Anolis chlorocyanus in its habitat. Photo by Jonathan Losos.
Hello All, I’m an ecologist that studies species-habitat relationships, among various other things. I’m presently working on a book that will describe 10 methods of statistically analyzing habitat and also try to provide a conceptual unification of how capital-E ecologists and wildlife ecologists have traditionally viewed habitat and its importance. I’m looking for real empirical datasets to analyze. Data for Anolis species would be great given their importance in testing ecological and evolutionary theory, and their specific habitat preferences. The dataset could be for a single species or multiple species. It could have either microhabitat data (e.g., observations of Anolis individuals at different perch heights and stem diameters, tree species perched on) or macrohabitat data (e.g., amount of vegetation or canopy cover within a 10 m diameter of lizard location). Really any kind of environmental or habitat data would work. Ideally, the dataset would also have environmental data from locations where lizards were not observed (so-called absence points). If you have a dataset that you’d be willing to share please contact me at joseph.veech@txstate.edu. THANKS!