Volume 2, Issue 1 (May 2007)

     

    HerpSpectives

     

    Comments on the Descriptions and Evaluations of Tadpole Mouthpart Anomalies

    Ronald Altig

     

 

Research Articles

 

Demise of Translocated Populations of Mountain Yellow-legged Frogs (Rana muscosa) in Sierra Nevada of California
[Photo Gallery]

Gary M. Fellers, David F. Bradford, David Pratt, and Leslie Long Wood

Influences of Agricultural Land Use on Clinostomum attenuatum Metacercariae Prevalence in Southern Great Plains
Amphibians, U.S.A.

Matthew J. Gray, Loren M. Smith, Debra L. Miller, and Charles R. Bursey

Impact of Ammonium Nitrate on Wood Frog (Rana sylvatica) Tadpoles: Effects on Survivorship and Behavior

Amber A. Burgett, Christian D. Wright, Geoffrey R. Smith, Doran T. Fortune, and Samuel L. Johnson

 

Are Embryonic and Larval Green Frogs (Rana clamitans) Insensitive to Road Deicing Salt?  [Photo Gallery]

Nancy E. Karraker

 

Presence of Amphibian Chytrid Fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, and Other Amphibian Pathogens at Warm-
water Fish Hatcheries in Southeastern North America
 [Photo Gallery]

D. Earl Green and C. Kenneth Dodd


Nesting Ecology and Hatching Success of the Wood Turtle (Glyptemys insculpta), in Quebec

Andrew D. Walde, J. Roger Bider, Denis Masse, Raymond Saumure, and Rodger D. Titman

 

Nest Emergence of Smooth Softshell (Apalone mutica) Hatchlings

Michael V. Plummer

 

 

Techniques

 

Improving Natural History Research with Image Analysis: the Relationship Between Skin Color, Sex, Age, and Stage in
Adult Red-spotted Newts (Notophthalmus viridescens viridescens)
 [Photo Gallery]

Andrew K. Davis and Kristine L. Grayson

 

 

Herps 101

 

A Primer for the Morphology of Anuran Tadpoles

Ronald Altig