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  1. Molecular relationships of the Israeli shrews (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae) based on cytochrome b sequences

    Article • Mammalia, August 2020, De Gruyter

    Shai Meiri

  2. A checklist of Israeli land vertebrates

    Article • Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution, March 2019, Brill

    Shai Meiri

  3. A shift in reptile diversity and abundance over the last 25 years

    Article • Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution, March 2019, Brill

    Shai Meiri

  4. The global biogeography of polyploid plants

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Shai Meiri

  5. Ecology of the growth of Anolis nebulosus (Squamata: Dactyloidae) in a seasonal tropical environment in the Chamela region, Jalisco, Mexico

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, January 2019, Wiley

    Shai Meiri

  6. Global patterns of body size evolution in squamate reptiles are not driven by climate

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, January 2019, Wiley

    Shai Meiri, Dr. Zoltan Tamas Nagy

  7. Biodiversity growth on the volcanic ocean islands and the roles of in situ cladogenesis and immigration: case with the reptiles

    Article • Ecography, January 2019, Wiley

    Shai Meiri, Jason Ali

  8. Anagenesis and Cladogenesis Are Useful Island Biogeography Terms

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, December 2018, Elsevier

    Shai Meiri, Pasquale Raia

  9. Cold and isolated ectotherms: drivers of reptilian longevity

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, October 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Shai Meiri

  10. A biogeographic reversal in sexual size dimorphism along a continental temperature gradient

    Article • Ecography, October 2018, Wiley

    Shai Meiri

  11. Cold and dark captivity: Drivers of amphibian longevity

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, August 2018, Wiley

    Shai Meiri

  12. Traits of lizards of the world: Variation around a successful evolutionary design

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, August 2018, Wiley

    Shai Meiri

  13. Early insularity and subsequent mountain uplift were complementary drivers of diversification in a Melanesian lizard radiation (Gekkonidae: Cyrtodactylus)

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, August 2018, Elsevier

    Shai Meiri

  14. Multilocus phylogeny and coalescent species delimitation in Kotschy's gecko, Mediodactylus kotschyi: Hidden diversity and cryptic species

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, August 2018, Elsevier

    Shai Meiri

  15. Inconsistent patterns of body size evolution in co-occurring island reptiles

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, January 2018, Wiley

    Mr Alex Slavenko, Shai Meiri

  16. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: The lizard species with the smallest ranges

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, November 2017, Wiley

    Dr. Zoltan Tamas Nagy, Shai Meiri, Dr. Peter Uetz

  17. Dietary niche variation and its relationship to lizard population density

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, November 2017, Wiley

    Miss Maria Novosolov, Shai Meiri

  18. Publisher Correction: The global distribution of tetrapods reveals a need for targeted reptile conservation

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Shai Meiri, Miss Maria Novosolov, Dr. Peter Uetz

  19. The Eurasian hot nightlife: Environmental forces associated with nocturnality in lizards

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, October 2017, Wiley

    Prof Peng Guo, Miss Maria Novosolov, Shai Meiri

  20. The global distribution of tetrapods reveals a need for targeted reptile conservation

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Shai Meiri, Miss Maria Novosolov, Dr. Peter Uetz, Dr. Zoltan Tamas Nagy

  21. The fast-slow life-history continuum in insular lizards: a comparison between species with invariant and variable clutch sizes

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, September 2017, Wiley

    Shai Meiri

  22. Population density-range size relationship revisited

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, August 2017, Wiley

    Miss Maria Novosolov, Shai Meiri

  23. Environment shapes the digestive performance in a Mediterranean lizard

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, May 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Shai Meiri

  24. Oceanic island biogeography: Nomothetic science of the anecdotal

    Article • Frontiers of Biogeography, April 2017, California Digital Library (EZID)

    Shai Meiri

  25. The latitudinal diversity gradient and interspecific competition: no global relationship between lizard dietary niche breadth and species richness

