Herpetological communities: a symposium of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles and the Herpetologists' League, August 1977

Preface......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Reviews......Page 6
A review of structuring in herpetofaunal assembalges......Page 8
Amphibian reproductive ecology on the community level......Page 28
Amphibian communities......Page 44
Anuran Succession at temporary ponds in a post Oak-Savanna region of Texas......Page 46
Prey patterns and trophic niche overlap in four species of Caribbean frogs......Page 56
Snake communities......Page 64
Niche dimension and resource partitioning ina Great Basin desert snake community......Page 66
Resources of a snake community in praire-woodland habitat of northeastern Kansas......Page 90
Use of mammalian resource by Chihuahuan snake community......Page 106
Lizard communities......Page 126
Temporal and spatial resource partitioning in a Chihuahuan desert lizard community......Page 128
Use of cave resources by lizard community......Page 136
Strtucre and composition of Mojave desert reptile communities determined with a removal method......Page 142
Tropical herpetofauna......Page 150
The herpetofauna of forest litter plots from Cameroon, Africa......Page 152
Sandy soil herpetofaunas......Page 158
Herpetofaunal survey of the Sinai Peninsula (1967-1977), with emphasis on the Sahara sand community......Page 160
The herpetological components of Florida sandhill and sand pine scrub associations......Page 170
Food resource partitioning of fossorial Florida reptiles......Page 180
Techniques of community analysis......Page 186
Tracking as an aid in ecological studies of snakes......Page 188
Filed techniques for herpetofaunal community analysis......Page 200
Evaluation of techniques for assessment of amphibian and reptile populations in Wisconsin......Page 208
Summary of herpetological community studies......Page 226
A chronological bibliography, the history and status of studies of herpetological communities.........Page 228