One of the key components to a lot of my work is habitat use, essentially where a individual, population, or species choose to be in a given environment.
Habitat use is essentially a specific behavioural trait, and in Anoles behaviour and morphology are closely linked, especially where ecomorphs are concerned. So more more recent work, as part of my Postdoc with the Frishkoff lab is focused on habitat use within the different ecomorphs of the Greater Antilles, as well as how habitat use differs across the islands in general. Previously (my PhD) I focused on how rapid shifts in habitat use, cause changes in morphology in the next generation.
Habitat use in the Greater Antillean Anoles and their Ecomorphs. |
How habitat use changes after exposure to novel environments. |