Amphibians and Reptiles of New Mexico

Dorcas, Michael E.; Degenhardt, William G.; Painter, Charles W.; Price, Andrew H.

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“…We found a bimodal pattern for copulation in T. ornata range wide. The empirical evidence underlying our knowledge of the copulation phenology in T. ornata was based on a handful of primary sources (Brumwell, 1940;Smith et al, 1965;Legler, 1960;Blair, 1976), but subsequent literature on the subject frequently stated contradictory conclusions, especially in synoptic guides (e.g., Vogt, 1981;Degenhardt et al, 1996;Hammerson, 1999;Dodd, 2001;Minton, 2001;Ernst and Lovich, 2009;Ballinger et al, 2010;McGinnis and Stebbins, 2018). Among the historical studies, Legler (1960) found patterns in Kansas-derived from an independent source of data-that were the most congruent with our results.…”

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Copulation Phenology of Ornate Box Turtles (Terrapene ornata)

Hughes,

Dukuly,

Becker

et al. 2023

Journal of Herpetology

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Many organisms respond to environmental change by altering the timing of various life-cycle events. Understanding an organism's phenology, therefore, is crucial for predicting the effects of anthropogenic impacts such as climate change. Nevertheless, collecting adequate data to test hypotheses in secretive species is difficult, especially for rare behaviors. We integrated data from online citizen science platforms, published literature, and unpublished studies to clarify the seasonal timing of copulation in Terrapene ornata, a behavior that is rarely observed. We identified 132 copulation events involving an estimated 256 individual turtles: 19 instances from 5,465 photo-vouchered observations, 78 from 11 publications, and 35 from radiotracking 267 turtles for 8 yr across five sites. Copulations in T. ornata occurred in every month from April to October, with the fewest records in April and October. We found no copulation records in two months of purported aboveground activity (March and November), suggesting that mating in the wild may not occur at any time during the active season. The frequency of reproductive events exhibited multimodality with evident peaks in May and September. Records from the northern portion of the species' range were most frequent in the spring, whereas southern records were most frequent in the fall. Our approach generated a large number of empirical records for a rare behavior in a secretive species across vast spatial scales, which would not have been possible using any of the individual data sources alone.

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“…Hypotheses of peak copulation seasons in the Ornate Box Turtle (Terrapene ornata) Degenhardt et al, 1996;a Johnson, 2000;a Kiesow, 2006;Stone, 2007;Ernst and Lovich, 2009;a Ballinger et al, 2010;Bartlett and Bartlett, 2013;a Sievert and Sievert, 2021. …”

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Copulation Phenology of Ornate Box Turtles (Terrapene ornata)

Hughes,

Dukuly,

Becker

et al. 2023

Journal of Herpetology

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“…We recorded results from any study that identified diet items for any of the three species (Ballinger & Ballinger, 1979;Barbault et al, 1985;Bergeron & Blouin-Demers, 2020;Gadsden et al, 2011;Goldberg & Bursey, 1990;Simon, 1975;Watters, 2008). We also consulted field guides for the region (Degenhardt et al, 1996;Holycross et al, 2022;Jones & Lovich, 2009), which corroborated data from the literature but generally did not add records. Existing diet records may be found in Appendix S2.…”

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Dietary niche partitioning of three Sky Island Sceloporus lizards as revealed through DNA metabarcoding

Westeen,

Martínez‐Fonseca,

d'Orgeix

et al. 2023

Ecology and Evolution

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Lizard diets are highly diverse and have contributed to the diversification, biogeographical distributions, and evolution of novel traits across this global radiation. Many parts of a lizard's ecology—including habitat preferences, foraging modes, predation risks, interspecific competition, and thermal constraints, among others—interact to shape diets, and dietary niche partitioning simultaneously contributes to co‐occurrence within communities. We used DNA metabarcoding of fecal samples to identify prey items in the diets of three sympatric Sceloporus lizards in the Madrean Sky Islands of Arizona, USA. We found evidence for dietary niche partitioning between interacting species concomitant with their respective ecologies. We also compared diet composition between populations to understand how conserved or plastic species' diets are between different environments. Our findings suggest that habitat generalists are also diet generalists in this system, while the same may be true for specialists. The identification of prey items to much lower taxonomic levels than previously documented further reveals hidden diversity in the diets of these species and underscores the utility of metabarcoding for understanding the full complexity of lizard diets.

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“…Based on current geographic distributions, no other species of Ambystoma occurs near the greater Colorado region, with the closest being in eastern Oklahoma and Texas (A. annulatum, A. talpoideum, A. texanum, and A. tigrinum) and A. macrodactylum in Idaho (Green et al 2013). The only other salamanders that occur in or near Colorado are the relictual and highly isolated populations of the 2 plethodontids (Plethodontidae) Aneides hardii and Plethodon neomexicanus, which are found to the south in New Mexico at high mountainous elevations (Degenhardt et al 1996, Green et al 2013.…”

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Late Pleistocene Herpetofauna from Two High-Elevation Caves in the Upper Gunnison Basin, Colorado

Mead,

Emslie,

Meltzer

2023

Western North American Naturalist

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Amphibians and Reptiles of New Mexico

Cited by 48 publications

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Copulation Phenology of Ornate Box Turtles (Terrapene ornata)

Copulation Phenology of Ornate Box Turtles (Terrapene ornata)

Dietary niche partitioning of three Sky Island Sceloporus lizards as revealed through DNA metabarcoding

Late Pleistocene Herpetofauna from Two High-Elevation Caves in the Upper Gunnison Basin, Colorado

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