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A SINE of restricted gene flow across the Alpine Fault: phylogeography of the New Zealand common skink (Oligosoma nigriplantare polychroma).

scientific article

A complex history of introgression and vicariance in a threatened montane skink (Pseudemoia cryodroma) across an Australian sky island system

A database of the morphology, ecology and literature of the world's limb‐reduced skinks

scientific article published in 2022

A farewell to arms and legs: a review of limb reduction in squamates

A global analysis of field body temperatures of active squamates in relation to climate and behaviour

scholarly article

A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates

scientific article published on 4 October 2022

A global reptile assessment highlights shared conservation needs of tetrapods

scientific article published on 27 April 2022

A hierarchical approach to understanding physiological associations with climate

scientific article published on 28 November 2021

A matter of time: Temporal variation in the introduction history and population genetic structuring of an invasive lizard

scientific article published in 2015

A multi‐site method to capture turnover in rare to common interactions in bipartite species networks

scientific article published in 2021

A national‐scale dataset for threats impacting Australia’s imperiled flora and fauna

scientific article published on 04 August 2021

A new skink species (Oligosoma taumakae sp. nov.; Reptilia: Scincidae) from the Open Bay Islands, New Zealand

article

A new species of Oligosoma (Squamata: Scincidae) from the northern North Island, New Zealand

scholarly article published in 2021

A new species of scincid lizard in the genus Oligosoma (Reptilia: Scincidae) from the mid-Canterbury high country, New Zealand

scientific article

A retrospective approach to testing the DNA barcoding method

scientific article

A return-on-investment approach for prioritization of rigorous taxonomic research needed to inform responses to the biodiversity crisis

Addressing knowledge gaps in reptile conservation

Aggression mediates dispersal tendency in an invasive lizard

scientific article published on 11 October 2017

Agonistic behavioural asymmetry in two species of montane lizard that exhibit elevational replacement

scientific article published in 2021

An increasing citation black hole in ecology and evolution

scientific article

Analyses of extinction risk are an important part of the conservation process – Reply to Monks

Animal population decline and recovery after severe fire: Relating ecological and life history traits with expert estimates of population impacts from the Australian 2019-20 megafires

scientific article published in 2023

Ant diversity in relation to time since fire in a mallee landscape of South‐Eastern Australia

scientific article published in 2023

Are behavioural syndromes sex specific? Personality in a widespread lizard species

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Australia's most imperilled vertebrates

Automated assessment reveals extinction risk of reptiles is widely underestimated across space and phylogeny

Automated assessment reveals that the extinction risk of reptiles is widely underestimated across space and phylogeny

scientific article published on 26 May 2022

Avian predation intensity as a driver of clinal variation in colour morph frequency

scientific article published on 10 September 2018

Behavioral syndromes vary among geographically distinct populations in a reptile

scientific article published in 2018

Behavioural phenotype modulates group size effects in a lizard

Behavioural variation and plasticity along an invasive ant introduction pathway

scientific article published on 13 August 2018

Biases in the current knowledge of threat status in lizards, and bridging the ‘assessment gap’

article

Biogeographic barriers in south-eastern Australia drive phylogeographic divergence in the garden skink, Lampropholis guichenoti

article

Biological invasions as a selective filter driving behavioral divergence

scientific article published in 2022

Biology of the invasive delicate skink (Lampropholis delicata) on Lord Howe Island

article by David G. Chapple et al published 2015 in Australian Journal of Zoology

Biosecurity interceptions of an invasive lizard: origin of stowaways and human-assisted spread within New Zealand ⬇️

scientific article

Calibration of sampling techniques and determination of sample size for the estimation of egg and larval populations of Helicoverpa spp. (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) on irrigated soybean

Calling phenology of a diverse amphibian assemblage in response to meteorological conditions

scientific article published on 15 December 2017

Can behavioral and personality traits influence the success of unintentional species introductions?

scientific article

Capturing uncatalogued distribution records to improve conservation assessments of data‐deficient species: a case study using the glossy grass skink

scientific article published in 2023

Changes in Reproductive Investment Following Caudal Autotomy in Viviparous Skinks (Niveoscincus metallicus): Lipid Depletion or Energetic Diversion?

scientific article published in 2002

Changes in Reproductive Investment following Caudal Autotomy in Viviparous Skinks (Niveoscincus metallicus): Lipid Depletion or Energetic Diversion?

