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| 2010 Beaudry, Frederic, Phillip G. DeMaynadier & Malcolm L. Hunter, Jr. Identifying Hot Moments in Road-Mortality Risk for Freshwater Turtles. Journal of Wildlife Management. 74(1): pp. 152-159. (538 KB) |
| 2010 Gartner, G. E. A., J. W. Hicks, P. R. Manzani, D. V. Andrade, A. S. Abe, T. Wang, S. M. Secor, and T. Garland, Jr.. Phylogeny, ecology, and heart position in snakes. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. 83: pp. 43-54. (670 KB) |
| 2009 Adalsteinsson, Solny A., William R. Branch, Sébastien Trape, L. J. Vitt & S. Blair Hedges. Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the Family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata). Zootaxa. 2244: pp. 1-50. (3.19 MB) |
| 2009 Ballangée, Brandon & Stanley K. Sessions. Explanation for missing limbs in deformed amphibians. Journal of Experimental Zoology. 312: pp. 1-10. (383 KB) |
| 2009 Beaudry, Frederic, Phillip G. deMaynadier & Malcolm L. Hunter Jr.. Seasonally Dynamic Habitat Use by Spotted (Clemmys guttata) and Blanding's Turtles (Emydoidea blandingii) in Maine. Journal of Herpetology. 43(4): pp. 636–645. (336 KB) |
| 2009 Brochu, Christopher A., Jonathan R. Wagner, Stéphane Jouve, Colin D. Sumrall & Llewellyn D. Densmore. A Correction Corrected: Consensus Over the Meaning of Crocodylia And Why It Matters. Systematic Biology. 58(5): pp. 537-543. (146 KB) |
| 2009 Camp, C. D., W. E. Peterman, J. R. Milanovich, T. Lamb, J. C. Maerz & D. B. Wake. A new genus and species of lungless salamander (family Plethodontidae) from the Appalachian highlands of the south-eastern United States. Journal of Zoology. 279: pp. 86-94. (980 KB) |
| 2009 Chandler, Christopher H. & Fredric J. Janzen. The Phylogenetic Position of the Snapping Turtles (Chelydridae) Based on Nucleotide Sequence Data. Copeia. 2009(2): pp. 209-213. (497 KB) |
| 2009 Collins, Joseph T. & Travis W. Taggart. Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles, and Crocodilians. Sixth Edition. The Center for North American Herpetology, Lawrence, Kansas. Pp. iv + 44. (771 KB) |
| 2009 Doody, J. Sean, Steve Freedberg, and J. Scott Keogh. Communal egg-laying in reptiles and amphibians: Evolutionary patterns and hypotheses. Quarterly Review of Biology. 84(3): pp. 229-252. (198 KB) |
| 2009 Douglas, Michael E., Marlis R. Douglas, Gordon W. Schuett and Louis W. Porras. Climate change and evolution of the New World pitviper genus Agkistrodon (Viperidae). Journal of Biogeography . 36: pp. 1164-1180. (460 KB) |
| 2009 Frost, Darrel R., Roy W. McDiarmid & Joseph R. Mendelson III. Response to the Point of View of Gregory B. Pauly, David M. Hillis, and David C. Cannatella, by the . . . . Herpetologica. 65(2): pp. 136-153. (516 KB) |
| 2009 Germano, Jennifer M. & Phillip J. Bishop. Suitability of amphibians and reptiles for translocation. Conservation Biology. 23(1): pp. 7-15. (465 KB) |
| 2009 Giles, Jacqueline C., Jenny A. Davis, Robert D. McCauley & Gerald Kuchling. Voice of the turtle: The underwater acoustic repertoireof the long-necked freshwater turtle, Chelodina oblonga. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 125(1): pp. 434-443. (609 KB) |
| 2009 Goebel, Anna M., Tom A. Ranker, Paul Stephen Corn & Richard G. Olmstead. Mitochondrial DNA Evolution in the Anaxyrus boreas Species Group. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 50(2): pp. 209-225. (1.89 MB) |
