Caribbean Anolis Lizard Ecomorph Presence and Community Completeness

Data supports an analysis of environmental filtering on local community assembly within Caribbean Anolis lizard adaptive radiations. It includes constructed maps for the probability of Anolis ecomorph presence and derived estimates of ecomorph community completeness (ECC) across the Greater Antilles. The dataset was authored by Katharina C. Wollenberg and published in June 2020.

Use Cases

• Model the relationship between environmental parameters and ecomorph community completeness (ECC) values across the Greater Antilles.
• Analyze differences in environmental parameter spaces among islands to test for deterministic assembly filters.
• Investigate the role of body mass as a functional trait in determining ECC patterns.
• Compare climatic and landscape parameter models to infer drivers of high ECC areas, which were partly related to elevation.

Strengths

• Focuses on a well-studied model system: Caribbean Anolis lizard adaptive radiations.
• Analysis is grounded in a specific theoretical framework of environmental and biotic filters for community assembly.
• Includes derived metrics like ecomorph community completeness (ECC) calculated from probability maps.

Limitations

• The sample scope is geographically limited to the Greater Antilles islands.
• Potential data quality issue noted: the Jamaican twig ecomorph is suspected to be misclassified.
• The underlying raw data (e.g., observation counts, map raster values) and its volume are not specified.

Provenance

Source

Dryad digital repository.

Collection Method

Constructed from probability of presence maps for Anolis ecomorphs overlaid to estimate ECC, with environmental parameter testing.

Time Range

Holocene (as indicated by tags).

Freshness

2020-06-24

Geography

Greater Antilles (Caribbean islands).