A couple of weeks ago I traveled to Bimini, in the Bahamas along with Harvard post-doc Graham Reynolds, Harvard graduate student Pavitra Muralidhar, and UMass Boston undergraduate, Jason Fredette. We went with the simple goals of kicking off a research project in the Losos lab on Anolis sagrei and to observe as many other herps as we could. … Continue reading
Kirsten Tyler, a (recently graduated) undergraduate from UMass Boston, has spent the past few months working to better understand patterns of tail autotomy in urban populations of Anolis cristatellus (along with me and Liam Revell). We wanted to know if tail autotomy frequency differed between the urban and natural sites I have sampled over the past 3 … Continue reading
Urbanization poses a major challenge for many species, altering habitat in ways that few animals can tolerate. Despite this, some animals persist and even thrive in urban areas. In my research in the Revell lab at UMass Boston I’ve been studying adaptation in response to urbanization in Anolis cristatellus, the Puerto Rican Crested Anole. But persistence in … Continue reading
One of the perks of using a digital xray system for morphological measurements is that I get to see all sorts of interesting things that are difficult to detect or are not visible to the naked eye. I picked out a few of my favorite xrays from my recent field trip to Puerto Rico. These … Continue reading
We have successfully made it through 4 days of habitat sampling and are only a little short of our goals on the timeline because of a massive rain storm that rolled through Mayaguez around 5pm yesterday. So far we have completed the habitat availability sampling at both sites and have collected habitat use data in … Continue reading
Adaptability 