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List of works by Patrick J. Weatherhead

A test of the thermal coadaptation hypothesis with black rat snakes (Elaphe obsoleta) and northern water snakes (Nerodia sipedon)

scientific article published in 2003

An Improved Radio Transmitter and Implantation Technique for Snakes

scientific article published in 1984

C. Davison (Dave) Ankney, 1946–2013

scholarly article published in The Auk, July 2014

Changes in Habitat Use and Movement Patterns with Body Size in Black Ratsnakes (Elaphe obsoleta)

scientific article published in December 2007

Climatic and geographic predictors of life history variation in Eastern Massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus): A range-wide synthesis

scientific article

Comparative demography of black rat snakes (Elaphe obsoleta) in Ontario and Maryland

scholarly article by Gabriel Blouin-Demers et al published 28 February 2006 in Journal of Zoology: Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

Demography and sexual size dimorphism in northern water snakes, Nerodia sipedon

article

Demography and sexual size dimorphism in northern water snakes, Nerodia sipedon

scholarly article by Gregory P. Brown & Patrick J. Weatherhead published 1999 in Canadian Journal of Zoology

Developmental Plasticity and Growth Rates of Green Frog (Rana clamitans) Embryos and Tadpoles in Relation to a Leech (Macrobdella decora) Predator

scientific article published in May 2002

Diet of Sistrurus catenatus in Ontario and Ohio: Effects of Body Size and Habitat

scientific article published in December 2009

Directional gene flow patterns in disjunct populations of the black ratsnake (Pantheropis obsoletus) and the Blanding’s turtle (Emydoidea blandingii)

Do savannah sparrows commit the concorde fallacy?

scientific article published in 1979

Do seasonal patterns of rat snake (Pantherophis obsoletus) and black racer (Coluber constrictor) activity predict avian nest predation?

scientific article published on 26 February 2016

Does Prey Availability Determine Seasonal Patterns of Habitat Selection in Texas Ratsnakes

scientific article published in March 2009

Effects of Temperature, Moon Phase, and Prey on Nocturnal Activity in Ratsnakes: An Automated Telemetry Study

article published in 2013

Effects of climate variation on timing of nesting, reproductive success, and offspring sex ratios of red-winged blackbirds

scientific article

Effects of reproduction on survival and growth of female northern water snakes, Nerodia sipedon

scientific article published in 1997

Egg size variation in birds with asynchronous hatching: is bigger really better?

scientific article

Energetics and space use: intraspecific and interspecific comparisons of movements and home ranges of two Colubrid snakes.

scientific article published in March 2008

Energetics of parental care in six syntopic centrarchid fishes

scientific article published on 17 February 2006

Experimental assessment of ecological and phenotypic factors affecting male mating success and polyandry in northern watersnakes, Nerodia sipedon

scientific article published in 2005

Experimental evidence that nesting ducks use mammalian urine to assess predator abundance

scientific article published in 2012

Extra-pair paternity and the opportunity for sexual selection in a socially monogamous bird (Dendroica petechia)

article

Factors Affecting Neonate Size Variation in Northern Water Snakes, Nerodia sipedon

scientific article published in 1999

Female Settling Patterns and Polygyny: Tests of a Neutral-Mate-Choice Hypothesis

scientific article published in 1988

Genetic evidence for sexual selection in black ratsnakes, Elaphe obsoleta

article

Geographic variation in body size and sexual size dimorphism of North American Ratsnakes (Pantherophis spp. s.l.)

scientific article published in 2018

Growth and Sexual Size Dimorphism in Northern Water Snakes (Nerodia sipedon)

HIERARCHICAL PATTERNS OF GENETIC POPULATION STRUCTURE IN BLACK RAT SNAKES (ELAPHE OBSOLETA OBSOLETA) AS REVEALED BY MICROSATELLITE DNA ANALYSIS

scientific article published on 01 December 1999

Habitat Features of Black Rat Snake Hibernacula in Ontario

scientific article published in June 1996

Habitat Selection in an Ontario Population of the Snake, Elaphe obsoleta

scientific article published in 1985

Habitat Use and Activity of Prairie Kingsnakes (Lampropeltis Calligaster Calligaster) in Illinois

scientific article published in 2006

Habitat Use by Black Rat Snakes (Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta) in Fragmented Forests

scientific article published on 03 May 2006

Hibernation Site Selection by Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnakes (Sistrurus catenatus catenatus) near Their Northern Range Limit

scientific article published in 2006

Homing to Food by Black Rat Snakes (Elaphe obsoleta)

scientific article published on 31 December 1990

Hybridization between mtDNA-defined phylogeographic lineages of black ratsnakes (Pantherophis sp.).

