Vegetation, soils, and nutrients:

• A survey of the vegetation of the Boiling Springs Natural Area, South Carolina

• The case for the multispecies ecological system, with special reference to succession and stability

• Structure and function of an old-field broomsedge community

• An index to the rate of cellulose decomposition in the soil

• Energy values of ecological materials

• A comparison of variety and standing crop of vegetation on a one-year and a twelve-year abandoned field

• Potential activation analysis for the comparison of trace minerals in plant species

• Photosynthesis in seven old-field plants and the contributions of each to total community biomass

• Structure, stability and energy flow in plants and arthropods in a Sericea lespedeza stand

• Ecological importance of root/shoot ratios

• An ecological significance of evergreenness

• Root-shoot dry weights in loblolly pine

• Organic production and turnover in old field succession

• Relationships between structure and function in the ecosystem

• The new ecology

• Detritus as a major component of ecosystems

Insects/Invertebrates:

• Bioenergetics of the southern harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex badius

• Niche relations of three species of lycosid spiders

• Energy dynamics of the grasshopper populations in old field and alfalfa field ecosystems

• Estimation of insect population density in herbaceous vegetation with emphasis on removal sweeping

• Insect species in the herb stratum of a Sericea lespedeza stand, AEC Savannah River Project

• A comparison of some species-individuals diversity indices applied to samples of field insects

• Activity and density of old-field ants of the Savannah River Plant, South Carolina

• Forb-arthropod food chains in a one-year experimental field

• Population energy flow of three primary consumer components of old-field ecosystems

Birds:

• A determination of the caloric density and major body components of large birds

• The passenger pigeon: a study in the ecology of extinction

• Bioenergetics of the breeding cycle of the ring dove

• Preliminary estimation of energy flow in Uganda kob (Adenota kob thomasi Neumann)

• Attack behavior of a loggerhead shrike

• Daily and seasonal activity patterns of mourning doves on the AEC Savannah River Plant

• Daily and seasonal activity patterns of bobwhite quail on the AEC Savannah River Plant

• Fat-free weights of birds

• The eight-year trend in quail and dove call counts in the AEC Savannah River Plant area

• Breeding bird census: Two South Carolina censuses

• First record of the western meadowlark in South Carolina

• Sprague's pipit in Aiken County, South Carolina

• Density, racial composition, sociality, and selective predation in nonbreeding populations of Savannah sparrows

• A modification of the Miller method of aging live passerine birds

• A new method of preserving bird specimens

• Birds of the AEC Savannah River Plant area

• A preliminary study of subspecies of Savannah sparrows at the Savannah River Plant, South Carolina

• The use of mist nets in population studies of winter fringillids on the AEC Savannah River Area

• Measurement of territory and home range size in birds

• Premigratory hyperphagia in birds

• Gray kingbird in the interior of South Carolina

• Notes on fall plumages, weights, and fat condition in the ruby-throated hummingbird

• Weights and weight variations in summer birds from Georgia and South Carolina

Mammals:

• An investigation of competition in natural populations of mice

• Marsh rabbit development and ectoparasites.

• A precision energetics of the old-field mouse

• Interactions of Peromyscus and Mus in a one-acre field enclosure

• Natality in Peromyscus polionotus populations

• Structure of two Peromyscus polionotus populations in old-field ecosystems at the AEC Savannah River Plant

• Homing on the old-field mouse

• Invasion of a one-year abandoned field by Peromyscus polionotus and Mus musculus

• Dynamics of an enclosed population of pine mice, Microtus pinetorum

• Effect of weather on captures of small mammals

• An evaluation of the proposed International Biological Program census method for estimating small mammal populations

• The effect of weather on the winter activity of old-field rodents

• Effect of altitude and forest manipulation on relative abundance of small mammals

• Food habits and burrow associates of Peromyscus polionotus

• Anatomy of the digestive tract of Microtus

• Energy flow and secondary productivity. A Practical Guide to the Study of the Productivity of Large Grazing Herbivores

• Interaction of natality, mortality and movement during one annual cycle in a Microtus population

• Trap and bait preferences of cotton rats

• Methods of measuring secondary productivity in terrestrial vertebrate populations

• Secondary productivity in terrestrial communities

• Distribution and trap response of a small wild population of cotton rats (Sigmodon h. hispidus)

• The limiting effects of natural predation on experimental cotton rat populations

• Dispersal capacity of the dusky-footed woodrat, Neotoma fuscipes

• Mating behavior of Peromyscus polionotus

• Sex ratios in laboratory and field populations of the old-field mouse, Peromyscus polionotus

