" Venomous" Bites from" Non-Venomous" Snakes, Second Edition thoroughly examines the
potential hazards associated with bites by non-front-fanged snakes (popularly, but …

Predation is the leading cause of nest failure for most birds. Thus, for ornithologists
interested in the causes and consequences of variation in nest success, knowing the identity …

Roads affect animal survivorship and behavior and thereby can act as a barrier to
movement, which exacerbates habitat fragmentation and disrupts landscape permeability …

The herpetofauna of the state of Veracruz, Mexico, currently consists of 359 species,
including 76 anurans, 45 caudates, one caecilian, one crocodylian, 217 squamates, and 19 …

We follow a biological invasion model that consists of a series of five consecutive obligatory
stages, concluding with stages 4a and 5 (ie, widespread= invasive species). The State of …

The largest extant snakes live in the tropics of South America and southeast Asia,, where
high temperatures facilitate the evolution of large body sizes among air-breathing animals …

Both gene-tree discordance and unrecognized diversity are sources of error for accurate
estimation of species trees, and can affect downstream diversification analyses by obscuring …

One of the most important hotspots of herpetological biodiversity in the United States,
California is home to many endemic amphibians and reptiles found nowhere else on earth …

Species in the suborder Serpentes present a powerful model for understanding processes
involved in visual signal design. Although vision is generally poor in snakes, they are often …

Many phylogeographic studies on species with large ranges have found genetic–
geographic structure associated with changes in habitat and physical barriers preventing or …