List of works - Shai Meiri

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

scientific article published in 2020

A biogeographic reversal in sexual size dimorphism along a continental temperature gradient

scholarly article by Simon Tarr et al published October 2018 in Ecography

A checklist of Israeli land vertebrates

scientific article published in 2019

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

scientific article published in 2022

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

scientific article published on 4 October 2022

A global catalog of primary reptile type specimens

scientific article published on 12 November 2019

A global reptile assessment highlights shared conservation needs of tetrapods

scientific article published on 27 April 2022

A shift in reptile diversity and abundance over the last 25 years

scientific article published in 2019

Addressing knowledge gaps in reptile conservation

An Intercontinental Analysis of Climate-Driven Body Size Clines in Reptiles: No Support for Patterns, No Signals of Processes

article

An integrative systematic revision and biogeography of Rhynchocalamus snakes (Reptilia, Colubridae) with a description of a new species from Israel

scientific article

Anagenesis and Cladogenesis Are Useful Island Biogeography Terms

scientific article published on 26 September 2018

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

scholarly article by Georgy I. Shenbrot published in January 2016

Are lizards feeling the heat? A tale of ecology and evolution under two temperatures

scientific article published in 2013

Area, isolation and body size evolution in insular carnivores.

scientific article published in November 2005

Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water

scientific article

Australian Snakes Do Not Follow Bergmann’s Rule

article

Author Correction: Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water

correction of a scholarly article

Author Correction: The global distribution of tetrapods reveals a need for targeted reptile conservation

scientific article published on 01 January 2018

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

scientific article published on 26 May 2022

Bergmann's Rule - what's in a name?

scientific article published in 2010

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

article

Biodiversity growth on the volcanic ocean islands and the roles of in situ cladogenesis and immigration: case with the reptiles

scientific article published in 2019

Biogeographical patterns in the Western Palearctic: the fasting-endurance hypothesis and the status of Murphy's rule

article

Biogeography of body size in terrestrial isopods (Crustacea: Oniscidea)

scholarly article by Maria Karagkouni et al published 25 January 2016 in Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research

Body size diversification in anolis: novel environment and island effects

scientific article published on 27 March 2009

Body size of insular carnivores: little support for the island rule

scientific article published on 9 March 2004

Body sizes and diversification rates of lizards, snakes, amphisbaenians and the tuatara

article by Anat Feldman et al published 1 December 2015 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Carnivores, biases and Bergmann's rule

article

Climate change and coevolution in the cuckoo–reed warbler system

scholarly article by Daniel Berkowic et al published 6 May 2015 in Evolutionary Ecology

Clutch Size Variability in an Ostensibly Fix-Clutched Lizard: Effects of Insularity on a Mediterranean Gecko

Cold and dark captivity: Drivers of amphibian longevity

scientific article published in 2018

Cold and isolated ectotherms: drivers of reptilian longevity

Community-wide character displacement in the presence of clines: a test of Holarctic weasel guilds

scientific article

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

Cope's Rule and the Universal Scaling Law of Ornament Complexity

scientific article published on 29 May 2015

Correlates of extinction risk in Australian squamate reptiles

scientific article published on 20 June 2021

Cryptic diversity and non-adaptive radiation of montane New Guinea skinks (Papuascincus; Scincidae)

scientific article published on 31 January 2020

Data gaps and opportunities for comparative and conservation biology

scientific article published on 19 April 2019

Dietary niche variation and its relationship to lizard population density

scientific article

Dwarfism in insular carnivores: a case study of the pygmy raccoon

Early insularity and subsequent mountain uplift were complementary drivers of diversification in a Melanesian lizard radiation (Gekkonidae: Cyrtodactylus).

scientific article published on 15 March 2018

Ecology of the growth of (Squamata: Dactyloidae) in a seasonal tropical environment in the Chamela region, Jalisco, Mexico

scientific article published on 23 January 2019

Elevation is a stronger predictor of morphological trait divergence than competition in a radiation of tropical lizards

scientific article published on 07 January 2021

Endothermy, offspring size and evolution of parental provisioning in vertebrates ⬇️

scientific article published on 17 October 2019

Environment shapes the digestive performance in a Mediterranean lizard

Environmental correlates of morphological diversity in Australian geckos

scientific article published on 17 March 2021

Erratum: Sex determination, longevity, and the birth and death of reptilian species

article

Evolution around the Red Sea: Systematics and biogeography of the agamid genus Pseudotrapelus (Squamata: Agamidae) from North Africa and Arabia

scientific article published on 6 January 2016

Evolution of Body Size in Bats

scholarly article

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

scientific article published in 2022

Extinct, obscure or imaginary: The lizard species with the smallest ranges

scientific article published in 2017

From Evolutionary Allometry to Sexual Display: (A Reply to Holman and Bro-Jørgensen).

