Accurate, comprehensive data on life expectancy, growth rates, age structure, and sexual maturation are necessary to inform decision-making for conservation action, but they are often difficult to obtain from wild animals. Osteohistology has proven a reliable method for accessing chronological data in extant and extinct vertebrates. Traditional mark–recapture methods require repeated measurements in the field and do not allow comparison with far more extensive data from specimens housed in museum collections, thus reducing statistical power and inviting unjustified extrapolation. We investigate longevity and growth in the large-bodied iguanian lizard Sauromalus ater (Common Chuckwalla). We find highly variable growth to be typical for S. ater occupying a spectrum from rapid growth to sexual maturity within two to three years leading to above-average body size later in life or slow growth early in life with sexual maturity at four to eight years followed by growth to body sizes around the average adult size. We show individual S. ater achieve final body size in about ten years, not decades, and that body size and age in adults are significantly correlated. This study suggests conflicting reports on growth, maturation, longevity, and generation cycle in S. ater are all correct and reflect complex ontogeny in squamates.
{"title":"Skeletochronology Reconciles Differences in Growth Strategies and Longevity in the Common Chuckwalla (Sauromalus ater) with Implications for Squamate Life-History Studies","authors":"Holger Petermann, J. Gauthier","doi":"10.1643/CH-19-245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1643/CH-19-245","url":null,"abstract":"Accurate, comprehensive data on life expectancy, growth rates, age structure, and sexual maturation are necessary to inform decision-making for conservation action, but they are often difficult to obtain from wild animals. Osteohistology has proven a reliable method for accessing chronological data in extant and extinct vertebrates. Traditional mark–recapture methods require repeated measurements in the field and do not allow comparison with far more extensive data from specimens housed in museum collections, thus reducing statistical power and inviting unjustified extrapolation. We investigate longevity and growth in the large-bodied iguanian lizard Sauromalus ater (Common Chuckwalla). We find highly variable growth to be typical for S. ater occupying a spectrum from rapid growth to sexual maturity within two to three years leading to above-average body size later in life or slow growth early in life with sexual maturity at four to eight years followed by growth to body sizes around the average adult size. We show individual S. ater achieve final body size in about ten years, not decades, and that body size and age in adults are significantly correlated. This study suggests conflicting reports on growth, maturation, longevity, and generation cycle in S. ater are all correct and reflect complex ontogeny in squamates.","PeriodicalId":10701,"journal":{"name":"Copeia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2020-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1643/CH-19-245","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46209944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cristóbal Hernández-Álvarez, N. Bayona‐Vásquez, O. Domínguez‐Domínguez, M. Uribe-Alcocer, P. Díaz‐Jaimes
The inshore Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) comprises two major biogeographic provinces, the Cortez Province and Panamic Province, which are distinguished mainly by environmental differences between equatorial and subtropical regions. It is important to evaluate the influence of these environmental differences in limiting the connectivity of populations of fishes inhabiting both provinces and therefore shaping the phylogeographic patterns along the inshore TEP. Here, we used analyses based on sequences of the mtDNA control region to identify phylogeographic patterns of two snapper species, Lutjanus guttatus and L. peru, found in the coastal TEP. In both species, we found high levels of genetic diversity and a lack of genetic differentiation—as measured by both genetic fixation and genetic differentiation indices—between populations from the Cortez and the Panamic provinces. Our results suggest no significant effect of environmental differences between equatorial and subtropical waters in these two provinces on genetic differentiation, which may be explained by oceanographic features that promote larval dispersal and gene flow.