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, January 2017, Wiley

    Shai Meiri

  26. Little effect of climate change on body size of herbivorous beetles

    Article • Insect Science, December 2016, Wiley

    Shai Meiri

  27. Addressing knowledge gaps in reptile conservation

    Article • Biological Conservation, December 2016, Elsevier

    Shai Meiri

  28. Biases in the current knowledge of threat status in lizards, and bridging the ‘assessment gap’

    Article • Biological Conservation, December 2016, Elsevier

    Shai Meiri

  29. Using Wikipedia page views to explore the cultural importance of global reptiles

    Article • Biological Conservation, December 2016, Elsevier

    Shai Meiri, Miss Maria Novosolov

  30. Sex determination, longevity, and the birth and death of reptilian species

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, November 2016, Wiley

    Shai Meiri

  31. Intraspecific competition, not predation, drives lizard tail loss on islands

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, October 2016, Wiley

    Shai Meiri

  32. Out of Africa: Phylogeny and biogeography of the widespread genus Acanthodactylus (Reptilia: Lacertidae)

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, October 2016, Elsevier

    Shai Meiri

  33. The island rule is not valid in terrestrial isopods (Crustacea: Oniscidea)

    Article • Journal of Zoology, September 2016, Wiley

    Shai Meiri

  34. Climate change has large impact on amphibians and reptiles today

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, September 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr. Maiken Winter, Shai Meiri

  35. Late Quaternary reptile extinctions: size matters, insularity dominates

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, August 2016, Wiley

    Mr Alex Slavenko, Shai Meiri, Pasquale Raia

  36. From Evolutionary Allometry to Sexual Display: (A Reply to Holman and Bro-Jørgensen)

    Article • The American Naturalist, August 2016, University of Chicago Press

    Shai Meiri, Pasquale Raia

  37. Sex determination, longevity, and the birth and death of reptilian species

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, June 2016, Wiley

    Shai Meiri

  38. Biogeography of body size in terrestrial isopods (Crustacea: Oniscidea)

    Article • Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research, January 2016, Wiley

    Shai Meiri

  39. Are cryptic species of the Lesser Egyptian Jerboa,Jaculus jaculus(Rodentia, Dipodidae), really cryptic? Re-evaluation of their taxonomic status with new data from Israel and Sinai

    Article • Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research, January 2016, Wiley

    Shai Meiri

  40. Body sizes and diversification rates of lizards, snakes, amphisbaenians and the tuatara

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, December 2015, Wiley

    Dr Anat Feldman, Shai Meiri

  41. Power in numbers. Drivers of high population density in insular lizards

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, October 2015, Wiley

    Miss Maria Novosolov, Shai Meiri

  42. Home is where the shell is: predicting turtle home range sizes

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, October 2015, Wiley

    Mr Alex Slavenko, Shai Meiri

  43. Hidden relationships and genetic diversity: Molecular phylogeny and phylogeography of the Levantine lizards of the genus Phoenicolacerta (Squamata: Lacertidae)

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, October 2015, Elsevier

    Shai Meiri

  44. The geography of snake reproductive mode: a global analysis of the evolution of snake viviparity

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, September 2015, Wiley

    Dr Anat Feldman, Doctor Fernando Castro-Herrera, Shai Meiri, Dr. Peter Uetz, Dr. Zoltan Tamas Nagy

  45. Possible character displacement of an introduced mongoose and native marten on Adriatic Islands, Croatia

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, August 2015, Wiley

    Shai Meiri

  46. Cope’s Rule and the Universal Scaling Law of Ornament Complexity

    Article • The American Naturalist, August 2015, University of Chicago Press

    Shai Meiri, Miss Maria Novosolov, Pasquale Raia

  47. Climate change and coevolution in the cuckoo–reed warbler system

    Article • Evolutionary Ecology, May 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Shai Meiri

  48. Mean body sizes of amphibian species are poorly predicted by climate

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, April 2015, Wiley

    Mr Alex Slavenko, Shai Meiri

  49. Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

    Article • Nature, April 2015, Nature

    Adriana De Palma, Professor Andy Purvis, Shai Meiri, Miss Maria Novosolov

  50. Squamate hatchling size and the evolutionary causes of negative offspring size allometry

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, January 2015, Wiley

    Shai Meiri, Dr Lukas Kratochvil

  51. Clutch Size Variability in an Ostensibly Fix-Clutched Lizard: Effects of Insularity on a Mediterranean Gecko

    Article • Evolutionary Biology, January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Alex Slavenko, Shai Meiri