scientific article published in 2002

Chemical cues and group association preferences in a subsocial cockroach,Panesthia australis

scientific article published in 2009

Comparative phylogeography of three skink species (Oligosoma moco, O. smithi, O. suteri; Reptilia: Scincidae) in northeastern New Zealand

scientific article

Comparative phylogeography reveals pre-decline population structure of New Zealand Cyclodina (Reptilia: Scincidae) species

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Complex mating system and dispersal patterns in a social lizard, Egernia whitii.

scientific article published in April 2005

Connectivity and habitat type shape divergent dispersal behavior in a desert-dwelling fish

scientific article published in 2017

Conservation status of the world's skinks (Scincidae): Taxonomic and geographic patterns in extinction risk

scientific article published on 20 April 2021

Conserved ecophysiology despite disparate microclimatic conditions in a gecko

Consistent temporal variation in the diet of an endangered alpine lizard across two south-eastern Australian sky-islands

scientific article published in 2017

Correlates of extinction risk in Australian squamate reptiles

scientific article published on 20 June 2021

Counting the bodies: Estimating the numbers and spatial variation of Australian reptiles, birds and mammals killed by two invasive mesopredators

scientific article published in 2022

Decline in lizard species diversity, abundance and ectoparasite load across an elevational gradient in the Australian alps

scientific article published on 6 September 2020

Demographic and life history variation in two sky‐island populations of an endangered alpine lizard ⬇️

article by Z. S. Atkins et al published 19 August 2019 in Journal of Zoology: Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

Density is more important than predation risk for predicting growth and developmental outcomes in tadpoles of spotted tree frog, Litoria spenceri (Dubois 1984)

scientific article published in 2019

Determining the generation length and level of morphological and genetic differentiation in the Data Deficient glossy grass skink (Pseudemoia rawlinsoni)

scientific article published in 2024

Dispersal in the desert: ephemeral water drives connectivity and phylogeography of an arid-adapted fish

Distribution of energy reserves in a viviparous skink: Does tail autotomy involve the loss of lipid stores?

scientific article published in 2002

Divergent introduction histories among invasive populations of the delicate skink (Lampropholis delicata): has the importance of genetic admixture in the success of biological invasions been overemphasized?

scientific article published in 2012

Do Students Value On-Campus Field-Based Education? A Case Study of Science Educational Initiatives in the Jock Marshall Reserve

Does geographical isolation influence group recognition and social preference in an invasive lizard?

scientific article published in 2019

Does personality influence learning? A case study in an invasive lizard

scientific article published on 12 October 2017

Does range-restricted evolutionary history predict extinction risk? A case study in lizards

Does the development environment cause the pace of life to change in a rainforest lizard?

scientific article published in 2024

Does the invasive plague skink ( Lampropholis delicata ) compete with native skink species in New Zealand?

scientific article

Dynamic taxonomy versus field identification: A dilemma for New Zealand herpetologists

scientific article published in January 2009

ECOLOGY, LIFE-HISTORY, AND BEHAVIOR IN THE AUSTRALIAN SCINCID GENUS EGERNIA, WITH COMMENTS ON THE EVOLUTION OF COMPLEX SOCIALITY IN LIZARDS

scientific article published in 2003

Ecophysiology of a small ectotherm tracks environmental variation along an elevational cline

scientific article published in 2022

Effect of Tail Loss on Sprint Speed and Growth in Newborn Skinks, Niveoscincus metallicus ⬇️

scientific article published in 2004

Egernia lizards

scientific article published on July 2015

Environmental correlates of morphological diversity in Australian geckos

scientific article published on 17 March 2021

Erosion of lizard diversity by climate change and altered thermal niches.

scientific article

Evaluating cognition and thermal physiology as components of the pace-of-life syndrome

Evaluating the performance of anchored hybrid enrichment at the tips of the tree of life: a phylogenetic analysis of Australian Eugongylus group scincid lizards

scientific article published on 11 April 2015

Evolution and maintenance of colour pattern polymorphism inLiopholis(Squamata�:�Scincidae)

scientific article published in 2008

Evolution of diel activity patterns in skinks (Squamata: Scincidae), the world's second‐largest family of terrestrial vertebrates

scientific article published in 2022

Experimental manipulation suggests effect of polyandry but not mate familiarity on within-pair aggression in the social skink, Liopholis whitii

article published in 2017

Gall wasp biocontrol of invasive Acacia longifolia : implications of strong bottom-up effects

scientific article published in 2017

Genetic Divergence among Regions Containing the Vulnerable Great Desert Skink (Liopholis kintorei) in the Australian Arid Zone

scientific article published on 10 June 2015

Genetic divergences pre-date Pleistocene glacial cycles in the New Zealand speckled skink, Oligosoma infrapunctatum

