Part 1. Introduction
1: Laurie Vitt: Reptile diversity and life history
2: Robert N. Fisher: Planning and setting objectives in field
studies
3: Richard Seigel: Data collection and storage
Part 2. The Individual
4: John W. Ferner and Michael V. Plummer: Measuring and marking
reptiles
5: Roberto Sacchi, Stefano Scali, Marco Mangiacotti, Marco Sannolo,
Marco Alberto Luca Zuffi: Digital identification and analysis
6: Steve W. Gotte, Jeremy F. Jacobs, and George R. Zug: Preserving
specimens for additional study
7: Gunther Köhler: Reproduction
8: Luca Luiselli and Giovanni Amori: Diet
9: Bruce Kingsbury and Nathan J. Robinson: Movement patterns and
telemetry
Part 3. Sampling Reptiles
10: John D. Willson: Surface-dwelling reptiles: coverboards, drift
fences and arrays
11: Robert Henderson, Robert Powell, Jose Martín, and Pilar Lopez:
Arboreal and fossorial reptiles
12: Xavier Bonnet, Arne R. Rasmussen and François Brischoux: Sea
snakes
13: Richard Vogt: Freshwater turtles
14: Margaretha Hofmeyr and Brian Henen: Terrestrial turtles and
tortoises
15: Seth Stapleton and Karen Eckert: Sea turtles
16: Charlie Manolis and Matt Brien: Crocodilians
Part 4. Reptiles in the Community
17: Tiffany M. Doan: Plot and transect censuses
18: Indraneil Das: Rapid assessments of reptile diversity
19: Henry Mushinsky and Earl McCoy: Measuring microhabitats used by
non-avian reptiles
20: Christine Bishop: Water quality and toxicology
21: C. Kenneth Dodd, Jr.: Richness, diversity and similarity
22: Monika Böhm and Viorel D. Popescu: Landscape ecology,
biogeography and GIS methods
Part 5. Experimental Applications, Physiological Ecology,
Genetics
23: Stephen J. Mullin: Experimental applications
24: Keith Christian, Richard Tracy, and Christopher Tracy: Body
temperatures and the thermal environment
25: Nancy Fitzsimmons and Joanne Sumner: Genetics in field ecology
and conservation
Part 6. Trends Analysis and Conservation Options
26: Darryl MacKenzie: Occupancy models
27: Chris Sutherland and J. Andrew Royle: Estimating abundance
28: Elliott R. Jacobson: Disease, parasites, and biosecurity
protocols
29: David A. Pike: Conservation management of reptiles
30: Brian Gratwicke, Matthew Neff, Lindsay Renick Mayer, Sharon
Ryan, and Jennifer Sevin: Education and outreach
Shortlisted for the TWS Wildlife Publication Awards
Ken Dodd is currently Courtesy Associate Professor in the
Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at the University
of Florida. He has previously held positions at Mississippi State
University as Assistant Professor in 1975, Staff Herpetologist at
the Office of Endangered Species in the US Fish and Wildlife
Service from 1976 to 1984, and Research Zoologist at the US
Geological Survey from 1984 to 2007. He has published over 210
research and popular
articles, book reviews and book chapters and edited the Amphibian
volume in OUP's Techniques in Ecology and Conservation Series. He
is a past President of the Herpetologists' League and was Associate
Editor
for the Journal of Herpetology for over 8 years. His professional
interests are conservation biology, population ecology and
demography, monitoring vertebrate populations, sampling approaches,
and history of herpetology. Ken lives in Gainesville, Florida, with
his wife Marian Griffey and their 8 cats and numerous turtles.
The book not only contains a wealth of information, but is
extremely well produced. This is an important collection of methods
for all student of reptile ecology and conservation.
*Herpetological Review*
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