ABSTRACT
Anolis is a large genus (about 200 species) of iguanid lizards. Especially in the West Indies, they are important members of the community and can attain abundances on the order of 50 individuals or more per 100 m2. Most anoles are diurnal, arboreal, insectivous, and territorial, and are therefore relatively sedentary and fairly easily observed and approached. There is diurnal variation in anole activity, so a simple measure like sightings per unit of time can be misleading. Therefore stratification of the population into adults and juveniles may be advisable in the analysis of the data, if the behavior of these two subpopulations is different with respect to the census procedure. The method of choice is to obtain a density estimate for a site of fixed area using a mark-resight technique.
