Lizards quickly adapt to threat from invasive fire ants, reversing geographical patterns of lizard traits
Thursday, November 29, 2018 - 09:50
in Biology & Nature
Some lizards in the eastern U.S. have adapted to invasive fire ants—which can bite, sting, and kill lizards—reversing geographical trends in behavioral and physical traits used to avoid predators. A new study describing this reversal appears online on November 29, 2018, in the journal Global Change Biology and reveals that new environmental challenges can override the historical influences that originally determined geographical trends in traits.