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Ortega De la Rosa, R. J., Moreno Arias, R. Ángel, & Martínez Hernández , N. J. (2023). Approach to the ecological structuring of the community of Anolis Daudin lizards, 1802 (Squamata: Dactyloidae) from the dry forests of Montes de María in the Colombian Caribbean. Boletín Científico. Centro De Museos, 27(1), 113–129. https://doi.org/10.17151/bccm.2023.27.1.8
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In Tropical Dry Forests (TDF), Anolis lizards are the group that shows the highest values of abundance and diversity in some types of habitats. However, information and knowledge about this group and its ecological interactions are still scarce. In this study, information was recorded on the use of spatial and food resources of five species of these lizards in order to perform a unified analysis of niche overlap in three ground cover types (riparian forest, forest int erior, and open vegetation) in the village of La Flecha, San Jacinto, Bolívar. It was found that in both seasons, dry and rainy, the values of food overlap were lower than those for spatial resources. This result agrees with the hypothesis of niche complementarity, and it could indicate that, in both climatic seasons, the limiting resources for the assembly of Anolis in the study area would be food resources. Spatial overlap values by pairs of species indicated that A. auratus was statistically different in the use of spatial resources compared to other species. In both climatic seasons, the pair of species that presented the highest overlap values for both spatial and food resources were A. gaigei and A. gr. fuscoauratus. The results of this research show that the coexistence strategies exhibited by Anolis species are important for structuring this assembly in the TDF in the Montes de María, Bolívar, Colombian Caribbean.
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Carvajal-Cogollo, J. E. y Urbina-Cardona, J. N. (2008). Patrones de diversidad y composición de reptiles en fragmentos de Bosque Seco Tropical en Córdoba, Colombia. Tropical Conservation Science, 1(4): 397-416.
Carvajal-Cogollo, J. y Urbina-Cardona, N. (2008). Patrones de diversidad y composición de reptiles en fragmentos de bosque seco tropical en Córdoba, Colombia. Tropical Conservation Science, 1. 397-416. 10.1177/194008290800100407.
Carvajal-Cogollo, J. y Castaño, G. (2012). Reptiles de la región Caribe de Colombia. Castro-Herrera, F. (1988). Niche Structure of an Anole Community in a Tropical Rain Forest within the Choco Region of Colombia (Ph.D. Dissertation). North Texas State University, Denton, TX.
Coley, P. D. y Barone, J. A. (1996). Herbivory and plant defenses in tropical forests. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 27: 305-335.
Coley, P. D. (1993). Gap size and plant defenses. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 8: 1-2.
Crump, M. L. y Scott, N. J. (1994). Visual encounter surveys. In: Heyer, W., Donnelly, M. A., McDiarmid, R. A., Hayec, L. C. y Foster, M. C. (Eds). Measuring and Monitoring Biological Diversity. Standard Methods for Amphibians. Smithsonian Institution Press.
Dirzo, R., Young, H. S., Mooney, H. A. y Ceballos, G. (2011). Seasonally dry tropical forests: ecology and conservation. Island Press.
Duellman, W. E. (1978). The biology of an equatorial herpetofauna in Amazonian Ecuador. Miscellaneous Publication (University of Kansas. Museum of Natural History) 65: 1-352.
Fleishman, L. J. (1988). The social behavior of Anolis auratus, a grass Anole from Panama. Journal of Herpetology, 22(1): 13-23.
Futuyma, D. J. (1998). Evolutionary Biology. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates.
Fleming, T. H. y Hooker, R. S. (1975). Anolis cupreus: the response of a lizard to tropical seasonality. Ecology, 56(6): 1243-1261.
Geange, S. W., Pledger, S., Burns, K. C. y Shima, J. S. (2011). A unified analysis of niche overlap incorporating data of different types. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2: 175-184.
Gerhardt, K. (1998). Leaf defoliation of tropical dry forest tree seedlings – implications for survival and growth. Trees Structure and Function, 13: 88-95.
Gotelli, N. J. (2000). Null model analysis of species co-occurrence patterns. Ecology, 81: 2606-2621.
Griffin, J. N. y Silliman, B. R. (2011). Resource Partitioning and why it Matters. Nature Education Knowledge, 3(10): 49.
Herazo, V. F., Mercado-Gómez, J. D. y Mendoza, H. (2017). Estructura y composición florística del bosque seco tropical en los Montes de María (Sucre-Colombia). Ciencia en Desarrollo, 8: 79-90.
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Hertz, P. E. (1979). Sensitivity to high temperatures in three west Indian grass anoles (sauria, iguanidae), with a review of heat sensitivity in the genus Anolis. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Physiology, 63(2): 217-222
Holdridge, L. R. (1978). Life Zone Ecology. Tropical Science Center. IICA.
Losos, J. B. (2009). Lizards in an evolutionary tree: ecology and adaptive radiation of anoles. University of California Press.
Losos, J. B. (2010). Adaptive Radiation, Ecological Opportunity and Evolutionary Determinism. The American Naturalist, 175(6): 623-639.
