Urban herpetology / editors, Joseph C. Mitchell, Robin E. Jung Brown, Breck Bartholomew

Urban herpetology : global overview, synthesis, and future directions / Joseph C. Mitchell and Robin E. Jung Brown -- Distribution of migrating adults related to the location of remnant grassland around an urban California tiger salamander (Ambystoma californiense) breeding pool / Peter C. Trenham and David G. Cook -- Breeding amphibian population declines following loss of upland forest habitat around vernal pools in Massachusetts, USA / Bryan S. Windmiller ... [et al.] -- Multiple scale habitat characteristics of pond-breeding amphibians across a rural-urban gradient / Robert S. Egan and Peter W.C. Paton -- Urbanization effects on spotted salamander and wood frog presence and abundance / Peter J. Clark ... [et al.] -- Case study 1. Relationship between lakeshore development and frog populations in central Wisconsin / Rori A. Paloski -- Effects of a stormwater impoundment on streamside salamander populations on Staten Island, New York / Ellen Pehek and Raphael Mazor -- Structure of an urban population of softshell turtles (Apalone spinifera) before and after severe stream alteration / Michael V. Plummer and Nathan E. Mills -- Direct and indirect effects of urbanization on diamond-backed terrapins of the Hudson River Bight : distribution and predation in a human-modified estuary / Sylwia E. Ner and Russell L. Burke -- Ecological effects of roads on amphibians and reptiles : a literature review / Kimberly M. Andrews, J. Whitfield Gibbons, and Denim M. Jochimsen -- Roads as catalysts of urbanization : snakes on roads face differential impacts due to inter- and intraspecific ecological attributes / Kimberly M. Andrews and J. Whitfield Gibbons -- Case study 2. The impacts of mountain biking on amphibians and reptiles / Michael J. Vandeman -- Amphibian road mortality and how to prevent it : a review / Benedikt R. Schmidt and Silvia Zumbach -- Case study 3. Use of existing culverts by eastern box turtles (Terrapene c. carolina) to safely navigate roads / Susan Hagood and Mary Jo Bartles -- Case study 4. Railway tracks as habitats for the sand lizard, Lacerta agilis, in urban Berlin, Germany / Klaus-Detlef Kühnel -- Ecotoxicology of amphibians and reptiles in urban environments : an overview of potential exposure routes and bioaccumulation / Joel W. Snodgrass... [et al.] -- Toxicological threats to amphibians and reptiles in urban environments / Maxine C. Croteau ... [et al.] -- Impacts of road deicing salts on amphibians and their habitats / Nancy E. Karraker -- Geckos as indicators of urban pollution / Dean E. Fletcher ... [et al.] -- Effects of artificial night lighting on amphibians and reptiles in urban environments / Gad Perry ... [et al.] -- Amphibian use of stormwater ponds in the Puget lowlands of Washington, USA / Elissa C. Ostergaard, Klaus O. Richter, and Stephen D. West -- Case study 5. Impact of swimming pools on amphibians / Richard D. Mason -- Populations of the snake-necked turtle Chelodina oblonga in three suburban lakes of Perth, Western Australia / Jacqueline C. Giles, Gerald Kuchling and Jenny A. Davis -- Enhancing amphibian biodiversity on golf courses with seasonal wetlands / David E. Scott, Brian S. Metts, and J. Whitfield Gibbons -- Migration ecology of spotted salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum) on golf courses in southern New England / Peter W.C. Paton, Christin McDonough, and Katherine E. Montieth -- Golf courses as refugia for herpetofauna in an urban river floodplain / David A. Mifsud and Rachel Mifsud -- Changes in structure and composition of Sonoran Desert reptile communities associated with golf courses / Jeffrey J. Smith, Matt Goode, and Melissa Amarello -- Case study 6. Using thermal biology to investigate habitat use and activity of mud turtles (Kinosternon subrubrum) on a golf course / Leigh Anne Harden and Michael E. Dorcas -- Introduced species that invade and species that thrive in town : are these two groups cut from the same cloth? / Gordon H. Rodda and Claudine L. Tyrrell-- Case study 7. Do urban areas favor introduced turtles in western North America? / R. Bruce Bury -- Lacertid lizards introduced into North America : history and future / Russell L. Burke and Guntram Deischel -- Case study 8. Snake use of urban habitats in the New Jersey Pine Barrens / Robert T. Zappalorti and Joseph C. Mitchell -- Case study 9. Ecological observations of the northern brownsnake (Storeria dekayi) in an urban environment in North Carolina, USA / Rufus W. Gaul Jr. -- Movements and distribution of Terrapene carolina in a large urban area, Rock Creek National Park, Washington, D.C. / Kenneth B. Ferebee and Paula F.P. Henry -- A long-term study of eastern box turtles (Terrapene c. carolina) in a suburban neighborhood : survival characteristics and interactions with humans and conspecifics / I. Lehr Brisbin Jr. ... [et al.] -- Urban herpetology in the West Indies / Robert Powell and Robert W. Henderson -- Urban herpetology in Russia and adjacent territories / Vladimir G. Ishchenko and Joseph C. Mitchell -- Fragmentation of riparian amphibian distributions by urban sprawl in Maryland, USA / Mark T. Southerland and Scott A. Stranko -- Amphibians in the Willamette Valley, Oregon : survival in a rapidly urbanizing and developing region / R. Bruce Bury -- Maintaining lentic-breeding amphibians in urbanizing landscapes : the case study of the northern red-legged frog (Rana aurora) / Marc P. Hayes ... [et al.] -- Potential and limitations of herpetofaunal restoration in an urban landscape / Robert P. Cook -- A future with small populations of the gopher tortoise / Earl D. McCoy, Henry R. Mushinsky, and Robin D. Moore -- Buffer-only wetland protection : implications for pond-breeding amphibians / Klaus O. Richter, Drew W. Kerr, and Bonnie B. Earle -- Case study 10. Herpetofauna in the urban streams of Arcata, California, USA : the role of city planning and adjacent land uses / Amy J. Lind -- Problem crocodiles : reducing the risk of attacks by Crocodylus porosus in Darwin Harbour, Northern Territory, Australia / Tom Nichols and Mike Letnic -- Long-term population trends of American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) in a man-made reservoir : responses to environmental perturbations arising from management activities / I. Lehr Brisbin Jr., Robert A. Kennamer, and Warren L. Stephens Jr. -- Case study 11. Management of abandoned North American pond turtles (Trachemys scripta) in Italy / Vincenzo Ferri and Christiana Soccini -- Case study 12. Red-eared slider turtles (Trachemys scripta elegans) introduced to French urban wetlands : an integrated research and conservation program / Pauline Teillac-Deschamps ... [et al.] -- Effective undergraduate-based herpetological research in an urban environment Michael E. Dorcas and Steven J. Price -- The Davidson College box turtle mark-recapture program : urban herpetological research made possible by citizen scientists / Joy M. Hester, Sarah A. Budischak and Michael E. Dorcas -- Conservation of the sharp-tailed snake (Contia tenuis) in urban areas in the Gulf Islands, British Columbia, Canada / Kristiina Ovaska and Christian Engelstoft -- Using volunteer monitoring programs for anuran conservation along a rural-urban gradient in southern Michigan, USA / Kristen S. Genet ... [et al.] -- Case study 13. Community response to diamond-backed terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) mortality in recreational crab traps / Margaret E. Hoyle xvii, 586 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm