Lizards at the Crossroads: How Microclimate and Habitat Structure Drive Species Turnover in a Neotropical Ecotone

Breno Falcão de Carvalho; Cecília Rodrigues Vieira; Adrian Antonio Garda; Arielson Santos Protázio; Davi Lima Pantoja; Diainara da Silva Figueiredo; Donald B. Shepard; Felipe Eduardo Alves Coelho; Gabriel Henrique de Oliveira Caetano; Joedma Graciene; Natalie A. Clay; Renan Janke Bosque; Ricardo Marques; Vitor Hugo Gomes Lacerda Cavalcante; Washington Luiz Silva Vieira; Daniel Oliveira Mesquita; Guarino Rinaldi Colli

doi:10.1111/aec.70261

Lizards at the Crossroads: How Microclimate and Habitat Structure Drive Species Turnover in a Neotropical Ecotone

Breno Falcão de Carvalho
, Cecília Rodrigues Vieira
, Adrian Antonio Garda
, Arielson Santos Protázio
, Davi Lima Pantoja
, Diainara da Silva Figueiredo
, Donald B. Shepard
, Felipe Eduardo Alves Coelho
, Gabriel Henrique de Oliveira Caetano
, Joedma Graciene
, Natalie A. Clay
, Renan Janke Bosque
, Ricardo Marques
, Vitor Hugo Gomes Lacerda Cavalcante
, Washington Luiz Silva Vieira
, Daniel Oliveira Mesquita
, Guarino Rinaldi Colli

Universidade Federal da Paraíba
Universidade de Brasília
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia
Universidade Federal do Piauí
University of Arkansas
Rutgers University-Newark
Université Paris-Saclay
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Federal University of Bahia
Instituto Federal do Piauí

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Original language	English
Article number	e70261
Journal	Austral Ecology
Volume	51
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/aec.70261
State	Published - Jul 2026
Externally published	Yes

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Ecology

Keywords

Caatinga
Cerrado
community assembly
environmental gradient
species turnover

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de Carvalho, B. F., Vieira, C. R., Garda, A. A., Protázio, A. S., Pantoja, D. L., Figueiredo, D. D. S., Shepard, D. B., Coelho, F. E. A., Caetano, G. H. D. O., Graciene, J., Clay, N. A., Bosque, R. J., Marques, R., Cavalcante, V. H. G. L., Vieira, W. L. S., Mesquita, D. O., & Colli, G. R. (2026). Lizards at the Crossroads: How Microclimate and Habitat Structure Drive Species Turnover in a Neotropical Ecotone. Austral Ecology, 51(7), Article e70261. https://doi.org/10.1111/aec.70261

de Carvalho, BF, Vieira, CR, Garda, AA, Protázio, AS, Pantoja, DL, Figueiredo, DDS, Shepard, DB, Coelho, FEA, Caetano, GHDO, Graciene, J, Clay, NA, Bosque, RJ, Marques, R, Cavalcante, VHGL, Vieira, WLS, Mesquita, DO & Colli, GR 2026, 'Lizards at the Crossroads: How Microclimate and Habitat Structure Drive Species Turnover in a Neotropical Ecotone', Austral Ecology, vol. 51, no. 7, e70261. https://doi.org/10.1111/aec.70261

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