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