{"title":"Phylogeography of the Pacific Red Snapper (Lutjanus peru) and Spotted Rose Snapper (Lutjanus guttatus) in the Inshore Tropical Eastern Pacific","authors":"Cristóbal Hernández-Álvarez, N. Bayona‐Vásquez, O. Domínguez‐Domínguez, M. Uribe-Alcocer, P. Díaz‐Jaimes","doi":"10.1643/CG-18-157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1643/CG-18-157","url":null,"abstract":"The inshore Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) comprises two major biogeographic provinces, the Cortez Province and Panamic Province, which are distinguished mainly by environmental differences between equatorial and subtropical regions. It is important to evaluate the influence of these environmental differences in limiting the connectivity of populations of fishes inhabiting both provinces and therefore shaping the phylogeographic patterns along the inshore TEP. Here, we used analyses based on sequences of the mtDNA control region to identify phylogeographic patterns of two snapper species, Lutjanus guttatus and L. peru, found in the coastal TEP. In both species, we found high levels of genetic diversity and a lack of genetic differentiation—as measured by both genetic fixation and genetic differentiation indices—between populations from the Cortez and the Panamic provinces. Our results suggest no significant effect of environmental differences between equatorial and subtropical waters in these two provinces on genetic differentiation, which may be explained by oceanographic features that promote larval dispersal and gene flow.","PeriodicalId":10701,"journal":{"name":"Copeia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2020-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49668493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
O. Santana‐Morales, A. Abadía‐Cardoso, Mauricio Hoyos-Padilla, G. Naylor, S. Corrigan, Luis Malpica-Cruz, Marc Aquino‐Baleytó, R. Beas‐Luna, C. Sepulveda, J. L. Castillo-Geniz
The White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) is a top predator cosmopolitanly distributed and heavily protected worldwide. Identification and information pertaining to White Shark nursery areas is limited yet crucial for the protection of sharks during their most vulnerable life stages. Here, we present morphometric, skeletal, and haplotypic characteristics of the smallest free-living White Shark reported to date (1066 mm TL). These characteristics correspond to a newborn White Shark smaller than those previously reported in an embryonic state but displaying the same number of rows of functional teeth as an adult. The individual was caught incidentally by an artisanal fishery operating along the Pacific coast of Baja California, near the international border between Mexico and the United States (USA). We found no genetic divergence between Isla Guadalupe and central California, two aggregation sites that have been proposed as a possible source for newborn sharks in this area. The newborn White Shark displayed the most common haplotype present among individuals at both aggregation sites. These findings provide evidence suggesting the presence of an extended nursery habitat in the Northeast Pacific, a transnational region between Mexico and USA.
{"title":"The Smallest Known Free-Living White Shark Carcharodon carcharias (Lamniformes: Lamnidae): Ecological and Management Implications","authors":"O. Santana‐Morales, A. Abadía‐Cardoso, Mauricio Hoyos-Padilla, G. Naylor, S. Corrigan, Luis Malpica-Cruz, Marc Aquino‐Baleytó, R. Beas‐Luna, C. Sepulveda, J. L. Castillo-Geniz","doi":"10.1643/OT-19-233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1643/OT-19-233","url":null,"abstract":"The White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) is a top predator cosmopolitanly distributed and heavily protected worldwide. Identification and information pertaining to White Shark nursery areas is limited yet crucial for the protection of sharks during their most vulnerable life stages. Here, we present morphometric, skeletal, and haplotypic characteristics of the smallest free-living White Shark reported to date (1066 mm TL). These characteristics correspond to a newborn White Shark smaller than those previously reported in an embryonic state but displaying the same number of rows of functional teeth as an adult. The individual was caught incidentally by an artisanal fishery operating along the Pacific coast of Baja California, near the international border between Mexico and the United States (USA). We found no genetic divergence between Isla Guadalupe and central California, two aggregation sites that have been proposed as a possible source for newborn sharks in this area. The newborn White Shark displayed the most common haplotype present among individuals at both aggregation sites. These findings provide evidence suggesting the presence of an extended nursery habitat in the Northeast Pacific, a transnational region between Mexico and USA.","PeriodicalId":10701,"journal":{"name":"Copeia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2020-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47728002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Diego A. Alzate-Estrada, Vivian P. Páez, Viviana M. Cartagena-Otálvaro, Brian C. Bock