• A comparison of different methods of capturing and estimating numbers of mice

• Dispersal of the old-field mouse, Peromyscus polionotus

• Trap response and food availability

• Coat color and survival of displaced wild and laboratory reared old-field mice

• New technique for baiting snap traps

• A preliminary report on the examination of small mammal census methods

• Relationships of latitude, altitude, and body size to litter size and mean annual production of offspring in Peromyscus

• Number and variety of small mammals on the AEC Savannah River Plant

• Food intake and assimilation by bobcats under laboratory conditions

• The population status of the larger vertebrates on the Atomic Energy Commission Savannah River Plant site

• A nine-year history of furbearer populations on the AEC Savannah River Plant area

• Energy utilization in a captive silver-haired bat

Herps:

• A summer six-lined racerunner (Cnemidophorus sexlineatus) population in South Carolina

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Vegetation, soils, and nutrients:

• Natural resource inventory and characterization at the Savannah River National Environmental Research Park: an overview of program goals and design

• Nitrogen Uptake--apparent pattern during old field succession in southeastern U.S.

• Soil carbon balance in a successional grassland

• Root distribution and respiration in a Carolina old field

• Comparison of five techniques for the estimation of numbers and activity of bacteria in soil

• A colorimetric method for determining oxygen concentration in terrestrial situations

• Compartmental analysis of "total soil respiration": an exploratory study

• Effects of fire on nutrient movement in a South Carolina pine forest

• Effects of forest fires on atmospheric loads of soluble nutrients

• The principles of ecology as a frame of reference for ethical challenges: towards the development of an ecological theology

• Water stress in longleaf pine induced by litter removal

• Response of longleaf pine plantations to litter removal

• Population ecology of loblolly pine, Pinus taeda in an old-field community

• Developer--spare that tree!

• Correlations between concentrations of elements in plants

• Species, part and seasonal differences in sulfur concentrations in woody plants

• A systems model and simulations of calcium dynamics in a pine litter community

• Patterns of potassium, magnesium, and calcium uptake during southeastern old-field succession

• Multivariate perspectives on the ecology of plant mineral element composition

• An analysis of elemental concentrations in vegetation bordering a southeastern United States coastal plain stream

• Annual production and disappearance of detritus on three South Carolina old fields

• Litter production and energy accumulation in three plantations of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris)

• Nutrient cycles, nutrient limitation and vertebrate populations

• Energetics of the litter-soil subsystem

• Effects of species removal on an old-field plant community

• Population dynamics of two competing annual plant species

Insects/Invertebrates:

• The role of the Florida harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex badius, in old field mineral nutrient relationships

• Effects of shading on the migratory behavior of the Florida harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex badius

• Bioenergetics of the southern harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex badius

• Response to predation by colonies of the Florida harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex badius

• Litterbag studies of microarthropod populations in three South Carolina old fields

• Genic heterozygosity in the 13-year cicada, Magicicada

• Ecological significance of low oxygen consumption and high fat accumulation by Nasutitermes costalis (Isoptera: Termitidae)

• Quantification of fungus-small arthropod food chains in the soil

• Numbers and biomass of soil nematodes of two South Carolina old fields

Birds:

• Status report: the birds. First South Carolina Endangered Species Symposium

• Observations of the behavior and weight changes of two captive screech owls

• A determination of the caloric density and major body components of large birds

• Captive barn owls stockpile prey

• Shrike prey selection: Color or conspicuousness?

• Use of marked prey to study raptor predation

• Birds as agents of biological control

• Seasonal variation in foraging territory of red-cockaded woodpeckers

Mammals:

• Status report: the mammals. First South Carolina Endangered Species Symposium

Deer:

• Demographic differences in contiguous populations of white-tailed deer

• Prenatal selection in white-tailed deer

• Reproductive patterns, productivity and genetic variability in adjacent white-tailed deer populations

• Genetic subdivision in a herd of white-tailed deer as demonstrated by spatial shifts in gene frequencies

• Chemical composition of white-tailed deer: whole body concentrations of macro- and micronutrients

• Biochemical variation and genetic heterogeneity in South Carolina deer populations

Wild pigs:

• Morphological characterizations of two populations of feral swine

• Feral swine studies at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory: an overview of program goals and design

Small mammals:

• Movement by old field mice and population regulation

• Yearly fluctuations in small mammal populations in a Southeastern United States hardwood forest