scientific article published on 22 June 2016

Geographic and taxonomic patterns of extinction risk in Australian squamates

Global biogeography and ecology of body size in birds

scientific article published in March 2009

Global bioregions of reptiles confirm the consistency of bioregionalization processes across vertebrate clades

scientific article published in 2023

Global change and carnivore body size: data are stasis

article by Shai Meiri et al published March 2009 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Global determinants and conservation of evolutionary and geographic rarity in land vertebrates

scientific article published on 13 October 2021

Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

scientific article

Global patterns of body size evolution in squamate reptiles are not driven by climate

scientific article published in 2019

Global taxonomic diversity of living reptiles

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Hidden relationships and genetic diversity: Molecular phylogeny and phylogeography of the Levantine lizards of the genus Phoenicolacerta (Squamata: Lacertidae).

scientific article published on 15 May 2015

Home is where the shell is: predicting turtle home range sizes

scientific article published on 23 September 2015

Hot, dry and different: Australian lizard richness is unlike that of mammals, amphibians and birds

article

Hot-Spot Facts and Artifacts-Questioning Israel's Great Biodiversity

scholarly article by Uri Roll et al published January 2009 in Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution

Inconsistent patterns of body size evolution in co-occurring island reptiles

scientific article published in 2018

Insular carnivore biogeography: island area and mammalian optimal body size.

scientific article published on 8 March 2005

Intraspecific competition and high food availability are associated with insular gigantism in a lizard

scientific article

Intraspecific competition, not predation, drives lizard tail loss on islands

scientific article published on 14 September 2016

Is the island rule general? Turtles disagree

scientific article published in 2014

Island species richness increases with habitat diversity

scientific article

Isolation and predation drive gecko life-history evolution on islands ⬇️

scientific article published on 24 February 2020

Late Quaternary reptile extinctions: size matters, insularity dominates

scientific article published in 2016

Late bloomers and baby boomers: ecological drivers of longevity in squamates and the tuatara

article by Inon Scharf et al published 22 October 2014 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Length-mass allometry in snakes

scientific article (publication date: 2 November 2012)

Length-weight allometries in lizards

scientific article published in 2010

Life on the edge: carnivore body size variation is all over the place

scientific article (publication date: 22 April 2009)

Little effect of climate change on body size of herbivorous beetles.

scientific article

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

Mean body sizes of amphibian species are poorly predicted by climate

article

Metabolic rate and evaporative water loss during a shedding event in the Mediterranean House Gecko Hemidactylus turcicus

scientific article published in 2023

Morphological and genetic differentiation in the anguid lizard Pseudopus apodus supports the existence of an endemic subspecies in the Levant ⬇️

Multilocus phylogeny and coalescent species delimitation in Kotschy's gecko, Mediodactylus kotschyi: hidden diversity and cryptic species

scientific article published on 16 March 2018

New taxonomy and the origin of species

scientific article published on 17 July 2007

No evidence for the ‘rate‐of‐living’ theory across the tetrapod tree of life ⬇️

scientific article published on 14 February 2020

Not so Holy After All

scientific article published in 2011

ONTOGENY OF LARGE BIRDS: MIGRANTS DO IT FASTER

scholarly article published in The Condor in January 2004

ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Mammals of Borneo - small size on a large island

Oceanic island biogeography: Nomothetic science of the anecdotal

scholarly article by Shai Meiri published 28 April 2017 in Frontiers of biogeography

On the validity of Bergmann's rule

One size does not fit all: no evidence for an optimal body size on islands

article

Out of Africa: Phylogeny and biogeography of the widespread genus Acanthodactylus (Reptilia: Lacertidae).

scientific article

Papua New Guinea terrestrial-vertebrate richness: elevation matters most for all except reptiles

Patterns and biases in climate change research on amphibians and reptiles: a systematic review

scientific article

Platyceps largeni (Schätti , 2001) — sixth specimen and a distribution extension

Population density-range size relationship revisited

scientific article published in 2017

Possible character displacement of an introduced mongoose and native marten on Adriatic Islands, Croatia

scholarly article by Arijana Barun et al published 11 August 2015 in Journal of Biogeography

Power in numbers. Drivers of high population density in insular lizards

scientific article published in 2015

Predictors of geographic range size in Australian skinks

scientific article published in 2021

Prepared for the future: A strong signal of evolution toward the adult benthic niche during the pelagic stage in Labrid fishes

scientific article published on 19 February 2019

Publisher Correction: The global distribution of tetrapods reveals a need for targeted reptile conservation

scholarly article published in Nature Ecology and Evolution

Redrawing Wallace’s Line based on the fauna of Christmas Island, eastern Indian Ocean ⬇️

scientific article published on 10 March 2020

Rensch’s rule—Definitions and statistics

scientific article published on 18 January 2021

Reptile responses to anthropogenic habitat modification: A global meta‐analysis ⬇️

scientific article published on 20 March 2020

Reptilian all the way?