In freshwater turtles, movements have been shown to be influenced by seasonal changes in water levels, with members of the family Podocnemididae exhibiting some of the longest nesting migrations yet documented. In this study, we quantified linear home range sizes and seasonal movements of the Magdalena River Turtle (Podocnemis lewyana) using capture–mark–recapture and radio-telemetry techniques. We marked 924 turtles and recaptured 7.8% of these individuals one or more times, thereby documenting the movements of 41 juveniles, 13 males, and 18 females. Turtle movements differed significantly among sex/size classes, with males moving more. While 85% of all individuals had estimated linear home range sizes of less than 1 km, one juvenile moved 3.1 km, one female moved 2.5 km, and one male moved 4.8 km. We also obtained data on the movements of six reproductively mature females using radio telemetry. We documented seasonal movements out of channels into wetland or riverine habitats, increasing the estimates of total distance traveled for this sex/size class to a mean of 13.8 km (range = 6.9–18.7 km), with greater displacements documented during low water periods. Together, our results show that individuals of P. lewyana in the middle Magdalena River drainage occupy limited linear home ranges, but that reproductively mature females make extensive displacements during low water periods, presumably related to their need to access nesting beaches in riverine habitats. There are currently no protected areas within the range of this endemic species, but our results argue that any reserve created for protecting this critically endangered turtle must be large enough to cover all of its habitat requirements, including nesting beaches in the dry season that are separated from habitat where they maintain stable home ranges during the remainder of the year.
{"title":"Linear Home Range and Seasonal Movements of Podocnemis lewyana in the Magdalena River, Colombia","authors":"Diego A. Alzate-Estrada, Vivian P. Páez, Viviana M. Cartagena-Otálvaro, Brian C. Bock","doi":"10.1643/CE-19-234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1643/CE-19-234","url":null,"abstract":"In freshwater turtles, movements have been shown to be influenced by seasonal changes in water levels, with members of the family Podocnemididae exhibiting some of the longest nesting migrations yet documented. In this study, we quantified linear home range sizes and seasonal movements of the Magdalena River Turtle (Podocnemis lewyana) using capture–mark–recapture and radio-telemetry techniques. We marked 924 turtles and recaptured 7.8% of these individuals one or more times, thereby documenting the movements of 41 juveniles, 13 males, and 18 females. Turtle movements differed significantly among sex/size classes, with males moving more. While 85% of all individuals had estimated linear home range sizes of less than 1 km, one juvenile moved 3.1 km, one female moved 2.5 km, and one male moved 4.8 km. We also obtained data on the movements of six reproductively mature females using radio telemetry. We documented seasonal movements out of channels into wetland or riverine habitats, increasing the estimates of total distance traveled for this sex/size class to a mean of 13.8 km (range = 6.9–18.7 km), with greater displacements documented during low water periods. Together, our results show that individuals of P. lewyana in the middle Magdalena River drainage occupy limited linear home ranges, but that reproductively mature females make extensive displacements during low water periods, presumably related to their need to access nesting beaches in riverine habitats. There are currently no protected areas within the range of this endemic species, but our results argue that any reserve created for protecting this critically endangered turtle must be large enough to cover all of its habitat requirements, including nesting beaches in the dry season that are separated from habitat where they maintain stable home ranges during the remainder of the year.","PeriodicalId":10701,"journal":{"name":"Copeia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2020-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44453047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Tule Perch, Hysterocarpus traskii, is a viviparous and externally monomorphic, internally fertilizing fish. Despite appearing monomorphic, males and females are expected to differ in body shape because the different reproductive roles occupied by the sexes should influence patterns of selection and, ultimately, lead to differences in morphology. The objectives of this study were to determine if the Sacramento–San Joaquin subspecies of Tule Perch (H. t. traskii) exhibit (1) sexual dimorphism in body shape, (2) size-related changes in body shape, and (3) sexual size dimorphism. Geometric morphometric analyses indicated that H. t. traskii exhibited significant sexual dimorphism of body shape and identified the mid-body and caudal peduncle regions as the most effective discriminators between the sexes. Females were narrower through the caudal peduncle and mid-body and had anal-fin origins that were more posteriorly located than males. Additionally, H. t. traskii exhibited significant size-related changes in body shape. Larger fish were deeper bodied with blunter snouts and wider caudal peduncles. The eyes of larger fish were relatively smaller and located higher on the body than those of smaller fish. Hysterocarpus t. traskii did not exhibit differences between the sexes in standard length, but males were significantly heavier than females.
