Predicted Spread in the Southeastern US of the Non-Native Lizard, Agama picticauda, Based on Current and Future Climate

Author

• Sebastian Giddings

Date of Award

2024

Document Type

Dissertation/Thesis

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Wetterer, James K.

Abstract

Peters’s rock agama, Agama picticauda, is a West African lizard first observed in South Florida in 1975. It has since spread through much of the state and into southernmost Georgia. To better understand the potential spread of this invasive species in the southeastern US, I used Maxent species distribution models with native and non-native occurrences for A. picticauda with current and future bioclimatic variables. The models suggest that by 2100, the species could spread through all of Florida, much of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina, and southern parts of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Virginia.

Comments

Thesis (B.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, 2024

Recommended Citation

Giddings, Sebastian, "Predicted Spread in the Southeastern US of the Non-Native Lizard, Agama picticauda, Based on Current and Future Climate" (2024). Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2020 - Present. 251.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_honors/251

Extent

31 p.

Identifier

FAUHT00304