Herpetology articles from across Nature Portfolio
Herpetology is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts and the gymnophiona) and reptiles (including snakes, lizards, amphisbaenids, turtles, terrapins, tortoises, crocodilians and the tuataras). The discipline can include the biology, ecology, behaviour, taxonomy and husbandry of these organisms.
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Spatial ecology to strengthen invasive snake management on islands
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Anthropogenic impacts on threatened species erode functional diversity in chelonians and crocodilians
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A new, rare, small-ranged, and endangered mountain snake of the genus Elaphe from the Southern Levant
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Top-down and bottom-up effects and relationships with local environmental factors in the water frog–helminth systems in Latvia
Spatial ecology to strengthen invasive snake management on islands
Anthropogenic impacts on threatened species erode functional diversity in chelonians and crocodilians
Unexpected morphological variability in the eggshells of the South American caimans Caiman latirostris and Caiman yacare
A new, rare, small-ranged, and endangered mountain snake of the genus Elaphe from the Southern Levant
Testing the morphological constraint hypothesis of tail length in the sexually dimorphic Cerastes vipera and new perspectives
Rooting about reptile relationships
Perspectives on the expansion of human precision oncology and genomic approaches to sea turtle fibropapillomatosis
Discussing the future of amphibians in research
Thick-skinned but sensitive