Data from: Hurricane effects on Neotropical lizards span geographic and phylogenetic scales Universiteit Antwerpen
Anthony Herrel, Colin Donihue, Graham Reynolds, James Stroud, Julián Velasco, Jason Kolbe, Luke Mahler, Alex Kowaleski, Jonathan Losos, Adam Algar, Robert Buchkowski, Anne-Claire Fabre, Hannah Frank, Anthony Geneva
Extreme climate events such as droughts, cold snaps, and hurricanes can be powerful agents of natural selection, producing acute selective pressures very different from the everyday pressures acting on organisms. However, it remains unknown whether these infrequent but severe disruptions are quickly erased by quotidian selective forces, or whether they have the potential to durably shape biodiversity patterns across regions and clades. Here, we show that hurricanes have enduring evolutionary impacts on the morphology of anoles, a diverse Neotropical lizard clade. We first demonstrate a ...