Pasachnik, S. A., Reynoso, V. H., Stanford, C. B., Stephenson, P. J., Tolley, K. A., Torres- Carvajal, O., Waldien, D. L., Woinarski, J. C. Z. and Evans, T. 2024. What factors influence the rediscovery of lost tetrapod species? Global Change Biology, 30 https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17107

Greenspoon, L., Rosenberg, Y., Meiri, S., Roll, U., Noor, E. and Milo, R. 2024. Reply to Santini et al.: Total population reports are necessary for global biomass estimation of wild mammals. PNAS 121: e2316314121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2316314121

Chapple, D. G., Slavenko, A., Tingley, R., Farquhar, J. E., Camaiti, M., Roll, U. and Meiri, S. 2023. Built for success: Distribution, morphology, ecology and life history of the world's skinks. Ecology and Evolution 13: e10791. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10791

Shine, R., Meiri, S., Shine, T. G., Brown, G. P. and Goiran, C. 2023. The adaptive significance of large size at birth in marine snakes. Royal Society Open Science 10: 231429. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.231429

Bar, A. and Meiri, S. 2023. The Darwin award for snakes? Black whip snake, Dolichophis jugularis (Linnaeus, 1758) failed to eat a hedgehog in Israel. Herpetology Notes,  16: 877-879.

Banfi, F., Meiri, S., Shine, R., Van Damme, R. and Baeckens, S. 2023. Foraging mode constrains the evolution of cephalic horns in lizards and snakes. Biology Letters 19: 20230395. doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0395

Liang, T. and Meiri, S. 2024. Lizard richness in mainland China is more strongly correlated with energy and climatic stability than with diversification rates. Journal of Biogeography ​51: 140-155. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.14736

Dubiner, S., Jamison, S., Meiri, S. and Levin, E. 2023. Squamate metabolic rates decrease in winter beyond the effect of temperature. Journal of Animal Ecology doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13997

Baeckens, S., Meiri, S. and Shine, R. 2023. Foraging mode affects extinction risk of snakes and lizards, but in different ways. Conservation Letters, 2023: e12977. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12977

Schwarz, R., Stark, G., Levin, E., Chapple, D. G. and Meiri, S. 2023. Ecophysiological trait variation in desert vs. Mediterranean populations of a gecko. Journal of Zoology, doi:10.1111/jzo.13116.

Dubiner, S., Kashi, A., Drabkin, A., Blinder, P. and Levin, E., 2023. Patterns of fatty acid usage in two small insectivores, a reptile and a mammal. Journal of Experimental Biology .245963. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.245963.

Ali, J. and Meiri, S. 2023. Ontogeny of islands associated with mantle-plume hotspots and its bearing on biogeographical models. Evolving Earth, 1: 100007. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eve.2023.100007

Chaitanya, R., Mcguire, J. A., Karanth, P. and Meiri, S. 2023. Their fates intertwined: Diversification patterns of the Asian gliding vertebrates may have been forged by dipterocarp trees. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B., 290: 20231379. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.1379.

Shelomi, M. and Meiri, S. 2023. A practical guide to collections-based research on ecogeographic rules. Ecology and Evolution, 13: e10211. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10211

Murali, G., Meiri, S. and Roll, U. 2023. Chemical signaling glands are unlinked to species diversification in lizards. Evolution, 77: 1829–1841. https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpad101

Dubiner, S., Meiri, S. and Levin, E. 2023. War prompts distress symptoms in Israeli blind snake. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 15: 23452–23454. https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.8336.15.6.23452-23454

Vardi, R., Dubiner, S., Ben Bezalel, R., Meiri, S. and Levin, E. 2023. Do urban habitats induce physiological changes in Mediterranean lizards? Journal of Zoology https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.13089

Falaschi, M., Marta, S., Parrino, E. L., Roll, U., Meiri, S. and Ficetola, G. F. 2023. Global bioregions of reptiles confirm the consistency of bioregionalization processes across vertebrate clades. Global Ecology and Biogeography 32: 1272-1284. doi: 10.1111/geb.13694

Mi, C., Ma, L., Yang, M., Li, X., Meiri, S., Roll, U., Oskyrko, O., Pincheira-Donoso, D., Harvey, L., Jablonski, D., Safaei-Mahroo, B., Ghaffari, H., Smid, J., Jarvie, S., Mwangi, R., Masroor, R., Kazemi, S., Nneji, L., Fokoua, A., Taboue, G. C. T., Bauer, A. M., Nogueira, C. C., Meirte, D., Chapple, D., Das, I., Grismer, L. L., Avila, L., Ribeiro-Junior, M. A., Tallowin, O. J. S., Torres-Carvajal, O., Wagner, P., Ron, S., Wang, Y., Itescu, Y., Nagy, Z. T., Wilcove, D., Liu, X. and Du, W. 2023. Global protected areas as refuges for amphibians and reptiles under climate change. Nature Communications, 14: 1389. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36987-y

Vardi, R., Dubiner, S., Ben Bezalel, R., Meiri, S. and Levin, E. 2023. Metabolic rate and evaporative water loss during a shedding event in the Mediterranean house gecko Hemidactylus turcicus. Reptiles & Amphibians 30: e18050. https://doi.org/10.17161/randa.v30i1.18050

Greenspoon, L., Krieger, E., Sender, R., Rosenberg, Y., Bar-On, Y. M., Moran, U., Antman, T., Meiri, S., Roll, U., Noor, E. and Milo, R. 2023. The global biomass of wild mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 120: e2204892120. Doi: 10.1073/pnas.2204892120.

Jablonski, D., Ribeiro‑Júnior, M. A., Simonov, E., Šoltys, K. and Meiri, S. 2023. A new, rare, small‑ranged, and endangered mountain snake of the genus Elaphe from the Southern Levant. Scientific Reports 13: 4839. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30878-4.

Murali, G., Iwamura, T., Meiri, S. and Roll, U. 2023. Future temperature extremes threaten land vertebrates. Nature 615: 461–467. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05606-z.

Meiri, S., Chapple, D. G., Tolley, K. A., Mitchell, N., Laniado, T., Cox, N., Bowls, P., Young, B. E., Caetano, G., Geschke, J., Böhm, M. and Roll, U. 2023. Done but not dusted: reflections on the first global reptile assessment and priorities for the second. Biological Conservation 278: 109879. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109879

Slavenko, A., Allison, A., Austin, C., Bauer, A., Brown, R., Fisher, R., Ineich, I., Iova, B., Karin, B., Kraus, F., Mecke, S., Meiri, S., Morrison, C., Oliver, P. M., O'Shea, M., Richmond, J. Q., Shea, G. M., Tallowin, O. J. S. and Chapple, D. G. 2023. Skinks of Oceania, New Guinea, and Eastern Wallacea: an underexplored biodiversity hotspot. Pacific Conservation Biology. https://doi.org/10.1071/PC22034

Das, S., Greenbaum, E., Meiri, S., Bauer, A. M., Burbrink, F. T., Raxworthy, C. J., Weinell, J. L., Brown, R. M., Brecko, J., Pauwels, O. S. G., Rabibisoa, N., Raselimanana, A. P. and Merilä, J. 2023. Ultraconserved elements-based phylogenomic systematics of the snake superfamily Elapoidea, with the description of a new Afro-Asian family. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 180: 107700. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107700.

Camaiti, M., Evans, A. R., Hipsley, C. A., Hutchinson, M. N., Meiri, S., Anderson, R. O., Slavenko, A. and Chapple, D. G. 2023. Macroecological and biogeographical patterns of limb reduction in the world's skinks. Journal of Biogeography doi: 10.1111/jbi.14547

Ribeiro-Júnior, M. A., Koch, C., Flecks, M., Calvo, M. and Meiri, S. 2022. Dwarves in a big world: two new species of Tropiocolotes (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Sahara Desert, with the first detailed skull description to the genus. Journal of Herpetology 56: 396–421. https://doi.org/10.1670/20-103

​Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A. M., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., Caetano, G. H. O., Herrera, F. C., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton, M., Martins, M., Morando, M., Murali, G., Nagy, Z. T., Novosolov, M., Oliver, P., Passos, P., Pauwels, O. S. G., Pincheira-Donoso, D., Ribeiro-Junior, M. A., Shea, G., Tingley, R., Torres-Carvajal, O., Trape, J-F., Uetz, P., Wagner, P., Roll, U*. and Meiri, S*. 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology & Biogeography, 31: 2437-2452. doi: 10.1111/geb.13598.


