Gopal Murali

777 total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 407 citations indexed

About

Gopal Murali is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gopal Murali has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 407 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 6 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Gopal Murali's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (12 papers), Amphibian and Reptile Biology (9 papers) and Plant and animal studies (7 papers). Gopal Murali is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (12 papers), Amphibian and Reptile Biology (9 papers) and Plant and animal studies (7 papers). Gopal Murali collaborates with scholars based in India, Israel and United States. Gopal Murali's co-authors include Ullasa Kodandaramaiah, Uri Roll, Shai Meiri, Takuya Iwamura‏, Rikki Gumbs, Sami Merilaita, Amir Lewin, Shimon Rachmilevitch, Uma Maheswari Krishnan and Yuval Itescu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Gopal Murali

17 papers receiving 404 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Future temperature extremes threaten land vertebrates

2023 107 citations Gopal Murali, Takuya Iwamura‏ et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gopal Murali India	12	215	142	134	88	74	22	407
Rodrigo S. Ríos Chile	14	248 1.2×	143 1.0×	180 1.3×	81 0.9×	350 4.7×	43	617
Adega Gonzalo Spain	11	395 1.8×	339 2.4×	169 1.3×	57 0.6×	120 1.6×	14	537
Perry S. Ong Philippines	13	130 0.6×	117 0.8×	232 1.7×	80 0.9×	164 2.2×	41	587
Rachel Kehoe United Kingdom	11	221 1.0×	423 3.0×	263 2.0×	71 0.8×	88 1.2×	13	791
Alexandre V. Palaoro Brazil	14	233 1.1×	122 0.9×	300 2.2×	36 0.4×	111 1.5×	39	473
Samuel C. Andrew Australia	13	176 0.8×	62 0.4×	302 2.3×	94 1.1×	115 1.6×	31	512
Myriam R. Hirt Germany	13	170 0.8×	120 0.8×	264 2.0×	110 1.3×	160 2.2×	21	516
Tatiana Leite Brazil	16	606 2.8×	171 1.2×	331 2.5×	89 1.0×	48 0.6×	42	752
Candice L. Bywater Australia	10	204 0.9×	79 0.6×	279 2.1×	26 0.3×	90 1.2×	17	447
Kenneth James Chapin United States	9	155 0.7×	85 0.6×	71 0.5×	31 0.4×	67 0.9×	24	315

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gopal Murali

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20 of 20 papers shown

Murali, Gopal, et al.. (2025). Ecology and Biogeography of Sexual Size Dimorphism in Squamates. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 34(6).

Murali, Gopal, Ping Wang, Guo‐Hua Ding, et al.. (2025). Spatial Phylogenetic Analysis of Chinese Lizards: Insights Into Ecological Drivers and Conservation Gaps. 4(3). 430–441.

Lewin, Amir, Gopal Murali, Uri Roll, Troy Sternberg, & Shimon Rachmilevitch. (2025). Rethinking desert definitions: Bridging the gap between science, policy, and conservation. AMBIO. 55(4). 743–754.

Caetano, Gabriel Henrique de Oliveira, Gopal Murali, Daniel Pincheira‐Donoso, et al.. (2025). The future-focused Proactive Conservation Index highlights unrecognized global priorities for vertebrate conservation. PLoS Biology. 23(10). e3003422–e3003422.

Slavenko, Alex, Natalie Cooper, Shai Meiri, et al.. (2024). Evolution of sexual size dimorphism in tetrapods is driven by varying patterns of sex-specific selection on size. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(3). 464–473. 3 indexed citations

Murali, Gopal, Ullasa Kodandaramaiah, & Sami Merilaita. (2024). Habitat heterogeneity limits prey colour polymorphism maintained via negative frequency-dependent selection. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 37(3). 274–282. 2 indexed citations

Lewin, Amir, Gopal Murali, Shimon Rachmilevitch, & Uri Roll. (2024). Global evaluation of current and future threats to drylands and their vertebrate biodiversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(8). 1448–1458. 29 indexed citations

Murali, Gopal, Takuya Iwamura‏, Shai Meiri, & Uri Roll. (2023). Future temperature extremes threaten land vertebrates. Nature. 615(7952). 461–467. 107 indexed citations breakdown →

Murali, Gopal. (2023). New locality record of Forest Spotted Gecko Cyrtodactylus (Geckoella) cf. speciosus (Beddome, 1870) (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Thanjavur, in the eastern coastal plains of Tamil Nadu, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa. 15(10). 24120–24124.

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Murali, Gopal, Shai Meiri, & Uri Roll. (2023). Chemical signaling glands are unlinked to species diversification in lizards. Evolution. 77(8). 1829–1841. 1 indexed citations

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Murali, Gopal, et al.. (2021). Background complexity and optimal background matching camouflage. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 75(4). 16 indexed citations

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Murali, Gopal, Rikki Gumbs, Shai Meiri, & Uri Roll. (2021). Global determinants and conservation of evolutionary and geographic rarity in land vertebrates. Science Advances. 7(42). eabe5582–eabe5582. 43 indexed citations

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Meiri, Shai, et al.. (2021). Different solutions lead to similar life history traits across the great divides of the amniote tree of life. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 28(1). 3–3. 14 indexed citations

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Murali, Gopal & Ullasa Kodandaramaiah. (2020). Size and unpredictable movement together affect the effectiveness of dynamic flash coloration. Animal Behaviour. 162. 87–93. 11 indexed citations

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Murali, Gopal, et al.. (2019). Dynamic colour change and the confusion effect against predation. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 274–274. 20 indexed citations

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Kodandaramaiah, Ullasa, et al.. (2019). What makes motion dazzle markings effective against predation?. Behavioral Ecology. 14 indexed citations

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Murali, Gopal. (2018). Now you see me, now you don't: dynamic flash coloration as an antipredator strategy in motion. Animal Behaviour. 142. 207–220. 41 indexed citations

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Murali, Gopal, Sami Merilaita, & Ullasa Kodandaramaiah. (2018). Grab my tail: evolution of dazzle stripes and colourful tails in lizards. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 31(11). 1675–1688. 26 indexed citations

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Murali, Gopal & Ullasa Kodandaramaiah. (2017). Body size and evolution of motion dazzle coloration in lizards. Behavioral Ecology. 29(1). 79–86. 26 indexed citations

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Murali, Gopal & Ullasa Kodandaramaiah. (2016). Deceived by stripes: conspicuous patterning on vital anterior body parts can redirect predatory strikes to expendable posterior organs. Royal Society Open Science. 3(6). 160057–160057. 28 indexed citations

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