@article{2989fe512e3445e19f97ae0d6c2945db,
title = "Does ecological specialization transcend scale? Habitat partitioning among individuals and species of Anolis lizards",
abstract = "Ecological specialization is common across all levels of biological organization, raising the question of whether the evolution of specialization at one scale in a taxon is linked to specialization at other scales. Anolis lizards have diversified repeatedly along axes of habitat use, but it remains unknown if this diversification into habitat use specialists is underlain by individual specialization. From repeated observations of individuals in a population of Anolis sagrei in Florida, we show that the extent of habitat use specialization among individuals is comparable to the extent of specialization in the same traits among ten sympatric Anolis habitat specialist species in Cuba. However, the adaptive correlations between habitat use and morphology commonly seen across species of Anolis were not observed across individuals in the sampled population. Our results therefore suggest that while patterns of ecological specialization can transcend scale, these parallels are the consequence of distinct ecological processes acting at microevolutionary and macroevolutionary scales.",
keywords = "anole, Anolis, Anolis sagrei, habitat use, individual, partitioning, perch diameter, perch height, specialization",
author = "Ambika Kamath and Losos, {Jonathan B.}",
note = "Funding Information: We thank R. Moon, C. Perez, O. Lapiedra, and S. Prado-Irwin for assistance with data collection, and T. Sanger for logistical help. We thank G. Parks and City of Gainesville Department of Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Affairs for permission to work in Possum Creek Skate Park. This work was carried out under permit number EXOT-14-24 from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and all procedures were approved under IACUC Protocol 26-11. The manuscript was improved thanks to comments from Y. Stuart, O. Lapiedra, N. Herrmann, C. Dufour, X. Liu, T. Moore, H. Brown, P. Muralidhar, A. Geneva, D. Haig, S. Carroll, and three anonymous reviewers. This project was funded by awards from the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, the Harvard University Center for the Environment, and the Harvard College Research Program. The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare. A.K. and J.B.L. designed the study, A.K. collected data and performed analyses, J.B.L. provided access to previously published data, A.K. and J.B.L. wrote the manuscript. Data are archived at 10.5061/dryad.9vk07. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 The Author(s). Evolution {\textcopyright} 2016 The Society for the Study of Evolution.",
year = "2017",
month = mar,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1111/evo.13158",
language = "English",
volume = "71",
pages = "541--549",
journal = "Evolution",
issn = "0014-3820",
number = "3",
}