Meiri, S. and Levin, E. 2022. Revisiting life history and morphological proxies for early mammaliaform metabolic rates. Nature Communications 13: 5562. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32715-0

Cox, N., Young, B. E., Bowles, P., Fernandez, M., Marin, J., Rapacciuolo, G., Böhm, M., Brooks, T. M., Hedges, S. B., Hilton-Taylor, C., Hoffmann, M., Jenkins, R. K. B., Tognelli, M. F., Alexander, G. J., Allison, A., Ananjeva, N. B., Auliya, M., Avila, L. J., Chapple, D. G., Cisneros-Heredia, D. F., Cogger, H. G., Colli, G. R., de Silva, A., Eisemberg, C. C., Els, J., Fong, A. G., Grant, T. D., Hitchmough, R. A., Iskandar, D. T., Kidera, N., Martins, M., Meiri, S., Mitchell, N. J., Molur, S., Nogueira, C. C., Ortiz, J. C., Penner, J., Rhodin, A. G. J., Rivas, G., Rödel, M-O., Roll, U., Sanders, K. L., Santos-Barrera, G., Shea, G. M., Spawls, S., Stuart, B. L., Tolley, K. A., Trape, J-F., Vidal, M. A., Wagner, P., Wallace, B. P. and Xie, Y. 2022. Global reptile assessment shows commonality of tetrapod conservation needs. Nature, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04664-7. 

Caetano, G. H. O., Chapple, D. G., Grenyer, R., Raz, T., Rosenblatt, J., Tingley, R., Böhm, M., Meiri, S. and Roll, U. Automated assessment reveals extinction risk of reptiles is widely underestimated across space and phylogeny. PloS Biology, 20(5): e3001544. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001544 in Press will be out on May 26th 2022

Slavenko, A., Dror, L., Camaiti, M., Farquhar, J. E., Shea, G. M., Chapple, D. G. and Meiri, S. Evolution of diel activity patterns in skinks (Squamata: Scincidae), the world’s second-largest family of terrestrial vertebrates. Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14482. in Press.

Chaitanya, R. 2022. Another new, unavailable nomen (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from Indian herpetological taxonomy. Bionomina, 26: 59–61.

Anderson, R. O., Meiri, S. and Chapple, D. G. 2022. The biogeography of warming tolerance in lizards. Journal of Biogeography.  https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14380

Camaiti, M., Evans, A. R., Hipsley, C. A., Meiri, S., Hutchinson, M. N., Anderson, R. O., Slavenko, A. and Chapple. D. G. 2022. A database of the morphology, ecology and literature of the world’s limb-reduced skinks. Journal of Biogeography. doi: 10.1111/jbi.14392.

Graboski, R., Grazziotin, F. G., Mott, T. and Rodrigues, M. T. 2022. The phylogenetic position of Ridley's worm lizard reveals the complex biogeographic history of New World insular amphisbaenids. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, p.107518. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107518

Ribeiro-Júnior, M. A., Tamar, K., Maza, E., Flecks, M., Wagner, P., Shacham, B., Calvo, M., Geniez, P., Crochet, P.-A., Koch, C. and Meiri, S. 2022. Taxonomic revision of the Tropiocolotes nattereri (Squamata, Gekkonidae) species complex, with the description of a new species from Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Zoologia Scripta, DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12532.

Dembitzer, J., Barkai, R., Ben-Dor, M. and Meiri, S. 2022. Levantine overkill: 1.5 million years of hunting down the body size distribution. Quaternary Science Reviews 276: 107316.

Dembitzer, J., Barkai, R., Ben-Dor, M. and Meiri, S. 2022. Is it all about elephants? Explaining prey size decline in the Paleolithic Southern Levant. Quaternary Science Reviews https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107476.

Dembitzer, J., Castiglione, S., Raia, P. and Meiri, S. 2022. L. Scientific Reports, 12: 3453. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-07327-9.

Murali, G., Caetano, G. H. O., Barki, G., Meiri, S.* and Roll, U.* 2022. Emphasizing declining populations in the Living Planet Report. Nature 601: E20–E24. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04165-z. 

Dubiner, S. and Meiri, S. 2022. Widespread recent changes in morphology of Old-World birds, global warming the immediate suspect. Global Ecology & Biogeography 31: 791-801. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13474.

Chaitanya, R. and Meiri, S. 2022. Can’t see the wood for the trees?: Canopy physiognomy influences the
distribution of peninsular Indian Flying lizards. Journal of Biogeography, DOI: 10.1111/jbi.14298.

Meiri, S. 2022. Population sizes of Tyrannosaurus rex cannot be precisely estimated. Frontiers in Biogeography, https://doi.org/10.21425/F5FBG53781.

Formenti, G., Theissinger, K., Fernandes, C., Bista, I., Bombarely, A., Bleidorn, C., Ciofi, C., Crottini, A., Godoy, J. A., Höglund, J.,Malukiewicz, J., Mouton, A., Oomen, R. A., Paez, S., Palsbøll, P. J., Pampoulie, C., Ruiz-Lopez, M. J., Svardal, H., Theofanopoulou, C., de Vries, J., Waldvogel, A-M., Zhang, G., Mazzoni, C. J., Jarvis, E. D., Bálint, M. and the European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) Consortium (incl. Meiri, S.). 2022. The era of reference genomes in conservation genomics. Trend in Ecology and Evolution 2940, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2021.11.008.

​Schwarz, R., Dror, L., Stark, G., Gefen, E., Kronfeld-Schor, N., Chapple, D. G. and Meiri, S. 2022. Conserved ecophysiology despite disparate microclimatic conditions in a gecko. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A, DOI: 10.1002/jez.2568​.

Slavenko, A., Tamar, K., Tallowin, O. J. S., Kraus, F., Allison, A., Carranza, S. and Meiri, S. 2021. Revision of the montane New Guinean skink genus Lobulia (Squamata: Scincidae), with the description of four new genera and nine new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab052.

Diniz-Filho, J. A. F., Meiri, S., Hortal, J., Santos, A. M. and Raia, P. 2021. Too simple models may predict the island rule for the wrong reasons. Ecology Letters, DOI: 10.1111/ele.13878.

Wahle, A., Rodder, D., Chapple, D. G., Meiri, S., Rauhaus, A. and Ziegler, T. 2021. Skinks in Zoos: A global approach on distribution patterns of threatened Scincidae in zoological institutions. Global Ecology and Conservation 30: e01800.

Fromm, A. and Meiri, S. 2021. Big, flightless, insular and dead: Characterising the extinct birds of the Quaternary. Journal of Biogeography, https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14140.

Jung, M., Arnell, A., de Lamo, X., Garcia-Rangel, S., Lewis, M., Mark, J., Merow, C., Miles, L., Ondo, I., Pironon, S., Ravilious, C., Rivers, M., Schepashenko, D., Tallowin, O., van Soesbergen, A., Govaerts, R., Boyle, B. L., Enquist, B. J., Feng, X., Gallagher, R., Maitner, B., Meiri, S., Mulligan, M., Ofer, G., Roll, U., Hanson, J. O., Jetz, W., Di Marco, M., McGowan, J., Rinnan, D. S., Sachs, J. D., Lesiv, M., Adams, V. M., Andrew, S. C., Burger, J. R., Hannah, L., Marquet, P. A., McCarthy, J. K., Morueta-Holme, N., Newman, E. A., Park, D. S., Roehrdanz, P. R., Svenning, J-C., Violle, C., Wieringa, J. J., Wynne, G., Fritz , Strassburg, B. B. N., Obersteiner, M., Kapos, V., Burgess, N., Schmidt-Traub, G.  and Visconti, P. 2021. Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon, and water. Nature Ecology & Evolution, , https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01528-7.

Liang, T., Meiri, S. and Shi, L. 2021. Sexual size dimorphism in lizards: Rensch’s rule, reproductive mode, clutch size, and line fitting method effects. Integrative Zoology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.12569.

Mângia, S., de Souza Oliveira, A. F., Péres-Júnior, A. K., Correa, F. S., da Silva Filho, H. F., Gomes, J. O., Rodrigues, L. C., de Queiroz, M. H. C., Ribeiro-Júnior, M. A., dos Santos Costa, M. C. and Garda, A. A. 2021. Herpetofaunal assemblages in a region from the Belém area of endemism, Pará State, eastern Amazonia, Brazil. Boletín de la Sociedad Zoológica del Uruguay, 30: 25-48.

