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Monitor Lizards in Australia Dig Incredible Corkscrew Nests
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Complex and deep helical burrows host lizard eggs and many other species
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Ecologist Sean Doody excavates a burrow where a monitor lizard has laid eggs(Submitted by Sean Doody)
Quirks and Quarks7:42Australian monitor lizards build underground condos used by dozens of other species
While excavating burrows of the yellow spotted monitor lizard in Australia, researchers were surprised to find dozens of species and hundreds of individuals amphibian and reptile, as well as lots of insect life. They had no idea that the lizard burrows were such important habitats for a wide range of other species.
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Australian Monitor Lizards Are Ecosystem Engineers, Researchers Say
Ten year study found that the nest of the yellow-spotted monitor is used by more than 747 different species.
December 21, 2020
A 10 year University of Florida study on Australia’s yellow-spotted monitor lizard (
Varanus panoptes horni) have concluded that these reptiles should be regarded as ecosystems engineers based on their capability create, modify, maintain and destroy a habitat.
The research, led by Sean Doody, University of South Florida assistant professor and graduate director of integrative biology, found that other small animal communities rely on the burrow system of the monitor lizards, (also known as the argus monitor), much like that of the gopher tortoise in the southern United States. The monitor lizard’s burrow, which is called a warren are used by other animals as habitat, nesting, and to forage for food.
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IMAGE: Sean Doody, assistant professor and graduate director of integrative biology at the USF St. Petersburg campus, studies the nesting biology of the monitor lizard. view more
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Ten years of research led by the University of South Florida has revealed that a monitor lizard should be regarded as an ecosystem engineer, a rarity for reptiles. Tortoises and sea turtles are the only reptiles considered to be ecosystem engineers, a term used to describe organisms that have a great impact on their environment based on their ability to create, modify, maintain or destroy a habitat. Sean Doody, assistant professor and graduate director of integrative biology at the USF St. Petersburg campus, discovered that while a related species is considered invasive in the United States, in Australia, small animal communities rely on the monitor lizards burrow system, called a warren, using it as a habitat, a place to forage for food and nesti
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