Table of Contents

Part 1. Introduction
1: Laurie Vitt: Reptile diversity and life history
2: Robert N. Fisher: Planning and setting objectives in field studies
3: Richard Seigel: Data collection and storage
Part 2. The Individual
4: John W. Ferner and Michael V. Plummer: Measuring and marking reptiles
5: Roberto Sacchi, Stefano Scali, Marco Mangiacotti, Marco Sannolo, Marco Alberto Luca Zuffi: Digital identification and analysis
6: Steve W. Gotte, Jeremy F. Jacobs, and George R. Zug: Preserving specimens for additional study
7: Gunther Köhler: Reproduction
8: Luca Luiselli and Giovanni Amori: Diet
9: Bruce Kingsbury and Nathan J. Robinson: Movement patterns and telemetry
Part 3. Sampling Reptiles
10: John D. Willson: Surface-dwelling reptiles: coverboards, drift fences and arrays
11: Robert Henderson, Robert Powell, Jose Martín, and Pilar Lopez: Arboreal and fossorial reptiles
12: Xavier Bonnet, Arne R. Rasmussen and François Brischoux: Sea snakes
13: Richard Vogt: Freshwater turtles
14: Margaretha Hofmeyr and Brian Henen: Terrestrial turtles and tortoises
15: Seth Stapleton and Karen Eckert: Sea turtles
16: Charlie Manolis and Matt Brien: Crocodilians
Part 4. Reptiles in the Community
17: Tiffany M. Doan: Plot and transect censuses
18: Indraneil Das: Rapid assessments of reptile diversity
19: Henry Mushinsky and Earl McCoy: Measuring microhabitats used by non-avian reptiles
20: Christine Bishop: Water quality and toxicology
21: C. Kenneth Dodd, Jr.: Richness, diversity and similarity
22: Monika Böhm and Viorel D. Popescu: Landscape ecology, biogeography and GIS methods
Part 5. Experimental Applications, Physiological Ecology, Genetics
23: Stephen J. Mullin: Experimental applications
24: Keith Christian, Richard Tracy, and Christopher Tracy: Body temperatures and the thermal environment
25: Nancy Fitzsimmons and Joanne Sumner: Genetics in field ecology and conservation
Part 6. Trends Analysis and Conservation Options
26: Darryl MacKenzie: Occupancy models
27: Chris Sutherland and J. Andrew Royle: Estimating abundance
28: Elliott R. Jacobson: Disease, parasites, and biosecurity protocols
29: David A. Pike: Conservation management of reptiles
30: Brian Gratwicke, Matthew Neff, Lindsay Renick Mayer, Sharon Ryan, and Jennifer Sevin: Education and outreach

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About the Author

Ken Dodd is currently Courtesy Associate Professor in the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at the University of Florida. He has previously held positions at Mississippi State University as Assistant Professor in 1975, Staff Herpetologist at the Office of Endangered Species in the US Fish and Wildlife Service from 1976 to 1984, and Research Zoologist at the US Geological Survey from 1984 to 2007. He has published over 210 research and popular
articles, book reviews and book chapters and edited the Amphibian volume in OUP's Techniques in Ecology and Conservation Series. He is a past President of the Herpetologists' League and was Associate Editor
for the Journal of Herpetology for over 8 years. His professional interests are conservation biology, population ecology and demography, monitoring vertebrate populations, sampling approaches, and history of herpetology. Ken lives in Gainesville, Florida, with his wife Marian Griffey and their 8 cats and numerous turtles.

Reviews

The book not only contains a wealth of information, but is extremely well produced. This is an important collection of methods for all student of reptile ecology and conservation.
*Herpetological Review*