Schwarz, R., Stark, G., Antonopolous, A., Itescu, Y., Pafilis, P., Chapple, D. G. and Meiri, S. 2021. Specialist versus generalist at the intraspecific level: functional morphology and substrate preference of Mediodactylus kotschyi geckos. Integrative and Comparative Biology https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icab066

Ribeiro-Júnior, M. A., Sanchez-Martinez, P. M., Moraes, L. J. C. L., de Oliveira, U. S. C., de Carvalho, V. T., Pavan, D., Choueri, E. H. L., Werneck, F. P. and Meiri, S. 2021. Uncovering hidden species diversity of alopoglossid lizards in Amazonia, with the description of three new species of Alopoglossus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmoidae). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12481

Chapple, D. G., Roll, U., Bohm, M., Aguilar, R., Amey, A. P., Austin, C., C., Baling, M., Barley, A. J., Bates, M. F., Bauer, A. M., Blackburn, D. G., Bowles, P., Brown, R. M., Chandramouli, S. R., Chirio, L., Cogger, H., Colli, G. R., Conradie, W., Couper, P. J., Cowan, M. A., Craig, M. D., Das, I., Datta-Roy, A., Dickman, C. R., Ellis, R. J., Fenner, A. L., Ford, S., Ganesh, S. R., Gardner, M. G., Geissler, P., Gillespie, G. R., Glaw, F., Greenlees, M. J., Griffith, O. W., Grismer, L. L., Haines, M. L., Harris, D. J., Hedges, S. B., Hitchmough, R. A., Hoskin, C. J., Hutchinson, M. N., Ineich, I., Janssen, J., Johnston, G. R., Karin, B. R.,  Keogh, J. S., Kraus, F., LeBreton, M., Lymberakis, P., Masroor, R., McDonald, P. J., Mecke, S., Melville, J., Melzer, S., Michael, D. R., Miralles, A., Mitchell, N. J., Nelson, N. J., Nguyen, T. Q., Nogueira, C. C., Ota, H., Pafilis, P., Pauwels, O. S. G., Perera, A., Pincheira-Donoso, D., Reed, R. N., Ribeiro-Junior, M. A., Riley, J. L., Rocha, S., Rutherford, P. L., Sadlier, R. A.,Shacham, B., Shea, G. M., Shine, R., Slavenko, A., Stow, A., Sumner, J., Tallowin, O. J. S., Teale, R., Torres-Carvajal, O., Trape, J-F., Uetz, P., Ukuwela, K. D. B., Valentine, L., Van Dyke, J. U., van Winkel, D., Vasconcelos, R., Vences, M., Wagner, P., Wapstra, E., While, G. M., Whiting, M. J., Whittington, C. M., Wilson, S., Ziegler, T., Tingley, R. and Meiri, S. 2021. Conservation status of the world’s skinks (Scincidae): Taxonomic and geographic patterns in extinction risk. Biological Conservation 257: 109101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109101

Senior, A., Bohm, M., Johnstone, C., McGee, M., Meiri, S., Chapple, D. G. and Tingley, R. 2021. Correlates of extinction risk in Australian squamate reptiles. Journal of Biogeography https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14140.

Meiri, S., Murali, G., Zimin, A., Shak, L., Itescu, Y., Caetano, G. and Roll, U. 2021. Different solutions lead to similar life history traits across the great divides of the amniote tree of life. Journal of Biological Research-Thessaloniki, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40709-021-00134-9.

Norris, J., Tingley, R., Meiri, S. and Chapple, D. 2021. Environmental correlates of morphological diversity in Australian geckos. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30: 1086-1100. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13284

Jablonski, D., Ribeiro-Júnior, M. A., Meiri, S., Maza, E., Kukushkin, O. V., Chirikova, M., Pirosová, A., Jelić, D., Mikulíček, P. and Jandzik, D. 2021. Morphological and genetic differentiation in the anguid lizard Pseudopus apodus supports the existence of an endemic subspecies in the Levant. Vertebrate Zoology, 71: 175-200. Doi: 10.3897/vz.71.e60800

Pincheira-Donoso, D., Harvey, L., Cotter, S., Meiri, S. and Hodgson, D. 2021. The global macroecology of brood size in amphibians reveals a predisposition of low-fecundity species to extinction. Global Ecology and Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13287

Itescu, Y., Foufopoulos, J., Schwarz, R., Lymberakis, P., Slavenko, A., Gavriilidi, I-A., Meiri, S. and Pafilis, P. 2021. The island of extremes: giants and dwarfs on a small remote island. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 28: 225-230.

Slavenko, A., Maza, E. and Itescu, Y. 2021. Results of the first herpetological survey of Israel’s Mediterranean coastal islets. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 28: 231-236.

Slavenko, A., Allison, A. Meiri, S. 2021. Elevation is a stronger predictor of morphological trait divergence than competition in a radiation of tropical lizards. Journal of Animal Ecology 90: 917-930. Doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13420

Meiri, S. and Liang, T. 2021. Rensch’s rule – definitions and statistics. Global Ecology & Biogeography https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13255.

Sheu, Y., Zurano, J. P., Ribeiro‐Junior, M. A., Avila‐Pires, T. C., Rodrigues, M. T., Colli, G. R. and Werneck, F. P. 2020. The combined role of dispersal and niche evolution in the diversification of Neotropical lizards. Ecology and Evolution, 10: 2608-2625.

Ribeiro-Junior, M. A., Meiri, S. and Fouquet, A. 2020. A new species of Alopoglossus Boulenger (1885) (Squamata, Alopoglossidae) from the lowlands of the Eastern Guiana Shield, with assessment of the taxonomic status of A. copii surinamensis. Journal of Herpetology, 54: 427–445.

Jamison, S., Maza, E., Sinaiko, G., Tamar, K., Slavenko, A. and Meiri, S. 2020. To be or not to be tchernovi: a taxonomic revision of the snake genus Micrelaps (Squamata: Serpentes), in Israel. Zootaxa, 4881: 290–306.

Murali, G. and Melvinselvan, G. 2021. Atretium schistosum (olive keelback watersnake). Color polymorphism. Herpetological Review 52: 146.

Sion, G., Watson, M. J. and Bouskila, A. 2021. Measuring body condition of lizards: a comparison between non-invasive dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, chemical fat extraction and calculated indices. Frontiers in Zoology, 18: 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-020-00382-w

Dubiner, S., Cohen, N., Volov, M., Hefetz, A., Seltzer, R. and Levin, E. 2021. The exocrine chemistry of the parasitic wasp Sphecophaga orientalis and its host Vespa orientalis: A case of chemical deception? Insects

Uetz, P., Slavenko, A., Meiri, S. and Heinicke, M. 2020. Gecko diversity: a history of global discovery. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution 66: 117-125. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22244662-bja10003

Shpirer, E., Haddas-Sasson, M., Spivak-Glater, M., Feldstein, T., Meiri, S. and Huchon, D. 2020. Molecular relationships of the Israeli shrews (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae) based on cytochrome-b sequences. Mammalia, https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2019-0143

Sion, G., Tal, R., and Meiri, S. 2020. Asymmetric Behavior in Ptyodactylus guttatus: Can a Digit Ratio Reflect Brain Laterality?. Symmetry, 12(9), 1490. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/sym12091490

Meiri, S., Avila, L., Bauer, A. M., Chapple, D. G., Das, I., Doan, T. M., Doughty, P., Ellis, R., Grismer, L. L., Kraus, F., Morando, M., Oliver, P. M., Pincheira-Donoso, D., Ribeiro-Junior, M. A., Shea, G., Torres-Carvajal, O., Slavenko, A. and Roll, U. 2020. The global diversity and distribution of lizard clutch sizes. Global Ecology & Biogeography DOI: 10.1111/geb.13124

Gumbs, R., Gray, C., Böhm, M., Hoffmann, M., Grenyer, R., Jetz, W., Meiri, S., Roll, U., Owen, N. and Rosindell, J. 2020. Global priorities for conservation of reptilian phylogenetic diversity in the face of human impacts. Nature Communications, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16410-6

Roll, U. and Meiri, S. 2020. Glass houses? – A comment on ‘decolonising biogeography’. Frontiers in Biogeography 12: e46908.

Meiri, S. 2020. What geckos are - an ecological-biogeographic perspective. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution, doi: 10.1163/22244662-20191075.

Doherty, T. S., Balouch, S., Bell, K., Burns, T., Feldman, A., Fist, C., Garvey, T., Jessop, T. S., Meiri, S. and Driscoll, D. A. 2020. Reptile responses to anthropogenic habitat modification: A global meta-analysis​. Global Ecology & Biogeography doi: 10.1111/geb.13091.

