Evolution of antipredator behavior in an island lizard species, Podarcis erhardii (Reptilia: Lacertidae): The sum of all fears?

@article{Brock2015EvolutionOA,
  title={Evolution of antipredator behavior in an island lizard species, Podarcis erhardii (Reptilia: Lacertidae): The sum of all fears?},
  author={Kinsey M. Brock and Peter A. Bednekoff and Panayiotis Pafilis and Johannes Foufopoulos},
  journal={Evolution},
  year={2015},
  volume={69},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:6203357}
}
Examination of antipredator behaviors in Aegean wall lizards across an archipelago of land‐bridge islands that vary in predator diversity and period of isolation revealed that flight initiation distance decreased with increased duration of isolation in addition to the effects of current predator Diversity, whereas tail autotomy could be explained simply by current predator diversity.
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