Current Research
Dr. Zani's research interests are in the temperate zone and understanding how animals cope with extremely seasonal environments, especially winter, and the implications of climate limitations and how a changing climate might alter those limitations for individuals, populations, and species. Dr. Zani's approach combines field work, mostly on side-blotched lizards in the high desert of eastern Oregon, semi-controlled outdoor mesocosm experiments of enclosed cohorts of lizards, and controlled-environment laboratory experiments here at UWSP.