Tule Perch，Hysterocarpus traskii，是一种胎生的、外部单形态、内部受精的鱼类。尽管看起来是单形态的，但雄性和雌性的体型预计会有所不同，因为性别所扮演的不同生殖角色会影响选择模式，并最终导致形态的差异。本研究的目的是确定Tule Perch（H.t.traskii）的Sacramento–San Joaquin亚种是否表现出（1）体型的两性异形，（2）体型的大小相关变化，以及（3）性大小异形。几何形态计量学分析表明，曲氏H.t.traskii在体型上表现出显著的两性异形，并认为中脚和尾脚区域是最有效的性别区分区。雌性的尾鳍脚和中体较窄，臀鳍起点比雄性更靠后。此外，曲氏H.t.在体型上表现出显著的与体型相关的变化。体型较大的鱼体较深，吻较钝，尾鳍较宽。体型较大的鱼的眼睛相对较小，在身体上的位置也比体型较小的鱼高。曲氏Hysterocarpus t.traskii在标准长度上没有性别差异，但雄性明显比雌性重。
{"title":"Sexual Dimorphism and Size-Related Changes in Body Shape in Tule Perch (Family: Embiotocidae), a Native California Live-Bearing Fish","authors":"E. Parvis, R. M. Coleman","doi":"10.1643/CG-19-229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1643/CG-19-229","url":null,"abstract":"The Tule Perch, Hysterocarpus traskii, is a viviparous and externally monomorphic, internally fertilizing fish. Despite appearing monomorphic, males and females are expected to differ in body shape because the different reproductive roles occupied by the sexes should influence patterns of selection and, ultimately, lead to differences in morphology. The objectives of this study were to determine if the Sacramento–San Joaquin subspecies of Tule Perch (H. t. traskii) exhibit (1) sexual dimorphism in body shape, (2) size-related changes in body shape, and (3) sexual size dimorphism. Geometric morphometric analyses indicated that H. t. traskii exhibited significant sexual dimorphism of body shape and identified the mid-body and caudal peduncle regions as the most effective discriminators between the sexes. Females were narrower through the caudal peduncle and mid-body and had anal-fin origins that were more posteriorly located than males. Additionally, H. t. traskii exhibited significant size-related changes in body shape. Larger fish were deeper bodied with blunter snouts and wider caudal peduncles. The eyes of larger fish were relatively smaller and located higher on the body than those of smaller fish. Hysterocarpus t. traskii did not exhibit differences between the sexes in standard length, but males were significantly heavier than females.","PeriodicalId":10701,"journal":{"name":"Copeia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2020-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44032664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Moore, Eric M. McCluskey, B. Gould, P. Laarman, Jan Sapak
Dispersal and nesting philopatry are two processes that affect the connectivity, evolution, and long-term viability of populations, and thus have important conservation implications for threatened and endangered species. Here we investigate dispersal, relatedness, and the fine-scale spatial genetic structure of Eastern Box Turtles (Terrapene carolina carolina) at the northern extreme of their geographic range in northwestern Michigan. We analyzed georeferenced microsatellite genotypes (n = 165) using global, sex-specific, and two-dimensional local spatial autocorrelation (2D LSA), as well as spatial principal components analysis (sPCA). Genetic diversity was low relative to Eastern Box Turtle populations in the middle of the range. We found dispersal was male-biased, as only females showed significant positive spatial genetic autocorrelation at distances less than 2 km. 2D LSA showed local genetic “hotspots” of related turtles that tended to correspond with known nesting areas. We found evidence for global genetic structure using sPCA, which we attribute to genetic clustering rather than clinal variation. Our results suggest that restricted female dispersal and fidelity to limited open-canopy nest sites result in fine-scale spatial genetic structuring in this population. We stress the importance of maintaining high quality nesting habitat and habitat corridors for transient males, which appear to be critical for functional connectivity of Eastern Box Turtles.