Slavenko, A., Tamar, K., Tallowin, O. J. S., Allison, A., Kraus, F., Carranza, S. and Meiri, S. 2020. Cryptic diversity and non-adaptive radiation of montane New Guinea skinks (Papuascincus; Scincidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 106749. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106749

Ali, J., Aitchison, J. C. and Meiri, S. 2020. Redrawing Wallace’s Line based on the fauna of Christmas Island, eastern Indian Ocean. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blaa018

Sinaiko, G. and Dietrich, C. H. 2020. A new genus and species of Paralimnini leafhoppers from Israel (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae). Zootaxa 4790 : 387-392.  yes it is about insects!

Tamar, K., Wiedl, H-G., Maza, E., Jablonski, D. and Meiri, S. 2020. Discovery of the black-headed ground snake Rhynchocalamus melanocephalus (Jan, 1862) in Cyprus (Reptilia: Colubridae). Zoology in the Middle East​ http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09397140.2020.1757914​

Schwarz, R., Itescu, Y., Antonopoulos, A., Gavriilidi, I-A., Tamar, K., Pafilis, P. and Meiri, S. 2020. Isolation and predation drive gecko life-history evolution on islands. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blz187.

Stark, G., Schwarz, R., & Meiri, S. (2020). Does nocturnal activity prolong gecko longevity?. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution, 1(aop), 1-8. NOTE THAT WE HAVE FOUND SERIOUS ISSUES WITH THE DATA USED FOR CORRECTING FOR SAMPLE SIZES IN ALL THE FOUR PAPERS BY GAVIN STARK SHAI MEIRI AND COLLEAGUES. WE HAVE PUBLISHED CORRIGENDA FOR ALL THESE PAPERS.

Stark, G., Pincheira‐Donoso, D., & Meiri, S. (2020). No evidence for the ‘rate‐of‐living’theory across the tetrapod tree of life. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29(5), 857-884.  NOTE THAT WE HAVE FOUND SERIOUS ISSUES WITH THE DATA USED FOR CORRECTING FOR SAMPLE SIZES IN ALL THE FOUR PAPERS BY GAVIN STARK SHAI MEIRI AND COLLEAGUES. WE HAVE PUBLISHED CORRIGENDA FOR ALL THESE PAPERS.

Ribeiro-Junior, M. A., Choueri, E., Lobos, S., Venegas, P., Torres-Carvajal, O. and Werneck, F. 2020. Eight in one: morphological and molecular analyses reveal cryptic diversity in Amazonian alopoglossid lizards (Squamata: Gymnophthalmoidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz155

Uetz, P., Cherikh, S., Shea, G., Ineich, I., Campbell, P., Doronin, I., Rosado, J., Wynn, A., Tighe, K. A., Mcdiarmid, R., Kohler, G., Ellis, R., Doughty, P., Raxworthy, C. J., Scheinberg, L., Resetar, A., Sabaj, M., Schneider, G., Glaw, F., Bohme, W., Schweiger, S., Gemel, R., Couper, P., Amey, A., Dondorp, E., Ofer, G., Meiri, S. and Wallach, V. 2019. A global catalog of primary reptile type specimens. Zootaxa 4695: 438-450.

Itescu, Y., Foufopoulos, J., Pafilis, P. and Meiri, S. 2019. The diverse nature of island isolation and its effect on insular fauna. Global Ecology & Biogeography, 29: 262-280. doi: 10.1111/geb.13024.

Vidan, E., Bauer, A. M., Hererra, F-C., Chirio, L., Nogueira, C. C., Doan, T. M., Lewin, A., Meirte, D., Nagy, Z., T., Novosolov, M., Pincheira-Donoso, D., Tallowin, O. J., Torres-Carvajal, O., Uetz, P., Wagner, P., Wang, Y., Belmaker, J. and Meiri, S. 2019. The global biogeography of lizard functional groups. Journal of Biogeography, 46: 2147-2158. doi: 10.1111/jbi.13667.

Meiri, S., Feldman, F., Schwartz, R. and Shine, R. 2020. Viviparity does not affect the numbers and sizes of reptile offspring. Journal of Animal Ecology, https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1365-2656.13125

Tallowin, O. J. S., Meiri, S., Donnellan, S., Richards, S. J., Austin, C. C. and Oliver, P. 2019. The other side of the Sahulian coin: biogeography and evolution of Melanesian forest dragons (Agamidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 129: 99-113. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blz125.

Shine, R., Goiran, C., Shilton, C., Meiri, S. and Brown, G. P. 2019. The life aquatic: an association between habitat type and skin thickness in snakes. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blz136.

Meiri, S. 2019. Endothermy, offspring size, and evolution of parental provisioning in vertebrates. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blz138.

Tingley, R., Macdonald, S. L., Mitchell, N. J., Woinarski, J. C. Z., Meiri, S., Bowles, P., Cox, N. A., Shea, G. M., Bohm, M., Chanson, J., Tognelli, M. F., Harris, J., Walke, C., Harrison, N., Victor, S., Woods, C., Amey, A. P., Bamford, M., Catt, G., Clemann, N., Couper, P. J., Cogger, H., Cowan, M., Craig, M. D., Dickman, C. R., Doughty, P., Ellis, R., Fenner, A., Ford, S., Gaikhorst, G., Gillespie, G. R., Greenlees, M. J., Hobson, R., Hoskin, C. J., How, R., Hutchinson, M. N., Lloyd, R., McDonald, P., Melville, J., Michael, D. R., Moritz, C., Oliver, P. M., Peterson, G., Robertson, P., Sanderson, C., Somaweeraa, R., Teale, R., Valentine, L., Vanderduys, E., Venz, M., Wapstra, E., Wilson, S. and Chapple, D. G. 2019. Geographic and taxonomic patterns of extinction risk in Australian squamates. Biological Conservation https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.108203

Pincheira-Donoso, D., Meiri, S., Jara, M., Olalla-Tarraga, M. A. and Hodgson, D. 2019. Global patterns of body size evolution are driven by precipitation in legless amphibians. Ecography 42, doi: 10.1111/ecog.04644.

Conde, D. A., Staerk, J., Colchero, F., da Silva, R., Scholey, J., Baden, H. M., Jouvet, L., Fa, J. E., Syed, H., Jongejans, E., Meiri, S., Gaillard, J-M., Chamberlain, S., Wilcken, J., Jones, O. R., Dahlgren, J. P., Steiner, U. K., Bland, L. M., Gomez-Mestre, I., Lebreton, J-D., Vargas, J. G., Flesness, N., Canudas-Romo, V., Salguero-Gomez, R., Byers, O., Berg, T. B., Scheuerlein, A., Devillard, S., Schigel, D. S., Ryder, O. A., Possingham, H. P., Baudisch, A. and Vaupel, J. W. 2019. Data gaps and opportunities for comparative and conservation biology. PNAS, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1816367116.

Meiri, S., Belmaker, A., Berkowic, D., Kazes, K., Maza, E., Bar-Oz, G. and Dor, R. 2019. A checklist of Israeli land vertebrates. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution, 65: 43-50.
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Slavenko, A., Feldman, A., Allison, A., Bauer, A. M., Böhm, M., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Das, I., Doan, T. M., Hoogmoed, M. S., LeBreton, M., Martins, M., Meirte, D., Nagy, Z. T., Nogueira, C. C., Pauwels, O. S. G., Pincheira-Donoso, D., Roll, U., Wagner, P., Wang, Y. and Meiri, S. 2019. Global patterns of body size evolution in squamate reptiles are not driven by climate. Global Ecology and Biogeography DOI: 10.1111/geb.128.

Ali, J. and Meiri, S. 2019. Biodiversity growth on the volcanic ocean islands and the roles of in situ cladogenesis and immigration: case with the reptiles. Ecography, doi: 10.1111/ecog.04024.

Rice, A., Smarda, P., Novosolov, M., Drori, M., Glick, L., Sabath, N., Meiri, S., Belmaker, J. and Mayrose, I. 2019. The global distribution of polyploid plants. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 265-273.

Kolker, M., Meiri, S. and Holzman, R. 2019. Prepared for the future: a strong signal of evolution towards the adult benthic niche during the pelagic stage in labrid fishes. Evolution 73-4: 803–816. doi.org/10.1111/evo.13694.

Schwarz, R., Stark, G. and Meiri, S. A 2019. A shift in reptile diversity and abundance over the last 25 years. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution, 65: 10-20.

