Rachel Schwarz

Freie Universität Berlin — Germany

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

7h-index323citations22works4.42yr avg
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Research Topics

Species Distribution and Climate Change(12), Amphibian and Reptile Biology(10), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(5), Plant and animal studies(5), Animal Behavior and Reproduction(4)

Publications22 total

Marine Rewilding Principles as a Guiding Framework for Large-Scale Ecosystem Restoration
SSRN Electronic Journal·2026Open Access
Reply to comments on “Rewilding a vanishing taxon – Restoring aquatic ecosystems using amphibians”
Biological Conservation·2025
Shedding light on biodiversity: reviewing existing knowledge and exploring hypothesised impacts of agrophotovoltaics
Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Rewilding a vanishing taxon – Restoring aquatic ecosystems using amphibians
Biological Conservation·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
A global analysis of field body temperatures of active squamates in relation to climate and behaviour
Global Ecology and Biogeography·2024· 15 citedOpen Access
Ecophysiological trait variation in desert versus Mediterranean populations of a gecko
Journal of Zoology·2023Open Access
Conserved ecophysiology despite disparate microclimatic conditions in a gecko
Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A Ecological and Integrative Physiology·2021· 4 cited
The Island of Extremes: Giants and Dwarfs on a Small Remote Island
Russian Journal of Herpetology·2021· 6 cited
Specialist versus Generalist at the Intraspecific Level: Functional Morphology and Substrate Preference of <i>Mediodactylus kotschyi</i> Geckos
Integrative and Comparative Biology·2021· 3 citedOpen Access
Does nocturnal activity prolong gecko longevity?
Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution·2020· 4 citedOpen Access
Isolation and predation drive gecko life-history evolution on islands
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society·2019· 27 citedOpen Access
Viviparity does not affect the numbers and sizes of reptile offspring
Journal of Animal Ecology·2019· 30 citedOpen Access
Mediodactylus kotschyi in the Peloponnese peninsula, Greece: distribution and habitat
SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología·2019· 4 citedOpen Access
A shift in reptile diversity and abundance over the last 25 years
Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution·2019· 3 cited
Inconsistent patterns of body size evolution in co‐occurring island reptiles
Global Ecology and Biogeography·2018· 41 citedOpen Access
The fast‐slow life‐history continuum in insular lizards: a comparison between species with invariant and variable clutch sizes
Journal of Biogeography·2017· 43 cited
Lizard tail-loss rates on islands are not governed by longer life spans
Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution·2017· 2 cited
Front Cover - "Through The Window"
DigitalCommons-COD College of DuPage Research (College of DuPage)·2017Open Access
Intraspecific competition, not predation, drives lizard tail loss on islands
Journal of Animal Ecology·2016· 94 citedOpen Access
Record sizes for the Turkish house gecko, Hemidactylus turcicus, from Aegean islands, Greece
Herpetological Bulletin·2016· 6 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Shai Meiri(15), Yuval Itescu(9), Panayiotis Pafilis(9), Gavin Stark(8), David G. Chapple(4), Ioanna Gavriilidi(3), Alex Slavenko(2), Κostas Sagonas(2), Johannes Foufopoulos(2), Richard Shine(2), Simon Jamison(2), Eran Levin(2), Colin M. Donihue(1), Stephanos A. Roussos(1), Efstratios Valakos(1), S. M. Zdep(1), Isabelle N. Rhodes(1), Mary J. Kilkenny(1), Anat Feldman(1), Antonis Antonopoulos(1)