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A New Method to Examine the Oberhautchen of Lizard Skin

A Random Walk in the Park: An Individual-Based Null Model for Behavioral Thermoregulation

scientific article published on 26 February 2016

A gecko skin micro/nano structure - A low adhesion, superhydrophobic, anti-wetting, self-cleaning, biocompatible, antibacterial surface

scientific article published on 12 March 2015

A simple method to predict body temperature of small reptiles from environmental temperature

scientific article

A trade-off in conservation: Weed management decreases the abundance of common reptile and frog species while restoring an invaded floodplain

Abundance, diet and prey selection of arboreal lizards in a grazed tropical woodland

scientific article published on 25 December 2017

Acoustic attractants enhance trapping success for cane toads

Acoustic monitoring reveals year-round calling by invasive toads in tropical Australia

scientific article

Adaptation or preadaptation: why are keelback snakes (Tropidonophis mairii) less vulnerable to invasive cane toads (Bufo marinus) than are other Australian snakes?

article

Advancements in preprocessing, detection and classification techniques for ecoacoustic data: A comprehensive review for large-scale Passive Acoustic Monitoring

scientific article published in October 2024

After the crash: How do predators adjust following the invasion of a novel toxic prey type?

article

Amphibians on the brink.

scientific article published in August 2017

An endangered bird calls less when invasive birds are calling

article by Jaimie M. Hopkins et al published January 2021 in Journal of Avian Biology

Annual Variation of Litter Size and Offspring Size in a Viviparous Skink

Annual variations in reproductive characteristics of painted turtles (Chrysemys picta)

scientific article published in 1986

Antipredator behaviour of invasive geckos in response to chemical cues from snakes

Ants drive invertebrate community response to cattle grazing

scientific article

Application of Operative Environmental Temperatures to Analysis of Basking Behavior in Chrysemys picta

Arboreal Cover Boards: Using Artificial Bark to Sample Cryptic Arboreal Lizards

Arboreality increases reptile community resistance to disturbance from livestock grazing

scientific article

Australian house geckos are more aggressive than a globally successful invasive Asian house gecko

scientific article published on 04 November 2018

Behavioural responses of an Australian colubrid snake (Dendrelaphis punctulatus) to a novel toxic prey item (the Cane Toad Rhinella marina)

scientific article published on 04 April 2018

Behavioural responses of carnivorous marsupials (Planigale maculata) to toxic invasive cane toads (Bufo marinus)

article

Belly up: Reduced crevice accessibility as a cost of reproduction caused by increased girth in a rock-using lizard

scientific article published in 2010

Body size, sex and high philopatry influence the use of agricultural land by Galapagos giant tortoises

Burning season influences the response of bird assemblages to fire in tropical savannas

COMPLEX GROWTH RATE EVOLUTION IN A LATITUDINALLY WIDESPREAD SPECIES

Can Geckos Increase Shedding Rate to Remove Fouling?

Can an acoustic observatory contribute to the conservation of threatened species?

scientific article published in 2023

Can environmental DNA be used to detect first arrivals of the cane toad, <i>Rhinella marina</i>, into novel locations?

scientific article published in 2020

Chemical discrimination among predators by lizards: Responses of three skink species to the odours of high- and low-threat varanid predators

article

Comparisons through time and space suggest rapid evolution of dispersal behaviour in an invasive species

article

Complex growth rate evolution in a latitudinally widespread species

scientific article published on April 2004

Condition-dependent reproductive effort in frogs infected by a widespread pathogen

scientific article (publication date: 7 July 2015)

Contaminant adhesion (aerial/ground biofouling) on the skin of a gecko

scientific article published on July 2015

Cool temperatures reduce antifungal activity of symbiotic bacteria of threatened amphibians--implications for disease management and patterns of decline

scientific article

Correction to 'Contaminant adhesion (aerial/ground biofouling) on the skin of a gecko'.

scientific article published on May 2016

Correction: The nanotipped hairs of gecko skin and biotemplated replicas impair and/or kill pathogenic bacteria with high efficiency

scientific article published on 6 December 2016

Corrigendum to “The ten Australian ecosystems most vulnerable to tipping points” [Biol. Conserv. 144 (2011) 1472–1480]

article

Costs of Reproduction in Water Skinks

scientific article published in 1993

Costs of reproduction in lizards: escape tactics and susceptibility to predation

article published in 1992

DOES TOTAL REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT EVOLVE INDEPENDENTLY OF OFFSPRING SIZE?

