Maintaining biodiversity within fragmented landscapes has become a primary focus of ecology. Despite many theoretical and comparative studies on species persistence following fragmentation, experimental studies investigating the mechanisms behind population declines remain rare. In recent years, coastal horned lizards (Phrynosoma coronatum) have disappeared throughout much of their range in coa...

In 2005, a new lizard species, the sharp-snouted rock (Dalmatolacerta oxycephala) appeared on island of Cres, probably due to anthropogenic transfer. Before that, only Dalmatian wall (Podarcis melisellensis) had inhabited town Osor, where species was discovered. areas two live sympatrically, P. melisellensis is competitively superior D. oxycephala; however, in oxycephala parts been present befo...

This paper illustrates how simple mechanical models based on morphological, ethological, ecological and phylogenetic data can add to discussions in evolutionary biology. Bipedal locomotion has evolved on numerous occasions in lizards. Traits that appear repeatedly in independent evolutionary lines are often considered adaptive, but the exact advantages of bipedal locomotion in lizards remain de...

Aim We used insular lizard communities to test the predictions of two hypotheses that attempt to explain patterns of species richness on small islands. We first address the subsidized island biogeography (SIB) hypothesis, which predicts that spatial subsidies may cause insular species richness to deviate from species–area predictions, especially on small islands. Next, we examine the small isla...