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Evolutionary and environmental effects on thermoregulation among complex lizard communities.
(2002)
A community of ten sympatric lizard species was studied in a mountain canyon in southern Arizona to determine the effect of phylogeny on habitat use and thermoregulation. Habitat use, body temperatures ( Tb) and operative ...
Privation and uncertainty in the small nursery of Peruvian laughing frogs: Larval ecology shapes the parental mating system.
(2002)
To determine how ecological factors of both offspring and adults can influence the adult mating system, I studied the parental care and mating behavior of the laughing frog, Osteocephalus planiceps. This species uses the ...
The effects of woody patches of habitat on grassland small mammals.
(2002)
To understand better the influence of habitat modifications on grassland ecosystems, I examined the effects of woody patches on the species richness, species diversity, and total density of grassland small mammals; the ...
Mammalian paleontology of the Monarch Mill Formation at Eastgate, Churchill County, Nevada.
(2002)
Three new species of Leptodontomys (L. korthi n. sp., L. schnelli n. sp., and L. protistopikos n. sp.) are described based on a large sample (249 specimens) of maxillae, mandibles, incisors, and isolated upper and lower ...