| 2009 Gray, Brian S. Recent Observations of the Herpetofauna of a Former National Superfund Site in Erie, Pennsylvania. Journal of Kansas Herpetology. 31: pp. 9-11. (2.12 MB) |
| 2009 Gray, Brian S. Estimating snout to vent length from data acquired from the shed skins of the Northern Brown Snake, Storeria dekayi dekayi. Journal of Kansas Herpetology. 32: pp. 17-19. (275 KB) |
| 2009 Karraker NE and JP Gibbs. Amphibian production in forested landscapes in relation to wetland hydroperiod: A case study of vernal pools and beaver ponds. Biological Conservation. 142: pp. 2293-2302. (574 KB) |
| 2009 Karraker, NE and GR Ruthig. Effect of road deicing salt on the susceptibility of amphibian embryos to infection by water molds. Environmental Research. 109(1): pp. 40-45. (548 KB) |
| 2009 Kelly, Christopher M. R., Nigel P. Barker, Martin H. Villet and Donald G. Broadley. Phylogeny, biogeography and classification of the snake superfamily Elapoidea: a rapid radiation in the late Eocene. Cladistics. 25: pp. 38–63. (808 KB) |
| 2009 Kenow, Kevin O., Joshua M.Kapfer and Carl E. Korschgen. Predation of radio-marked Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) ducklings by Eastern Snapping Turtles (Chelydra serpentina serpentina) and Western Fox Snakes (Pantherophis vulpinus) on the upper Mississippi River. Journal of Herpetology. 43(1): pp. 154-158. (134 KB) |
| 2009 Langen, T.A., K. Ogden, L. Schwarting. Predicting hotspots of herpetofauna road mortality along highway networks. Journal of Wildlife Management. 73: pp. 104-114. (304 KB) |
| 2009 Leaché, Adam D. Species Tree Discordance Traces to Phylogeographic Clade Boundaries in North American Fence Lizards (Sceloporus). Systematic Biology. 58(6): pp. 547-559. (1.49 MB) |
| 2009 Lemos-Espinal, Julio A., Geoffrey R. Smith & Guillermo Woolrich-Piña. Aspect of the Natural History of Crotaphytus collaris from Chihuahua and Coahuila, Mexico. Journal of Kansas Herpetology. 31: pp. 18-20. (192 KB) |
| 2009 Lindeman, P.V. On the type locality and type specimen of Testudo geographica Lesueur 1817. Chelonian Conservation and Biology. 8: pp. 95-98. (336 KB) |
| 2009 Lovich, Jeffrey E., Wil Selman & C. J. McCoy. Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles: Graptemys gibbonsi Lovich and McCoy 1992 - Pascagoula Map Turtle. Chelonian Research Monographs. 5: pp. 29.1-29.8. (267 KB) |
| 2009 Luxbacher, A. M. & J. H. Knouft. Assessing concurrent patterns of environmental niche and morphological evolution among species of horned lizards (Phrynosoma). Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 22: pp. 1669-1678. (218 KB) |
| 2009 Means, D. Bruce. Effects of Rattlesnake Roundups on the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus). Herpetological Conservation and Biology. 4(2): pp. 132-141. (344 KB) |
| 2009 Meshaka, W.E., Jr., S.D. Marshall, and Timothy, J. Guiher. Seasonal activity and reproductive characteristics of an oldfield-grassland snake assemblage: implications for land management. Herpetological Bulletin. 105: pp. 35-40. (82 KB) |
| 2009 Meshaka, Walter E. Jr., Jeff Boundy & Avery A. Williams. The dispersal of the Greenhouse Frog, Eleutherodactylus planirostris, (Anura: Eleutherodactylidae), in Louisiana, with preliminary observations on several potential exotic colonizing species. Journal of Kansas Herpetology. 32: pp. 13-16. (427 KB) |
