Shai Meiri
Tel Aviv University
Faculty Member, Life Sciences
Israel
My co-authors include
Jason Ali
Doctor Fernando Castro-Herrera
Dr Natalie Cooper
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My Publications
A checklist of Israeli land vertebrates
Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution
March 2019
A shift in reptile diversity and abundance over the last 25 years
Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution
March 2019
The global biogeography of polyploid plants
Nature Ecology & Evolution
January 2019
Ecology of the growth of Anolis nebulosus (Squamata: Dactyloidae) in a seasonal tropic...
Ecology and Evolution
January 2019
Global patterns of body size evolution in squamate reptiles are not driven by climate
Global Ecology and Biogeography
January 2019
Biodiversity growth on the volcanic ocean islands and the roles of in situ cladogenesis...
Ecography
January 2019
Anagenesis and Cladogenesis Are Useful Island Biogeography Terms
Trends in Ecology & Evolution
December 2018
Cold and isolated ectotherms: drivers of reptilian longevity
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
October 2018
A biogeographic reversal in sexual size dimorphism along a continental temperature grad...
Ecography
October 2018
Cold and dark captivity: Drivers of amphibian longevity
Global Ecology and Biogeography
August 2018
Traits of lizards of the world: Variation around a successful evolutionary design
Global Ecology and Biogeography
August 2018
Early insularity and subsequent mountain uplift were complementary drivers of diversifi...
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
August 2018
Multilocus phylogeny and coalescent species delimitation in Kotschy's gecko, Mediodacty...
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
August 2018
Inconsistent patterns of body size evolution in co-occurring island reptiles
Global Ecology and Biogeography
January 2018
Extinct, obscure or imaginary: The lizard species with the smallest ranges
Diversity and Distributions
November 2017
Dietary niche variation and its relationship to lizard population density
Journal of Animal Ecology
November 2017
Publisher Correction: The global distribution of tetrapods reveals a need for targeted ...
Nature Ecology & Evolution
October 2017
The Eurasian hot nightlife: Environmental forces associated with nocturnality in lizards
Global Ecology and Biogeography
October 2017
The global distribution of tetrapods reveals a need for targeted reptile conservation
Nature Ecology & Evolution
October 2017
The fast-slow life-history continuum in insular lizards: a comparison between species w...
Journal of Biogeography
September 2017
Population density-range size relationship revisited
Global Ecology and Biogeography
August 2017
Environment shapes the digestive performance in a Mediterranean lizard
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
May 2017
Oceanic island biogeography: Nomothetic science of the anecdotal
Frontiers of Biogeography
April 2017
The latitudinal diversity gradient and interspecific competition: no global relationshi...
Global Ecology and Biogeography
January 2017
Little effect of climate change on body size of herbivorous beetles
Insect Science
December 2016
Addressing knowledge gaps in reptile conservation
Biological Conservation
December 2016
Biases in the current knowledge of threat status in lizards, and bridging the ‘assessme...
Biological Conservation
December 2016
Using Wikipedia page views to explore the cultural importance of global reptiles
Biological Conservation
December 2016
Sex determination, longevity, and the birth and death of reptilian species
Ecology and Evolution
November 2016
Intraspecific competition, not predation, drives lizard tail loss on islands
Journal of Animal Ecology
October 2016
Out of Africa: Phylogeny and biogeography of the widespread genus Acanthodactylus (Rept...
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
October 2016
The island rule is not valid in terrestrial isopods (Crustacea: Oniscidea)
Journal of Zoology
September 2016
Climate change has large impact on amphibians and reptiles today
Royal Society Open Science
September 2016
Late Quaternary reptile extinctions: size matters, insularity dominates
Global Ecology and Biogeography
August 2016
From Evolutionary Allometry to Sexual Display: (A Reply to Holman and Bro-Jørgensen)
The American Naturalist
August 2016
Sex determination, longevity, and the birth and death of reptilian species
Ecology and Evolution
June 2016
Biogeography of body size in terrestrial isopods (Crustacea: Oniscidea)
Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research
January 2016
Are cryptic species of the Lesser Egyptian Jerboa,Jaculus jaculus(Rodentia, Dipodidae),...
Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research
January 2016
Body sizes and diversification rates of lizards, snakes, amphisbaenians and the tuatara
Global Ecology and Biogeography
December 2015
Power in numbers. Drivers of high population density in insular lizards
Global Ecology and Biogeography
October 2015
Home is where the shell is: predicting turtle home range sizes
Journal of Animal Ecology
October 2015
Hidden relationships and genetic diversity: Molecular phylogeny and phylogeography of t...
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
October 2015
The geography of snake reproductive mode: a global analysis of the evolution of snake v...
Global Ecology and Biogeography
September 2015
Possible character displacement of an introduced mongoose and native marten on Adriatic...
Journal of Biogeography
August 2015
Cope’s Rule and the Universal Scaling Law of Ornament Complexity
The American Naturalist
August 2015
Climate change and coevolution in the cuckoo–reed warbler system
Evolutionary Ecology
May 2015
Mean body sizes of amphibian species are poorly predicted by climate
Journal of Biogeography
April 2015
Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity
Nature
April 2015
Squamate hatchling size and the evolutionary causes of negative offspring size allometry
Journal of Evolutionary Biology
January 2015
Clutch Size Variability in an Ostensibly Fix-Clutched Lizard: Effects of Insularity on ...
