Yuezhao Wang

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: It is found that burrowing lifestyle is a relatively unimportant driver of small range size, and geckos are especially prone to having tiny ranges, and skinks dominate lists of such species not seen for over 50 years, as well as of species known only from their holotype.

TL;DR: This study, the largest in spatial and taxonomic scale conducted to date, reveals that there is little support for a universal, consistent mechanism of climate‐driven size evolution within squamates.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors deconstruct the global lizard assemblage into functional groups and examine the congruence among richness patterns between them, and further examine the species richness-functional richness relationship to elucidate the way functional diversity contributes to the overall species richness patterns.

TL;DR: In this Article originally published, owing to a technical error, the author ‘Laurent Chirio’ was mistakenly designated as a corresponding author in the HTML version, the PDF was correct; this error has now been corrected.