Influence of Recent Geography and Paleogeography on the Structure of Reptile Communities in a Land-Bridge Archipelago Author(s): Simone Fattorini Source: Journal of Herpetology, 44(2):242-252. 2010. Published By: The Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles DOI: 10.1670/09-046.1 URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1670/09-046.1 BioOne (www.bioone.org) is an electronic aggregator of bioscience research content, and the online home to over 160 journals and books published by not-for-profit societies, associations, museums, institutions, and presses. Your use of this PDF, the BioOne Web site, and all posted and associated content indicates your acceptance of BioOne’s Terms of Use, available at www.bioone.org/page/terms_of_use. Usage of BioOne content is strictly limited to personal, educational, and non-commercial use. Commercial inquiries or rights and permissions requests should be directed to the individual publisher as copyright holder. BioOne sees sustainable scholarly publishing as an inherently collaborative enterprise connecting authors, nonprofit publishers, academic institutions, research libraries, and research funders in the common goal of maximizing access to critical research. Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 242–252, 2010 Copyright 2010 Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles Influence of Recent Geography and Paleogeography on the Structure of Reptile Communities in a Land-Bridge Archipelago SIMONE FATTORINI Water Ecology Team, Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 2, I-20126, Milan, Italy; E-mail:
[email protected] ABSTRACT.—The herpetofauna of the Tuscan Islands (Central Italy) is well known and represents an ideal subject to understand the role of current and historical factors responsible for biogeographical patterns in a complex archipelago.