Study Links Decline in Ozarks Lizard Population to Fire Suppression

Eastern collared lizards, once plentiful in the Ozark Mountains, are now listed as a “species of greatest conservation need.” What does their decline say about habitat degradation in the Ozarks? That’s the question University of Arkansas researcher Casey Brewster worked to answer in a recent paper published in the Journal of Herpetology. Brewster, a doctoral candidate […]