scientific article (publication date: 23 February 2010)

Rueppel’s Snake-eyed Skink, Ablepharus rueppellii (Gray, 1839) (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae): distribution extension and geographic range in Israel

scholarly article by Uri Roll et al published 1 May 2013 in Check List

Science may be better served by sticking to scientific issues rather than by calling authors holding different opinions names ⬇️

scientific article published on 29 September 2021

Sex determination, longevity, and the birth and death of reptilian species

scientific article

Sexual dimorphism of heads and abdomens: Different approaches to ‘being large’ in female and male lizards

Sexual size dimorphism in lizards: Rensch's rule, reproductive mode, clutch size, and line fitting method effects

scientific article published on 03 July 2021

Size evolution in island lizards

scientific article published in 2007

Slaying dragons: limited evidence for unusual body size evolution on islands

article

Socio-ecological factors correlate with levels of stereotypic behavior in zoo-housed primates

scientific article published on 18 May 2013

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

scientific article

Species co-existence and character divergence across carnivores

scientific article

Species richness can decrease with altitude but not with habitat diversity

scientific article published on 9 May 2013

Squamate hatchling size and the evolutionary causes of negative offspring size allometry

scientific article published on 30 January 2015

Systematics and phylogeography ofAcanthodactylus schreiberiand its relationships withAcanthodactylus boskianus(Reptilia: Squamata: Lacertidae)

scientific article published in 2014

THE ISLAND RULE IN LARGE MAMMALS: PALEONTOLOGY MEETS ECOLOGY

The Eurasian hot nightlife: Environmental forces associated with nocturnality in lizards

scientific article published in 2017

The biogeography of warming tolerance in lizards

scientific article published in 2022

The diverse nature of island isolation and its effect on land bridge insular faunas ⬇️

scientific article published on 28 October 2019

The ecology of lizard reproductive output

scientific article published in 2011

The effect of body size on the thermoregulation of lizards on hot, dry Mediterranean islands

The effect of island type on lizard reproductive traits

The era of reference genomes in conservation genomics

scientific article published in March 2022

The fast-slow life-history continuum in insular lizards: a comparison between species with invariant and variable clutch sizes

The geography of body size – challenges of the interspecific approach

scientific article published in 2007

The geography of snake reproductive mode: a global analysis of the evolution of snake viviparity

article

The global biogeography of lizard functional groups ⬇️

scholarly article by Enav Vidan et al published 19 July 2019 in Journal of Biogeography

The global biogeography of polyploid plants

article

The global distribution of tetrapods reveals a need for targeted reptile conservation

scientific article published in 2017

The global diversity and distribution of lizard clutch sizes

scientific article published in 2020

The global macroecology of brood size in amphibians reveals a predisposition of low‐fecundity species to extinction

scientific article published in 2021

The island rule in large mammals: paleontology meets ecology

scientific article published in August 2006

The island rule is not valid in terrestrial isopods (Crustacea: Oniscidea)

The island rule: made to be broken? ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 22 January 2008)

The island syndrome in lizards

article published in 2012

The latitudinal diversity gradient and interspecific competition: no global relationship between lizard dietary niche breadth and species richness

scientific article published in 2017

The life aquatic: an association between habitat type and skin thickness in snakes ⬇️

scientific article published on 15 October 2019

The number of competitor species is unlinked to sexual dimorphism

scientific article

The other side of the Sahulian coin: biogeography and evolution of Melanesian forest dragons (Agamidae) ⬇️

scientific article published on 12 November 2019

The tempo and mode of evolution: body sizes of island mammals

scientific article

Traits of lizards of the world: Variation around a successful evolutionary design

article by Shai Meiri published 28 August 2018 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Using Wikipedia page views to explore the cultural importance of global reptiles ⬇️

journal article from 'Biological Conservation' published in 2016

Using phylogenetic trees to test for character displacement: a model and an example from a desert mammal community

article

VARIABILITY AND SEXUAL SIZE DIMORPHISM IN CARNIVORES: TESTING THE NICHE VARIATION HYPOTHESIS

scientific article published in 2005

Viviparity does not affect the numbers and sizes of reptile offspring

scientific article published on 04 December 2019

War prompts distress symptoms in Israeli Blind Snake

scientific article published in 2023

What factors influence the rediscovery of lost tetrapod species?

scholarly article published in January 2024

Widespread recent changes in morphology of Old World birds, global warming the immediate suspect

scientific article published on 17 February 2022

List of works by Shai Meiri

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

A biogeographic reversal in sexual size dimorphism along a continental temperature gradient

A checklist of Israeli land vertebrates

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

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

A global catalog of primary reptile type specimens

A global reptile assessment highlights shared conservation needs of tetrapods

A shift in reptile diversity and abundance over the last 25 years

Addressing knowledge gaps in reptile conservation

An Intercontinental Analysis of Climate-Driven Body Size Clines in Reptiles: No Support for Patterns, No Signals of Processes

An integrative systematic revision and biogeography of Rhynchocalamus snakes (Reptilia, Colubridae) with a description of a new species from Israel

Anagenesis and Cladogenesis Are Useful Island Biogeography Terms

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

Are lizards feeling the heat? A tale of ecology and evolution under two temperatures

Area, isolation and body size evolution in insular carnivores.

Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water

Australian Snakes Do Not Follow Bergmann’s Rule

Author Correction: Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water

Author Correction: The global distribution of tetrapods reveals a need for targeted reptile conservation

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

Bergmann's Rule - what's in a name?

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

Biodiversity growth on the volcanic ocean islands and the roles of in situ cladogenesis and immigration: case with the reptiles

Biogeographical patterns in the Western Palearctic: the fasting-endurance hypothesis and the status of Murphy's rule

Biogeography of body size in terrestrial isopods (Crustacea: Oniscidea)

Body size diversification in anolis: novel environment and island effects

Body size of insular carnivores: little support for the island rule

Body sizes and diversification rates of lizards, snakes, amphisbaenians and the tuatara

Carnivores, biases and Bergmann's rule

Climate change and coevolution in the cuckoo–reed warbler system

Clutch Size Variability in an Ostensibly Fix-Clutched Lizard: Effects of Insularity on a Mediterranean Gecko

Cold and dark captivity: Drivers of amphibian longevity

Cold and isolated ectotherms: drivers of reptilian longevity

Community-wide character displacement in the presence of clines: a test of Holarctic weasel guilds

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

Conserved ecophysiology despite disparate microclimatic conditions in a gecko

Cope's Rule and the Universal Scaling Law of Ornament Complexity

Correlates of extinction risk in Australian squamate reptiles

Cryptic diversity and non-adaptive radiation of montane New Guinea skinks (Papuascincus; Scincidae)

Data gaps and opportunities for comparative and conservation biology

Dietary niche variation and its relationship to lizard population density

Dwarfism in insular carnivores: a case study of the pygmy raccoon

Early insularity and subsequent mountain uplift were complementary drivers of diversification in a Melanesian lizard radiation (Gekkonidae: Cyrtodactylus).

Ecology of the growth of (Squamata: Dactyloidae) in a seasonal tropical environment in the Chamela region, Jalisco, Mexico

Elevation is a stronger predictor of morphological trait divergence than competition in a radiation of tropical lizards

Endothermy, offspring size and evolution of parental provisioning in vertebrates ⬇️

Environment shapes the digestive performance in a Mediterranean lizard

Environmental correlates of morphological diversity in Australian geckos

Erratum: Sex determination, longevity, and the birth and death of reptilian species

Evolution around the Red Sea: Systematics and biogeography of the agamid genus Pseudotrapelus (Squamata: Agamidae) from North Africa and Arabia

Evolution of Body Size in Bats

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

Extinct, obscure or imaginary: The lizard species with the smallest ranges

From Evolutionary Allometry to Sexual Display: (A Reply to Holman and Bro-Jørgensen).

Geographic and taxonomic patterns of extinction risk in Australian squamates

Global biogeography and ecology of body size in birds

Global bioregions of reptiles confirm the consistency of bioregionalization processes across vertebrate clades

Global change and carnivore body size: data are stasis

Global determinants and conservation of evolutionary and geographic rarity in land vertebrates

Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

Global patterns of body size evolution in squamate reptiles are not driven by climate

Global taxonomic diversity of living reptiles

Hidden relationships and genetic diversity: Molecular phylogeny and phylogeography of the Levantine lizards of the genus Phoenicolacerta (Squamata: Lacertidae).

Home is where the shell is: predicting turtle home range sizes

Hot, dry and different: Australian lizard richness is unlike that of mammals, amphibians and birds

Hot-Spot Facts and Artifacts-Questioning Israel's Great Biodiversity

Inconsistent patterns of body size evolution in co-occurring island reptiles

Insular carnivore biogeography: island area and mammalian optimal body size.

Intraspecific competition and high food availability are associated with insular gigantism in a lizard

Intraspecific competition, not predation, drives lizard tail loss on islands

Is the island rule general? Turtles disagree

Island species richness increases with habitat diversity

Isolation and predation drive gecko life-history evolution on islands ⬇️

Late Quaternary reptile extinctions: size matters, insularity dominates

Late bloomers and baby boomers: ecological drivers of longevity in squamates and the tuatara

Length-mass allometry in snakes

Length-weight allometries in lizards

Life on the edge: carnivore body size variation is all over the place

Little effect of climate change on body size of herbivorous beetles.