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Genetic structure, diversity and distribution of a threatened lizard affected by widespread habitat fragmentation

Geographic and taxonomic patterns of extinction risk in Australian squamates

Global Protected Areas as refuges for amphibians and reptiles under climate change

Group Structure and Stability in Social Aggregations of White's Skink, Egernia whitii

Habitat loss and degradation reduce the abundance of the glossy grass skink, Pseudemoia rawlinsoni

scientific article published in 2024

Habitat saturation promotes delayed dispersal in a social reptile

scientific article published in 2017

Has an invasive lizard lost its antipredator behaviours following 40 generations of isolation from snake predators?

scientific article published on 03 September 2021

How do the physiological traits of a lizard change during its invasion of an oceanic island?

scientific article published on 01 November 2021

Human-assisted invasions of pacific islands by litoria frogs: a case study of the bleating tree frog on Lord Howe Island. ⬇️

scientific article published on 11 May 2015

Impact of tail loss on the behaviour and locomotor performance of two sympatric Lampropholis skink species

scientific article

Impacts of caudal autotomy on personality

Integrating thermal physiology within a syndrome: Locomotion, personality and habitat selection in an ectotherm

scientific article published in 2018

Inter-populational variation in the cost of autotomy in the metallic skink (Niveoscincus metallicus)

scientific article published in 2004

Intraspecific behavioral variation is important in both deliberate and unintentional species introductions: response to Carrete et al

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Intraspecific hybridisation of an invasive lizard on Lord Howe Island

scientific article published in 2022

Is partial tail loss the key to a complete understanding of caudal autotomy?

article by GILLIAN L. CROMIE & David G. Chapple published 9 July 2012 in Austral Ecology

Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci from the invasive delicate skink (Lampropholis delicata), with cross-amplification in other Australian Eugongylus group species

article

It’s a trap: sampling bias due to animal personality is not always inevitable

article

Know when to run, know when to hide: can behavioral differences explain the divergent invasion success of two sympatric lizards? ⬇️

scientific article published on November 2011

Life-history traits and extrinsic threats determine extinction risk in New Zealand lizards

article

Lost and Found: Taxonomic revision of the speckled skink (Oligosoma infrapunctatum; Reptilia; Scincidae) species complex from New Zealand reveals a potential cryptic extinction, resurrection of two species, and description of three new species

scientific article published on 26 June 2019

Low food availability during gestation enhances offspring post-natal growth, but reduces survival, in a viviparous lizard

scientific article published on 05 February 2019

Macroecological and biogeographical patterns of limb reduction in the world's skinks

Modelled incubation conditions indicate wider potential distributions based on thermal requirements for an oviparous lizard ⬇️

Molecular phylogeography and systematics of the arid-zone members of the Egernia whitii (Lacertilia: Scincidae) species group.

scientific article

Native and introduced Argentine ant populations are characterised by distinct transcriptomic signatures associated with behaviour and immunity

scientific article

Nest-site selection and the factors influencing hatching success and offspring phenotype in a nocturnal skink

scientific article published in 2017

No behavioral syndromes or sex‐specific personality differences in the southern rainforest sunskink ( Lampropholis similis )

Oligosoma aureocola sp. nov. (Reptilia: Scincidae) from the northern Southland high country of Aotearoa/New Zealand

scientific article published on 16 May 2023

Origin and post-colonization evolution of the Chatham Islands skink (Oligosoma nigriplantare nigriplantare).

scientific article published on 28 June 2008

Origin, diversification, and systematics of the New Zealand skink fauna (Reptilia: Scincidae)

scientific article (publication date: August 2009)

Patterns of niche filling and expansion across the invaded ranges of an Australian lizard

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Pervasive admixture and the spread of a large‐lipped form in a cichlid fish radiation

scientific article published on 16 September 2021

Phylogenomics and biogeography of arid-adapted Chlamydogobius goby fishes ⬇️

scientific article published in May 2023

Phylogeographic divergence in the widespread delicate skink (Lampropholis delicata) corresponds to dry habitat barriers in eastern Australia

scientific article (publication date: 4 July 2011)

Phylogeography and taxonomic revision of the New Zealand cryptic skink (Oligosoma inconspicuum; Reptilia: Scincidae) species complex ⬇️

scientific article published on 3 March 2011

Phylogeography of the endangered Otago skink, Oligosoma otagense: population structure, hybridisation and genetic diversity in captive populations

