Wetland processes:

• The use of carbon dioxide to construct pH curves for the measurement of productivity

• The pattern of autotrophic succession in laboratory microcosms

• Measuring the carbon dioxide metabolism of aquatic organisms

• The microcosm approach to ecosystem biology

• The pattern of photosynthesis and respiration in laboratory microecosystems

• Directions for the determination of changes in carbon dioxide concentration from changes in pH

Wetland plants:

• Evaluation of some common aquatic weeds as possible feedstuffs

• Fresh-water plants: a potential source of protein

• Some aspects of aquatic plant ecology

• The nutritive value of three species of water weeds

• Weight loss of cellulose and aquatic macrophytes in a Carolina bay

Wetland animals:

• Anisopteran odonata of the Savannah River Plant, South Carolina

• Dietary shift in the turtle Pseudemys scripta from youth to maturity

• Seasonal incidence of parasitism in the painted turtle, Chrysemys picta marginata

• Possible underwater thermoregulation by turtles

• Variation in growth rates in three populations of the painted turtle, Chrysemys picta

• Growth rates of the common snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina

• Ecology and population dynamics of the chicken turtle, Deirochelys reticularia

• Evidence of orientation by turtles

• Reproductive variation between turtle populations in a single geographic area

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Wetland processes:

• Nutrient limiting factors in an oligotrophic South Carolina pond

• Influence of organic matter on some characteristics of aquatic soils

• Amounts and spectral properties of dissolved organic compounds from some freshwaters of the southeastern U.S.

• A pH-carbon dioxide method for measuring aquatic primary productivity

Wetland plants:

• The limnological role of aquatic macrophytes and their relationship to reservoir management

• Amino acid, protein, and caloric content of vascular aquatic macrophytes

• Chemical analyses of some vascular plants

• Factors influencing shoot production and mineral nutrient levels in Typha latifolia

• Losses of mineral nutrients during decomposition of Typha latifolia

• Production, mineral accumulation and pigment concentrations in Typha latifolia and Scirpus americanus

• Genetic variation among Typha populations of the southeastern United States

• The dynamics of dry matter and chemical substances in a Juncas effusus population

• Nutritive quality of food in ecological systems

• Relationships between production, nutrient accumulation, and chlorophyll synthesis in an Eleocharis quadrangulata population

• Variation in the elemental content of Eichhornia crassipes

• Relationships between cell-wall fractions, nitrogen and standing crop in aquatic macrophytes

• Carnivorous pathway of phosphorus uptake by Utricularia inflata

Wetland animals:

• A method for comparing individual growth rates of aquatic insects with special reference to the Odonata

• Dragonfly production and prey turnover

• Comparative dynamics and life histories of coexisting dragonfly populations

• Determination of anuran terrestrial activity patterns by a drift fence method

• Y-axis orientation of the oak toad, Bufo quercicus

• Orientation of bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana) during metamorphosis

• Somatic and gametic dry matter and protein in gravid females of several amphibian species

• Life history aspects of paedogenic populations of the mole salamander, Ambystoma talpoideum

• A key to the tadpoles of the continental United States and Canada

• Selected aspects of the life history of the rainbow snake (Farancia erytrogramma)     

• The influence of temperature on ecdysis rates in snakes (genus Natrix)

• Reproductive allocation in the brown water snake, Natrix taxispilota

• Notes on the terrestrial wintering of mud turtles (Kinosternon subrubrum)

• Selected aspects of the ecology of the chicken turtle, Deirochelys reticularia

• Ecological and life history aspects of the cooter, Chrysemys floridana

• Terrestrial activity in aquatic turtles

• Sex ratios in turtles

• Variability in clutch size in aquatic chelonians

• Terrestrial activity and the population dynamics of aquatic turtles

• Unusual population size structure in freshwater turtles on barrier islands

• The evolutionary significance of delayed emergence from the nest by hatchling turtles

• X-ray photography: A technique to determine reproductive patterns of freshwater turtles

• A new technique for live trapping of nuisance alligators

• Feeding ecology of wood ducks in South Carolina

• Age-specific changes in the major body components and caloric values of growing wood ducks

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Wetland processes:

• The ecology of southeastern shrub bogs (pocosins) and Carolina bays: A community profile

• Sources of complexity in wetland mitigation

• Mitigating for large-scale wetland loss: a realist endeavor?