Decreased food intake in reproducing lizards: A fecundity-dependent cost of reproduction?

scientific article published in 1996

Desiccation and Shelter-Site Use in a Tropical Amphibian: Comparing Toads with Physical Models

scientific article published in 1996

Designing solar farms for synergistic commercial and conservation outcomes

scientific article

Detrimental influence on performance of high temperature incubation in a tropical reptile: is cooler better in the tropics?

scientific article

Developing conservoltaic systems to support biodiversity on solar farms

scientific article published in 2023

Diet and prey selection of sympatric tropical skinks

scientific article published in 2010

Disease surveillance of the amphibian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Papua New Guinea

scientific article published on 17 August 2020

Disentangling causes of seasonal infection prevalence patterns: tropical tadpoles and chytridiomycosis as a model system

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Dose-dependent morbidity of freshwater turtle hatchlings, Emydura macquarii krefftii, inoculated with Ranavirus isolate (Bohle iridovirus, Iridoviridae)

scientific article published on 30 August 2019

Ecological associations among epidermal microstructure and scale characteristics of Australian geckos (Squamata: Carphodactylidae and Diplodactylidae)

scientific article published on 12 March 2019

Ecological niche and microhabitat use of Australian geckos

scientific article published in 2020

Effects of a short fire-return interval on resources and assemblage structure of birds in a tropical savanna

scientific article published in 2011

Effects of emerging infectious diseases on host population genetics: a review

article

Effects of environmental variables on invasive amphibian activity: using model selection on quantiles for counts

scientific article published in 2018

Effects of weed-management burning on reptile assemblages in Australian tropical savannas.

scientific article

Elevation, temperature, and aquatic connectivity all influence the infection dynamics of the amphibian chytrid fungus in adult frogs.

scientific article

Energy, Risk, and Reptilian Reproductive Effort: A Reply to Niewiarowski and Dunham

scientific article published on 01 October 1996

Environmental and social factors influence chorusing behaviour in a tropical frog: examining various temporal and spatial scales

scientific article published in 2000

Epizootiology of blood parasites in an Australian lizard: a mark-recapture study of a natural population

scientific article

Evaluation of offspring size-number invariants in 12 species of lizard

scientific article published in January 2009

Evidence of Geographic Variation in Lethal Temperature but Not Activity Temperature of a Lizard

article

Experimental manipulation reveals the importance of refuge habitat temperature selected by lizards

scientific article published in 2010

Extending the cost-benefit model of thermoregulation: high-temperature environments

scientific article published on April 2011

Extensive Acclimation in Ectotherms Conceals Interspecific Variation in Thermal Tolerance Limits

scientific article

Factors affecting incidence of infanticide and discrimination of related and unrelated neonates in male Mus musculus

scientific article published on 01 January 1983

Failure of strange females to cause pregnancy block in collared lemmings, Dicrostonyx groenlandicus

scientific article published on November 1985

Fighting an uphill battle: the recovery of frogs in Australia's Wet Tropics

scientific article published on 15 November 2017

Foraging behaviour of the Peaceful Dove (Geopelia striata) in relation to predation risk: group size and predator cues in a natural environment

Functional morphology of scale hinges used to transport water: convergent drinking adaptations in desert lizards (Moloch horridus and Phrynosoma cornutum)

scientific article published in 2007

Geckos cling best to, and prefer to use, rough surfaces

scientific article published on 16 October 2020

Giant snakes in tropical forests: a field study of the Australian scrub python, Morelia kinghorni

article

Heat seekers: A tropical nocturnal lizard uses behavioral thermoregulation to exploit rare microclimates at night

scientific article published on 04 April 2019

Heavy livestock grazing negatively impacts a marsupial ecosystem engineer

scientific article

High survivorship of an annually decreasing aggregation of hawksbill turtles, Eretmochelys imbricata, found foraging in the northern Great Barrier Reef

Hydroregulation in a tropical dry-skinned ectotherm

scientific article

Impacts of artificial light on food intake in invasive toads

scientific article published on 16 April 2020

Increased rates of dispersal of free-ranging cane toads (Rhinella marina) during their global invasion

scientific article published on 07 December 2021

Infection dynamics in frog populations with different histories of decline caused by a deadly disease.

