Reptiles have been considered by some to be of “minor importance,” and their
disappearance has been suggested to “not make much difference one way or the other”(Zim …

Camera traps are valuable sampling tools commonly used to inventory and monitor wildlife
communities but are challenged to reliably sample small animals. We introduce a novel …

Herpetofaunal surveys are useful to record data related to diversity, distribution and habitat
preferences of amphibians and reptiles in any particular ecosystem. During past few years, a …

В пособии представлены методы полевых исследований полуводных и наземных
позвоночных животных, методы количественных учётов наземных позвоночных, их …

Despite the growing concern over reptile population declines, the effects of modern
industrial silviculture on reptiles have been understudied, particularly for diminutive and …

Many of the simplest yet most highly productive sampling methods in herpetological field
research use some type of trap or attraction device to increase capture rates or target …

Although recent reports of global amphibian declines have received considerable attention,
reptile declines have gone largely unreported. Among reptiles, snakes are particularly …

There is an urgent need to improve methods for surveying snakes and lizards (squamates).
Currently, fundamental data gaps exist about squamate distributions and abundance in …

Knowing the phenologies of species in a region helps guide management and conservation
activities in breeding ponds and surrounding terrestrial habitats. We examined the …

Fundamental questions in ecology and conservation require reliable data about population
size and structure. For freshwater turtles, such data are often obtained via mark–recapture …