• In-kind mitigation for wetland loss: statement of ecological issues and evaluation of examples

• Mapping of thermally altered wetlands using high resolution multispectral scanner data

• Nontidal wetland mapping in South Carolina using airborne multispectral scanner data

• Remote sensing inland wetlands: a multispectral approach

• Cypress root decomposition in experimental wetland mesocosms

Wetland plants:

• The effect of seed size and maternal source on individual size in a population of Ludwigia leptocarpa

• Population dynamics of Ludwigia leptocarpa and some factors affecting size hierarchies in a natural population

Wetland animals:

Invertebrates:

• Zooplankton production in a Carolina bay

• Analyzing population dynamics of zooplankton

• Cladoceran birth and death rates estimates: experimental comparisons of egg-ratio methods

• Effects of food limitation on growth and reproduction of Daphnia

• Trophic relations in a temporary pond: larval salamanders and their microinvertebrate prey

Amphibians:

• Terrestrial activity, abundance and diversity of amphibians in differently managed forest types

• Influence of wetland hydroperiod on diversity and abundance of metamorphosing juvenile amphibians

• Interactions between fish and salamander larvae

• Predator-prey relationships among larval dragonflies, salamanders, and frogs

• Diel pattern of migratory activity for several species of pond-breeding salamanders

• Experimental analysis of predation on the diel vertical migrations of a larval salamander

• Terrestrial movements of an Eastern tiger salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum

• Burrowing ability and behavior of salamanders of the genus Ambystoma

• Terrestrial activity and summer home range of the mole salamander (Ambystoma talpoideum)

• Ontogenetic changes in predatory behavior of larval tiger salamanders (Ambystoma tigrinum)

• Basis of selective predation by the aquatic larvae of the salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum

• A comparative study of topographical orientation in Ambystoma

• Structure and dynamics of two breeding populations of the eastern tiger salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum

• Determinants of nest success in the marbled salamander (Ambystoma opacum)

• Olfaction as an orientation mechanism in migrating Ambystoma maculatum

• Analysis of climatic factors influencing migrations of the salamander Ambystoma talpoideum

• Relationship of pond drying to the reproductive success of the salamander Ambystoma talpoideum

• Phenotypic variation in metamorphosis and paedomorphosis in the salamander Ambystoma talpoideum

• Reproductive strategy of a facultatively paedomorphic salamander Ambystoma talpoideum

• Growth and metamorphosis of larval dwarf salamanders (Eurycea quadridigitata)

• Allotopic distribution of two salamanders: Effects of fish predation and competitive interactions

• Breeding migrations, population size structure, and reproduction of the dwarf salamander, Eurycea quadridigitata, in South Carolina

• Time and size at metamorphosis related to adult fitness in Ambystoma talpoideum       

• Prey of the dwarf salamander, Eurycea quadridigitata in South Carolina

• Selection of egg deposition sites: a seasonal shift in the southern leopard frog, Rana sphenocephala

• Demography and life history of two species of chorus frogs in South Carolina

• Anaerobic metabolism during intense swimming by anuran larvae

• Disruptive selection: a tail color polymorphism in Acris tadpoles in response to differential predation

• Amplexus displacement in the southern toad, Bufo terrestris

• Fish predation in size-structured populations of treefrog tadpoles

• Effects of density on growth, metamorphosis, and survivorship in tadpoles of Scaphiopus holbrooki

• Call site selection in a hybrid population of treefrogs

• Diel activity patterns in the breeding migrations of winter-breeding anurans

• Directional introgression of mitochondrial DNA in a hybrid population of tree frogs: the influence of mating behavior

• Morphological variability in genetically defined categories of anuran hybrids

Aquatic snakes:

• Annual emergence of juvenile mud snakes (Farancia abacura) at aquatic habitats

• Water permeability of the skin of the amphibious snake, Agkistrodon piscivorus

• Body size dimorphism and sexual selection in two species of water snakes

Aquatic turtles:

• Reproductive patterns in freshwater turtles

• Survivorship and longevity of a long-lived vertebrate species: How long do turtles live?