• Seasonal abundance and movement of nine species of small mammals

• Reproductive patterns of some small mammals in South Carolina

• Effects of immigrants on the spatial structure of a small mammal community

• Quantitative comparison of populations with different age structures

• A determination of live-weight caloric conversion factors for laboratory mice

• Elemental flow and standing crops for small mammal populations

• Chemical composition of rodents: use of whole body concentrations for estimation of standing crops of elements

• Standing crops of elements and atomic ratios in a small mammal community

• Digestibility and elemental assimilation in cotton rats

• Response of a cotton rat population to increased density

• Avian versus mammalian predation on a population of cotton rats

• Population dynamics of cotton rats (Sigmodon hispidus) and meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) in field enclosures in South Carolina

• Biochemical genetics of sibling species of the cotton rat (Sigmodon)

• Selection patterns of corn snakes, Elaphe guttata, of different phenotypes of the house mouse, Mus musculus

• Competition between Mus musculus and Peromyscus polionotus

• Effects of temperature, radiation and sex on body composition in Peromyscus polionotus

• Food as a limiting factor in the population ecology of Peromyscus polionotus

• Pelage color polymorphism in Peromyscus polionotus

• Aspects of activity for Peromyscus polionotus using a sand-tracking technique

• Body temperature of the old-field mouse (Peromyscus polionotus) in and below the thermoneutral zone

• Relationships between aggressive behavior and genic heterozygosity in the oldfield mouse, Peromyscus polionotus

• Relationships between nest building and general activity in the oldfield mouse, Peromyscus polionotus

• Age structure of six populations of old-field mice, Peromyscus polionotus

• Phenologic influences on cohort-specific reproductive strategies in mice (Peromyscus polionotus)

• Adaptive coloration in Peromyscus polionotus: experimental selection by owls

• Biochemical polymorphism and systematics in the genus Peromyscus. VI. The boylii species group

• Biochemical polymorphism and systematics in the genus Peromyscus. VII. Geographic differentiation in members of the truei and maniculatus species groups

• Effects of age, sex, and pelage phenotype on the elemental composition of the old-field mouse

• Caloric density of the old-field mouse during postnatal growth

• Prediction of elemental content in the old-field mouse

• Differential predation on active and inactive prey by owls

• Concealing coloration: how is effectiveness of selection related to conspicuousness?

• The relative effectiveness of two types of snap traps

• An accurate method of determining age in small mammals

• Distances moved by small mammals as an apparent function of grid size

• Density Estimation of Small Mammal Populations

• Techniques and problems associated with a consecutive twenty-five year furbearer trapline census

• Determining density for small mammal populations using a grid and assessment lines

• Density estimation of small mammals: comparison of techniques utilizing removal trapping

• Use of assessment lines to estimate density of small mammals

• Use of live-trapping with the assessment line method for density estimation

• Relative efficiencies of four small mammal traps

• Proposals to test the density estimation techniques for small mammals living in temperate forest

• Field determination of energy flow in a small nocturnal mammal

• Ecological energetics of three species of ectothermic vertebrates

• Genic heterozygosity and population dynamics in small mammals

• Use of population genetics data for the management of fish and wildlife populations

• Spatial and temporal dynamics of the genetic organization of small mammal populations

Herps:

• Status report: the reptiles. First South Carolina Endangered Species Symposium

• A model for baseline studies of taxonomic groups: Based on "The Reptiles and Amphibians of the Savannah River Plant

• The reptiles and amphibians of the Savannah River Plant in west-central South Carolina

• The protein content of some common reptiles and amphibians

• Seasonal variations in the live weights and major body components of captive box turtles

• Relationships between body size, size of the fat bodies, and total lipid content in the canebrake rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) and the black racer (Coluber constrictor)

• Reproduction, growth and sexual dimorphism in the canebrake rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus atricaudatus)

• Ecology, abundance and seasonal activity of the scarlet snake, Cemophora coccinea

• Weight-length relationships in thirteen species of snakes in the southeastern United States

• Responses of captive-reared eastern kingsnakes (Lampropeltis getulus) to several prey odor stimuli

• Aging phenomena in reptiles: Special Review of Experimental Aging Research

• Herpetofaunal colonization patterns of Atlantic Coast barrier islands

• The distribution and evolution of viviparity in reptiles

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Vegetation, soils, and nutrients:

• The role of ecosystem models in environmental monitoring

• Science, planning, and the recovery of endangered plants

• Early University of Georgia Research, 1952-1962. The Savannah River and Its Environs

• Aquatic and terrestrial linkages: floodplain functions

• Tree life history strategies: the role of defenses

• Applying artificial intelligence techniques to ecological modeling

• Buddy, can you paradigm? Or: the search for a proper paradigm for monitoring ecosystem level impacts

