“…In addition, many environmental dynamics, like atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, precipitation and temperature fluctuations, alterations in land use and cover have influence on ecosystem and biodiversity structure in Mediterranean Basin (Klausmeyer and Shaw, 2009). Despite some parts of the Anatolian Peninsula and its close areas have been studied in terms of ENM species distribution analysis for several herptile species (Gül et al, 2015(Gül et al, , 2016(Gül et al, , 2018Hosseinian Yousefkhani et al, 2016Heidari, 2019;Candan et al, 2021;Kurnaz and Şahin, 2021a), the western part of the peninsula and/or with Aegean Islands and Cyprus has still been less represented (Kıraç et al, 2022).…”