Town and country reptiles: a review of reptilian responses to urbanization

SS French, AC Webb, SB Hudson… - Integrative and …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The majority of the world population is now inhabiting urban areas, and with staggering
population growth, urbanization is also increasing. While the work studying the effects of …

Changes in the home range sizes of terrestrial vertebrates in response to urban disturbance: a meta-analysis

K O'Donnell, J delBarco-Trillo - Journal of Urban Ecology, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The unprecedented growth rate in human population and the increasing movement of
people to urban areas is causing a rapid increase in urbanisation globally. Urban …

An objective road risk assessment method for multiple species: ranking 166 reptiles and amphibians in California

CS Brehme, SA Hathaway, RN Fisher - Landscape Ecology, 2018 - Springer
Context Transportation and wildlife agencies may consider the need for barrier structures
and safe wildlife road-crossings to maintain the long-term viability of wildlife populations. In …

Multi-level, multi-scale habitat selection by a wide-ranging, federally threatened snake

JM Bauder, DR Breininger, MR Bolt, ML Legare… - Landscape …, 2018 - Springer
Context Although multi-scale approaches are commonly used to assess wildlife-habitat
relationships, few studies have examined selection at multiple spatial scales within different …

[PDF][PDF] Taxonomic reassessment and conservation status of the beaded lizard

RS Reiserer, GW Schuett… - Heloderma …, 2013 - amphibian-reptile-conservation.org
The beaded lizard (Heloderma horridum) and Gila monster (H. suspectum) are large, highly
venomous, anguimorph lizards threatened by human persecution, habitat loss and …

[HTML][HTML] Escaping drought: seasonality effects on home range, movement patterns and habitat selection of the Guatemalan Beaded Lizard

D Ariano-Sánchez, RM Mortensen, S Reinhardt… - Global Ecology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The relative contribution of extrinsic and intrinsic factors affecting lizard movement patterns
have rarely been examined. We were interested in understanding the effects of extrinsic …

Radiotelemetry unravels movements of a walking insect species in heterogeneous environments

F Vinatier, A Chailleux, PF Duyck, F Salmon… - Animal behaviour, 2010 - Elsevier
The study of movements of individual organisms in heterogeneous environments is of
primary importance for understanding the effect of habitat composition on population …

Beyond the front yard: investigating environmental drivers of residential snake removals across two spatial scales in a desert city

A Enloe, JAG Clark, JS Lewis, FS Albuquerque… - Urban …, 2024 - Springer
In urban and suburban areas, wildlife and people are often in close quarters, leading to
human-wildlife interactions (HWI). Understanding how wildlife interacts with humans and the …

Conservation phylogenetics of helodermatid lizards using multiple molecular markers and a supertree approach

ME Douglas, MR Douglas, GW Schuett… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2010 - Elsevier
We analyzed both mitochondrial (mt-) and nuclear (n) DNAs in a conservation phylogenetic
framework to examine deep and shallow histories of the Beaded Lizard (Heloderma …

Female–female aggression in the Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum)

GW Schuett, KH Peterson… - Royal Society …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Historically, the role of aggression in the social lives of animals overwhelmingly focused on
males. In recent years, however, female–female aggression in vertebrates, particularly …