scientific article

Infection dynamics, dispersal, and adaptation: understanding the lack of recovery in a remnant frog population following a disease outbreak

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Infection increases vulnerability to climate change via effects on host thermal tolerance

scientific article published on 24 August 2017

Invasive house geckos are more willing to use artificial lights than are native geckos

article by Stephen M. Zozaya et al published 14 July 2015 in Austral Ecology

Invasive wild deer exhibit environmental niche shifts in Australia: Where to from here?

scientific article published in 2023

Island of opportunity: can New Guinea protect amphibians from a globally emerging pathogen?

scientific article published in 2019

Leech removal is not the primary driver of basking behavior in a freshwater turtle

scientific article published in 2021

Life on the rocks: habitat use drives morphological and performance evolution in lizards

scientific article published on December 2008

Life-History Consequences of Divergent Selection on Egg Size in Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article published in September 1999

Life‐History Consequences of Divergent Selection on Egg Size in Drosophila melanogaster

article by Lin Schwarzkopf et al published September 1999 in The American Naturalist

Locomotor performance in an invasive species: cane toads from the invasion front have greater endurance, but not speed, compared to conspecifics from a long-colonised area

scientific article published on 16 October 2009

Mechanisms causing variation in sexual size dimorphism in three sympatric, congeneric lizards.

scientific article published in June 2014

Mechanisms driving avoidance of non-native plants by lizards

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Mixed population genomics support for the central marginal hypothesis across the invasive range of the cane toad (Rhinella marina) in Australia.

scientific article published on 9 July 2016

Moving Day and Night: Highly Labile Diel Activity Patterns in a Tropical Snake

article by Rickard Abom et al published 24 February 2012 in Biotropica

Multiple mate choice criteria and the importance of age for male mating success in the microhylid frog, Cophixalus ornatus

scientific article published in 2006

Natural disturbance reduces disease risk in endangered rainforest frog populations

scientific article published on 21 August 2015

Navigating agricultural landscapes: responses of critically endangered giant tortoises to farmland vegetation and infrastructure

scientific article published on 5 December 2022

Nest-Site Selection and Offspring Sex Ratio in Painted Turtles, Chrysemys picta

scientific article published on 11 February 1987

New Weapons in the Toad Toolkit: A Review of Methods to Control and Mitigate the Biodiversity Impacts of Invasive Cane Toads (Rhinella Marina).

scientific article published in June 2017

No behavioural compensation for fitness costs of autotomy in a lizard

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Nomadic movement in tropical toads

scientific article published in 2002

Nonlinear variation in clinging performance with surface roughness in geckos

scientific article published on 22 February 2020

One lump or two? Explaining a major latitudinal transition in reproductive allocation in a viviparous lizard

scientific article published in 2016

Ontogenetic shifts in a prey's chemical defences influence feeding responses of a snake predator

scientific article published in August 2012

Parallel evolution of toepads in rock-dwelling lineages of a terrestrial gecko (Gekkota: Gekkonidae: Heteronotia binoei)

scientific article

Parasite loads are higher in the tropics: temperate to tropical variation in a single host-parasite system

scientific article published in 2008

Passive acoustic monitoring in terrestrial vertebrates: a review

scientific article published in 2023

Phenotypic integration in response to incubation environment adaptively influences habitat choice in a tropical lizard

scientific article published on 23 September 2013

Population growth lags in introduced species

scientific article

Predation risk is a function of alternative prey availability rather than predator abundance in a tropical savanna woodland ecosystem

scientific article published on 22 May 2019

Primate species richness in relation to habitat structure in Amazonian rainforest fragments

scholarly article by Lin Schwarzkopf & Anthony B. Rylands published 1989 in Biological Conservation

Profitable and Sustainable Cattle Grazing Strategies Support Reptiles in Tropical Savanna Rangeland

scientific article published in 2018

Ranaviruses and reptiles

scientific article published on 12 December 2018

Rapid differentiation of sexual signals in invasive toads: call variation among populations

scientific article

Realistic heat pulses protect frogs from disease under simulated rainforest frog thermal regimes

scientific article published in 2017

Removal mechanisms of dew via self-propulsion off the gecko skin

scientific article

Robust calling performance in frogs infected by a deadly fungal pathogen.

