Desert lizard diversity worldwide: effects of environment, time, and evolutionary rate [Software]

[Aim] Biodiversity is not uniformly distributed across the Earth's surface, even among physiographically comparable biomes in different biogeographic regions. For lizards, the world's large desert regions are characterized by extreme heterogeneity in species richness, spanning some of the most species-rich (arid Australia) and species-poor (central Asia) biomes overall. Regional differences in species diversity may arise as a consequence of the interplay of several factors (e.g., evolutionary time, diversification rate, environment), but their relative importance for biogeographic patterns remains poorly known. Here we use distributional and phylogenetic data to assess the evolutionary and ecological drivers of large-scale variation in desert lizard diversity.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Tejero-Cicuéndez, Héctor
Format:	software biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	Zenodo 2023-02-04
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10261/311346
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