• Errors of construction, evaluation, and inference: a classification of sources of error in ecological models

• Robust parameter estimation for nonlinear models

• Forest-level analysis of stability under exploitation: depensation responses and catastrophe theory

• Constraints on tree breeding: growth tradeoffs, growth strategies, and defensive investments

• Evolution: the missing ingredient in systems ecology

• Nutrient losses from sandy soils during old-field succession

• Phosphorus-micronutrient interaction effects on crop production

• Potential cation leaching losses following disturbance across a Southeastern coastal plain landscape gradient

• Sources of variation in mineral composition of selected plants inhabiting a floodplain at the Savannah River Plant

• Effects of litter alteration on carbon dioxide evolution from a South Carolina pine forest floor

• Bacterial secondary production on vascular plant detritus: relationships to detritus composition and degradation rate

• Effects of shade, litter and root competition on old-field vegetation in South Carolina

• Insect herbivory and photosynthetic pathways in old-field ecosystems

• Response of herb layer cover to experimental canopy gaps

• Response of big and little bluestem (Andropogon) seedlings to soil and moisture conditions

• Aerenchyma and lenticel formation in pine seedlings: a possible avoidance mechanism to anaerobic growth conditions

• Effects of anaerobic growth conditions on phosphorus tissue concentrations and absorption rates of southern pine seedlings

• Responses of Pinus clausa, Pinus serotina and Pinus taeda seedlings to anaerobic solution culture. I. Changes in growth and root morphology

• Factors affecting growth of Ptelea trifoliata seedlings

Insects/Invertebrates:

• Ant communities of southeastern longleaf pine plantations

• The relationship between wood litter infall and relative abundance and feeding activity of subterranean termites Reticulitermes spp. in three southeastern coastal plain habitats

• Foraging pattern, colony distribution and foraging range of the Florida harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex badius

• Observations on growth and diet of Argiope aurantia in a successional habitat

• Life history of the northern mole cricket, Neocurtilla hexadactyla utilizing Carolina-bay habitats

• Bourletiella (Bourletiella) gibbonsi, a new species from South Carolina (Collembola: Sminthuridae)

• Sminthurus carolinensis, new species from South Carolina (Collembola: Sminthuridae)

• Dicyrtoma (Ptenothrix) castanea, new species from the Savannah River Plant (Collembola: Dicyrtominae)

• Dicyrtoma (Ptenothrix) renateae, new species from the Savannah River Plant and Georgia (Collembola: Dicyrtominae)

• Sminthurus bivittatus, new species from the Southeastern United States (Collembola: Sminthuridae)

• Vesicephalus Crossleyi, new species from the Savannah River Plant and Georgia (Collembola: Sminthuridae)

Birds:

• Conservation genetics of endangered species

• Bald and Golden Eagles on the Savannah River Plant, South Carolina

• First nesting record for the Bald Eagle on the Savannah River Plant

• Survival of red-cockaded woodpecker nestlings unaffected by sampling blood and feather pulp for genetic studies

• Enhancement and inhibition of CELO virus pathogenicity in quail by avian adenovirus-associated virus

• Estimation and comparison of parameters in stochastic growth models for barn owls

• Lack of effects from sampling blood from small birds

Mammals:

General:

• Zoological parks and the conservation of wildlife: an overview of ecological and genetic principles

• Genetic variability and differentiation of large grazing mammals

• Influence of density on movement behavior and home range size of adult bobcats on the Savannah River Plant

• Pre and post dispersal movement behavior of subadult bobcats on the Savannah River Plant

• Food-caching behaviour of captive-reared red foxes

• Occurrence of the nine-banded armadillo, Dasypus novemcinctus, in South Carolina

• An evaluation of total trapline captures as estimates of furbearer abundance

Deer:

• Assessment of fawn breeding in a South Carolina deer herd

• Factors affecting the number of fetuses in a white-tailed deer herd

• Factors affecting productivity of a white-tailed deer herd

• Habitat, group size, and the behaviour of white-tailed deer

• Factors influencing diet selection by white-tailed deer

• Optimization strategies in a deer harvest program

• Demographic and genetic characteristics of white-tailed deer populations subjected to still or dog hunting

• Age, condition, and genetic effects on incidence of spike bucks

• Evening activities and nearest-neighbor distances in free-ranging white-tailed deer

• The possible communicative role of tail-flicking in white-tailed deer

• The influence of habitat and group characteristics on the alarm and flight response of white-tailed deer

• Environmental and genetic components of antler growth in white-tailed deer

• Factors affecting the analysis of growth patterns of large mammals

• Reproductive characteristics of yearling and adult male white-tailed deer

• Morphological comparisons of insular and mainland populations of southeastern white-tailed deer

• Fat levels in female white-tailed deer during the breeding season and pregnancy

• Fat levels in male white-tailed deer during the breeding season

• Effects of sex, age, habitat and body weight on kidney weight in white-tailed deer

• Annual cycle of the kidney fat index in a Southeastern white-tailed deer herd

• Kidney fat as a predictor of body condition in white-tailed deer

• Population genetics. White-Tailed Deer

• Genetic variability in white-tailed deer

• Large mammals are genetically less variable?

