Roberto Sindaco

TL;DR: The results provide the first analysis of the global conservation status and distribution patterns of reptiles and the threats affecting them, highlighting conservation priorities and knowledge gaps which need to be addressed urgently to ensure the continued survival of the world’s reptiles.

TL;DR: It is shown that additional conservation actions are needed to effectively protect reptiles, particularly lizards and turtles, and that adding reptile knowledge to a global complementarity conservation priority scheme identifies many locations that consequently become important.

TL;DR: A classification of chorotypes is proposed based on 1 Zoological researches in the Near East by Universities oforne: 186 and this study was supported by grants from MURST 1999.

TL;DR: This analysis serves as a preliminary step towards an interactive, dynamic and online distributed database system (NA2RE system) of the current spatial distribution of European amphibians and reptiles and highlights the need to add temporal and altitudinal data for all records to allow tracking potential species distribution changes.

TL;DR: The herpetofauna of the Near East is very rich and diverse, and this area harbours the most remarkable reptile fauna within the Western Palaearctic region, owing to the high habitat diversity and historical zoogeographical factors.