Wild Cam: Repopulating a lost Caribbean colony
Desecheo is a tiny islet—a little more than half a square mile—off the west coast of the Puerto Rican mainland. The rocky island is partly forested, though it ...
Puerto Rico
Urbanization may lead to Puerto Rican boa decline
Increasing urbanization in Puerto Rico may cause declines in the territory’s endangered boa population. The Puerto Rican boa (Chilabothrus inornatus) is the ...
Pot-bellied pigs overrun Puerto Rico
Feral pigs are a widespread problem across North America, but in Puerto Rico, the issue is slightly different. The island is seeing an onslaught of Vietnamese ...
In warming Puerto Rico, insects plummet, impacting food web
Northeastern Puerto Rico’s insects, millipedes and sowbugs have declined exponentially as rainforest temperatures have increased, a recent study found. ...
Anole lizards evolved to coexist in various thermal niches
Over 180 anole lizard (Anolis spp.) species of unique shapes and variegated colors live side by side on tree trunks, branches and grasses in the Caribbean, but ...
Listening to wildlife reveals ecosystem changes after hurricanes
When Ben Gottesman and his colleagues from Purdue University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration set up acoustic sensors in Puerto Rico, they ...
Nonnative frogs boost nonnative birds in Hawaii
It’s the coqui frog’s (Eleutherodactylus coqui) unusually loud call that got on Hawaiians’ nerves after it was accidentally introduced from Puerto Rico in ...
Lizard Activity Can Act as “Barometer” to Environmental Change
Cold-blooded lizards can be notoriously finicky over the weather, so much so that tracking the activity of certain species could give researchers a way to measure ...