• Influences of genetic variability and maternal factors on fetal growth in white-tailed deer

• Relationship of genetic variation to growth and reproduction in the white-tailed deer

• Effective population size, generation interval, and potential loss of genetic variability in game species under different hunting regimes

• Genetics and antler development. Global Trends in Wildlife Management

• Genetic variability and antler growth in a natural population of white-tailed deer

• Spatial, temporal, and age-dependent heterozygosity of beta-hemoglobin in white-tailed deer

• Genetic variability among natural populations of the liver fluke Fascioloides magna in white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus

• Intraspecific phylogeography: the mitochondrial DNA bridge between population genetics and systematics

• DNA fingerprints from hypervariable mitochondrial genotypes

Small mammals:

• Differential rates of aging in natural populations of old-field mice (Peromyscus polionotus)

• Genetic evidence for long-term monogamy in a small rodent, Peromyscus polionotus

• Reproduction by Peromyscus polionotus: number, size, and survival of offspring

• Food as a limiting factor and selective agent for genic heterozygosity in the cotton mouse Peromyscus gossypinus

• Biochemical polymorphism and its relationship to chromosomal and morphological variation in Peromyscus leucopus and Peromyscus gossypinus

• Multiple captures of Peromyscus leucopus: social behavior in a small rodent

• Fluctuating asymmetry and genetic variability in a natural population of Mus musculus

• Genetic variability with Blarina carolinensis, and among three sympatric species of shrews (Insectivora: Soricidae)

• Body condition, elemental balance, and parasitism in cotton rats

• Effects of food availability on trap response of the hispid cotton rat, Sigmodon hispidus

• Factors affecting distribution and removal rates of small mammals in a lowland swamp forest

Wild pigs:

• Genetic variability and domestication in swine

• Body fat reserves and their prediction in two populations of feral swine

• Feral animals and zoological parks: conservation concerns for a neglected component of the world's biodiversity

• A note on the scent-marking behavior of two captive-reared feral boars

• Sex identification of Sus scrofa based on canine morphology

• Temporal dynamics of color phenotypes in an isolated population of feral swine

• Indirect estimation of the digestible energy in the diets of swine by post-mortem analyses of digesta

Herps:

General:

• Terrestrial drift fences with pitfall traps: An effective technique for quantitative sampling of animal populations

• The management of amphibians, reptiles and small mammals in North America: the need for an environmental attitude adjustment

• Herpetology at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory

• Proximate and evolutionary constraints on energy relations of reptiles

• Energy budgets and life histories of reptiles

Terrestrial salamanders:

• Geographic and local variation in population parameters of the slimy salamander Plethodon glutinosus

Lizards:

• Strike-induced chemosensory searching occurs in lizards

• Social significance of ventrolateral coloration in the fence lizard, Sceloporus undulatus

• Aggregation in the broad-headed skink (Eumeces laticeps)

• "Female sex pheromone in the lizard Eumeces laticeps

• Discrimination of male conspecific from male heterospecific odors by male scincid lizards (Eumeces laticeps)

• Lingual responses to chemical fractions of urodaeal glandular pheromone of the skink Eumeces laticeps

• Induction of sexual receptivity in the female broad-headed skink, Eumeces laticeps by estradiol-17b

• Induction of orange head coloration and activation of courtship and aggression by testosterone in the male broad-headed skink (Eumeces laticeps)

• Conspecific odor detection by the male broad-headed skink, Eumeces laticeps: effects of sex and site of odor source and of male reproductive condition

• Detection of conspecific odors by the female broad-headed skink, Eumeces laticeps

• Blue tails and autonomy: enhancement of predation avoidance in juvenile skinks

• Interspecific odour discrimination by a lizard (Eumeces laticeps)

• Interspecific odour discriminations among syntopic congeners in scincid lizards (genus Eumeces)

• Lizard pheromones: behavioral responses and adaptive significance in skinks of the genus Eumeces