{"title":"Nest-Site Fidelity and Sex-Biased Dispersal Affect Spatial Genetic Structure of Eastern Box Turtles (Terrapene carolina carolina) at Their Northern Range Edge","authors":"J. Moore, Eric M. McCluskey, B. Gould, P. Laarman, Jan Sapak","doi":"10.1643/CE-19-206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1643/CE-19-206","url":null,"abstract":"Dispersal and nesting philopatry are two processes that affect the connectivity, evolution, and long-term viability of populations, and thus have important conservation implications for threatened and endangered species. Here we investigate dispersal, relatedness, and the fine-scale spatial genetic structure of Eastern Box Turtles (Terrapene carolina carolina) at the northern extreme of their geographic range in northwestern Michigan. We analyzed georeferenced microsatellite genotypes (n = 165) using global, sex-specific, and two-dimensional local spatial autocorrelation (2D LSA), as well as spatial principal components analysis (sPCA). Genetic diversity was low relative to Eastern Box Turtle populations in the middle of the range. We found dispersal was male-biased, as only females showed significant positive spatial genetic autocorrelation at distances less than 2 km. 2D LSA showed local genetic “hotspots” of related turtles that tended to correspond with known nesting areas. We found evidence for global genetic structure using sPCA, which we attribute to genetic clustering rather than clinal variation. Our results suggest that restricted female dispersal and fidelity to limited open-canopy nest sites result in fine-scale spatial genetic structuring in this population. We stress the importance of maintaining high quality nesting habitat and habitat corridors for transient males, which appear to be critical for functional connectivity of Eastern Box Turtles.","PeriodicalId":10701,"journal":{"name":"Copeia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2020-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44104019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I am excited to present this year’s Robert K. Johnson Award for Excellence in Service to the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. This year’s Johnson Award committee members include Eric Hilton and Michael Douglas. The award honors Bob Johnson, who provided incredible service to the ASIH during his career until his death in 2000. Societies like the ASIH rely on the selfless service of our members. The Johnson Award is awarded to either an ichthyologist or a herpetologist in alternate years. This year’s award will be presented to a herpetologist. This year’s Johnson Award winner was unanimously selected by the committee for this recognition. Notably, the winner is still ‘‘mid-career’’ but has already accrued a service record that is worthy of recognition with this award. Providing such service to the ASIH while maintaining an excellent record of teaching, curating a collection, gaining funding and publishing in their field, and mentoring students is a model for the rest of us in the societies meeting at the JMIH. The awardee for 2019 has been active in ASIH since the 1990s when they were on the Committee for Graduate Student Participation and organized the Graduate Student Workshop, while also winning the ASIH Stoye Award for best student paper not once, but twice. Since then, the awardee has maintained continual presence on various committees for ASIH, including the JMIH Resolutions Committee, the Equal Participation Committee, and committees for the Johnson Award, the Fitch Award, and the Copeia Best Papers in Herpetology Award. Highlighting their commitment to the student members of the ASIH, the awardee has been a judge for the Stoye Awards, has chaired the Stoye and Storer award committees, has served on the Gaige Award committee, and co-organizes the Graduate Student–Professionals Speed-Networking Workshop. The awardee has also provided significant service to our Society’s publication by serving on the Copeia Review Implementation Committee, the Copeia Publications Policy Committee, and as the Copeia Book Review Editor for Herpetology. The awardee has been a central member of ASIH governance by serving two terms on the Board of Governors, as Co-Chair of the Long-Range Planning Committee branch of Executive Committee, and was on the ad hoc Committee for JMIH Code of Conduct. Our 2019 Robert K. Johnson awardee is Robert E. Espinoza.