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Phylogeography of the spotted skink (Oligosoma lineoocellatum) and green skink (O. chloronoton) species complex (Lacertilia: Scincidae) in New Zealand reveals pre-Pleistocene divergence.

scientific article published on 20 June 2007

Phylogeography of two New Zealand lizards: McCann's skink (Oligosoma maccanni) and the brown skink (O. zelandicum).

scientific article published on 14 May 2008

Population differences in the effect of context on personality in an invasive lizard

scientific article published in 2021

Predictors of geographic range size in Australian skinks

scientific article published in 2021

Quantifying maladaptation during the evolution of sexual dimorphism

scientific article published on 14 August 2019

Rapid assessment of the biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires to guide urgent management intervention and recovery and lessons for other regions

scientific article published in 2021

Rapid divergence of animal personality and syndrome structure across an arid-aquatic habitat matrix.

scientific article published on 04 August 2017

Rapid shifts in behavioural traits during a recent fish invasion

scientific article

Repeatability and correlation of physiological traits: Do ectotherms have a "thermal type"?

scientific article published on 22 December 2016

Repeatability, locomotor performance and trade-offs between performance traits in two lizard species, Oligosoma alani and O. smithi

scientific article published on 27 September 2017

Reptiles as food: predation of Australian reptiles by introduced red foxes compounds and complements predation by cats

Reptiles on the brink: identifying the Australian terrestrial snake and lizard species most at risk of extinction

scientific article published in 2021

Rock removal associated with agricultural intensification will exacerbate the loss of reptile diversity

scientific article published in 2021

Scat on the doorstep: Refuge choice in a group‐living lizard is influenced by the presence of scat piles

scientific article published in 2020

Sex-dependent personality in two invasive species of mosquitofish

scientific article

Sexual Dimorphism, Diet, and Reproduction in the Swamp Skink, Egernia coventryi ⬇️

scientific article published in 2004

Sex‐specific shifts in morphology and colour pattern polymorphism during range expansion of an invasive lizard

scientific article published on 23 August 2017

Skinks in Zoos: A global approach on distribution patterns of threatened Scincidae in zoological institutions

Social context mediates the expression of a personality trait in a gregarious lizard

scientific article published in 2022

Spatial learning in captive and wild-born lizards: heritability and environmental effects

scientific article published in 2020

Spatial variation in the climatic predictors of species compositional turnover and endemism

scientific article

Specialist versus Generalist at the Intraspecific Level: Functional Morphology and Substrate Preference of Mediodactylus kotschyi Geckos

scientific article

Substantial genetic substructuring in southeastern and alpine Australia revealed by molecular phylogeography of the Egernia whitii (Lacertilia: Scincidae) species group

scientific article published in April 2005

Taxonomic Revision of the New Zealand Copper Skink (Cyclodina aenea: Squamata: Scincidae) Species Complex, with Descriptions of Two New Species

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Taxonomic revision of the marbled skink (Cyclodina oliveri, Reptilia: Scincidae) species complex, with a description of a new species

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Temporal variation in thermal plasticity in a free-ranging subalpine lizard

scientific article published on 20 May 2020

Testing a global standard for quantifying species recovery and assessing conservation impact

scientific article

The biogeography of warming tolerance in lizards

scientific article published in 2022

The conservation impacts of ecological disturbance: Time‐bound estimates of population loss and recovery for fauna affected by the 2019–2020 Australian megafires

scientific article published on 02 March 2022

The conservation status of the world’s reptiles

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The effect of network size and sampling completeness in depauperate networks

scientific article published in 2018

The effect of skin reflectance on thermal traits in a small heliothermic ectotherm.

scientific article published on 21 June 2016

The escalating global problem of accidental human-mediated transport of alien species: A case study using alien herpetofauna interceptions in New Zealand

scientific article published in 2023

The functions of CAP superfamily proteins in mammalian fertility and disease

scientific article published on 07 May 2020

The global diversity and distribution of lizard clutch sizes

scientific article published in 2020

The impact of urbanization on learning ability in an invasive lizard

Thermal physiology: A new dimension of the pace-of-life syndrome.

scientific article published on 19 June 2017

Using multiple sources during reintroduction of a locally extinct population benefits survival and reproduction of an endangered freshwater fish

Variable vulnerability to climate change in New Zealand lizards

scientific article published in 2022

Variation in thermal biology of three closely related lizard species along an elevation gradient

Within-plant distribution of Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) and Helicoverpa punctigera (Wallengren) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) eggs on irrigated soybean

virToad: simulating the spatiotemporal population dynamics and management of a global invader

scientific article published in 2022

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