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Luciano Javier Avila
Researcher at National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Publications - 142
Citations - 4474
Luciano Javier Avila is an academic researcher from National Scientific and Technical Research Council. The author has contributed to research in topics: Liolaemus & Iguania. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 132 publications receiving 3926 citations. Previous affiliations of Luciano Javier Avila include Brigham Young University & Science Museum, London.
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Erosion of lizard diversity by climate change and altered thermal niches.
Barry Sinervo,Barry Sinervo,Fausto R. Méndez-de-la-Cruz,Donald B. Miles,Donald B. Miles,Benoit Heulin,Elizabeth Bastiaans,Maricela Villagrán-Santa Cruz,Rafael A. Lara-Resendiz,Norberto Martínez-Méndez,Martha L. Calderón-Espinosa,Rubi N. Meza-Lázaro,Héctor Gadsden,Luciano Javier Avila,Mariana Morando,Ignacio De la Riva,Pedro Victoriano Sepulveda,Carlos Frederico Duarte Rocha,Nora R. Ibargüengoytía,Cesar Augusto Aguilar Puntriano,Manuel Massot,Virginie Lepetz,Tuula A. Oksanen,David G. Chapple,Aaron M. Bauer,William R. Branch,Jean Clobert,Jack W. Sites +27 more
TL;DR: Global extinction projections were validated with local extinctions observed from 1975 to 2009 for regional biotas on four other continents, suggesting that lizards have already crossed a threshold for extinctions caused by climate change.
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Emerging phylogeographical patterns of plants and terrestrial vertebrates from Patagonia
Alicia Noemi Sersic,Andrea Cosacov,Andrea Aristides Cocucci,Leigh A. Johnson,Raúl Pozner,Luciano Javier Avila,Jack W. Sites,Mariana Morando +7 more
TL;DR: This review reveals some congruent phylogeographical patterns within and among plants and terrestrial vertebrates, and suggests that Pre-Quaternary as well as Quaternary geological events would have been important driving forces in the evolutionary history of Patagonian lineages.
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Sampling Strategies for Delimiting Species: Genes, Individuals, and Populations in the Liolaemus elongatus-kriegi Complex (Squamata: Liolaemidae) in Andean–Patagonian South America
TL;DR: This study combined several tree-based phylogeny reconstruction methods with nested-clade analysis to extract maximum historical signal at various levels in the poorly known Liolaemus elongatus-kriegi lizard complex in temperate South America, and suggests that the number of putative species could be doubled.
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Species delimitation with abc and other coalescent-based methods: a test of accuracy with simulations and an empirical example with lizards of the liolaemus darwinii complex (squamata: liolaemidae)
TL;DR: All three SDMs consistently supported the distinctness of southern and northern lineages within L. darwinii and should be complemented with novel SDMs based on morphological and ecological data to achieve truly integrative and statistically robust approaches to species discovery.
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Phylogeny and phylogeography of the liolaemus darwinii complex (squamata: liolaemidae): evidence for introgression and incomplete lineage sorting
TL;DR: The first evidence for introgression in lizards from temperate South America is presented, and it is suggested that range expansion of these lineages brought them into secondary contact in areas where they are presently in syntopy.