Hernandez‐Salinas, U., Ramirez‐Bautista, A., Cruz‐Elizalde, R., Meiri, S. and Berriozabal‐Islas, C. 2019. Ecology of the growth of Anolis nebulosus (Squamata: Dactyloidae) in a seasonal tropical environment in the Chamela region, Jalisco, Mexico. Ecology and Evolution, doi: 10.1002/ece3.4899

Sion, G. 2018. Foot-preference underlies bite-scar asymmetry in the gecko Ptyodactylus guttatus. Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition, 23(2), 129-151.

Meiri, S., Raia, P. and Santos, A. M. C. 2018. Anagenesis and cladogenesis are useful island biogeography terms. Trends in Ecology & Evolution https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2018.09.005.

Stark, G., Tamar, K., Itescu, Y., Feldman, A., & Meiri, S. (2018). Cold and isolated ectotherms: drivers of reptilian longevity. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 125(4), 730-740.  NOTE THAT WE HAVE FOUND SERIOUS ISSUES WITH THE DATA USED FOR CORRECTING FOR SAMPLE SIZES IN ALL THE FOUR PAPERS BY GAVIN STARK SHAI MEIRI AND COLLEAGUES. WE HAVE PUBLISHED CORRIGENDA FOR ALL THESE PAPERS.

Meiri, S. 2018. Traits of lizards of the world: Variation around a successful evolutionary design. Global Ecology and Biogeography, DOI: 10.1111/geb.12773

Stark, G., & Meiri, S. (2018). Cold and dark captivity: drivers of amphibian longevity. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 27(11), 1384-1397.  NOTE THAT WE HAVE FOUND SERIOUS ISSUES WITH THE DATA USED FOR CORRECTING FOR SAMPLE SIZES IN ALL THE FOUR PAPERS BY GAVIN STARK SHAI MEIRI AND COLLEAGUES. WE HAVE PUBLISHED CORRIGENDA FOR ALL THESE PAPERS.

Itescu, Y., Schwarz, R., Donihue, C. M., Slavenko, A., Roussos, S. A., Sagonas, K., ... & Meiri, S. (2018). Inconsistent patterns of body size evolution in co‐occurring island reptiles. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 27: 538-550.‏

Gainsbury, A., Tallowin, O. and Meiri, S. 2018. An updated global dataset for diet preferences in terrestrial mammals: testing the validity of extrapolation. Mammal Review, doi: 10.1111/mam.12119.

Meiri, S., Bauer, A. M., Allison, A., Castro-Herrera, F., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Das, I., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Hoogmoed, M., Kraus, F., LeBreton, M., Meirte, D., Nagy, Z. T., Nogueira, C. C., Oliver, P., Pauwels, O. S. G., Pincheira-Donoso, D., Shea, G., Sindaco, R., Tallowin, O. J. S., Torres-Carvajal, O., Trape, J-F., Uetz, P., Wagner, P., Wang, Y., Ziegler, T. and Roll, U. 2018. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity & Distributions 24: 262–273. doi: 10.1111/ddi.12678.

Kotsakiozi, P., Jablonski, D., Ilgaz, C., Kumlutas, Y., Avci, A., Meiri, S., Itescu, Y., Kukushkin, O., Gvozdik, V., Scillitani, G., Roussos, S., Jandzik, D., Kasapidis, P., Lymberakis, P. and Poulakakis, N. 2018. Multilocus phylogeny and coalescent species delimitation in Kotschy's gecko, Mediodactylus kotschyi: hidden diversity and cryptic species. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution, 125: 177-187.

Tallowin, O. J. S., Tamar, K., Meiri, S., Allison, A., Kraus, F., Richards, S. J. and Oliver, P. M. 2018. Early insular diversification and mountain uplift were complementary drivers of diversification in a diverse Melanesian lizard radiation (Cyrtodactylus). Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution 125: 29-39.

Itescu, Y., Schwarz, R., Pafilis, P. and Meiri, S. 2018. Lizard tail-loss rates on islands are not governed by longer life spans. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.1163/22244662-06301011.

Sinaiko, G., Magory-Cohen, T., Meiri, S. and Dor, R. 2018. Taxonomic revision of Israeli snakes belonging to the Platyceps rhodorachis species complex (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae). Zootaxa, 4379: 301-346.

Amat, F. and Meiri, S. 2018. Geographic, climatic and biologic constraints on the age at sexual maturity in amphibians. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 123: 34-42. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blx127.

Novosolov, M., Rodda, G. H., Gainsbury, A. M. and Meiri, S. 2018. Dietary niche variation and its relationship to lizard population density. Journal of Animal Ecology 87: 285-292. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12762.

Meiri, M., Barnes, I., Kosintsev, P., Meiri, S., Conroy, K. and Lister, A. 2018. Subspecies dynamics in space and time: a study of the red deer complex using ancient and modern DNA and morphology. Journal of Biogeography doi: 10.1111/jbi.13124.

Sion, G. 2017. Reptile Life in the Land of Israel with Comments on Adjacent Regions: A Book Review. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution, 63(2), 57-59.

Jablonski D., Sion G., Bursey C. R. & Goldberg S. R., 2017: Ptyodactylus guttatus (Sinai fan-fingered gecko). Endoparasite. Herpetological Review, 48(3): 659.

Roll, U., Feldman, A., Novosolov, M., Allison, A., Bauer, A., Bernard, R., Bohm, M., Chirio, L., Collen, B., Colli, G.R., Dabul, L., Das, I., Doan, T., Grismer, L., Herrera, F.C., Hoogmoed, M., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton, M., Lewin, A., Martins, M., Maza, E., Meirte, D., Nagy,  Z., Nogueira, C.C., Pauwels, O.S.G., Pincheira-Donoso, D., Powney, G., Sindaco, R., Tallowin, O., Torres-Carvajal, O., Trape, J.F., Uetz, P., Vidan, E. Wagner, P., Wang, Y.Z., Orme, D., Grenyer, R. and Meiri, S. 2017. The global distribution of tetrapods reveals a need for targeted reptile conservation. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1: 1677-1682. doi: 10.1038/s41559-017-0332-2.

Vidan, E., Roll, U., Bauer, A. M., Grismer, L. L., Guo, P., Maza, E., Novosolov, M., Sindaco, R., Wagner, P., Belmaker, J. and Meiri, S. 2017. The Eurasian hot nightlife - environmental forces associated with nocturnality in lizards. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26: 1316-1325. doi: 10.1111/geb.12643.

Schwarz, R. and Meiri, S. 2017. The fast-slow life-history continuum in insular lizards: A comparison between species with invariant and variable clutch sizes. Journal of Biogeography 44: 2808–2815. doi: 10.1111/jbi.13067.

Novosolov, M., Rodda, G. H., North, A. C., Butchart, S. H. M., Tallowin, O. J. S., Gainsbury, A. M. and Meiri, S. 2017. Population density-range size relationship revisited. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26: 1088-1097. doi: 10.1111/geb.12617​.

Meiri, S. 2017. Oceanic island biogeography: Nomothetic science of the anecdotal. Frontiers of Biogeography 9: e32801. doi:10.21425/F59132081.

​Tallowin, O. J. S., Allison, A. Algar, A. and Meiri, S. 2017. Papua New Guinea terrestrial vertebrate richness: elevation matters most for all except reptiles. Journal of Biogeography. doi:10.1111/jbi.12949.

Gainsbury, A. and Meiri, S. 2017. Latitudinal diversity gradient and interspecific competition: no global relationship between niche breadth and species richness. Global Ecology and Biogeography doi: 10.1111/geb.12560.

Karameta, E., Gourgouliani, N., Kouvari-Gaglia, D., Litsi-Mizan, V., Halle, S., Meiri, S., Sfenthourakis, S. and Pafilis, P. 2017. Environment shapes the digestive performance in a Mediterranean lizard. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blx034. 

Itescu, I., Schwarz, R., Meiri, S. and Pafilis, P. 2017. Intra-specific competition, not predation, drives lizard tail loss on islands. Journal of Animal Ecology 86:  66–74. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12591.

Itescu, Y., Jamison, S., Slavenko, A., Tamar, K., Roussos, S. A., Foufopoulos, J., Meiri, S. and Pafilis, P. 2017. The herpetofauna of Folegandros Island (Cyclades, Greece). Herpetozoa, , 29: 183-190.

