The longleaf pine-grassland (Pinus palustris-Poaceae) ecosystem occupied over 30 million
ha in the southeastern United States at the time of European discovery. Frequent low-to …

Despite the accumulation of a considerable body of literature about frugivory and seed
dispersal of fleshy-fruited plants by vertebrates during the last decades (eg reviews in Howe …

The longleaf pine Pinus palustris Miller (Pinales: Pinaceae) ecosystem once covered as
many as 37 million hectares across the southeastern United States. Through fire …

Herbivorous vertebrates rely on complex communities of mutualistic gut bacteria to facilitate
the digestion of celluloses and hemicelluloses. Gut microbes are often convergent based on …

Efforts to evaluate the efficacy of translocation as a conservation tool have mostly been
inadequate, particularly for reptiles and amphibians, leading many biologists to discount …

This book looks at how an animal is organized to carry out a difficult task-that of feeding on
plants. The complex adaptations necessary to enable animals to obtain nutrients …

Ecosystem engineers play fundamental ecological roles by modifying habitats in ways that
affect a multitude of other species and by creating refugia with novel microclimates. We …

We investigated burrow dynamics and factors associated with abandonment of burrows by
gopher tortoises (Copherus polyphemus) in mature slash pine (Pinus elliottii) plantations of …

We compared two assessments of the status of gopher tortoise populations at 10 protected
sites in Florida, taken about a decade apart. We assessed status indirectly, using surveys of …

We present the diet of the two Amazonian tortoises, Geochelone carbonaria and G.
denticulata, based on feeding observations and scat examinations of free-ranging …