scientific article

Self-made shelters protect spiders from predation

scholarly article

Sex determination in northern painted turtles: effect of incubation at constant and fluctuating temperatures

scientific article published in 1985

Sex, light, and sound: location and combination of multiple attractants affect probability of cane toad (Rhinella marina) capture

Sexual Dimorphism in Body Shape Without Sexual Dimorphism in Body Size in Water Skinks (Eulamprus quoyii)

article by Lin Schwarzkopf published June 2005 in Herpetologica

Skin hydrophobicity as an adaptation for self-cleaning in geckos

scientific article published on 12 April 2020

Social context alters retreat- and nest-site selection in a globally invasive gecko, Hemidactylus frenatus

scientific article published on 22 November 2019

Some lights repel amphibians: implications for improving trap lures for invasive species

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Something different for dinner? Responses of a native Australian predator (the keelback snake) to an invasive prey species (the cane toad)

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Speciation in the mountains and dispersal by rivers: Molecular phylogeny of Eulamprus water skinks and the biogeography of Eastern Australia

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Spectral overlap and temporal avoidance in a tropical savannah frog community

Spinal arthritis in cane toads across the Australian landscape

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Spinal arthritis in invasive cane toads is linked to rate of dispersal as well as to latitude

scientific article published on 27 September 2019

Success of capture of toads improved by manipulating acoustic characteristics of lures.

scientific article

THE EVOLUTION OF REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT IN LIZARDS AND SNAKES.

scientific article published on February 1992

Testing measures of boldness and exploratory activity in native versus invasive species: geckos as a model system

scientific article

The 10 Australian ecosystems most vulnerable to tipping points

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The Australian Acoustic Observatory

scientific article

The Evolution of Reproductive Effort in Lizards and Snakes

article published in 1992

The Function of Tail Displays in Male Rainbow Skinks (Carlia jarnoldae)

article by Tracy Langkilde et al published June 2005 in Journal of Herpetology

The country toad and the city toad: comparing morphology of invasive cane toads (<i>Rhinella marina</i>) from rural and urban environments

scientific article published in 2022

The evolution of body shape in response to habitat: is reproductive output reduced in flat lizards?

scientific article published on 14 January 2009

The impact of cattle grazing regimes on tropical savanna bird assemblages

scientific article

The interplay of fungal and bacterial microbiomes on rainforest frogs following a disease outbreak

scientific article published in 2022

The nanotipped hairs of gecko skin and biotemplated replicas impair and/or kill pathogenic bacteria with high efficiency

scientific article published on 4 November 2016

The response of an arboreal mammal to livestock grazing is habitat dependant

scientific article published on 12 December 2017

The return of the frogs: The importance of habitat refugia in maintaining diversity during a disease outbreak

scientific article published on 23 June 2019

The role of ecdysis in repair of an attachment system: a case study using geckos

scientific article published in 2023

There's more than one way to climb a tree: Limb length and microhabitat use in lizards with toe pads

scientific article published on 27 September 2017

Thermal biology of reproduction in viviparous skinks, Eulamprus tympanum: why do gravid females bask more?

scientific article published in December 1991

Thermal performance of squamate embryos with respect to climate, adult life history, and phylogeny

scholarly article by ROBIN M. ANDREWS & Lin Schwarzkopf published 17 April 2012 in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Too cold is better than too hot: Preferred temperatures and basking behaviour in a tropical freshwater turtle

scientific article published in 2023

Tropical reptiles in pine forests: Assemblage responses to plantations and plantation management by burning

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Using a Bayesian network to clarify areas requiring research in a host-pathogen system.

scientific article

Visible Implant Elastomer Marking Does Not Affect Short-term Movements or Survival Rates of the Treefrog Litoria rheocola

scientific article published in March 2014

Visible Implant Elastomer as a Viable Marking Technique for Common Mistfrogs (Litoria rheocola)

scientific article published in June 2015

Wary invaders and clever natives: sympatric house geckos show disparate responses to predator scent

article

White blood cell profiles in amphibians help to explain disease susceptibility following temperature shifts

scientific article

Why do lizards avoid weeds?

“Selfish Mothers” Use “Maternal Manipulation” To Maximize Lifetime Reproductive Success

scientific article published in September 2012