• Thermal dependence of tongue-flicking and comments on the use of tongue-flicking as an index of squamate behavior

• Tracking of female conspecific odor trails by male broad-headed skinks (Eumeces laticeps)

• Deferred agonistic behavior in a long-lived scincid lizard Eumeces laticeps

• Ethological isolation, sexual behavior and pheromones in the Fasciatus species group of the lizard genus Eumeces

• Intraspecific and interspecific aggression in lizards of the scincid genus Eumeces: chemical detection of conspecific sexual competitors

• Orange head coloration of the male broad-headed skink (Eumeces laticeps) a sexually selected social cue

• Prey odor discrimination by the broad-headed skink (Eumeces laticeps)

• Sexual dimorphism of head and body size in an iguanid lizard: paradoxical results

• Natural nest sites and brooding behavior of Eumeces fasciatus

• Feeding responses of skinks (Eumeces laticeps) to velvet ants (Dasymutilla occidentalis)

• The evolution of sexual dimorphism in the skink Eumeces laticeps: an example of sexual selection

• The relationship between reproduction and lipid cycling in the skink Eumeces laticeps with comments on brooding ecology

• Foraging and diet of a diurnal predator (Eumeces laticeps) feeding on hidden prey

• Skink reproduction and sexual dimorphism: Eumeces fasciatus in the southeastern United States, with notes on Eumeces inexpectatus

• Tail loss, tail color and predator escape in Eumeces: age-specific differences in costs and benefits

• Maternal care in skinks (Eumeces)

Snakes:

• Relationships among body size, clutch size, and egg size in three species of oviparous snakes

• Activity patterns. Snakes: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

• Ecological patterns of relative clutch mass in snakes

• Reduction in locomotor ability as a cost of reproduction in gravid snakes

• Rhadinaea flavilata (Pine Wood Snake)

• Habitat utilization, seasonal activity, and population size structure of the southeastern crowned snake (Tantilla coronata)

• Ecology of the redbelly snake (Storeria occipitomaculata) using mesic habitats in South Carolina

• Strike-induced chemosensory searching in the colubrid snakes Elaphe g. guttata and Thamnophis sirtalis

• Variation in snout morphology in the North American snake Pituophis melanoleucus

• Notes on turtle egg predation by Lampropeltis getulus on the Savannah River Plant, South Carolina

Terrestrial turtles:

• Overwintering activity of box turtles (Terrapene carolina) in South Carolina

• An assessment of factors associated with the daytime use of resting forms by eastern box turtles (Terrapene carolina carolina)

• Gas exchange during hypoxia and hypercarbia of terrestrial turtles: a comparison of a fossorial species (Gopherus  polyphemus) with a sympatric nonfossorial species (Terrapene carolina)

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General:

• Lands for long-term research in conservation biology

• The National Environmental Research Park:  A new model for federal land use

• The Savannah River Site as a National Environmental Research Park

• Landscape habitat diversity: a multiscale information theory approach

• Spatially explicit population models: current forms and future uses

• Statistical issues for field experimenters. Wildlife Ecology and Population Modeling: Integrated Studies of Agroecosystems

• Sensitivity analysis of structure population models for management and conservation. Structured-population models in marine, terrestrial, and freshwater systems

• Sampling ecological information: choice of sample size, reconsidered

• Measuring trends in ecological resources

Vegetation, soils, and nutrients:

• Coarse woody debris and woody seedling recruitment in southeastern forests

• Integrating ecological concepts with natural resource management of southern forests

• Transport of dissolved organic matter through a sandy forest soil

• Physicochemical controls on non-conservative anion migration in coarse-textured alluvial sediments

• Limited invasion and reproduction of loblolly pines in a large South Carolina old field

• Seed-seedling conflicts, habitat choice, and patterns of plant recruitment

• Molecular dynamics modeling of clay minerals. 1. gibbsite, kaolinite, pyrophyllite, and beidellite

• Molecular dynamics simulations of sorption of organic compounds at the clay mineral/aqueous solution interface

• Retardation of fluorobenzoate tracers in highly weathered soil and groundwater systems

• Chemical controls on colloid generation and transport in a sandy aquifer

• Ionic tracer movement through highly weathered sediments

• Characterization of colloids mobilized from Southeastern coastal plain sediments

• Role of soil chemistry in soil remediation and ecosystem conservation

• Hurricane impacts on liana populations in an old-growth southeastern bottomland forest

• Post-hurricane vegetation dynamics in old-growth forests of Congaree Swamp National Monument

