REPTILES: BIOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND CONSERVATION -- REPTILES: BIOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND CONSERVATION -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- THE NORTHERN PINE SNAKE (PITUOPHIS MELANOLEUCUS) IN NEW JERSEY: ITS LIFE HISTORY, BEHAVIOR AND CONSERVATION -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- BRIEF NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW JERSEY PINE SNAKES -- Range -- Habitat -- Breeding -- Hibernation -- Contaminants -- METHODS AND RESEARCH APPROACH -- VULNERABILITY -- HABITAT AND CONSERVATION -- Habitat Loss -- Conservation Options -- NESTING BEHAVIOR AND CONSERVATION -- Nesting Habitat -- Nesting Behavior -- Hatchling Vulnerability -- Conservation -- HIBERNATION BEHAVIOR AND CONSERVATION -- Habitat Selection -- Risks during Hibernation -- Pine Snake Conservation -- Guidelines for the Construction of a Snake Hibernaculum -- PREDATORS -- Native Predators -- Human-Induced Predator Numbers -- Conservation -- KILLING AND POACHING -- Human Disturbance -- Road Kills -- Off-Road-Vehicles -- Poaching -- Conservation -- INVESTIGATOR EFFECTS -- Understanding Effects -- Long-Term Research Project -- Conservation -- A CONSERVATION STRATEGY -- Risk To Pine Snakes -- Protecting Pine Snakes -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX. SPECIAL HABITAT REQUIREMENTS FOR MAINTAINING STABLE NORTHERN PINE SNAKE POPULATIONS -- OVERLAPPING IMPORTANT TOPICS -- OPEN AREAS WITH ADJACENT FOREST -- PATCH SIZE AND DISPERSION -- SEASONAL USE -- CONSERVATION IMPLICATIONS AND SUMMARY -- LESSONS FROM CROCODILIANS ON VERTEBRATE CARDIAC SHUNTING AND EXERCISE -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- Reptilian Right-to-Left Cardiac Shunt -- Crocodilian Cardiovascular and Metabolic Plasticity in Response to Exercise -- DOES CROCODILIAN R-L CARDIAC SHUNT AFFECT DIGESTION, GROWTH, BREATH-HOLD OR OXYGEN CONSUMPTION? -- Digestion and Growth in Alligators with and without R-L Cardiac Shunt.

Diving, Breath-Hold and Oxygen Consumption of Alligators with and without R-L Cardiac Shunt -- Systemic Cardiac Output and Oxygen Consumption in Embryonic Alligators with the LAo Occluded Downstream of the Foramen of Panizza -- SUMMARY -- IS THE CROCODILIAN EXERCISE TRAINING RESPONSE MAMMALIAN OR REPTILIAN? -- Exercise Training in Vertebrates -- Exercise Training Response in Crocodilians -- Comparison of Alligator Exercise Training Response with Squamates' and Mammals' Responses -- CONCLUSIONS -- Crocodilian R-L Cardiac Shunt is Not Adaptive -- The Crocodilian Exercise Training Response is Intermediate between that of Lizards and Mammals -- ABBREVIATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- SPATIAL COGNITION IN REPTILES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- LONG-RANGE NAVIGATION AND GEOMAGNETIC MAPS -- Examples of Long-Range Navigation -- The Geomagnetic Map -- Role of Other Cues in Long-Range Navigation -- HOMING AND THE CELESTIAL COMPASS -- Examples of Homing -- Role of Celestial Cues -- SHORT-RANGE NAVIGATION -- Short-Range Navigation to a Goal -- Spatial Win-Shift Tasks -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- IMMUNOGLOBULINS IN REPTILES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- IG HEAVY CHAIN ISOTYPES IN REPTILES -- IG HEAVY CHAIN LOCUS ORGANIZATION -- IG LIGHT CHAIN ISOTYPES -- GENOMIC ORGANIZATION OF IG-LIGHT CHAIN LOCI -- IMMUNOGLOBULIN J-CHAIN -- GENERATION OF ANTIBODY DIVERSITY -- FUNCTIONS OF REPTILIAN IMMUNOGLOBULINS -- ANTIBODY RESPONSES IN REPTILES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- THE INFLUENCE OF PUBLIC ATTITUDES ON POLICIES FOR CONSERVING REPTILES -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. INFLUENCES ON ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE SURVIVAL OF REPTILES -- 3. THE LIKEABILITY OF REPTILE SPECIES AND ATTITUDES TO THEIR SURVIVAL AS REVEALED BY SURVEYS -- 4. THE NOAH'S ARK PROBLEM AND SUPPORT FOR PHYLOGENETIC SIMILARITY PRINCIPLE.

5. DICHOTOMY IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE LIKEABILITY OF REPTILE SPECIES -- 6. KNOWLEDGE, ECOTOURISM AND CHANGES IN CONSERVATION BEHAVIOURS AND IN ATTITUDES OF HUMANS TO REPTILES SPECIES -- DICHOTOMY IN POLICIES FOR CONSERVING REPTILE SPECIES WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO AUSTRALIA'S POLICIES -- Some Background -- Dichotomy in Policies of Utilizing Reptile Species -- Commercial Ranching and Farming and Provision of Economic Incentives for the Conservation of Reptiles -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- COMPARISON BETWEEN REPTILES AND DINOSAURS TO CLARIFY THEIR DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF REPTILES -- The Origin of Reptiles -- Amniote Egg -- Main Groups -- Amphibian-Reptilian Transition -- EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF DINOSAURS -- Modern Definition -- Dinosaurian Diversity -- Reptilian-Dinosaurian Transition -- COMPARISON OF RESPIRATORY SYSTEM -- Reptilian Respiration -- Dinosaurian Respiration -- COMPARISON OF SKELETAL FEATURES -- Reptilian Skeleton -- Dinosaurian Skeleton -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- NEW FINDS OF EARLY CRETACEOUS FOSSIL VERTEBRATE REMAINS ON THE TERRITORY OF YAKUTIA -- REFERENCES -- CADMIUM IN THE WALL LIZARD PODARCIS SICULA: MORPHOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR EFFECTS ON EMBRYONIC AND ADULT TISSUES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- MATERIALS AND METHODS -- Animals -- Cadmium Treatments -- Cadmium Content in Lizard Tissues -- Cytological Observations -- Gene Expression Profiling -- RESULTS -- Cadmium Effects in Adult Tissues -- Cadmium Effects on Embryos -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- SALMONELLA INFECTION IN REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS IN A CHANGING WORLD* -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- SALMONELLA IN HERPETOFAUNA -- TRANSMISSION OF SALMONELLA FROM HERPETOFAUNA TO HUMANS -- POSSIBLE ALTERATION OF SALMONELLA INFECTION IN HERPETOFAUNA: ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCES AND STRESS.

CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- ADVANCES IN AMPHIBIAN AND REPTILE ECOTOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- LITERATURE SEARCH -- OVERVIEW OF THE EVOLUTION OF AMPHIBIAN AND REPTILE ECOTOXICOLOGICAL LITERATURE -- DIVERSITY OF RESEARCHERS -- SEPCIES-TAXONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS -- SPECIES-GEOGRAPHIC CONSIDERATIONS -- SOURCE OF POLLUTION -- ENDPOINTS -- COMPLEXITY AND ECOLOGICAL RELEVANCE -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.