JULIAN C. LEE

Education:

B.S., University of California, Davis, 1966

M.S., San Diego State University, 1973

Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1977

Field: Vertebrate ecology and systematics; herpetology, with emphasis on Neotropical forms

Research Interests:

Much of my work concerns morphological character variation within and among populations of frogs and lizards and the ecological and evolutionary inferences that can be drawn from analysis of that variation. I use multivariate morphometric approaches to test hypotheses about the morphological basis of anuran mating success, to examine variation in size and shape of amphibians along environmental gradients, and to explore ancestor-descendant relationships within populations of lizards.

Most recently, my research efforts have focused on the phenetics of the lizard Anolis sagrei, an unusually successful Caribbean species that has, within the past 45 years, colonized three-quarters of the Florida peninsula. Because the circumstances of the colonization are unusually well documented, and because collections of the species were made early in the colonization, the system affords an opportunity to assess the direction, magnitude and rate of phenotypic differentiation in a colonizing species.

Recent Representative Publications: Lee, J. C., Clayton, D., Eisenstein, S. and I. Perez. 1990. The reproductive cycle of Anolis sagrei in southern Florida. Copeia. 1989: 930-937. Lee, J. C. 1990. Sources of extraneous variation in the study of meristic characters: the effect of size and of inter-observer variability. Syst. Zool. 39: 31-39. Lee, J. C. 1990. Creatures of the Maya. Nat. Hist. January: 44-51. Lee, J. C. 1992. Anolis sagrei in Florida: phenetics of a colonizing species III. West Indian and Middle American Comparisons. Copeia. 1992: 942-945. Lee, J. C. 1993. Size and shape of neotropical frogs: a precipitation gradient analysis. Occ. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist., Univ. of Kan. 163: 1-20. Lee, J. C. 1996. Amphibians and Reptiles of the Yucatan Peninsula. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London. Lee, J. C. 2000. A field guide to the amphibians and reptiles of the Maya world. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London. xi + 402 pp. Lee, Julian C. 2001. Evolution of a secondary sexual dimorphism in the toad, Bufo marinus. Copeia 2001:928-935. Lee, Julian C. and Alberto D. Corrales. 2002. Sexual dimorphism in hindlimb muscle mass is associated with male reproductive success in Bufo marinus. J. Herpetol. 36:502-505.