• Why do turtles live so long?

• Drought-related responses of aquatic turtle populations

• Variation in reproductive characteristics of aquatic turtles

• How to get blood from a turtle

• Biomass of freshwater turtles: A geographic comparison

• Egg components and utilization during development in aquatic turtles

• Habitat suitability index models: Slider turtle

• Significance of activity and movement in the yellow-bellied slider turtle (Pseudemys scripta)

• Effects of food availability and water temperature on the feeding ecology of pond sliders (Chrysemys s. scripta)

• Variation in age and size at maturity of the slider turtle (Pseudemys scripta)

• Relationships of reproductive characteristics to body size in Pseudemys scripta

• Genetic divergence among populations of the yellow-bellied slider turtle (Pseudemys scripta) separated by aquatic and terrestrial habitats

• Genetic differentiation among local populations of the yellow-bellied slider turtle (Pseudemys scripta)

• Lack of largemouth bass predation on hatchling turtles (Trachemys scripta)

• Egg components and reproductive characteristics of turtles: Relationships to body size

• Morphological constraint on egg size: a challenge to optimal egg size theory?

• Biomass productivity of turtles in freshwater wetlands: a geographic comparison

• Parental investment in the chicken turtle (Deirochelys reticularia)

• Blood gases, hematocrit, plasma ion concentrations, and acid-base status of musk turtles (Sternotherus odoratus) during simulated hibernation

• Timing of reproductive behaviour in male musk turtles, Sternotherus odoratus: effects of photoperiod, temperature and testosterone

• Reproductive characteristics and ecology of the mud turtle, Kinosternon subrubrum

• The striped mud turtle (Kinosternon bauri) in South Carolina: a confirmation through multivariate character analysis

• Geographic variation in the seasonal activity cycle of spotted turtles, Clemmys guttata

• Cardiovascular and other physiological correlates of hibernation in aquatic and terrestrial turtles

• Ash content: relationships to flexible and rigid eggshell types of turtles

• Digestive turnover rates in freshwater turtles: the influence of temperature and body size

• A reliable radio-telemetry tracking system suitable for studies of chelonians

• Winter feeding by aquatic turtles in a Southeastern reservoir

Wetland Birds:

• The ecology and conservation of storks

• Storks: status, conservation and captive breeding

• Creation of artificial foraging habitat for wood storks

• Foraging and breeding ecology of wood storks in East-Central Georgia

• Overwintering locations of wood storks captured in East-central Georgia

• Foraging flight characteristics of wood storks in East-central Georgia, USA

• Remote sensing of wetland habitat: a wood stork example

• Monitoring wood stork foraging habitat using remote sensing and geographic information systems

• Mapping of wood stork foraging habitat with satellite data

• Notes on Wood Storks in east-central Georgia

• Incubating wood duck and hooded merganser hens killed by black rat snakes

• Energetic consequences of sexual size dimorphism in nestling red-winged blackbirds

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Wetland processes:

• Pocosins and Carolina Bays. Southern Forested Wetlands Ecology and Management

• Carolina bay geoarchaeology and holocene landscape evolution on the upper coastal plain of South Carolina

• Pocosins, Carolina bays, and mountain bogs. Biodiversity of the Southeastern United States

• The influence of topography on the nature of humic substances in soil organic matter at a site in the Atlantic coastal plain of South Carolina

• Evaluating wetland losses with hydric soils

• Spatial characteristics of soil properties in a Carolina bay wetland

• Relationships between precipitation and surface water chemistry in three Carolina bays

• The water chemistry of Carolina bays: A regional survey

• New constraints on the evolution of Carolina bays from ground-penetrating radar

• When is a depression wetland a Carolina bay?