  52. Platyceps largeni (Schätti , 2001) — sixth specimen and a distribution extension

    Article • Check List, January 2015, Check List Journal

    Shai Meiri

  53. Late bloomers and baby boomers: ecological drivers of longevity in squamates and the tuatara

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, October 2014, Wiley

    Shai Meiri, Miss Maria Novosolov, Dr. Peter Uetz

  54. Systematics and phylogeography ofAcanthodactylus schreiberiand its relationships withAcanthodactylus boskianus(Reptilia: Squamata: Lacertidae)

    Article • Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, September 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Shai Meiri

  55. The number of competitor species is unlinked to sexual dimorphism

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, June 2014, Wiley

    Shai Meiri, Miss Maria Novosolov, Pasquale Raia

  56. Australian Snakes Do Not Follow Bergmann’s Rule

    Article • Evolutionary Biology, February 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Shai Meiri

  57. Is the island rule general? Turtles disagree

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, January 2014, Wiley

    Shai Meiri, Pasquale Raia

  58. Sexual dimorphism of heads and abdomens: Different approaches to ‘being large’ in female and male lizards

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, September 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Shai Meiri

  59. Socio-ecological factors correlate with levels of stereotypic behavior in zoo-housed primates

    Article • Behavioural Processes, September 2013, Elsevier

    Shai Meiri

  60. The effect of island type on lizard reproductive traits

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, August 2013, Wiley

    Shai Meiri, Miss Maria Novosolov

  61. Species richness can decrease with altitude but not with habitat diversity

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2013, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Kostas A. Triantis, Shai Meiri

  62. An Intercontinental Analysis of Climate-Driven Body Size Clines in Reptiles: No Support for Patterns, No Signals of Processes

    Article • Evolutionary Biology, May 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Shai Meiri

  63. Rueppel’s Snake-eyed skink, Ablepharus rueppellii (Gray, 1839) (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae): Distribution extension and geographic range in Israel

    Article • Check List, May 2013, Check List Journal

    Mr Alex Slavenko, Shai Meiri

  64. Global Taxonomic Diversity of Living Reptiles

    Article • PLoS ONE, March 2013, PLOS

    Shai Meiri, Dr. Peter Uetz

  65. Are lizards feeling the heat? A tale of ecology and evolution under two temperatures

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, February 2013, Wiley

    Shai Meiri, Miss Maria Novosolov, Dr. Peter Uetz

  66. The effect of body size on the thermoregulation of lizards on hot, dry Mediterranean islands

    Article • Journal of Thermal Biology, February 2013, Elsevier

    Shai Meiri

  67. Length-mass allometry in snakes

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, November 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Shai Meiri

  68. Dwarfism in insular carnivores: a case study of the pygmy raccoon

    Article • Journal of Zoology, October 2012, Wiley

    Shai Meiri

  69. The island syndrome in lizards

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, August 2012, Wiley

    Shai Meiri, Miss Maria Novosolov, Pasquale Raia

  70. Using phylogenetic trees to test for character displacement: a model and an example from a desert mammal community

    Article • Ecology, August 2012, Wiley

    Shai Meiri, Dr Natalie Cooper

  71. The ecology of lizard reproductive output

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, August 2011, Wiley

    Shai Meiri

  72. Not so Holy After All

    Article • Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution, May 2011, Brill

    Shai Meiri

  73. THE TEMPO AND MODE OF EVOLUTION: BODY SIZES OF ISLAND MAMMALS

    Article • Evolution, March 2011, Wiley

    Shai Meiri, Pasquale Raia

  74. Community-wide character displacement in the presence of clines: A test of Holarctic weasel guilds

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, March 2011, Wiley

    Shai Meiri

  75. Bergmann's Rule – what's in a name?

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, December 2010, Wiley

    Shai Meiri

  76. Slaying dragons: limited evidence for unusual body size evolution on islands

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, September 2010, Wiley

    Albert Phillimore, Shai Meiri, Pasquale Raia

  77. One size does not fit all: no evidence for an optimal body size on islands

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, June 2010, Wiley

    Shai Meiri, Pasquale Raia

  78. Hot, dry and different: Australian lizard richness is unlike that of mammals, amphibians and birds

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, March 2010, Wiley

    Shai Meiri

  79. Reptilian all the way?

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2010, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Shai Meiri, Pasquale Raia