• Early secondary succession in a southeastern U.S. alluvial floodplain

• Effects of natural disturbance on bottomland hardwood regeneration

• Quantity, quality and the effectiveness of seed dispersal by animals

• Patterns of seedling and overstory composition along a gradient of hurricane disturbance in an old-growth bottomland hardwood community

• Soil heterogeneity effects on canopy structure and composition during early succession

• Soil resource heterogeneity effects on early succession

• Spatial distribution of forbs and grasses in a South Carolina oldfield

• Water relations and growth of Heterotheca subaxillaris in different soil and watering treatments in the greenhouse

• Mass allocation and self-burial of Aristida tuberculosa florets

• Understory vines: distribution and relation to environment on a southern mixed hardwood site

• Photosynthesis and water-use efficiency of two sandhill oaks following additions of water and nutrients

• Effects of herbivory on growth and biomass allocation in native and introduced species of Lonicera

• Age structure and possible origins of old Pinus taeda stands in a floodplain forest

• Factors affecting limited reproduction by loblolly pine in a large old field

• Indications of relative drought stress in longleaf pine from thematic mapper data

• Deforestation, reforestation and forest fragmentation on the upper coastal plain of South Carolina and Georgia

• A null model for neighborhood models of plant competitive interactions

• Selecting a sampling method for weed densities: The case of weed removal in strips

• When does the spatial pattern of weeds matter? Predictions from neighborhood models

Insects/Invertebrates:

• Ethical obligations toward insect pests

• Relationship of habitat age to phenology among ground-dwelling linyphiidae (Araneae) in the southeastern United States

• Corresponding development of plant and phytophagous orthopteran communities during southeastern old-field succession

• Helminth communities of amphibians and reptiles: comparative approaches to understanding patterns and processes

• Comparative population genetic structure of a parasite (Fascioloides magna) and its definitive host

• Parasitism and white-tailed deer: timing and components of female reproduction

 Birds:

• The effect of cover and food on space use by wintering song sparrows and field sparrows

• Genetic structure among subpopulations of the eastern wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris)

• Regional differences in habitat occupancy by Bachman's sparrow

• Patch isolation, corridor effects, and colonization by a resident sparrow in a managed pine woodland

• Resource defense by a migrating song sparrow

• Genic differentiation among avian populations. Birds as Indicators of Global Change

• Genetic variation and population structure of red-cockaded woodpeckers

• Potential effects of a forest management plan on Bachman's sparrows (Aimophila aestivalis): Linking a spatially explicit model with GIS

• Genetic structure of reintroduced wild turkey and white-tailed deer populations

• Genetic variation, morphology, and age structure in wild turkeys

• Influences of fragmentation and bottlenecks on genetic divergence of wild turkey populations

Herps:

• Management of the desert tortoise and other reptiles and amphibians: Time for an environmental attitude adjustment

• Reproductive patterns of reptiles and amphibians: considerations for captive breeding and conservation

• Changes in amphibian biodiversity associated with 25 years of pine forest regeneration: implications for biodiversity management

• The use of coverboards in estimating patterns of reptile and amphibian biodiversity

• Perceptions of species abundance, distribution, and diversity: lessons from four decades of sampling on a government-managed reserve

• Confirmation of range extension for the pine woods snake, Rhadinaea flavilata

• Oviductal anatomy and seasonal sperm storage in the southeastern crowned snake (Tantilla coronata)

• Female reproductive biology of the southeastern crowned snake (Tantilla coronata)

• Male reproductive biology of the southeastern crowned snake (Tantilla coronata)

• Survival, weight changes, and shedding frequencies of captive scarlet snakes, Cemophora coccinea, maintained on an artificial liquid diet

• A neglected life-history trait: clutch size variance in snakes

• Winter mortality in the Green Anole, Anolis carolinensis

• Structure and use of male territorial headbob signals by the lizard, Anolis carolinensis

• Morphological characteristics of the lizard, Anolis carolinensis, from South Carolina

• Behavioural, thermal, and metabolic characteristics of a wintering lizard (Anolis carolinensis) from South Carolina

• Behavioral profile of free-ranging male lizards, Anolis carolinensis, across breeding and post-breeding seasons

• Size-related habitat use by  non-breeding Anolis carolinensis lizards

• Effects of supplemental feeding and thermal environment on growth rates of eastern fence lizards, Sceloporus undulatus

• Chemical detection of predators by a lizard, the broad-headed skink (Eumeces laticeps)

• Elevation in tongue-flick rate after biting prey in the broad-headed skink, Eumeces laticeps

• Tree selection by the broad-headed skink, Eumeces laticeps: size, holes, and cover

