edited by Richard A. Seigel, Lawrence E. Hunt, James L. Knight, Luis Malaret, Nancy L. Zuschlag.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Lawrence, Kansas :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Kansas,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[1984]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
v, 278 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations (1 color), maps, charts ;
Dimensions
26 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Special publication / University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History ;
Volume Designation
no. 10
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
"This volume is the result of a symposium entitled 'Perspectives in Fitchian Ecology', held on 9 August 1980"--Page v.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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"The published contributions of Henry S. Fitch": pages 5-9.
Text of Note
Includes bibliographies and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Henry S. Fitch in perspective / William E. Duellman -- The published contributions of Henry S. Fitch / Virginia R. Fitch -- Growth, reproduction and demography of the racer, Coluber constrictor mormon, in northern Utah / William S. Brown and William S. Parker -- Growth of bullsnakes (Pituophis melanoleucus sayi) on a sand prairie in south central Kansas / Dwight R. Platt -- Communal denning in snakes / Patrick T. Gregory -- Parameters of two populations of diamondback terrapins (Malaclemys terrapin) on the Atlantic coast of Florida / Richard A. Seigel -- An ecological study of the cricket frog, Acris crepitans / Ray D. Burkett -- Female reproduction in an Arkansas population of rough green snakes (Opheodrys aestivus) / Michael V. Plummer -- Clutch size in Iguana iguana in central Panama / A. Stanley Rand -- Are anuran amphibians heavy metal accumulators? / Russell J. Hall and Bernard M. Mulhern -- Energetics of sit-and-wait and widely-searching lizard predators / Robin M. Andrews -- Feeding behavior and diet of the eastern coral snake, Micrurus fulvius / Harry W. Greene -- The role of chemoreception in the prey selection of neonate reptiles / Pennie H. von Achen and James L. Rakestraw -- Ecology of small fossorial Australian snakes of the genera Neelaps and Simoselaps (Serpentes, Elapidae) / Richard Shine -- Scaphiodontophis (Serpentes, Colubridae) : natural history and test of a mimicry-related hypothesis / Robert W. Henderson -- Dominance in snakes / Charles C. Carpenter -- An experimental study of variation in habitat selection and occurrence of the deermouse, Peromyscus maniculatus gracilis / John H. Fitch -- Herpetogeography in the Mazatlán-Durango region of the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico / Robert G. Webb -- Systematic review of the percid fish, Etheostoma lepidum / Alice F. Echelle, Anthony A. Echelle, and Clark Hubbs -- Anolis fitchi, a new species of the Anolis aequatorialis group from Ecuador and Colombia / Ernest E. Williams and William E. Duellman.