• Hydrology of a Carolina bay located on the upper coastal plain of western South Carolina

Wetland plants:

• Vegetation changes and land-use legacies of depression wetlands of the western coastal plain of South Carolina: 1951-1992

• Growth in controlled water regimes of three grasses common in freshwater wetlands of the southeastern USA

• Vegetation disturbance and maintenance of diversity in intermittently flooded Carolina bays in South Carolina

• Seed banks of Carolina bays: Potential contributions from surrounding landscape vegetation

• Seed buoyancy and viability of the wetland milkweed Asclepias perennis and an upland milkweed, Asclepias exaltata

• Seedbank and vegetation of a constructed wetland

• Variation in survival and biomass of two wetland grasses at different nutrient and water levels over a six week period

• Competition between native and immigrant Polygonum congeners

• The history of Murdannia keisak in the southeastern United States

• The relationship of light and plant geometry to self-thinning of an aquatic annual herb, Murdannia keisak

• Population structure, biomass allocation, and phenotypic plasticity in Murdannia keisak

• Distribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in stands of the wetland grass Panicum hemitomon along a wide hydrologic gradient

Wetland animals:

• Management and Conservation of Amphibians and Reptiles

• Preface: Herpetological research at a National Environmental Research Park

Invertebrates:

• An introduction to freshwater wetlands in North America and their invertebrates. Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands of North America: Ecology and Management

• Carolina bays:  ecology of aquatic invertebrates and perspectives on conservation

• Bacterial use of dissolved organic carbon from Carolina bays

• Bacterial diversity of a carolina bay as determined by 16S rRNA gene analysis: confirmation of novel taxa

• Optimal resource allocation in cladocerans

• Zooplankton in Rainbow Bay, a Carolina bay pond: population dynamics in a temporary habitat

• Hatching of Diaptomus stagnalis eggs from a temporary pond after a prolonged dry period

• To grow or not to grow: optimal resource allocation for Daphnia

• Optimal adult growth of Daphnia in a seasonal environment

• Lipid analysis of Aglaodiaptomus stagnalis and their desiccation resistant diapause eggs

• Aglaodiaptomus atomicus, a new species from freshwater wetland ponds in South Carolina, U.S.A., and a redescription of A. saskatchewanensis

• New occurrences of Eurytemora affinis and Epischura fluviatilis, freshwater calanoid copepod species of the family Temoridae, in South Carolina

• Relative nutritional value of ciliate protozoa and algae as food for Daphnia

• Distribution of diatoms among intermittent ponds on the Atlantic Coastal Plain: development of a model to predict drought periodicity from surface- sediment assemblages

• Emergence and dynamics of cyclopoid copepods in an unpredictable environment

• Abundance, biomass and production of aquatic invertebrates in Rainbow Bay, a temporary wetland in South Carolina , USA

• Insect emergence from a South Carolina (USA) temporary wetland pond, with emphasis on the chironomidae (diptera)

• Species richness of Calanoid copepods, cladocerans and other branchiopods in Carolina bay and temporary ponds

Fish:

• Factors affecting the occurrence and structure of fish assemblages in isolated wetlands of the Upper Coastal Plain, USA.

Amphibians:

• Structure and dynamics of an amphibian community: evidence from a 16-year study of a natural pond

• Intraspecific heterochrony and life history evolution: decoupling somatic and sexual development in a facultatively paedomorphic salamander

• Use of large field enclosures to study the terrestrial ecology of pond-breeding amphibians

• Declining amphibian populations: The problem of separating human impacts from natural fluctuations

• Putting declining amphibian populations in perspective: natural fluctuations and human impacts

• Detecting trends in species composition

• Relationships of lipids to ovum size in amphibians

• Morphological asymmetry and interspecific hybridization: a case study using hylid frogs

