The federally threatened American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) is a flagship species and
ecological indicator of hydrologic restoration in the Florida Everglades. We conducted a long …

Successful restoration of wetland ecosystems requires knowledge of wetland hydrologic
patterns and an understanding of how those patterns affect wetland plant and animal …

Although nesting ecology is well studied in several crocodilian species, it is not known how
nest attendance influences physiology and body condition of nesting females. In this study …

Many populations of species belonging to the order Crocodilia are threatened due to illegal
trafficking, indiscriminate hunting, and habitat loss and degradation affecting crocodilian …

Background Animal habitat use can be influenced by a suite of factors including intraspecific
interactions and resource availability. The broad-snouted caiman (Caiman latirostris) is the …

Recent models suggest that anthropogenic global warming will lead to an increase in the
number of major hurricanes, which have strong effects on ecosystems and may modify …

Several sea turtle life histories display a capital breeding pattern, in which females stockpile
resources, like fat, during reproductive quiescence to fuel fasted egg production. The olive …

This protocol describes a minimally invasive surgical technique and approach to
successfully examine the gonads of live female American alligators as part of a reproductive …

Intermediate metrics of translocation success are useful for long‐lived, slow to mature
species where survival and reproduction happen over decades. With fewer than 150 …

Body condition (BC) has been used extensively to evaluate fitness in animals. In traditional
studies of crocodiles, the paradigm of evaluating BC with the Fulton index and interpreting …