ISBN: 0195096053 9780195096057

Category: Literary Collections / American / General

Page count: 200

The evolutionary ecology of the Anolis lizards--the colorful green, grey, and brown lizards seen around houses, gardens, and woods in the West Indies--is the subject of this pathbreaking new book. Offering fascinating insights into the more than 150 Anolis species dispersed throughout the Caribbean islands, distinguished biologist Jonathan Roughgarden details the differences between a wide range of behaviors and physical characteristics that resulted from evolutionary divergences concurrent with the plate-tectonic origins of the region. Succinct and extremely well-written, the book summarizes the author's more than twenty years of research and will be enthusiastically received by students and researchers in ecology and theoretical, tropical, and population biology.