Steven Poe

TL;DR: A phylogenetic analysis of all 379 extant species of Anolis, with new phylogenetic data for 139 species including new DNA data for 101 species is presented, using the resulting estimates as a basis for defining anole clade names under the principles of phylogenetic nomenclature and to examine the biogeographic history of anoles.

TL;DR: The evidence of extremely short branches for interordinal relationships across independent gene trees and to‐pological incongruence among gene trees suggests that the bird tree includes essentially simultaneous radiation of multiple lineages, which explains why a robust phylogeny of birds has not been produced despite much effort on the part of avian systematists.

TL;DR: It is shown that rainfall can influence lizard microhabitat use more than temperature in a pinon pine-juniper woodland and the trees provide important refugia.

TL;DR: The year 1986 gave us Madonna's True Blue, Geraldo Rivera opening Al Capone's vaults, and a new taxonomy of anoles, but the erection of a handful of nonmonophyletic genera was not enough to achieve the apparent goal of preserving Savage's (1973) genus Norops as a valid name for anole lizards with transverse processes on their posterior caudal vertebrae.