<i>Crotaphytus collaris collaris</i> (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

<i>Crotaphytus collaris collaris</i>

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Male collared lizard struts his stuff in an Ozark glade. The desert-adapted lizards thrive in the Ozarks because the glades there create their own hot, dry microclimates. But the suppression of fire led to the isolation of individual collared lizard populations and the loss of many of these populations by 1982. By reintroducing lizards and landscape-level burning biologist Alan R. Templeton has been instrumental in allowing the lizards to recover.

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Alan R. Templeton

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