Data from: Does ecological specialization transcend scale? Habitat partitioning among individuals and species of Anolis lizards

Ecological specialization is common across all levels of biological
organization, raising the question of whether the evolution of
specialization at one scale in a taxon is linked to specialization at
other scales. Anolis lizards have diversified repeatedly along axes of
habitat use, but it remains unknown if this diversification into habitat
use specialists is underlain by individual specialization. From repeated
observations of individuals in a population of Anolis sagrei in Florida,
we show that the extent of habitat use specialization among individuals is
comparable to the extent of specialization in the same traits among ten
sympatric Anolis habitat specialist species in Cuba. However, the adaptive
correlations between habitat use and morphology commonly seen across
species of Anolis were not observed across individuals in the sampled
population. Our results therefore suggest that while patterns of
ecological specialization can transcend scale, these parallels are the
consequence of distinct ecological processes acting at microevolutionary
and macroevolutionary scales.