• Female mate choice of large male broad-headed skinks

• Tree and substrate selection in the semi-arboreal scincid lizard Eumeces laticeps

• Locomotor impairment and defense in gravid lizards (Eumeces laticeps): behavioral shift in activity may offset costs of reproduction in an active forager

• Heterodon platirhinos (Eastern hognose snake) diet

• Natural history of the scarlet kingsnake Lampropeltis triangulum elapsoides in South Carolina

• Patterns of feces production in free-living green snakes, Opheodrys aestivus

• High predation on green snakes, Opheodrys aestivus

• Population ecology of green snakes (Opheodrys aestivus) revisited

• Radiotelemetric study of activity and movements of racers (Coluber constrictor) associated with a Carolina bay in South Carolina

• Rates of metabolism and water flux in free-ranging racers, Coluber constrictor

Mammals:

General:

• Seasonal home range size and movement behavior of the gray fox on the Savannah River Site, South Carolina

• Sternal odors as cues for social discrimination by female Virginia opossums, Didelphis virginiana

• Odors as cues for orientation to mothers by weanling Virginia opossums

• Sodium provision and wild cottontail rabbits: morphological change in adrenal glands

• Growth of cottontail rabbits (Sylvilagus floridanus) in response to ancillary sodium

• Kleptoparasitism of a river otter, Lutra canadensis, by a bobcat, Felis rufus, in South Carolina

Small mammals:

• Why are female small mammals territorial?

• Food and ectoparasites of the southern short-tailed shrew, Blarina carolinensis, from South Carolina

• Food quality, heterozygosity, and fitness correlates in Peromyscus polionotus

• Pelage coloration in oldfield mice (Peromyscus polionotus): antipredator adaptation?

• Effects of landscape spatial structure on movement patterns of the hispid cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus)

• Allozyme variation in the cotton mouse (Peromyscus gossypinus)

• Trap height and capture success of arboreal small mammals: evidence from southern flying squirrels (Glaucomys volans)

• Utilization of a habitat mosaic by cotton rats during a population decline

• Age determination, age structure, and longevity in the mole, Scalopus aquaticus

• Genetic variation in a subterranean mammal, Scalopus aquaticus

• Seasonal effects on sex ratios in moles collected by trapping

• Estimating population density of moles Scalopus aquaticus using assessment lines

• Testing the individual odour theory of canine olfaction

Wild pigs:

• Distinguishing feral hogs from introduced wild boar and their hybrids: a review of past and present efforts

• Introduced and feral pigs: problems, policy, and priorities

• Evaluation of molar size as a basis for distinguishing wild boar from domestic swine:  Employing the present to decipher the past

• Conservation priorities for wild pigs: development of a strategic plan for North American zoos

• A consideration of feral swine (Sus scrofa) as a component of conservation concerns and research priorities for the suidae

• Conservation of the wild ancestors of domestic animals

Deer:

• Influence of gene flow and breeding tactics on gene diversity within populations

• Relativity of behavioral interactions in socially structured populations

• Effective sizes for subdivided populations

• Evolution of mammalian social structure

• Effective population sizes with multiple paternity

• Influence of sex, habitat and genotype on the growth patterns of white-tailed deer

• Strategies for population reintroduction: effects of genetic variability on population growth and size

• Genetic considerations in the design of introduction programs

• Influence of genetic variability on population growth: implications for conservation

• Effects of population bottlenecks on genetic diversity as measured by allozyme electophoresis

• Population genetics meets behavioral ecology

• Decrease in body size of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) during the late Holocene in South Carolina and Georgia

• Genetic perspectives in wildlife management: the case of large herbivores

• Influence of density on growth of white-tailed deer

• The association between heterozygosity and growth of deer fetuses is not explained by effects of the loci examined

• Multilocus heterozygosity and reproductive characteristics in male white-tailed deer

• Multilocus heterozygosity, body condition, and reproductive characteristics in male white-tailed deer fawns

• Parasitism and mate competition: liver flukes in white-tailed deer

• Prenatal reproductive losses in white-tailed deer. The Biology of Deer

• Genetic concepts for habitat conservation: the transfer and maintenance of genetic variation

• Relationships between heterozygosity and conception date in white-tailed deer from South Carolina

• Frequency distribution of conception dates in a white-tailed deer herd

• Spatial-genetic variation in a white-tailed deer herd

• Genetic variability and antler development. Horns, Pronghorns, and Antlers

• Spatial and temporal variability of microgeographic  genetic structure in white-tailed deer

• Morphological asymmetry in mammals: genetics and homeostasis reconsidered

• Catch-effort estimation of white-tailed deer population size

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