Protandry, the earlier arrival of males to breeding areas than females, is a common pattern
of sex‐biased timing in many animal taxa (eg some insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds …

Vertebrate Endocrinology, Sixth Edition, provides a comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of
the endocrine system for college and university students as well as researchers. This book is …

Differences in integumentary permeability dictate alternative life history strategies in
amphibians and reptiles. Limiting resources for amphibians are chiefly associated with …

Understanding the movement of animals is critical to many aspects of conservation such as
spread of emerging disease, proliferation of invasive species, changes in land‐use patterns …

The population dynamics and ecology of the red—spotted newt were studied from 1974 to
the present in a series of mountain ponds in the Shenandoah Mountains, Virginia. Adult and …

Many amphibians breed in water but live most of their lives in terrestrial habitats. Little is
known, however, about the spatial distribution of these habitats or of the distances and …

Created ponds were built as an experiment in mitigating the loss of a wetland to
construction. We monitored amphibian breeding population sizes and juvenile recruitment at …

The question of whether animals navigate using 'map'information derived from one or more
spatial gradients in the Earth's magnetic field has been debated for half a century. Although …

Lunar cycles give rise to cues that can be recognized by animals, including changes in light
intensity, geomagnetism and gravity. Many environmental variables affect reproductive …

Migrations of breeding adult and metamorphosing juvenile mole salamanders, Ambystoma
talpoideum, were studied in five populations in South Carolina from Sept. 1978 through July …