Predators determine how weather affects the spatial niche of lizard prey: Exploring niche dynamics at a fine scale

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2512-2518

  Lopez darias, Marta ^a,d   Schoener, Thomas W ^b   Spiller, David A ^b   Losos, Jonathan B ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE PRODUCTOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Activity time; Anolis sagrei; Leiocephalus carinatus; Lizards; Niche dynamics; Perch height; Predator prey interactions; Spatial niche; Weather

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; BIOTIC FACTOR; LIZARD; NICHE BREADTH; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPACE USE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER MODIFICATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; LIZARD; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; WEATHER;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; LIZARDS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; WEATHER;

ANIMALIA; ANOLIS; ANOLIS SAGREI; LEIOCEPHALUS CARINATUS; SQUAMATA; ZOOTOCA VIVIPARA;

EID: 84871817481     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-0483.1     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Bakken, G. S. 1992. Measurement and application of operative and standard operative temperatures in ecology. American Zoologist 32:194-216.
2. Ballinger, R. W., K. R. Marion, and O. J. Sexton. 1970. Thermal ecology of the lizard, Anolis limifrons with comparative notes on three additional Panamanian anoles. Ecology 51:246-254.
3. Bertness, M. D., and R. Callaway. 1994. Positive interactions in communities. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 9:191-193.
4. Bruno, J. F., J. J. Stachowicz, and M. D. Bertness. 2003. Inclusion of facilitation into ecological theory. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18:119-125.
5. Chase, J. M., P. A. Abrams, J. P. Grover, S. Diehl, P. Chesson, R. D. Holt, A. S. Richards, R. M. Misbet, and T. J. Case. 2002. The interaction between predation and competition: a review and synthesis. Ecology Letters 5:302-315.
6. Chesson, P. L. 1985. Coexistence of competitors in spatially and temporally varying environments: a look at the combined effects of different sorts of variability. Theoretical Population Biology 28:263-287.
7. Connell, J. H. 1983. On the prevalence and relative importance of interspecific competition: evidence from field experiments. American Naturalist 122:661-696.
8. Dunson, W. A., and J. Travis. 1991. The role of abiotic factors in community organization. American Naturalist 138:1067-1091.
9. Elton, C. 1927. Animal ecology. Sedgwick and Jackson, London, UK.
10. Fisher, R. A. 1925. Statistical methods for research workers. Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, UK.
11. Gallet, R., S. Alizon, P.-A. Comte, A. Gutierrez, F. Depaulis, M. van Baalen, E. Michel, and C. D. Müller-Graf. 2007. Predation and disturbance interact to shape prey species diversity. American Naturalist 170:143-154.
12. Garland, T., Jr., and J. B. Losos. 1994. Ecological morphology of locomotor performance in squamate reptiles. Pages 240-303 in P. C. Wainwright and S. M. Reilly, editors. Ecological morphology: integrative organismal biology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
13. Grinnell, J. 1917. The niche-relationships of the California thrasher. Auk 34:427-433.
14. Guisan, A., and W. Thuiller. 2005. Predicting species distribution: offering more than simple habitat models. Ecology Letters 8:993-1009.
15. Hertz, P. E. 1992. Temperature regulation in Puerto Rican Anolis lizards: a field test using null hypotheses. Ecology 73:1405-1417.
16. Huey, R. B. 1982. Temperature, physiology, and the ecology of reptiles. Pages 25-91 in C. Gans and F. H. Pough, editors. Biology of the Reptilia, Volume 12. Physiology C. Academic Press, London, UK.
17. Hutchinson, G. E. 1957. Concluding remarks. Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology 22:415-427.
