I have been working on ecomorphological relationships of desert lizards in the Northern Territory, where I have seen a high diversity of lizard species. I have been working on the ecology, behavior and morphology of the agamid lizards in this region.
Agamids are a sister group to the iguanids.
This study will allow me to compare similar habitats on each continent and determine if similar morphological and behavioral specialisation has evolved independently in iguanids and agamids. I can determine if convergent evolution has occurred in the sand specialists on each continent. I will be using a comparative approach that combines ecological, behavioural, morphological and phylogenetic information that will generate several types of data for biogeographic and historical analysis, as well as necessary information to test hypotheses of the origins of these assemblages.