• Sexual selection in American toads: a test of a good-genes hypothesis

• Effect of changes in resource level on age and size at metamorphosis in Hyla squirella

• Genetic correlates of fitness in the green treefrog, Hyla cinerea

• Genetic heterozygosity and reproductive success in the green treefrog, Hyla cinerea

• Mode of fertilization and parental care in anurans

• Effects of individual variation in age and size at metamorphosis on growth and survivorship of southern toad (Bufo terrestris) metamorphs

• A comparison of anuran calling patterns at two Carolina bays in South Carolina

• Terrestrial courtship affects mating locations in Ambystoma opacum

• Mating and oviposition in paedomorphic Ambystoma talpoideum precedes the arrival of terrestrial males

• Effects of larval density in Ambystoma opacum: An experiment in large-scale field enclosures

• Timing of reproduction of paedomorphic and metamorphic Ambystoma talpoideum

• The effect of larval density on adult demographic traits in Ambystoma opacum

• The effect of food limitation on lipid levels, growth, and reproduction in the marbled salamander, Ambystoma opacum

• Morphology and evolutionary implications of the annual cycle of secretion and sperm storage in spermathecae of the salamander Ambystoma opacum

• Effects of larval density dependence on population dynamics of Ambystoma opacum

• Effects of toe-clipping and PIT-tagging on growth and survival in metamorphic Ambystoma opacum

• Courtship behavior and plasma levels of androgens and corticosterone in male marbled salamanders, Ambystoma opacum

• Relationship of larval density and heterozygosity to growth and survival of juvenile marbled salamanders (Ambystoma opacum)

• Cloacal anatomy of paedomorphic female Ambystoma talpoideum, with comments on intermorph mating and sperm storage

• Influence of hydroperiod, isolation, and heterospecifics on the distribution of aquatic salamanders (Siren and Amphiuma) among depression wetlands

• Reproduction of the salamander, Siren intermedia with especial reference to oviductal anatomy and mode of fertilization

• The annual cycle of sperm storage in the spermathecae of the red-spotted newt, Notophthalmus viridescens

• Biological delineation of terrestrial buffer zones for pond-breeding salamanders

• Are small, isolated wetlands expendable

• Effects of egg size on success of larval salamanders in complex aquatic environments

• Timing of reproduction and metamorphosis in the Carolina gopher frog (Rana capito capito) in South Carolina

• Phenotypic variation in the arrival time of breeding salamanders: individual repeatability and environmental influences

Aquatic snakes:

• Mass dynamics during embryonic development and parental investment in cottonmouth neonates

• Caudal autonomy in the Eastern garter snake, Thamnophis s. sirtalis

• Whole body lipid dynamics and reproduction in the Eastern cottonmouth, Agkistrodon piscivorus

• Agkistrodon piscivorus piscivorus (Eastern cottonmouth) diet

• Temporal changes in reptile populations: Effects of a severe drought on aquatic snakes

• Agkistrodon piscivorus piscivorus (Eastern cottonmouth) coloration

• Seminatrix pygaea (Black swamp snake) size

• Reproductive cycles and temporal variation in fecundity in the black swamp snake, Seminatrix pygaea

• Ultrastructure of the reproductive system of the black swamp snake (Seminatrix pygaea):  Part I.  Evidence for oviducal sperm storage

• Seminatrix Cope, black swamp snake

Aquatic turtles:

• Reproduction in the slider and other species of turtles

• Temporal and spatial movement patterns of sliders and other turtles

• Sexual dimorphism in turtles with emphasis on the slider turtle (Trachemys scripta)

• Oviductal sperm storage as a reproductive tactic of turtles

• Measuring declines and natural variation in turtle populations: spatial lessons from long-term studies

• The slider turtle. Life History and Ecology of the Slider Turtle

• Turtle studies at SREL: A research perspective

• Sex ratios and their significance among turtle populations

• Recommendations for future research on freshwater turtles: what are the questions?

