Publications
Peer-reviewed publications
Ebel, R., Broeckhoven, C., Stanley, E. L., Ramm, T., & Keogh, J. S. (2025). Dermal armour in lizards: osteoderms more common than presumed. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 204(3), 1-20.
Ebel, R., Herrel, A., Scheyer, T. M., & Keogh, J. S. (2025). Review of osteoderm function and future research directions. Journal of Zoology, 325(1), 1-24.
Ebel, R., Müller, J., Ramm, T., Hipsley, C., & Amson, E. (2020). First evidence of convergent lifestyle signal in reptile skull roof microanatomy. BMC Biology, 18(185), 1-18.
Ebel, R., Melville, J., Keogh, J. S. Lizards in chain mail: reconstructing the enigmatic past of dermal armour in squamate reptiles. Under review with the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.
Conferences
Dermal armour in lizards: far more common than presumed. Ebel, R., Broeckhoven, C., Ramm, T., Stanley, E. L., Keogh, J. S. World Congress of Herpetology, Kuching, Malaysia, 07/2024.
Is there a lifestyle signal in squamate dermal armour? Ebel, R., Broeckhoven, C., Stanley, E.L., Ramm, T., Aguilar, R., Müller, J., Chapple, D., Melville, J., Keogh, J. S. Meeting of the Australian Society of Herpetology, Townsville, Australia, 12/2023.
Lizards in chain mail: reconstructing the enigmatic past of dermal armour in squamate reptiles. Ebel, R., Broeckhoven, C., Stanley, E. L., Ramm, T., Aguilar, R., Müller, J., Chapple, D., Keogh, J. S. Presenting as invited symposium speaker at the International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, Cairns, Australia, 07/2023.
Are all caudates boneheads? Exploring lifestyle signals in the microanatomy of amphibian skull roofs. Manning, S., Nohomovich, M., Olori, J., Amson, E., Ebel, R. Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Austin, Texas, USA, 01/2023.
Lizards in chain mail: reconstructing the enigmatic past of dermal armour in squamate reptiles. Ebel, R., Keogh, J. S., Meeting of the Australian Society of Herpetology, Mylor, Australia, 07/2022.
Who’s boneheaded? How cranial microanatomy reflects fossoriality in lepidosaurs. – Ebel, R., Müller, J., Amson, E., Palaeontological Association's Annual Meeting, Valencia, Spain, 12/2019.
Cranial bone inner structure and fossoriality in Lepidosauria. Amson, E., Ebel, R., Müller, J., Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting, Brisbane, Australia, 10/2019.
Quantification of the influence of fossoriality on the inner bone structure of the cranium in burrowing and surface-terrestrial lizards (Squamata) – Ebel, R., Müller, J., & Amson, E., International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, Prague, Czechia, 07/2019.
Comparative morphology of the laryngeal soft tissue in testudines by means of contrast enhanced µCT and its role in vocalisation – Ebel, R., Mahlow, K., & Müller, J., International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, Prague, Czechia, 07/2019.
Other research
Ebel, R., Dressler, L., Ehlers, S., Lüter, C. Shell preference in the Atlantic hermit crab Clibanarius erythropus with implications for ecological fitness.
Ebel, R., Keogh, J. S. A mobile quantitative ultrasound device for in-vivo microanatomical studies in tetrapods.
Ebel, R., Mayer, F., Rödel, M. O. Activity of grass frog tadpoles (Rana temporaria) in response to different predator stimuli.
Ebel, R., Dressler, L., Hetz. S. K., Patterns of intra-tracheal pressure indicate an active ventilation in the cockroach Gromphadorhina portentosa.