Volume 4, Issue 2 (August 2009)

    Editorial

     

    Herpetological Conservation and Biology:  Milestones

    Raymond A. Saumure

     

     

    Research Articles

 

Effects of Rattlesnake Roundups on the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus)

D. Bruce Means

 

A Multi-scale Assessment of Habitat Selection and Movement Patterns by Northern Leopard Frogs (Lithobates [Rana]
pipiens
) in a Managed Forest  [Photo Gallery]

Sean M. Blomquist and Malcolm L. Hunter, Jr.

 

Does Method of Bait Presentation within Funnel Traps Influence Capture Rates of Semi-aquatic Turtles?

Ian M. Nall and R. Brent Thomas

 

Fat Bodies and Liver Mass Cycles in Sceloporus grammicus (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae) from Southern Hidalgo, Mexico

Aurelio Ramirez-Bautista, Daniel Hernandez-Ramos, Alberto Rojas Martinez, and Jonathon C. Marshall

 

Distribution and Abundance of Two Imperiled Graptemys Species of the Pascagoula River System

Will Selman and Carl Qualls

 

Spatio-temporal Differences in the Use of Agricultural Fields by Male and Female Wood Turtles (Glyptemys insculpta)
Inhabiting an Agri-forest Mosaic

Reid Tingley, Dean G. McCurdy, Mark D. Pulsifer, and Tom B. Herman

 

A Population Divided: Railroad Tracks as Barriers to Gene Flow in an Isolated Population of Marbled Salamanders
(
Ambystoma opacum)

Joe Bartoszek and Katherine R. Greenwald

 

Fifty Years of Hybridization: Introgression Between the Arizona Toad (Bufo microscaphus) and Woodhouse's Toad
(B. woodhousei) along Beaver Dam Wash in Utah

Terry D. Schwaner and Brian K. Sullivan

 

The Structure of Rathke's Glands in the Softshell Turtles Apalone mutica and A. spinifera

Michael V. Plummer and Stanley E. Trauth

 

The Effect of Body Size on Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus) Survival, Recapture Probability, and Behavior in an
Alabama Swamp

David N. Koons, Roger D. Birkhead, Scott M. Boback, Matthew I. Williams, and Matthew P. Greene

 

Dispersal of Newly Metamorphosed and Juvenile Western Toads (Anaxyrus boreas) in Northeastern Oregon, USA

Evelyn L. Bull

 

Increased Mortality of Naive Varanid Lizards after the Invasion of Non-native Cane Toads (Bufo marinus)

Beata Ujvari and Thomas Madsen

 

Habitat Use in a Large Rainforest Python (Morelia kinghorni) in the Wet Tropics of North Queensland, Australia

Alastair Freeman and Amanda Freeman

 

Demographics of a Geographically Isolated Population of a Threatened Salamander (Caudata: Ambystomatidae)
in Central Illinois

Stephen J. Mullin and Sarabeth Klueh

 

Observations of Flotsam Entrapment in the Northern Diamond-backed Watersnake (Nerodia rhombifer rhombifer)

Jason Ortega and Frederic Zaidan III

 

Distribution and Habitat Use of the Boreal Chorus Frog (Pseudacris maculata) at its Extreme Northeastern Range Limit

Martin Ouellet, Christian Fortin, and Marie-Josée Grimard