• Population genetics of the slider turtle

• Thermoregulation and climate space of the slider turtle

• Male sex steroids and hormonal control of male courtship behavior in the yellow-bellied slider turtle, Trachemys scripta

• Factors contributing to temporal and age-specific genetic variation in the freshwater turtle Trachemys scripta

• Water-finding in adult turtles: random search or oriented behaviour?

• Genetic differentiation among congeneric acanthocephalans in the yellow-bellied slider turtle

• Life tables of a slider turtle population

• Exploring Fabens' growth interval model with data on a long-lived vertebrate Trachemys scripta

• Life history and demography of the common mud turtle Kinsternon subrubrum in South Carolina, USA

• Phylogeographic patterns in Kinosternon subrubrum and K. baurii based on mitochondrial DNA restriction analyses

• Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography and subspecies issues in the monotypic freshwater turtle (Sternotnerus odoratus)

• Turtle trapping: preliminary tests of conventional wisdomA comparison of diel nest temperature and nest site selection for two sympatric species of freshwater turtles

• Terrestrial buffer zones and wetland conservation: A case study of freshwater turtles in a Carolina bay

• Morphometric validation of the striped mud turtle (Kinosternon baurii) in the Carolinas and Virginia

• Prolonged nesting forays by common mud turtles (Kinosternon subrubrum)

• Growth of the slider turtle

• The feeding ecology of the slider turtle. Life History and Ecology of the Slider Turtle

• Egg components and hatchling lipid reserves: parental investment in kinosternid turtles from the southeastern United States

• Spring movement patterns of two radio-tagged male spotted turtles

• Possible demographic and ecologic consequences of sex ratio manipulation in turtles

• Female participation in courtship behavior of the turtle Trachemys s. scripta

• A review of techniques for quantifying sexual size dimorphism

• Conservation of covert species: protecting species we don't even know

• The development and significance of melanism in the slider turtle

• The effect of sample size and study duration on metapopulation estimates for slider turtles (Trachemys scripta)

• The evolution of turtle life histories

• Estimation of age for Trachemys scripta and Deirochelys reticularia by counting annual growth layers in claws

• Do flag markers attract turtle nest predators?

• Home range and movement patterns of slider turtles inhabiting Par Pond

• Invasion of new habitats by male freshwater turtles

• Turtle eggs: their ecology and evolution

• Structure and dynamics of a turtle community over two decades

• Demographics of common snapping turtles (Chelydra serpentina): Implications for conservation and management of long-lived organisms

• Common snapping turtles associated with ant mounds

• Effect of density on predation rate for turtle nests in a complex landscape

• Antipredator mechanisms of hatchling freshwater turtles

• Diet of the turtle Deirochelys reticularia on the Savannah River Site, South Carolina

• Prolonged egg retention in the turtle Deirochelys reticularia in South Carolina

• Use of passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags for marking small freshwater turtles

• Total body electrical conductivity (TOBEC): a tool to estimate lean mass and nonpolar lipids of an aquatic organism?

Birds:

• Low genetic differentiation between two disjunct white ibis colonies

• Plumage and behavioral development of nestling white ibises

• Genetic variation and population structure of the Florida wood stork

• Low levels of genetic variability in North American populations of the wood stork (Mycteria americana)

• Foraging habitat use by wood storks nesting in the coastal zone of Georgia, USA

• Conspecific aggression in a Wood Stork colony in Georgia

• Foraging strategies and energetic costs of foraging flights by breeding wood storks

• Food of nestling wood storks in coastal Georgia

• Creation and management of artificial foraging habitat for wood storks

• The foraging ecology of wood storks (Mycteria americana) in east-central Georgia. I. Hematozoa in the endangered wood stork from Georgia

• Characteristics of foraging sites of wood storks

• Factors affecting reproductive success of wood storks (Mycteria americana) in east-central Georgia

• Food of nestling wood storks in east-central Georgia

• Temporal and spatial patterns of avifauna on wetlands in the vicinity of Bush Field Airport, Augusta, Georgia, USA

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