Publications

Selected publications

2025

Dubiner, S., Kenar, N., Shasha, N. L., Cohen, T. L., Brotman, Y., Meiri, S. and Levin, E. 2025. Snake oil in action: Geographic and seasonal variability inepidermal lipids shape evaporative water loss in snakes. Functional Ecology doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.70216

Ribeiro-Junior, M. A., Koch, C., Flecks, M., Campbell, P. D., Calvo, M., Spawls, S., Vidal, N. and Meiri, S. 2025. What is revealed from a widely distributed species in Africa and Southwest Asia? The case of the Telescopus dhara–obtusus species complex (Squamata: Colubridae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 205: zlaf117. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf117.

Caetano, G. H. O., Murali, G., Pincheira-Donoso, D., Vardi, R., Greenspoon, L., Meiri, S*. and Roll, U*. 2025. The future-focused Proactive Conservation Index highlights unrecognized global priorities for vertebrate conservation. PLoS Biology, 23: e3003422. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003422

Viera-Alencar, J. P. S., Liedtke, H. C., Meiri, S., Roll, U., Uetz, P. and Nori, J. 2025. letsRept: An R package to access the Global Reptile Database and facilitate taxonomic harmonization. Biodiversity Informatics, 19: 120-143. https://doi.org/10.17161/bi.v19i.24329

Liang, T., Liberman, Y-R., Dubiner, S. and Meiri, S. 2025. Anti-snake ballistic missiles: explosions trigger immediate movement in snakes. Ethology https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.70023

Dubiner, S., Munoz-Perez, J. P., Lewbart, G. A., Lohmann, K. J., Hirschfeld, M., Alarcon-Ruales, D., Rivadeneira, T. C. C., Loyola, A., Meiri, S. and Levin, E. 2025. Marine iguanas have lower metabolic rates during El Nino. Journal of Experimental Biology 228: jeb250907. doi:10.1242/jeb.250907

Dubiner, S., Meiri, S. and Levin, E. 2025. An overlooked habitat‐dependent link between metabolism and water loss in reptiles. Integrative Zoology https://doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.13016.

Liang, T., Murali, G., Zimin, A., Dembitzer, J., Graboski, R., Roll, U. and Meiri, S. 2025. Ecology and biogeography of sexual size dimorphism in squamates. Global Ecology and Biogeography 34: e70076. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70076

Zhang, S., Meiri, S., Holyoak, M., Wang, J., Wang, Y. and Chen, C. 2025. Demand for small- and large-ranged reptiles in worldwide wildlife trade. Conservation Biology. 2025: e70095. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70095

Chaitanya, R., Dhibar, A., Khandekar, A., Murthy, C., Meiri, S. and Karanth, P. 2025. Speciation in the Peninsular Indian flying lizard (Draco dussumieri) follows climatic transition and not physical barriers. Molecular Ecology, 34: e17800. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.1780

Ozolina, F., Meiri, S., Farquhar, J. and Chapple, D. 2025. Using citizen science records from iNaturalist to document geographical range outliers in Australian skinks. Wildlife Research 52: WR24060. doi:10.1071/WR24060

2024

Meiri, S. 2024. SquamBase – a database of squamate (Reptilia: Squamata) traits. Global Ecology and Biogeography 33: e13812. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13812

Caetano, G. H. O., Chapple, D. G., Grenyer, R., Raz, T., Rosenblatt, J., Tingley, R., Böhm, M., Meiri, S. and Roll, U. 2022. Automated assessment reveals that the extinction risk of reptiles is widely underestimated across space and phylogeny. PloS Biology, 20: e3001544. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001544

Roll, U., Feldman, A., Novosolov, M., Allison, A., Bauer, A., Bernard, R., Bohm, M., Chirio, L., Collen, B., Colli, G.R., Dabul, L., Das, I., Doan, T., Grismer, L., Herrera, F.C., Hoogmoed, M., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton, M., Lewin, A., Martins, M., Maza, E., Meirte, D., Nagy, Z., Nogueira, C.C., Pauwels, O.S.G., Pincheira-Donoso, D., Powney, G., Sindaco, R., Tallowin, O., Torres-Carvajal, O., Trape, J.F., Uetz, P., Vidan, E. Wagner, P., Wang, Y.Z., Orme, D., Grenyer, R. and Meiri, S. 2017. The global distribution of tetrapods reveals a need for targeted reptile conservation. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1: 1677-1682.