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Rana muscosa Camp 1917, Mountain Yellow-legged Frog

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Vance Vredenburg, Gary M. Fellers, Carlos Davidson

Rana sphenocephala Cope, 1886: southern leopard frog

No abstract available.
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B. P. Butterfield, M.J. Lannoo, P. Nanjappa

Recent research on the Chesapeake Bay impact structure, USA - Impact debris and reworked ejecta

Four new coreholes in the western annular trough of the buried, late Eocene Chesapeake Bay impact structure provide samples of shocked minerals, cataclastic rocks, possible impact melt, mixed sediments, and damaged microfossils. Parautochthonous Cretaceous sediments show an upward increase in collapse, sand fluidization, and mixed sediment injections. These impact-modified sediments are scoured an
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J. Wright Horton, John N. Aleinikoff, Michael J. Kunk, Gregory S. Gohn, Lucy E. Edwards, Jean M. Self-Trail, David S. Powars, Glen A. Izett

Restoration of an endangered species: The black-footed ferret

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D.E. Biggins, B.J. Miller, T. W. Clark, R.P. Reading

Risk factors and declines in northern cricket frogs (Acris crepitans)

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V.R. Beasley, S. Faeh, B. Wikoff, C. Staehle, J. Eisold, D. Nichols, Rebecca A. Cole, A. Schotthoefer, M. Greenwell, L. Brown

Roads and Florida's herpetofauna: a review and mitigation case study

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L. L. Smith, Kimberly G. Smith, W.J. Barichivich, C. K. Dodd, K. Sorensen

Role of lake-wide prey fish survey in understanding ecosystem dynamics and managing fisheries of Lake Michigan

With this study, the role of this lake-wide prey fish survey in both understanding the dynamics of the Lake Michigan ecosystem and managing Lake Michigan fisheries was documented. The complexity of ecosystems is such that long-term study is required before the dynamics of the ecosystem can be understoond. Furthermore, long-term observation is needed before important or meaningful questions about
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Charles P. Madenjian

Setting limits: The development and use of factor-ceiling distributions for an urban assessment using macroinvertebrates

Lotic habitats in urban settings are often more modified than in other anthropogenically influenced areas. The extent, degree, and permanency of these modifications compromise the use of traditional reference-based study designs to evaluate the level of lotic impairment and establish restoration goals. Directly relating biological responses to the combined effects of urbanization is further compli
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J.L. Carter, S.V. Fend

Size evolution in Goodwin’s small-eared shrew, Cryptotis goodwini

Fossils of Cryptotis goodwini from Honduras indicate that body sizes of modern individuals average at least 18% larger than among members of the late Pleistocene population of this species. Palynological and other paleoenvironmental studies provide evidence that the Neotropical montane environments that these shrews inhabit were cooler and drier in the late Pleistocene than at present and support
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N. Woodman

Statistical approaches to the analysis of point count data: A little extra information can go a long way

Point counts are a standard sampling procedure for many bird species, but lingering concerns still exist about the quality of information produced from the method. It is well known that variation in observer ability and environmental conditions can influence the detection probability of birds in point counts, but many biologists have been reluctant to abandon point counts in favor of more intensi
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G.L. Farnsworth, J. D. Nichols, J.R. Sauer, S.G. Fancy, K. H. Pollock, S.A. Shriner, T.R. Simons

Status and conservation of the fish fauna of the Alabama River system

The Alabama River system, comprising the Alabama, Coosa, and Tallapoosa subsystems, forms the eastern portion of the Mobile River drainage. Physiographic diversity and geologic history have fostered development in the Alabama River system of globally significant levels of aquatic faunal diversity and endemism. At least 184 fishes are native to the system, including at least 33 endemic species.
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Mary C. Freeman, E.R. Irwin, N.M. Burkhead, B. J. Freeman, H.L. Bart