{"title":"Award Announcements","authors":"Robert E. Espinoza, Robert K. Johnson","doi":"10.1643/OT-19-338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1643/OT-19-338","url":null,"abstract":"I am excited to present this year’s Robert K. Johnson Award for Excellence in Service to the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. This year’s Johnson Award committee members include Eric Hilton and Michael Douglas. The award honors Bob Johnson, who provided incredible service to the ASIH during his career until his death in 2000. Societies like the ASIH rely on the selfless service of our members. The Johnson Award is awarded to either an ichthyologist or a herpetologist in alternate years. This year’s award will be presented to a herpetologist. This year’s Johnson Award winner was unanimously selected by the committee for this recognition. Notably, the winner is still ‘‘mid-career’’ but has already accrued a service record that is worthy of recognition with this award. Providing such service to the ASIH while maintaining an excellent record of teaching, curating a collection, gaining funding and publishing in their field, and mentoring students is a model for the rest of us in the societies meeting at the JMIH. The awardee for 2019 has been active in ASIH since the 1990s when they were on the Committee for Graduate Student Participation and organized the Graduate Student Workshop, while also winning the ASIH Stoye Award for best student paper not once, but twice. Since then, the awardee has maintained continual presence on various committees for ASIH, including the JMIH Resolutions Committee, the Equal Participation Committee, and committees for the Johnson Award, the Fitch Award, and the Copeia Best Papers in Herpetology Award. Highlighting their commitment to the student members of the ASIH, the awardee has been a judge for the Stoye Awards, has chaired the Stoye and Storer award committees, has served on the Gaige Award committee, and co-organizes the Graduate Student–Professionals Speed-Networking Workshop. The awardee has also provided significant service to our Society’s publication by serving on the Copeia Review Implementation Committee, the Copeia Publications Policy Committee, and as the Copeia Book Review Editor for Herpetology. The awardee has been a central member of ASIH governance by serving two terms on the Board of Governors, as Co-Chair of the Long-Range Planning Committee branch of Executive Committee, and was on the ad hoc Committee for JMIH Code of Conduct. Our 2019 Robert K. Johnson awardee is Robert E. Espinoza.","PeriodicalId":10701,"journal":{"name":"Copeia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2020-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45196594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adams, Ginny L. (see Stearman, Loren W.) Adams, S. Reid (see Stearman, Loren W.) Agha, Mickey (see Ennen, Joshua R.) Aguilar-Puntriano, César (see de Carvalho, Thiago R.) Albert, James S. (see Fronk, Aaron H.) Albornoz-Garzón, Juan G. (see Conde-Saldaña, Cristhian C.) Anderson, Thomas L. (see Stretz, Piper) Andrle, Gabriel (see Cooper, Taylor) Angulo, Ariadne (see de Carvalho, Thiago R.) Apodaca, Joseph J. (see Patton, Austin) Araujo-Vieira, Katyuscia (see Dias, Pedro H. S.) Aristote, Mwenebatu M. (see Portillo, Frank) Bacigalupe, Leonardo D. (see Urbina, Jenny) Baldwin, Carole C. (see Uiblein, Franz) Bar-Massada, Avi (see Bernheim, Mai) Barker, Amanda M., Bryan S. Frazier, James Gelsleichter, R. Dean Grubbs, Christopher M. Hollenbeck, and David S. Portnoy. High Rates of Genetic Polyandry in the Blacknose Shark, Carcharhinus acronotus _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 502 Barrera, Diego A. (see de Carvalho, Thiago R.) Bastos, Douglas A. (see Soares, Isabel M.) Bauer, Aaron M. A Naturalist’s Guide to the Reptiles of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. By Indraneil Das and Abhijit Das _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 382 Behangana, Mathias (see