18. Kareiva, P. M., J. G. Kingsolver, and R. D. Huey. 1993. Biotic interactions and global change. Sinauer, Sunderland, Massachusetts, USA.
19. Kolbe, J. J., P. L. Colbert, and B. E. Smith. 2008. Niche relationships and interspecific interactions in Antiguan lizard communities. Copeia 2:261-272.
20. Lailvaux, S. P., and D. J. Irschick. 2007. Effect of temperature and sex on jump performance and biomechanics in the lizard Anolis carolinensis. Functional Ecology 21:534-543.
21. Leal, M., and L. J. Fleishman. 2002. Evidence for habitat partitioning based on adaptation to environmental light in a pair of sympatric lizard species. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 269:351-359.
22. Losos, J. B. 1994. Integrative approaches to evolutionary ecology: Anolis lizards as model systems. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 25:467-493.
23. Losos, J. B. 2009. Lizards in an evolutionary tree: ecology and adaptive radiation of anoles. University of California Press, Berkeley, California, USA.
24. Losos, J. B., T. W. Schoener, R. B. Langerhans, and D. A. Spiller. 2006. Rapid temporal reversal in predator-driven natural selection. Science 314:1111.
25. Losos, J. B., T. W. Schoener, and D. A. Spiller. 2004. Predatorinduced behavior shifts and natural selection in fieldexperimental lizard populations. Nature 432:505-508.
26. MacArthur, R. H., and R. Levins. 1967. The limiting similarity, convergence and divergence of coexisting species. American Naturalist 101:377-385.
27. Pearman, P. B., A. Guisan, O. Broennimann, and C. F. Randin. 2007. Niche dynamics in space and time. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23:149-158.
28. Polis, G. A., and R. B. Holt. 1992. Intraguild predation: the dynamics of complex trophic interactions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 7:151-154.
29. Rand, A. S. 1964. Ecological distribution in anoline lizards of Puerto Rico. Ecology 45:745-752.
30. Ruokolainen, L., A. Lindén, V. Kaitala, and M. S. Fowler. 2009. Ecological and evolutionary dynamics under coloured environmental variation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 24:555-563.
31. Schoener, T. W. 1968. The Anolis lizards of Bimini: resource partitioning in a complex fauna. Ecology 49:704-726.
32. Schoener, T. W. 1975. Presence and absence of habitat shift in some widespread lizard species. Ecological Monographs 45:233-258.
33. Schoener, T. W. 1983. Field experiments on interspecific competition. American Naturalist 122:240-285.
34. Schoener, T. W. 1989. The ecological niche. Pages 79-113 in J. M. Cherrett, editor. Ecological concepts. British Ecological Society Symposium. Blackwell, Oxford, UK.
35. Schoener, T.W. 2009. The niche. Pages 3-13 in S. Levin, editor. Princeton guide to ecology. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
36. Schoener, T. W., J. B. Losos, and D. A. Spiller. 2005. Island biogeography of populations: an introduced species transforms survival patterns. Science 310:1807-1809.
37. Schoener, T. W., J. B. Slade, and C. H. Stinson. 1982. Diet and sexual dimorphism in the very catholic lizard genus Leiocephalus of the Bahamas. Oecologia 53:160-169.
38. Schoener, T. W., D. A. Spiller, and J. B. Losos. 2002. Predation on a common Anolis lizard: Can the food-web effects of a devastating predator be reversed? Ecological Monographs 72:383-407.
39. Spiller, D. A., and T. W. Schoener. 2008. Climatic control of trophic interaction strength: the effect of lizards on spiders. Oecologia 154:763-771.
40. Van Berkum, F. H. 1986. Evolutionary patterns of the thermal sensitivity of sprint speed in Anolis lizards. Evolution 40:594-604.
41. Wiens, J. A., D. Stralberg, D. Jongsomjit, C. A. Howell, and M. A. Snyder. 2009. Niches, models, and climate change: assessing the assumptions and uncertainties. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 106:19729-19736.
42. Williams, E. E. 1972. The origin of faunas. Evolution of lizard congeners in a complex island fauna: a trial analysis. Evolutionary Biology 6:47-89.