AA previously has had posts on the new project in Puerto Rico to examine the effect of global warming on anoles and other critters. Now the project has a spiffy new website, well worth a look.
Luisa Otero, a team member on the project, gives us the backstory:
“Almost a year ago I started working as a Research Assistant in a Project titled “Vulnerability of Tropical Ectotherms to Climate Warming.” Until then, I had been planning to do my master’s degree studying sex determination within nests of hawksbill sea turtles here in Puerto Rico. However, after spending almost a whole month during the summer in the field working with Dr. George Gorman, Prof. Raymond Huey, Prof. Bradford Lister, and Prof. Paul Hertz, I began to question my research interests…. And what can I say? I just fell for lizards!
The main aim of the lizard project is to evaluate whether climate warming here in Puerto Rico during the last decades has caused changes in the thermal biology, reproduction cycles, and ecological interactions of anoles. The approach involves comparing contemporary field patterns with those collected during the 70’s and 80’s by the investigators mentioned above.
A couple of weeks ago we published a website with information about the project, and now we would like to share it with you all. We will use this website to share our findings as well as those of related studies of tropical organisms.”
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- Lizard Diving Champions: Trading Heat For Safety Underwater - March 15, 2024
- Do Large Brown Anoles Get the Most Mating Opportunities? - January 6, 2024
Rich Glor
@Luisa – welcome to the anole club and keep up the good work! We’ll be looking forward to more updates on your new webpage.
Manuel Leal
Last year, Rich gave some flattering remarks about Alex’s research on thermal ecology presented at SICB. The paper has been published and might be of interest to those of you working in thermal biology and climate change. A pdf is available here.