| 2009 Meshaka, Walter E. Jr., Jeff Boundy, Samuel D. Marshall & Jim Delahoussaye. Seasonal Activity, Reproductive Cycles, and Growth of the Bronze Frog (Lithobates clamitans clamitans) in Southern Louisiana: An Endpoint in its Geographic Distribution and the Variability of its Life History Traits. Journal of Kansas Herpetology. 31: pp. 12-17. (1.04 MB) |
| 2009 Meshaka, Walter E., Jr., Samuel D. Marshall, Larry R. Raymond & Laurence M. Hardy. Seasonal activity, reproductive cycles, and growth of the Bronze Frog (Lithobates clamitans clamitans) in northern Louisiana: the long and short of it. Journal of Kansas Herpetology. 29: pp. 12-20. (189 KB) |
| 2009 Mifsud, David. Prescribed Fire Use and Important Management Considerations for Amphibians and Reptiles within the Midwest. Publication of the Midwest Partners in Amphibian and Reptiles Conservation. : pp. 1-10. (335 KB) |
| 2009 Moriarty Lemmon, Emily. Diversification of conspecific signals in sympatry: Geographic overlap drives multidimensional reproductive character displacement in frogs. Evolution. 63(5): pp. 1155–1170. (1.89 MB) |
| 2009 Ouellet, Martin, Christian Fortin & Marie-Josée Grimard. Distribution and habitat use of the Boreal Chorus Frog (Pseudacris maculata) at its extreme northeastern range limit. Herpetological Conservation and Biology. 4(2): pp. 277-284. (832 KB) |
| 2009 Pereira, Ricardo J. & David B. Wake. Genetic leakage after adaptive and nonadaptive divergence in the Ensatina eschscholtzii ring species. Evolution. 63(9): pp. 2288-2301. (842 KB) |
| 2009 Phillipsen, Ivan C. & Anthony E. Metcalf. Phylogeography of a stream-dwelling frog (Pseudacris cadaverina) in southern California. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 53: pp. 152-170. (1.53 MB) |
| 2009 Pisani, George R. Virginia valeriae and Storeria dekayi in a northeast Kansas grassland community: Ecology and conservation implications. Journal of Kansas Herpetology. 32: pp. 20-36. (1.16 MB) |
| 2009 Pisani, George R. Use of an active ant nest as a hibernaculum by small snake species. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 112(1-2): pp. 113-118. (1.97 MB) |
| 2009 Pisani, George R. Henry S. Fitch: The Twilight of an Incredible Career. Journal of Kansas Herpetology. 32: pp. 11-12. (425 KB) |
| 2009 Pisani, George R. & Galen Pittman. Early activity of Storeria dekayi in Jefferson County, Kansas. Journal of Kansas Herpetology. 29: pp. 10-11. (27 KB) |
| 2009 Platt, Steven G. & Thomas R. Rainwater. A new maximum size record for Crotalus molossus (Baird & Girard, 1853). Journal of Kansas Herpetology. 29: pp. 11. (26 KB) |
| 2009 Powers, Lisa. Wildlife Tales: Venomous Snakes of Tennessee. Biology Gazette. 2(2): pp. 2-3. (494 KB) |
| 2009 Pyron, R. Alexander & Frank T. Burbrink. Systematics of the Common Kingsnake (Lampropeltis getula: Serpentes: Colubridae) and the burden of heritage in taxonomy. Zootaxa. (2241): pp. 22-32. (894 KB) |
| 2009 Pyron, R. Alexander & Frank T. Burbrink. Neogene diversification and taxonomic stability in the snake tribe Lampropeltini (Serpentes: Colubridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 52: pp. 524–529. (298 KB) |
| 2009 Pyron, R. Alexander and Frank T. Burbrink. Lineage diversification in a widespread species: roles for niche divergence and conservatism in the Common Kingsnake, Lampropeltis getula. Molecular Ecology. 18: pp. 3443–3457. (1.97 MB) |