scientific article

Implications of spatial patterns of roosting and movements of American robins for West Nile virus transmission

scientific article published on 31 May 2012

Increased nest defence of upland-nesting ducks in response to experimentally reduced risk of nest predation

scientific article published in 2012

Indirect effect of climate change: Shifts in ratsnake behavior alter intensity and timing of avian nest predation

scholarly article by Brett A. DeGregorio et al published September 2015 in Ecological Modelling

Intraspecific and interspecific variation in use of forest-edge habitat by snakes

scientific article published on 08 December 2006

Is nest predation on two endangered bird species higher in habitats preferred by snakes?

scientific article published in 2009

Latitudinal variation in seasonal activity and mortality in ratsnakes (Elaphe obsoleta).

scientific article

Latitudinal variation in thermal ecology of North American ratsnakes and its implications for the effect of climate warming on snakes

article

Linking snake behavior to nest predation in a Midwestern bird community.

scientific article published in January 2010

Long-term decline in a red-winged blackbird population: ecological causes and sexual selection consequences

scientific article published in November 2005

Measurement versus estimation of condition in snakes

article

Mortality Patterns and the Cost of Reproduction in a Northern Population of Ratsnakes, Elaphe obsoleta

scientific article published in 2012

NATURAL SELECTION AND SEXUAL SELECTION ON BODY SIZE IN RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS.

scientific article published in November 1987

NATURAL SELECTION AND SEXUAL SIZE DIMORPHISM IN RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS.

scientific article published on August 1994

Nests Without Eggs: Abandonment or Cryptic Predation?

scientific article published in 2006

Offspring Quality and the Polygyny Threshold: "The Sexy Son Hypothesis"

scientific article (publication date: February 1979)

Patterns of Variation in Spring Emergence by Black Rat Snakes (Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta)

scientific article published in 2000

Plasticity in Preferred Body Temperature of Young Snakes in Response to Temperature during Development

scientific article published in August 2000

Power lines, roads, and avian nest survival: effects on predator identity and predation intensity

scientific article

Preliminary Observations of Habitat Use and Movements of the Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake (Sistrurus c. catenatus)

scientific article published in 1992

Prey-mediated effects of drought on condition and survival of a terrestrial snake

scientific article

Ratsnake response to bottomland flooding: implications for avian nest predation

scientific article published on 28 December 2009

Response of Free-Ranging Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnakes to Human Disturbance

scientific article published in June 1994

Risks and Rewards of Nest Defence by Parent Birds

article

SEXUAL SIZE DIMORPHISM AND EGG-SIZE ALLOMETRY IN BIRDS.

scientific article published in June 1994

SPARROW SEXUAL SIZE DIMORPHISM AND TESTIS SIZE: A COMMENT

scientific article published on 01 August 1989

Sampling Biases in Demographic Analyses of Black Rat Snakes (Elaphe obsoleta)

scientific article published in 2001

Seasonal sex allocation by Common Grackles? Revisiting a foundational study.

scientific article published in November 2009

Sex ratios, mating behavior and sexual size dimorphism of the northern water snake, Nerodia sipedon

scientific article published in 1995

Sexual Dimorphism in Malodorousness of Musk Secretions of Snakes

scientific article published in September 2000

Sexual abstinence and the cost of reproduction in adult male water snakes,Nerodia sipedon

scientific article published in 2004

Site infidelity in song sparrows

article by Patrick J. Weatherhead & Karyn A. Boak published October 1986 in Animal Behaviour

Snake activity affects seasonal variation in nest predation risk for birds

scientific article published in 2008

Snake predation on North American bird nests: culprits, patterns and future directions

scientific article published in 2014

TARGETS OF SEXUAL SELECTION: SONG AND PLUMAGE OF WOOD WARBLERS.

scientific article published in December 1990

THERMAL ECOLOGY AND SEXUAL SIZE DIMORPHISM IN NORTHERN WATER SNAKES,NERODIA SIPEDON

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THERMAL ECOLOGY OF BLACK RAT SNAKES (ELAPHE OBSOLETA) IN A THERMALLY CHALLENGING ENVIRONMENT

scientific article published in 2001

The cost of extra-pair fertilizations to female red-winged blackbirds

article

The impact of predation by red-winged blackbirds on European corn borer populations

scientific article published in 1981

Two Principal Strategies in Avian Communal Roosts

scientific article published in 1983

Understanding avian nest predation: why ornithologists should study snakes

scientific article published in 2004

Variation in offspring sex ratios in the northern water snake ( Nerodia sipedon )

scientific article published in 1998

Wait Until Dark? Daily Activity Patterns and Nest Predation by Snakes

scientific article published in 2015