Portillo, Frank) Bernheim, Mai, Uri Shanas, and Avi Bar-Massada. Soil Type Impacts Macrohabitat Selection and Spatiotemporal Activity Patterns of Testudo graeca in an Eastern Mediterranean Ecosystem _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 332 Bizjak Mali, Lilijana (see Itgen, Michael W.) Both, Camila (see Dias, Pedro H. S.) Branch, William R. (see Portillo, Frank) Branconi, Rebecca, James G. Garner, Peter M. Buston, and Marian Y. L. Wong. A New NonInvasive Technique for Temporarily Tagging Coral Reef Fishes _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 85 Brewer, Shannon K. (see Mollenhauer, Robert) Brooks, George C., Jennifer A. Smith, Thomas A. Gorman, and Carola A. Haas. Discerning the Environmental Drivers of Annual Migrations in an Endangered Amphibian _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 270 Brown, Cathy, Lucas R. Wilkinson, Kathryn K. Wilkinson, Tate Tunstall, Ryan Foote, Brian D. Todd, and Vance T. Vredenburg. Demography, Habitat, and Movements of the Sierra Nevada Yellow-Legged Frog (Rana sierrae) in Streams _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 661 Brown, Cathy (see Yarnell, Sarah M.) Brown, Rocko A. (see Ennen, Joshua R.) Burkhart, Jacob J. (see Stretz, Piper) Buston, Peter M. (see Branconi, Rebecca) Cafritz, Elisabeth (see Cooper, Taylor) Caldas, Francis L. S., Adrian A. Garda, Lucas B. Q. Cavalcanti, Edinaldo Leite-Filho, Renato G. Faria, and Daniel O. Mesquita. Spatial and Tro
{"title":"Volume ContentsCopeia 107, Nos. 1–4","authors":"Natan, M. Maciel","doi":"10.1643/OT-19-306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1643/OT-19-306","url":null,"abstract":"Adams, Ginny L. (see Stearman, Loren W.) Adams, S. Reid (see Stearman, Loren W.) Agha, Mickey (see Ennen, Joshua R.) Aguilar-Puntriano, César (see de Carvalho, Thiago R.) Albert, James S. (see Fronk, Aaron H.) Albornoz-Garzón, Juan G. (see Conde-Saldaña, Cristhian C.) Anderson, Thomas L. (see Stretz, Piper) Andrle, Gabriel (see Cooper, Taylor) Angulo, Ariadne (see de Carvalho, Thiago R.) Apodaca, Joseph J. (see Patton, Austin) Araujo-Vieira, Katyuscia (see Dias, Pedro H. S.) Aristote, Mwenebatu M. (see Portillo, Frank) Bacigalupe, Leonardo D. (see Urbina, Jenny) Baldwin, Carole C. (see Uiblein, Franz) Bar-Massada, Avi (see Bernheim, Mai) Barker, Amanda M., Bryan S. Frazier, James Gelsleichter, R. Dean Grubbs, Christopher M. Hollenbeck, and David S. Portnoy. High Rates of Genetic Polyandry in the Blacknose Shark, Carcharhinus acronotus _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 502 Barrera, Diego A. (see de Carvalho, Thiago R.) Bastos, Douglas A. (see Soares, Isabel M.) Bauer, Aaron M. A Naturalist’s Guide to the Reptiles of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. By Indraneil Das and Abhijit Das _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 382 Behangana, Mathias (see Portillo, Frank) Bernheim, Mai, Uri Shanas, and Avi Bar-Massada. Soil Type Impacts Macrohabitat Selection and Spatiotemporal Activity Patterns of Testudo graeca in an Eastern Mediterranean Ecosystem _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 332 Bizjak Mali, Lilijana (see Itgen, Michael W.) Both, Camila (see Dias, Pedro H. S.) Branch, William R. (see Portillo, Frank) Branconi, Rebecca, James G. Garner, Peter M. Buston, and Marian Y. L. Wong. A New NonInvasive Technique for Temporarily Tagging Coral Reef Fishes _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 85 Brewer, Shannon K. (see Mollenhauer, Robert) Brooks, George C., Jennifer A. Smith, Thomas A. Gorman, and Carola A. Haas. Discerning the Environmental Drivers of Annual Migrations in an Endangered Amphibian _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 270 Brown, Cathy, Lucas R. Wilkinson, Kathryn K. Wilkinson, Tate Tunstall, Ryan Foote, Brian D. Todd, and Vance T. Vredenburg. Demography, Habitat, and Movements of the Sierra Nevada Yellow-Legged Frog (Rana sierrae) in Streams _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 661 Brown, Cathy (see Yarnell, Sarah M.) Brown, Rocko A. (see Ennen, Joshua R.) Burkhart, Jacob J. (see Stretz, Piper) Buston, Peter M. (see Branconi, Rebecca) Cafritz, Elisabeth (see Cooper, Taylor) Caldas, Francis L. S., Adrian A. Garda, Lucas B. Q. Cavalcanti, Edinaldo Leite-Filho, Renato G. Faria, and Daniel O. Mesquita. Spatial and Tro","PeriodicalId":10701,"journal":{"name":"Copeia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2019-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49002168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fishes of the Salish Sea. T. W. Pietsch and J. W. Orr. Illustrated by J. R. Tomelleri. 