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Overview

Aaron M. Bauer is affiliated with Villanova University in the United States and specializes primarily in Environmental Science. Their research covers several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Genetics.

The scientist's main areas of work focus on Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Lepidoptera Biology and Taxonomy, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, as well as Fossil Insects in Amber.

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Luis M. P. Ceríaco
  • Mariana P. Marques
  • Juan D. Daza
  • Edward L. Stanley
  • L. Lee Grismer

Bauer has published extensively, with many articles appearing in the following venues:

  • Zootaxa
  • Bionomina
  • African Journal of Herpetology
  • Global Biodiversity Information Facility
  • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Notable recent papers include:

  • Global Protected Areas as refuges for amphibians and reptiles under climate change (2023), published in Nature Communications
  • The global diversity and distribution of lizard clutch sizes (2020), published in Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Specimen collection is essential for modern science (2023), published in PLoS Biology
  • Parachute geckos free fall into synonymy: Gekko phylogeny, and a new subgeneric classification, inferred from thousands of ultraconserved elements (2020), published in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • Enigmatic amphibians in mid-Cretaceous amber were chameleon-like ballistic feeders (2020), published in Science

Best Publications

  • Erosion of lizard diversity by climate change and altered thermal niches.

    Barry Sinervo;Barry Sinervo;Fausto Méndez-de-la-Cruz;Donald B. Miles;Donald B. Miles;Benoit Heulin

  • The conservation status of the world's reptiles

    Monika Böhm;Ben Collen;Jonathan E.M. Baillie;Philip Bowles

  • Genome 10K: A Proposal to Obtain Whole-Genome Sequence for 10 000 Vertebrate Species

    David Haussler;Stephen J. O'Brien;Oliver A. Ryder;F. Keith Barker

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

    Uri Roll;Uri Roll;Anat Feldman;Maria Novosolov;Allen Allison

  • Repeated Origin and Loss of Adhesive Toepads in Geckos

    Tony Gamble;Eli Greenbaum;Todd R. Jackman;Anthony P. Russell

  • Specimen collection: An essential tool

    L. A. Rocha;A. Aleixo;G. Allen;F. Almeda

  • Evidence for Gondwanan vicariance in an ancient clade of gecko lizards

    Tony Gamble;Aaron M. Bauer;Eli Greenbaum;Todd R. Jackman

  • Phylogenetic relationships and limb loss in sub-Saharan African scincine lizards (Squamata: Scincidae).

    Alison S Whiting;Aaron M Bauer;Jack W Sites

  • Coming to America: multiple origins of New World geckos.

    Tony Gamble;Aaron M Bauer;Guarino R Colli;Eli Greenbaum

  • Atlas and Red List of the Reptiles of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland

    M.F Bates;W.R Branch;A.M Bauer;M Burger

  • Global taxonomic diversity of living reptiles.

    Daniel Pincheira-Donoso;Aaron M. Bauer;Shai Meiri;Peter Uetz

  • Phylogenetic relationships among gekkotan lizards inferred from C-mos nuclear DNA sequences and a new classification of the Gekkota

    Demin Han;Kaiya Zhou;Aaron M. Bauer

  • Out of the blue: a novel, trans-Atlantic clade of geckos (Gekkota, Squamata)

    Tony Gamble;Aaron M. Bauer;Eli Greenbaum;Todd R. Jackman

  • Into the light: diurnality has evolved multiple times in geckos

    Tony Gamble;Eli Greenbaum;Todd R. Jackman;Aaron M. Bauer

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

    Shai Meiri;Aaron M. Bauer;Laurent Chirio;Guarino R. Colli

  • Phylogeny of bent-toed geckos (Cyrtodactylus) reveals a west to east pattern of diversification.

    Perry L. Wood;Matthew P. Heinicke;Todd R. Jackman;Aaron M. Bauer

  • The Amphibians and Reptiles of Alberta: A Field Guide and Primer of Boreal Herpetology

    Anthony P. Russell;Aaron M. Bauer

  • Phylogenetic Systematics and Biogeography of the Carphodactylini (Reptilia: Gekkonidae)

    Aaron M. Bauer

  • Mid-Cretaceous amber fossils illuminate the past diversity of tropical lizards

    Juan D. Daza;Edward L. Stanley;Edward L. Stanley;Philipp Wagner;Aaron M. Bauer

  • New Zealand geckos (Diplodactylidae): Cryptic diversity in a post-Gondwanan lineage with trans-Tasman affinities.

    Stuart V. Nielsen;Aaron M. Bauer;Todd R. Jackman;Rod A. Hitchmough

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony P. Russell
Anthony P. Russell University of Calgary
Eli Greenbaum
Eli Greenbaum The University of Texas at El Paso
L. Lee Grismer
L. Lee Grismer La Sierra University
Shai Meiri
Shai Meiri Tel Aviv University
Trip Lamb
Trip Lamb East Carolina University
Uri Roll
Uri Roll Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Wolfgang Böhme
Wolfgang Böhme Leibniz Association
Daniel Pincheira-Donoso
Daniel Pincheira-Donoso Nottingham Trent University
Peter Uetz
Peter Uetz Virginia Commonwealth University
Mark-Oliver Rödel
Mark-Oliver Rödel Museum für Naturkunde

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