Anolis Lizards of the Caribbean: Ecology, Evolution and Plate Tectonics

The author of this treatise uses the Anolis lizard to demonstrate the concept of ecology models – how ecological context supplies the natural selection that drives evolution and how evolutionary change among species in turn affects their ecological station. There are more than 150 species of Anolis lizard dispersed over the islands of the Caribbean, providing innumerable comparisons of physical form and behavior. Roughgarden synthesizes two decades of research and points to new directions in modelling and field biology.