Medina-Rangel, G. F. (2013). Diversidad alfa y beta de la comunidad de reptiles en el complejo cenagoso de Zapatosa, Colombia. Rev. Biol. Trop. 59(2): 935-968.
Medina-Rangel, G.F. & Cárdenas-Arévalo, G. (2015). Uso de los recursos por los reptiles de Zapatosa, Colombia. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, 55(10): 143-165.
Moreno-Arias, R. A., Medina-Rangel, G. F. y Castaño-Mora, O. (2008). Lowland reptiles of Yacopí (Cundinamarca, Colombia). Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exactas, Fis. Nat. 32: 93-103.
Moreno-Arias, R. A. y Urbina-Cardona, J. N. (2013). Population dynamics of the Andean lizard Anolis heterodermus: slow-fast demographic strategies in fragmented scrubland landscapes. Biotropica, 45(2): 253-261.
Moreno-Arias, R. A. y Quintero-Corzo, S. (2015). Reptiles del valle Seco del Rio Magdalena (Huila, Colombia). Caldasia, 37(1): 183.
Moreno-Arias, R. A. y Calderon-Espinosa, M. L. (2016). Patterns of morphological diversification of mainland Anolis lizards from northwestern South America. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 176: 632 647.
Moreno-Arias, R. A. (2014). Diversificación Ecomorfológica de Anolis en Bosques Humedos Tropicales de Colombia (tesis doctoral). Universidad Nacional.
Moreno-Arias, R. A., Bloor, P. y Calderón-Espinosa, M. L. (2020) Evolution of ecological structure of anole communities in tropical rain forests from north-western South America. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 190(1): 298-313. Oksanen, J., Blanchet, F. G., Kindt, R., Legendre, P., Minchin, P. R., O’hara, R. B. y Oksanen, M. J. (2013). Package ‘Vegan’. Community Ecology Package, version, 2(9): 1-295.
Pianka, E. R. (1974). Niche Overlap and Diffuse Competition. Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 71(5): 2141-2145.
Pianka, E. R. (1973). The Structure of Lizard Communities. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 4(1): 53-74.
Pinilla-Rentería, E., Rengifo-Mosquera, J. T. y Salas-Londoño, J. (2015). Dimorfismo, uso de hábitat y dieta de Anolis maculiventris (Lacertilia: Dactyloidae), en Bosque Pluvial Tropical del Chocó, Colombia. Acta Biológica. Colombiana, 20(1): 89-100.
Pizano, C. y García, H. (Ed). (2014). El Bosque Seco Tropical en Colombia. Instituto de investigaciones de Recursos Biológicos Alexander Von Humboldt (IAvH).
Poe, S. y Anderson, C. G. (2019). The existence and evolution of morphotypes in Anolis lizards: coexistence patterns, not adaptive radiations, distinguish mainland and island faunas. PeerJ 6: e6040 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6040
Rand, A. S. (1964). Ecological distribution in anoline lizards of Puerto Rico. Ecology, 45: 745-752.
Rangel, J. O. y Carvajal-Cogollo, J. E. (2012). Clima de la región Caribe colombiana. En: Colombia Diversidad Biótica XII: La región Caribe de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencia Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
Rangel-Ch., J. O., Carvajal-Cogollo, J. E. y Arellano, H. (2008). Clima. En: Rangel-C., J. O. (Ed.). Estudio de inventario de fauna y flora, descripción biofísica y línea base ambiental Ciénaga de Zapatosa. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Corpocesar. (Grupo de Biodiversidad y Conservación Documento interno).
Rengifo-M, J. T., Castro-Herrera, F. y Purroy-Iraizos, F. J. (2015). Uso de hábitat y relaciones ecomorfológicas de un ensamble (Lacertilia: Dactyloidae) en la región natural chocoana, Colombia. Acta Zoológica Mexicana, 31: 159-172.
Rojas-Murcia, L. E., Carvajal-Cogollo, J. E. y Cabrejo-Bello, J. A. (2015). Reptiles del bosque seco estacional en el Caribe colombiano: distribución de los hábitats y del recurso alimentario. Acta Biológica Colombiana, 21(2): 365-377.
Schoener, T. W. (1974). Resource Partitioning in Ecological Communities. Science, 185, (4145), 27-39.
Schoener, T. W. (1968). The Anolis Lizards of Bimini: Resource Partitioning in a Complex Fauna Source: Ecology, 49(4): 704-726.
Vilchis, M. O. (2000). Modelos nulos en interacciones biológicas, una propuesta: depredación en Chirostoma riojai-zooplancton. Ciencia Ergo Sum, 7: 153-156.
Vitt, L. J., Avila-Pires, T. C. S., Zani, A. P. y Espósito, M. C. (2002). Life in shade: the ecology of Anolis trachyderma (Squamata: Polychrotidae) in Amazonian Ecuador and Brazil, with comparisons to ecologically similar anoles. Copeia 2002: 275-286.
Zhao, S., Fang, J., Peng, C. y Tanget, Z. (2006). The relationships between terrestrial vertebrate species richness in China’s nature reserves and environmental variables. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 84: 1368-1374.