Evolutionary Biology
January 2015
Platyceps largeni (Schätti , 2001) — sixth specimen and a distribution extension
Check List
January 2015
Late bloomers and baby boomers: ecological drivers of longevity in squamates and the tu...
Global Ecology and Biogeography
October 2014
Systematics and phylogeography ofAcanthodactylus schreiberiand its relationships withAc...
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
September 2014
The number of competitor species is unlinked to sexual dimorphism
Journal of Animal Ecology
June 2014
Australian Snakes Do Not Follow Bergmann’s Rule
Evolutionary Biology
February 2014
Is the island rule general? Turtles disagree
Global Ecology and Biogeography
January 2014
Sexual dimorphism of heads and abdomens: Different approaches to ‘being large’ in femal...
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
September 2013
Socio-ecological factors correlate with levels of stereotypic behavior in zoo-housed pr...
Behavioural Processes
September 2013
The effect of island type on lizard reproductive traits
Journal of Biogeography
August 2013
Species richness can decrease with altitude but not with habitat diversity
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
May 2013
An Intercontinental Analysis of Climate-Driven Body Size Clines in Reptiles: No Support...
Evolutionary Biology
May 2013
<p>Rueppel’s Snake-eyed skink, <em>Ablepharus rueppellii </em>(Gray, 1839) (Reptilia: S...
Check List
May 2013
Global Taxonomic Diversity of Living Reptiles
PLoS ONE
March 2013
Are lizards feeling the heat? A tale of ecology and evolution under two temperatures
Global Ecology and Biogeography
February 2013
The effect of body size on the thermoregulation of lizards on hot, dry Mediterranean is...
Journal of Thermal Biology
February 2013
Length-mass allometry in snakes
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
November 2012
Dwarfism in insular carnivores: a case study of the pygmy raccoon
Journal of Zoology
October 2012
The island syndrome in lizards
Global Ecology and Biogeography
August 2012
Using phylogenetic trees to test for character displacement: a model and an example fro...
Ecology
August 2012
The ecology of lizard reproductive output
Global Ecology and Biogeography
August 2011
Not so Holy After All
Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution
May 2011
THE TEMPO AND MODE OF EVOLUTION: BODY SIZES OF ISLAND MAMMALS
Evolution
March 2011
Community-wide character displacement in the presence of clines: A test of Holarctic we...
Journal of Animal Ecology
March 2011
Bergmann's Rule - what's in a name?
Global Ecology and Biogeography
December 2010
Slaying dragons: limited evidence for unusual body size evolution on islands
Journal of Biogeography
September 2010
One size does not fit all: no evidence for an optimal body size on islands
Global Ecology and Biogeography
May 2010
Hot, dry and different: Australian lizard richness is unlike that of mammals, amphibian...
Global Ecology and Biogeography
March 2010
Reptilian all the way?
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
February 2010
Island Species Richness Increases with Habitat Diversity
The American Naturalist
December 2009
BODY SIZE DIVERSIFICATION INANOLIS: NOVEL ENVIRONMENT AND ISLAND EFFECTS
Evolution
August 2009
Intraspecific competition and high food availability are associated with insular gigant...
The Science of Nature
June 2009
Hot-Spot Facts and Artifacts-Questioning Israel's Great Biodiversity
Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution
May 2009
Life on the edge: carnivore body size variation is all over the place
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
April 2009
Global change and carnivore body size: data are stasis
Global Ecology and Biogeography
March 2009
Global biogeography and ecology of body size in birds
Ecology Letters
March 2009
Evolution and ecology of lizard body sizes
Global Ecology and Biogeography
November 2008
The island rule: made to be broken?
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
January 2008
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Mammals of Borneo - small size on a large island
Journal of Biogeography
December 2007
Guild composition and mustelid morphology – character displacement but no character rel...
Journal of Biogeography
December 2007
Size evolution in island lizards
Global Ecology and Biogeography
November 2007
What determines conformity to Bergmann's rule?
Global Ecology and Biogeography
November 2007
The geography of body size – challenges of the interspecific approach
Global Ecology and Biogeography
November 2007
New Taxonomy and the Origin of Species
PLoS Biology
July 2007
Species co-existence and character divergence across carnivores
Ecology Letters
February 2007
The generality of the island rule reexamined
Journal of Biogeography
September 2006
THE ISLAND RULE IN LARGE MAMMALS: PALEONTOLOGY MEETS ECOLOGY
Evolution
August 2006
THE ISLAND RULE IN LARGE MAMMALS: PALEONTOLOGY MEETS ECOLOGY
Evolution
January 2006
Area, isolation and body size evolution in insular carnivores
Ecology Letters
October 2005
VARIABILITY AND SEXUAL SIZE DIMORPHISM IN CARNIVORES: TESTING THE NICHE VARIATION HYPOT...
Ecology
June 2005
Insular Carnivore Biogeography: Island Area and Mammalian Optimal Body Size
The American Naturalist
April 2005
Variability and correlations in carnivore crania and dentition
Functional Ecology
April 2005
Biogeographical patterns in the Western Palearctic: the fasting-endurance hypothesis an...
Journal of Biogeography
March 2005
Carnivores, biases and Bergmann's rule
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
April 2004
Body Size of Insular Carnivores: Little Support for the Island Rule
The American Naturalist
March 2004
ONTOGENY OF LARGE BIRDS: MIGRANTS DO IT FASTER
Ornithological Applications
January 2004
On the validity of Bergmann's rule
Journal of Biogeography
March 2003
Evolution of Body Size in Bats