2019. University of Washington Press. ISBN 9780295743745. Three volumes. 1032 p. $150 (hardcover).—Fishes of the Salish Sea, by Ted Pietsch and Jay Orr, is a three-volume work that covers, in considerable detail, the 260 fish species that are known to inhabit these waters. At the risk of seeming overly sycophantic, let us cut to the chase—all of you should run out and buy this tome. Okay, that duty discharged, let’s examine why you should do this. First, the book looks simply fabulous. The architect Louis Sullivan coined the phrase ‘‘form ever follows function,’’ opining that the shape of an object should relate to that object’s function. However, in this instance form and function have decided to go steady and are holding hands as they stroll down the beach. And why is this? First, the volumes have a remarkably clean, open, and unhurried look. There was clearly a decision made that instead of trying to jam a lot of content into as few pages as possible, the work would be longer, probably considerably longer, but more inviting. Second, there are those dreamy illustrations of each species by one of the great illustrators of fishes in the world, Joseph Tomelleri. Mr. Tomelleri, who with his enchanted set of colored pencils is clearly channeling the magic of both Johannes Vermeer and Gandalf the Grey, has produced some of the best renderings of Salish Sea fishes (or perhaps any fishes) ever. And then there is the content. At the outset, I should tip my hat to the graceful writing style, one that finely walks the line between the overly expository and overly narrative. The first volume begins with a preface that describes why a new work on Salish Sea fishes was needed—basically the authors were frustrated at having at hand publications that were either out of date, lacking in illustrations or keys, or covering too large a geographic area. The introductory chapters include a definition and geographic boundaries of the Salish Sea, that great inland water-way that extends from the southern end of Vancouver Island southwards to the bottom of Puget Sound, as well as the geological processes that led to the Sea’s current configuration. An entire chapter, one that I found particularly tasty, is devoted to the explorers of the region, with most space given to the many individuals— British, Canadian, and from the United States—who collected the region’s fishes. A separate chapter provides pithy biographical sketches of the many biologists worldwide who described these fishes. There follows an essay on the distribution of fishes within the Salish Sea and a species-byspecies table denoting where within the Sea each species has been recorded. The first volume continues with a pictorial dichotomous key to each family, a glossary, references, and ends with two indices, one biographical and the other of fish scientific and common names. Volumes two and three contain the family an
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{"title":"EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS","authors":"","doi":"10.1643/ot-19-302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1643/ot-19-302","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10701,"journal":{"name":"Copeia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2019-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44781339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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