| 2009 Reed, Robert N. and Gordon H. Rodda. Giant Constrictors: Biological and Management Profiles and an Establishment Risk Assessment for Nine Large Species of Pythons, Anacondas, and the Boa Constrictor. U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 2009–1202, Reston, Virginia. Pp. 323. (5.05 MB) |
| 2009 Robert J. Wellington. An Overview of Concerns and Issues Relating to the [Common] Mudpuppy Necturus maculosus maculosus, in Lake Erie/Presque Isle Bay Erie County, Pennsylvania. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society. 44(3 ): pp. 4. (3.33 MB) |
| 2009 Sabatino, Stephen J. & Eric J. Routman. Phylogeography and conservation genetics of the Hellbender salamander (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis). Conservation Genetics. 10: pp. 1235–1246. (344 KB) |
| 2009 Schriever, Tiffany A., Joseph Ramspott, Brian I. Crother, and Clifford L. Fontenot, Jr. Effects of hurricanes Ivan, Katrina, and Rita on a southeastern Louisiana herpetofauna. Wetlands. 29(1): pp. 112-122. (1.32 MB) |
| 2009 Semlitsch et al. Effects of timber harvest on amphibian populations: understanding mechanisms from forest experiments. Bioscience. 59(10): pp. 853-862. (704 KB) |
| 2009 Shepard, Donald B. and Frank T. Burbrink. Phylogeographic and demographic effects of Pleistocene climatic fluctuations in a montane salamander, Plethodon fourchensis. Molecular Ecology. 18: pp. 2243–2262. (1.19 MB) |
| 2009 Snow, Skip. Everglades Invasive Species Summit: Burmese Pythons, Python molurus bivittatus. Publication of the National Park Service. : pp. 1-16. (1.71 MB) |
| 2009 Sparling, Donald W. and Gary M. Fellers. Toxicity of two insecticides to California, USA, anurans and its relevance to declining amphibian populations. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 28(8): pp. 1696–1703. (136 KB) |
| 2009 Spinks, Phillip Q., & H. Bradley Shaffer. Conflicting Mitochondrial and Nuclear Phylogenies for the Widely Disjunct Emys (Testudines: Emydidae) Species Complex, and What They Tell Us about Biogeography and Hybridization. Systematic Biology. 58(1): pp. 1-20. (911 KB) |
| 2009 Spinks, Phillip Q., Robert C. Thomson, Geoff A. Lovely, and H. Bradley Shaffer. Assessing what is needed to resolve a molecular phylogeny: Simulations and empirical data from emydid turtles. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 9(56): pp. 1-17. (1.72 MB) |
| 2009 Timpe, Elizabeth K., Sean P. Graham & Ronald M. Bonett. Phylogeography of the Brownback Salamander reveals patterns of local endemism in Southern Appalachian springs. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 52: pp. 368-376. (888 KB) |
| 2009 Werneburg, Ingmar & Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra. Time of organogenesis support basal sauropsid position of turtles in the amniote tree of life. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 9(82): pp. 1-9. (6.31 MB) |
| 2009 Zaher, Hussam, Felipe Gobbi Grazziotin, John E. Cadle, Robert W. Murphy, Julio Cesar de Moura-Leite & Sandro L. Bonatto. Molecular phylogeny of advanced snakes (Serpentes, Caenophidia) with an emphasis on South American Xenodontines: a revised classification and descriptions of new taxa. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 49(11): pp. 115-153. (5.94 MB) |
| 2008 Collins, Timothy M., Barbie Freeman & Skip Snow. Final Report: Genetic Characterization of Populations of the Noningidenous Burmese Python in Everglades National Park. South Florida Water Management District, Miami Florida, Florida. Pp. 1-30. (3.70 MB) |
