Ecomorphological differences among forest and rock dwelling species of Darevskia Arribas, 1999 (Squamata, Lacertide) in the Elburz Mountains, Iran

Ecological pressure is the major driver of morphological adaptation. Different habitat preferences even among closely related species, often result in the evolution of different body shapes. In the present study, we employed geometric morphometric and principal component analyses (PCA) to compare bo...

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Main Authors: Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian Yousefkhani, Hossein Nabizadeh, L. Lee Grismer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2022-12-01
Series:Herpetozoa
Online Access:https://herpetozoa.pensoft.net/article/95257/download/pdf/