Baar, Y., Friedman, A. L. L., Meiri, S. and Scharf, I. 2017. Little effect of climate change on body size of herbivorous beetles. Insect Science, DOI 10.1111/1744-7917.12420.

Jamison, S., Tamar, K., Slavenko, A. and Meiri, S. 2017. Tarentola annularis: a new invasive species in Israel. Salamandra 53: 299-303.

Gavriilidi, I. A., Schwarz, R., Meiri, S. and Pafilis, P. 2017. A new record of Hellenolacerta graeca (BEDRIAGA, 1886) from south Peloponnese with possible ecological implications. Herpetozoa, 29: 202-204.

Lewin, A., Feldman, A., Bauer, A. M., Belmaker, J., Broadley, D. G., Chirio, L., Itescu, Y., LeBreton, M., Maza, E., Meirte, D., Nagy, Z. T., Novosolov, M., Roll, U., Tallowin, O., Trape, J-F., Vidan, E. and Meiri, S. 2016. Patterns of species richness, endemism and environmental gradients of African reptiles. Journal of Biogeography 43: 2380-2390. doi:10.1111/jbi.12848.

Tamar, K., Smid, J., Gocmen, B., Meiri, S. and Carranza, S. An integrative systematic revision and biogeography of Rhynchocalamus snakes (Reptilia, Colubridae) with a description of a new species from Israel. PeerJ, 4: e2769. .

Itescu, Y., Schwarz, R., Moses, M., Pafilis, P. and Meiri, S. 2016. Record sizes for the Turkish house gecko, Hemidactylus turcicus, from Aegean islands, Greece. Herpetological Bulletin 138: 24-26. Aka the Varanogecko!

Tamar, K., Carranza, S., Sindaco, R., Moravec, J., Trape, J-F. and Meiri, S. 2016. Out of Africa: Phylogeny and biogeography of the widespread genus Acanthodactylus (Reptilia: Lacertidae). Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution, 103: 6-18. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.07.003.

Slavenko, A., Tallowin, O. J. S., Itescu, Y., Raia, P. and Meiri, S. Late Quaternary reptile extinctions: size matters, insularity dominates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 25: 1308-1320. DOI: 10.1111/geb.12491.

Meiri, S. 2016. Small, rare and trendy: traits and biogeography of lizards described in the 21st century. Journal of Zoology 299: 251–261. doi:10.1111/jzo.12356.

Tingley, R., Meiri, S. and Chapple, D. G. 2016. Addressing knowledge gaps in reptile conservation. Biological Conservation,  204: 1-5.

Schwarz, R., Gavriilidi, I-A., Itescu, Y., Jamison, S., Sagonas, K., Meiri, S. and Pafilis, P. 2016. Mediodactylus kotschyi in the Peloponnese peninsula, Greece: distribution and habitat. Acta Herpetologica 11: 179-187.

Itescu, Y., Slavenko, A., Schwarz, R., Meiri, S. and Pafilis, P. 2016. A new island record for Chalcides ocellatus (Forskal, 1775) from Kythnos, Greece. Herpetozoa 29: 98-100.

Karagkouni, M., Sfenthourakis, S. and Meiri, S. 2017. The Island Rule is not valid in terrestrial isopods (Crustacea: Oniscidea). Journal of Zoology 301: 11-16. 

Raia, P., Passaro, F., Carotenuto, F., Meiri, S. and Piras, P. 2016. From evolutionary allometry to sexual display. The American Naturalist, 188. DOI: 10.1086/687252.

Winter, M., Fiedler, W., Hochachka, W. M., Koehnke, A., Meiri, S. and De la Riva, I. Patterns and biases in climate change research on amphibians and reptiles. Royal Society Open Science DOI: 10.1098/rsos.160158.

Sabath, N., Itescu, Y., Feldman, A., Meiri, S., Mayrose, I. and Valenzuela, N. 2016. Sex determination, longevity and the birth and death of reptilian species. Ecology and Evolution doi: 10.1002/ece3.2277.

Meiri, S. and Chapple, D. G. 2016. Biases in the current knowledge of threat status in lizards, and bridging the ‘assessment gap’. Biological Conservation 204: 6-15.  doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2016.03.009.

Roll, U., Mittermeier, J. C., Diaz, G. I., Novosolov, M., Feldman, F., Itescu, Y., Meiri, S. and Grenyer, R. 2016. Using Wikipedia page views to explore the cultural importance of global reptiles. Biological Conservation 204: 42-50.

Feldman, A., Sabath, N., Pyron, R. A., Mayrose, I. and Meiri, S. 2016. Body-sizes and diversification rates of lizards, snakes, amphisbaenians and the tuatara. Global Ecology and Biogeography 25: 187-197. doi: 10.1111/geb.12398.

Tamar, K., Scholz, S., Crochet. P-A., Geniez, P., Meiri, S., Schmitz, A., Wilms, T. and Carranza, S. 2016. Evolution around the Red Sea: Systematics and biogeography of the agamid genus Pseudotrapelus (Squamata: Agamidae) from North Africa and Arabia. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution 97: 55-68.

Shenbrot, G., Feldstein, T. and Meiri, S. 2016. Are cryptic species of the Lesser Egyptian Jerboa, Jaculus jaculus (Rodentia, Dipodidae), really cryptic? Re-evaluation of their taxonomic status with new data from Israel and Sinai. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 54: 148-159. doi: 10.1111/jzs.12121.

Karagkouni, M., Sfenthourakis, S., Feldman, F. and Meiri, S. 2016. Biogeography of body size in terrestrial isopods (Crustacea: Oniscidea). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 54: 182-188.  doi: 10.1111/jzs.12125.

Novosolov, M., Rodda, G. H., Feldman, A., Kadison, A. E., Dor, R. and Meiri, S. 2016. Power in numbers. The evolutionary drivers of high population density in insular lizards. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 25: 87-95. doi: 10.1111/geb.12390.

Slavenko, A., Itescu, Y., Ihlow, F. and Meiri, S. 2016. Home is where the shell is: predicting turtle home range sizes. Journal of Animal Ecology, 85: 106-114, doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12446

Pafilis, P., Meiri, S., Sagonas, K., Karakasi, D., Kourelou, E. and Valakos, E. D. 2016. Body size affects digestive performance in a Mediterranean lizard. Herpetological Journal 26: 201-207.

Feldman, A., Bauer, A. M., Castro-Herrera, F., Chirio, L., Das, I., Doan, T. M., Maza, E., Meirte, D., Nogueira, C. C., Nagy, Z. T., Torres-Carvajal, O., Uetz, P. and Meiri, S. 2015. The geography of snake reproductive mode: A global analysis of the evolution of snake viviparity. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 24: 1433-1442. doi: 10.1111/geb.12374.

Tamar, K., Carranza, S., in den Bosch, H., Sindaco, R., Moravec, J. and Meiri, S. 2015. Hidden relationships and genetic diversity: Molecular phylogeny and phylogeography of the Levantine lizards of the genus Phoenicolacerta (Squamata: Lacertidae). Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution 91: 86-97. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.05.002.

Barun, A., Simberloff, D., Meiri, S., Tvrtković, N. and Tadić, Z. 2015. Possible character displacement of an introduced mongoose and native marten on Adriatic Islands, Croatia. Journal of Biogeography 42: 2257-2269.

Berkowic, D., Stokke, B. G., Meiri, S. and Markman, S. 2015. Climate change and coevolution in the cuckoo–reed warbler system. Evolutionary Ecology 29: 581-597. DOI 10.1007/s10682-015-9763-x.

Oliver, P. M., Parker, F. and Tallowin, O. 2015. Further records of reptiles and amphibians utilising ant plant (Rubiaceae) domatia in New Guinea. Herpetology Notes, 8: 239-241.

Slavenko, A. and Meiri, S. 2015. Mean body sizes of amphibian species are poorly predicted by climate. Journal of Biogeography 42: 1246-1254. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12516.

Newbold, T., Hudson, L. N., Hill, S. L. L., Contu, S., Lysenko, I., Senior, R. A., Borger, L., Bennett, D. J., Choimes, A., Collen, B., Day, J., De Palma, A., Diaz, S., Echeverria-Londono, S., Edgar, M. J., Feldman, A., Garon, M., Harrison. M. L. K., Alhusseini, T., Ingram, D. J., Itescu, Y., Kattge, J., Kemp, V., Kirkpatrick, L., Kleyer, M., Correia, D. L. P., Martin, C. D., Meiri, S., Novosolov, M., Pan, Y., Phillips, H. R. P., Purves, D. W., Robinson, A., Simpson, J., Tuck, S. L., Weiher, E., White, H. J., Ewers, R. M., Mace, G. M., Scharlemann, J. P. W. and Purvis, A. 2015. Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity. Nature 520: 45-50. doi:10.1038/nature14324.

