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A comparative analysis of clinging ability among pad‐bearing lizards
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The results indicate that although pad area is a strong determinant of clinging ability, other factors enable these lizards to maintain functional similarity, and despite the tight correlation between pad area and clingingAbility, pad area scales with body mass by a lower slope than clinging ability.
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A Rapid, Strong, and Convergent Genetic Response to Urban Habitat Fragmentation in Four Divergent and Widespread Vertebrates
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Given the striking pattern of similar and rapid effects across four common and widespread species, including a volant bird, intense urbanization may represent the most severe form of fragmentation, with minimal effective movement through the urban matrix.
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The role of natural history collections in documenting species declines.
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The Decline of Amphibians in California’s Great Central Valley
Declines in amphibian populations are rarely reported on the community or ecosystem level. We combined broad-scale field sampling with historical anialyses of museum records to quantify anmphibian…
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Effects of Urbanization on the Distribution and Abundance of Amphibians and Invasive Species in Southern California Streams
Abstract:  Urbanization negatively affects natural ecosystems in many ways, and aquatic systems in particular. Urbanization is also cited as one of the potential contributors to recent dramatic…
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Effects of urbanization on carnivore species distribution and richness
Abstract Urban development can have multiple effects on mammalian carnivore communities. We conducted a meta-analysis of 7,929 photographs from 217 localities in 11 camera-trap studies across coastal…
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Quantifying ecological, morphological, and genetic variation to delimit species in the coast horned lizard species complex (Phrynosoma)
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The hypothesis that the 3 phylogeographic groups distributed across California each represent distinctive species is not supported by all of the operational species criteria evaluated in this study, but the conservation status of the imperiled populations represented by these genealogical units remains critical.
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Understanding the genetic effects of recent habitat fragmentation in the context of evolutionary history: phylogeography and landscape genetics of a southern California endemic Jerusalem cricket…
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Examination of the phylogenetic and population genetic structure of a flightless insect endemic to cismontane southern California suggests that diversification across southern California began during the Pleistocene, with most haplotypes currently restricted to a single population.
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Uncertainty and Spatial Linear Models for Ecological Data
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Assessment of the uncertainties in the fits of the models and their ability to predict new outcomes in ecology shows that complex models in ecology have largely been of the deductive type, where the scientist takes some values of parameters and then simulates results based on model relationships.
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Effect of species rarity on the accuracy of species distribution models for reptiles and amphibians in southern California
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This work examined the effect of model type, species rarity class, species’ survey frequency, detectability and manipulated sample prevalence on the accuracy of distribution models developed for 30 reptile and amphibian species.
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