I used geometric morphometrics to characterize head shape and found ecological character displacement in sympatric localities on each of three distinct mountains (geographic transects), where sympatric specimens displayed greater cranial differences and an increase in cranial robustness as compared to allopatric specimens.
The type locality of each species-group taxon is given at the end after its type depository.
Such arranged experimental measuring protocol allows a quite acceptable locality of each measuring test, eliminating an influence of indentation-size effects [18 20].
In a third step, we associated each restricted-range species to a point locality according to a georeferenced voucher-based locality record, generally the type-locality of each species.
Numbers refer to the locality numbers presented in Figure 5 and 4. The putative species names are based on their distribution, the type locality of each species and the results of the BPP species delimitation (see Discussion).
The latter was used to classify the locality of each participant according to the 2001 Australian Standard Geographical Classification (Major Cities, Inner Regional, Outer regional, Remote, and Very Remote) that applied to the majority of the population in the geographical region for the postcode.
Geographic Information System (GIS) based network analysis was used to estimate hypothetical ground transport distances from the locality of each primary scene response to firstly the closest designated trauma hospital and secondly the receiving hospital.
The trophic index (TRIX) and Canadian index for aquatic life (CCMEWQI) were used to diagnose each subregion and then the ASSETS approach was conducted for Dzilam and Progreso, sampling localities on each end of the health status continuum (those with the best and worst conditions).
Early in October, 120 adult females and 120 adult males were collected from three sampling localities for each of three lineages of Carlia (total of 9 sampling localities).
Snout vent length (SVL), hind limb tibial length (TL) and head width (HW) were measured on live, sexually mature skinks (n = 210) from three sampling localities for each of the three lineages (see Figure 1B, Table 2).