  80. Island Species Richness Increases with Habitat Diversity

    Article • The American Naturalist, December 2009, University of Chicago Press

    Shai Meiri, Professor Kostas A. Triantis

  81. BODY SIZE DIVERSIFICATION INANOLIS: NOVEL ENVIRONMENT AND ISLAND EFFECTS

    Article • Evolution, August 2009, Wiley

    Albert Phillimore, Shai Meiri

  82. Intraspecific competition and high food availability are associated with insular gigantism in a lizard

    Article • The Science of Nature, June 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Shai Meiri

  83. Hot-Spot Facts and Artifacts-Questioning Israel's Great Biodiversity

    Article • Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution, May 2009, Brill

    Shai Meiri

  84. Life on the edge: carnivore body size variation is all over the place

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, April 2009, Royal Society Publishing

    Shai Meiri

  85. Global biogeography and ecology of body size in birds

    Article • Ecology Letters, February 2009, Wiley

    Shai Meiri

  86. Global change and carnivore body size: data are stasis

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, February 2009, Wiley

    Shai Meiri

  87. Evolution and ecology of lizard body sizes

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, October 2008, Wiley

    Shai Meiri

  88. The island rule: made to be broken?

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, January 2008, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Andy Purvis, Shai Meiri

  89. ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Mammals of Borneo – small size on a large island

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, January 2008, Wiley

    Shai Meiri, Professor Serge Wich

  90. Guild composition and mustelid morphology – character displacement but no character release

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, August 2007, Wiley

    Shai Meiri

  91. New Taxonomy and the Origin of Species

    Article • PLoS Biology, July 2007, PLOS

    Shai Meiri

  92. The geography of body size – challenges of the interspecific approach

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, July 2007, Wiley

    Shai Meiri

  93. Size evolution in island lizards

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, June 2007, Wiley

    Shai Meiri

  94. What determines conformity to Bergmann's rule?

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, June 2007, Wiley

    Shai Meiri

  95. Species co‐existence and character divergence across carnivores

    Article • Ecology Letters, January 2007, Wiley

    Shai Meiri

  96. THE ISLAND RULE IN LARGE MAMMALS: PALEONTOLOGY MEETS ECOLOGY

    Article • Evolution, August 2006, Wiley

    Shai Meiri, Pasquale Raia

  97. The generality of the island rule reexamined

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, June 2006, Wiley

    Shai Meiri

  98. THE ISLAND RULE IN LARGE MAMMALS: PALEONTOLOGY MEETS ECOLOGY

    Article • Evolution, January 2006, The Society for the Study of Evolution

    Shai Meiri, Pasquale Raia

  99. Area, isolation and body size evolution in insular carnivores

    Article • Ecology Letters, October 2005, Wiley

    Shai Meiri

  100. VARIABILITY AND SEXUAL SIZE DIMORPHISM IN CARNIVORES: TESTING THE NICHE VARIATION HYPOTHESIS

    Article • Ecology, June 2005, Wiley

    Shai Meiri

  101. Insular Carnivore Biogeography: Island Area and Mammalian Optimal Body Size

    Article • The American Naturalist, April 2005, University of Chicago Press

    Shai Meiri

  102. Variability and correlations in carnivore crania and dentition

    Article • Functional Ecology, April 2005, Wiley

    Shai Meiri

  103. Biogeographical patterns in the Western Palearctic: the fasting‐endurance hypothesis and the status of Murphy's rule

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, February 2005, Wiley

    Shai Meiri

  104. Carnivores, biases and Bergmann's rule

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, April 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Shai Meiri

  105. Body Size of Insular Carnivores: Little Support for the Island Rule

    Article • The American Naturalist, March 2004, University of Chicago Press

    Shai Meiri

  106. ONTOGENY OF LARGE BIRDS: MIGRANTS DO IT FASTER

    Article • Ornithological Applications, January 2004, Cooper Ornithological Society

    Shai Meiri

  107. On the validity of Bergmann's rule

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, March 2003, Wiley

    Shai Meiri

  108. Evolution of Body Size in Bats

    Article • University of Chicago Press

    Shai Meiri