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Southeastern Naturalist. 17:512-520
Large tributaries may help sustain large-river fish populations by mitigating fish-habitat losses within the highly modified great rivers of the Mississippi River basin. These tributaries are likely most beneficial for fish species specializing on no
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Southeastern Naturalist. 17:470-475
Pomacea maculata (Giant Apple Snail) is a freshwater snail from South America that is an invasive species on the Gulf of Mexico coastal plain. A sister species has been shown to prey on amphibian eggs in Asia. To test whether the Giant Apple Snail wi
Autor:
Susan B. Adams, Elaine M. Gelbard
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Southeastern Naturalist. 20
Castor canadensis (American Beaver) typically construct lodges out of tree trunks, branches, and mud, or dig dens into banks at the edges of water bodies. We observed Beavers in a Mississippi swamp using a hollow Taxodium distichum (Baldcypress) snag
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Southeastern Naturalist. 19
Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis (Eastern Hellbender) is a fully aquatic salamander of conservation concern across the southeastern US. Characterization of shelter guarding by males and interspecific behavior during the breeding season in w
Autor:
Sean M. Richards, Shane M. Boylan, Satomi Kohno, Tony Mills, Thomas R. Rainwater, Steven G. Platt, Thomas M. Murphy, Benjamin B. Parrott, Jane Griess, Katherine A. E. Rainwater, Philip M. Wilkinson, Matthew P. Guillette, Louis J. Guillette
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Southeastern Naturalist. 19
Leucism (white skin, dark eyes) is a rare color disorder occurring in a range of invertebrates and vertebrates, and as a result, relatively few reports exist of leucistic individuals in the wild. In March 2014, we found 6 leucistic Alligator mississi
Autor:
Jeremy D. Pustilnik
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Southeastern Naturalist. 19
The diet of land snails that are detritivores usually consists of decaying plant material and fungi. Animal carrion is also consumed, and is usually composed of invertebrates like earthworms and other snails. However, while working at the Coweeta Hyd
Autor:
Christopher K. Beachy
Publikováno v:
Southeastern Naturalist. 17:423-432
The southeastern US has an incredibly diverse salamander fauna that contains ∼17% of the world's species. Furthermore, there is more variation in salamander life-cycle there than elsewhere—the diversity includes metamorphosing, paedomorphic, and
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Southeastern Naturalist. 17:N34-N39
Rhynobrissus cuneus, a small, irregular sea urchin, was originally described from 5 tests washed onto the beach at Fort Macon, NC, and it has been reported only once since, from 7 specimens collected from Playa Jicacal, Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico.
Autor:
Glenn A. Marvin, Paul V. Cupp
Publikováno v:
Southeastern Naturalist. 17:166-175
To examine whether chemical cues from intraguild predators may affect microhabitat selection by plethodontid salamanders of the genus Eurycea, we tested metamorphosed individuals for the ability to discriminate among odors from 3 larger salamander sp
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Southeastern Naturalist. 16:629-642
We attempted to determine cross-shelf, diel, and seasonal distribution patterns of paralarval cephalopods off eastern Florida during a 5-year study that employed both open-net and discrete-depth closing-net sampling. Based on our 303 samples, abundan