Meiri, S., Feldman, A. and Kratochvil, L. 2015. Squamate hatchling size and the evolutionary causes of negative offspring size allometry. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28: 438-446. DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12580.

Raia, P., Passaro, F., Carotenuto, F., Maiorino, L., Piras, P., Teresi, L., Meiri, S., Itescu, Y., Novosolov, M., Baiano, M., Martinez, R. and Fortelius, M.  2015. Cope’s rule and the universal scaling law of ornament complexity. The American Naturalist, 186, published online. DOI: 10.1086/682011

Slavenko, A., Itescu, Y., Foufopoulos, J., Pafilis, P. and Meiri, S. 2015. Clutch size variability in an ostensibly fix-clutched lizard: effects of insularity on a Mediterranean gecko. Evolutionary Biology, 42: 129-136. DOI: 10.1007/s11692-015-9304-0.

Scharf, I., Feldman, A., Novosolov, M., Pincheira-Donoso, D., Das, I., Bohm, M., Uetz, P., Torres-Carvajal, O., Bauer, A. M., Roll, U. and Meiri, S. 2015. Late bloomers and baby boomers: ecological drivers of longevity in squamates and the tuatara. Global Ecology and Biogeography DOI: 10.1111/geb.12244

Maza, E., Feldman, A., Fishelson, L. and Meiri, S. 2015. Platyceps largeni (Schatti, 2001) – sixth specimen and distribution extension. Check List 11: 1517-1518.

Tamar, K., Carranza, S., Sindaco, R., Moravec, J. and Meiri, S. 2014. Systematics and phylogeography of Acanthodactylus schreiberi and its relationships with Acanthodactylus boskianus (Reptilia: Squamata: Lacertidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 172: 720-739., doi: 10.1111/zoj.12170.

Meiri, S., Kadison, A. E., Novosolov, M., Pafilis, P., Foufopoulos, J., Itescu, Y., Raia, P. and Pincheira-Donoso, D. 2014. The number of competitor species is unlinked to sexual dimorphism. Journal of Animal Ecology 83: 1302-1312. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2656.12248/abstract.

Feldman, A. and Meiri, S. 2014. Australian snakes do not follow Bergmann's Rule. Evolutionary Biology, 41: 327-335. DOI 10.1007/s11692-014-9271-x.

Itescu, Y., Karraker, N. E., Pritchard, P., Raia, P. and Meiri, S. 2014. Is the island rule general? Turtles disagree. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 23: 689-700.

Novosolov, M. and Meiri, S. 2013. The effect of island type on lizard reproductive traits. Journal of Biogeography, 40: 2385-2395. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12179.

Scharf, I. and Meiri, S. 2013. Sexual dimorphism of heads and abdomens: different approaches to “being large” in female and male lizards. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 110: 665-673. DOI: 10.1111/bij.12147.

Pincheira-Donoso, D. and Meiri, S. 2013. An intercontinental analysis of climate-driven body size clines in reptiles: no support for patterns, no signals of processes. Evolutionary Biology, 40: 562-578. DOI 10.1007/s11692-013-9232-9.

Meiri, S., Bauer, A. M., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Das, I., Doan, T. M., Feldman, A., Herrera, F-C., Novosolov, M., Pafilis, P., Pincheira-Donoso, D., Powney, G., Torres-Carvajal, O., Uetz, P. and Van Damme, R. 2013. Are lizards feeling the heat? A tale of ecology and evolution under two temperatures. Global Ecology and Biogeography 22: 834–845.

Pomerantz, O., Meiri, S. and Terkel, J. 2013. Socio-ecological factors and cognitive skills predict levels of stereotypic behaviour in zoo-housed primates. Behavioural Processes 98: 85-91.

Pincheira-Donoso, D., Bauer, A., Meiri, S. and Uetz, P. 2013. Global taxonomic diversity in living reptiles. PLoS ONE 8(3): e59741. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0059741.

Hortal, J., Carrascal, L. M., Triantis, K. A., Thebault, E., Meiri, S. and Sfenthourakis, S. 2013. Species richness can decrease with altitude, but not with habitat diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 110: E2149-E2150.

Roll, U., Tallowin, O., Berkowic, D., Maza, E., Ostrometzky, Y., Slavenko, A., Shacham, B., Tamar, K. and Meiri, S. 2013. Rueppel’s Snake-eyed skink, Ablepharus rueppellii (Gray, 1839) (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae): distribution extension and geographic range in Israel. Check List 9: 458-464.

Sagonas, K., Meiri, S., Valakos, E. D. and Pafilis, P. 2013. The effect of body size on the thermoregulation of lizards on hot, dry Mediterranean islands. Journal of Thermal Biology 38: 92-97.

Feldman, A. and Meiri, S. 2013. Length-mass allometry in snakes. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 108: 161-182.

McFadden, K. W. and Meiri, S. 2013. Dwarfism in insular carnivores: a case study of the pygmy raccoon. Journal of Zoology, 289: 213-221.

Novosolov, M., Raia, P. and Meiri, S. 2013. The island syndrome in lizards. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 22: 184-191.

Davies, J., Cooper, N., Diniz-Filho, J. A. F., Thomas, G. H. and Meiri, S. 2012. Using phylogenetic trees to test for character displacement: a model and an example from a desert mammal community. Ecology, 93 (Supplement 6): S44-S51.

Meiri, S., Brown, J. H. and Sibly, R. M. 2012. The ecology of lizard reproductive output. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 21: 592-602.

Roll, U., Stone, L., Grenyer, R. and Meiri, S. 2011. Not so holy after all. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution 57: 193-204.

Raia, P. and Meiri, S. 2011. The tempo and mode of evolution: body sizes of island mammals. Evolution, 65: 1927-1934.

Meiri, S., Simberloff, D, and Dayan, T. 2011. Community-wide character displacement in the presence of clines: A test of Holarctic weasel guilds. Journal of Animal Ecology, 80: 824-834.

Meiri, S. 2011. Bergmann's Rule - What's in a name? Global Ecology and Biogeography, 19: 20: 203-207.

Meiri, S., Raia, P. and Phillimore, A. B. 2011. Slaying dragons: limited evidence for unusual body size evolution on islands. Journal of Biogeography 38: 89-100.

Meiri, S. and Raia, P. 2010. Reptilian all the way? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 107: E27.

Meiri, S. 2010. Length-weight allometries in lizards. Journal of Zoology, 281: 218-226.

Raia, P., Carotenuto, F. and Meiri, S. 2010. One size does not fit all: No evidence for an optimal body size on islands. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 19: 475-484.

Powney, G. D., Grenyer, R., Orme, C. D. L., Owens, I. P. F. and Meiri, S. 2010. Hot, dry and different: Australian lizard richness is unlike that of mammals, amphibians, and birds. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 19: 386-396.

Roll, U., Stone, L. and Meiri, S. 2009. Hot-spot facts and artifacts – questioning Israel's great biodiversity. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution, 55: 263-279.

Hortal, J., Triantis, K. A., Meiri, S., Thebault, E. and Sfenthourakis, S. 2009. Island species richness increases with habitat diversity. American Naturalist, 174: e205-e217.

Thomas, G. H., Meiri, S. and Phillimore, A. B. 2009. Body size diversification in Anolis: novel environment and island effects. Evolution, 63: 2017-2030.

Pafilis, P., Meiri, S., Foufopoulos, J. and Valakos, E. 2009. Intraspecific competition and high food availability drive insular gigantism in a lizard. Naturwissenschaften, 96: 1107-1113.

Meiri, S., Dayan, T., Simberloff, D. and Grenyer, R. 2009. Life on the edge: Carnivore body size variation is all over the place. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B., 276: 1469-1476.

Meiri, S., Guy, D., Dayan, T. and Simberloff, D. 2009. Global change and carnivore body size – data are stasis. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 18: 240-247.

Olson , V. A., Davies, R. G., Orme, C. D. L., Thomas, G. H., Meiri, S., Blackburn, T. M., Gaston, K. J., Owens, I. P. F. and Bennett, P. M. 2009. Global biogeography and ecology of body size in birds. Ecology Letters, 12: 249-259.

Meiri, S. 2008. Evolution and ecology of lizard body sizes. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 17: 724-734.

Meiri, S., Meijaard, E., Wich, S. Groves, C. and Helgen, K. 2008. Mammals of Borneo - small size on a large island. Journal of Biogeography, 35: 1087-1094.

Meiri, S., Cooper, N. and Purvis, A. 2008. The island rule: made to be broken? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 275: 141-148.

Meiri, S. and Mace, G. M. 2007. New taxonomy and the origin of species. PLoS Biology, 5: 1385-1386.

Meiri, S., Dayan, T., and Simberloff, D. 2007. Guild composition and mustelid morphology – Character displacement but no character release. Journal of Biogeography, 34: 2148-2158.

Meiri, S. and Thomas, G. H. 2007. The geography of body size – challenges of the interspecific approach. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 16: 689-693.

Meiri, S. 2007. Size evolution in island lizards. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 16: 702-708.

Meiri, S., Duckworth, W. J. and Meijaard, E. 2007. Biogeography of Mustela lutreolina (Robinson and Thomas, 1917) and a newly discovered specimen of from Java. Small Carnivore Conservation, 37: 1-5.

Davies, J. T., Meiri, S., Barraclough, T. G. and Gittleman, J. L. 2007. Species coexistence and character divergence across carnivores. Ecology Letters, 10: 146-152.

Meiri, S., Yom-Tov, Y. and Geffen, E. 2007. What determines conformity to Bergmann’s rule? Global Ecology and Biogeography, 16: 788-794.

Raia, P. and Meiri, S. 2006. The island rule in large mammals: Paleontology meets ecology. Evolution, 60: 1731-1742.

Duckworth, W. J., Lee, B., Meijaard, E. and Meiri, S. 2006. The Malay Weasel Mustela nudipes: distribution, natural history and a global conservation status review.  Small Carnivore Conservation, 34: 2-21.

Meiri, S., Dayan, T., and Simberloff, D. 2006. The generality of the island rule re-examined. Journal of Biogeography, 33: 1571-1577.

Meiri, S., Dayan, T., and Simberloff, D. 2005. Area, isolation, and size evolution in insular carnivores. Ecology Letters 8: 1211-1217.

Meiri, S., Simberloff, D. and Dayan, T. 2005. Insular carnivore biogeography: Island area and mammalian optimal body size. American Naturalist, 165: 505-514.

Meiri, S., Dayan, T. and Simberloff, D. 2005. Variability and sexual size dimorphism in carnivores: Testing the niche variation hypothesis. Ecology, 86: 1432-1440.

Meiri, S., Dayan, T. and Simberloff, D. 2005. Biogeographic patterns in the Western Palearctic: the fasting-endurance hypothesis and the status of Murphy's rule. Journal of Biogeography, 32: 369-375.

Meiri, S., Dayan, T., and Simberloff, D. 2005. Variability and correlations in carnivore crania and dentition. Functional Ecology, 19: 337-343.

Meiri, S., Dayan, T., and Simberloff, D. 2004. Body size of insular carnivores: Little support for the island rule. American Naturalist, 163: 469-479.

Meiri, S., Dayan, T., and Simberloff, D. 2004. Carnivores, biases and Bergmann's rule. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 81: 579-588.

Meiri, S. and Yom-Tov, Y. 2004. Ontogeny of large birds: Migrants do it faster. Condor, 106: 540-548.

Meiri, S. and Dayan, T. 2003. On the validity of Bergmann’s rule. Journal of Biogeography, 30: 331-351.

 

Invited Chapters in Books:

Dayan, T., Meiri, S. and Friedman, A. L. L. 2018. The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History and Father Schmitz's collection. pages 65-76 in: Leshem, Y., Gren, H. and Amit, H. editors. 2018. Father Ernst Schmitz, priest and zoologist. The Holy Land at the beginning of the 20th Century. Carta, Jerusalem. In Hebrew.

Safi, K., Meiri, S. and Jones, K. E. 2013. Body mass evolution in bats. Pages 95-115 in: Body Size: linking pattern and process across space, time and taxonomic group (eds. F. A. Smith and S. K. Lyons). University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Meiri, S. 2009. Island Rule. Pages 492-496 in R. G. Gillespie and D. A. Clague (editors). Encyclopedia of Islands. University of California Press, Berkeley.

Meiri, S. and Raia, P. 2009. Dwarfism. Pages 235-239 in R. G. Gillespie and D. A. Clague (editors). Encyclopedia of Islands. University of California Press, Berkeley.


Non peer-reviewed journals and notes:

Maza, E., Tamar, K., Segev, N. and Meiri, S. 2021. Xerotyphlops syriacus (Syrian blind snake). Geographic distribution. Herpetological Review 52: 89.

Meiri, S. 2020. Editorial: Gekkota Mundi – the world of geckos. Israel Journal of Ecology & Evolution 66: 113-116.

Maza, E., Levi, B., Tamar, K. and Meiri, S. 2020. Ophisops elegans (elegant snake-eyed lizard). Longevity. Herpetological Review 51: 529.

Ofer, E., Shoshani, R. Hurwitz, E., Ishlach, K., Kadiva, S., Roter, I., Zamsky, R., Lewin, A. and Meiri, S. 2020. Stenodactylus sthenodactylus (elegant gecko). Bifurcation. Herpetological Review 51: 131-132.

Goldberg, S. R. and Maza, E. 2019. Stenodactylus doriae (dune sand gecko). Reproduction. Herpetological Review 50: 792.

Goldberg, S. R. and Maza, E. 2018. Stenodactylus petrii (Anderson’s short-fingered gecko). Reproduction. Herpetological Review 49: 121-122.

Slavenko, A., Tallowin, O. J. S. and Maza, E. 2018. Chalcides ocellatus (ocellated skink). Diet. Herpetological Review 49: 535-536.

Stark, G., David, D., Lewin, A., Meiri, S. 2018. Acanthodactylus aegyptius (Egyptian Fringed-fingered Lizard) tail Bifurcation. Herpetological Review, 49: 324-325.

Itescu, Y., Lewin, A., Slavenko, A., Meiri, S. and Pafilis, P. 2017. Podarcis erhardii (Erhard's wall lizard). Extreme morphology. Herpetological Review 48: 199-200. [aka the Ptyodarcis!)

Goldberg, S. R., Schwarz, R., Jamison, S. and Maza, E. 2017. Eirenis coronella (crowned dwarf racer). Reproduction. Herpetological Review 48: 672-673.

Goldberg, S. R., Bursey, C. R., Schwarz, R., Jamison, S. and Maza, E. 2017. Platyceps rogersi (Rogers’ racer). Endoparasites. Herpetological Review 48: 218.

Goldberg, S. R., Schwarz, R. and Maza, E. 2017. Hemorrhois nummifer (Asian racer). Reproduction. Herpetological Review 48: 673.

Goldberg, S. R., Bursey, C. R., Tallowin, O., Itescu, Y. and Maza, E. 2017. Hemorrhois nummifer (Asian racer). Endoparasites. Herpetological Review 48: 213.

Goldberg, S. R. and Maza, E. 2017. Ptyodactylus puiseuxi (Israeli fan-fingered gecko). Reproduction. Herpetological Review 48: 853-854.

Goldberg, S. R. and Maza, E.2017. Bunopus blanfordii (Blanfords rock gecko). Reproduction. Herpetological Review 48: 845.

Goldberg, S. R. and Feldman, A. 2014. Micrelaps muelleri (erdviper). Reproduction. Herpetological Review 45: 518.

Goldberg, S. R. and Maza, E. 2014. Trachylepis vittata (bridled mabuya). Reproduction. Herpetological Review 45: 137.

Tamar, K., Maza, E. and Meiri, S. 2013. Ophisops elegans (Snake-Eyed Lizard). Bifurcation. Herpetological Review, 44: 146.

Tamar, K., Maza, E. and Meiri, S. 2013. Acanthodactylus boskianus (Bosk's Fringe-fingered Lizard). Bifurcation. Herpetological Review, 44: 135-136.

Meiri, S. and Dayan, T. 2010. Natural history collections and conservation – a call for aid in collecting. Ecology and Environment, 3: 5. In Hebrew.

Roll, U., Stone, L. and Meiri, S. 2010. Israel is especially rich in animal and plants – or is it? Ecology and Environment, 3: 24-35. In Hebrew, translation of Roll et al. 2009.

Meiri, S. 2005. Small carnivores on small islands. New data based on old skulls. Small Carnivore Conservation, 33: 21-23.  (SCC only became peer reviewed in 2006).