Chapter 1: Ecology of Snakes on Islands Marcio Martins and Harvey
B. Lillywhite
Chapter 2: Isolation, Dispersal, and Changing Sea Levels: How Sea
Kraits Spread to Far-Flung Islands Harold Heatwole
Chapter 3: Terrestrial habitats influence the spatial distribution
and abundance of amphibious sea kraits: implication for
conservation Xavier Bonnet and François Brischoux
Chapter 4: Physiological Ecology of Sea Kraits inhabiting Orchid
Island, Taiwan Ming-Chung Tu and Harvey B. Lillywhite
Chapter 5: The Queimada Grande Island and its Biological Treasure:
the Golden Lancehead Marcio Martins, Ricardo J. Sawaya, Selma
Almeida-Santos, and Otavio A. V. Marques
Chapter 6: Pleasure and Pain: Insular Tiger Snakes and Seabirds in
Australia Fabien Aubret
Chapter 7: The Eyes have it: Watching Treeboas on the Grenada Bank
Robert W. Henderson
Chapter 8: The ecology and conservation of the Milos viper,
Macrovipera schweizeri Göran Nilson
Chapter 9: The Unique Insular Population of Cottonmouth Snakes at
Seahorse Key Harvey B. Lillywhite and Coleman M. Sheehy III
Chapter 10: Living without a rattle: the biology and conservation
of the rattlesnake, Crotalus catalinensis, from Santa Catalina
Island, Mexico Gustavo Arnaud and Marcio Martins
Chapter 11: Decline and Recovery of the Lake Erie Watersnake: A
Story of Success in Conservation Richard B. King and Kristin M.
Stanford
Chapter 12: Defending Resources on Isolated Islands: Snakes Compete
for Hatchling Sea Turtles Akira Mori, Hidetoshi Ota, and Koichi
Hirate
Chapter 13: Islands in the Sky: Snakes on South American Tepuis D.
Bruce Means and César Barrio-Amorós
Harvey B. Lillywhite is a Professor of Biology at the University of
Florida, Gainesville. He has published numerous scientific articles
on snakes, including those living on islands in many parts of the
world. His research has been featured in Science, Nature,
Scientific American, Natural History, Proceedings of the Royal
Society, and many other publications. He is author of the book How
Snakes
Work, published by Oxford University Press in 2014.
Marcio Martins is a Professor of Ecology at the University of São
Paulo, Brazil. He has published numerous scientific articles on the
natural history, ecology, evolution and conservation of frogs and
snakes, including studies on island snakes from Brazil and Mexico.
His research has been featured in Nature Ecology & Evolution,
Biological Conservation, Global Ecology and Biogeography,
Oecologia, Proceedings of the Royal Society,
and many other publications.
"Martins and Lillywhite's meta-analysis of snakes on islands
includes several factors that would appeal to most students of
island including the size and distance of the island from the
mainland, species richness, diversity, andinstances of endemism. In
many cases their compiled data support the traditional paradigms,
thereby providing the reader a reassuring comfort...The taxonomic
coverage is broad and includes boids, elapids, viperids, colubrids,
and less
well-studied clades, such as blind snakes and aquatic file snakes.
The reader is assumed to have a working knowledge of the overall
taxonomic layout of the snake families and subfamilies, as well as
some
of the most common genera therein." -- Marshall D. McCue, Sable
Systems International, Las Vegas, Nevada
"Bottom line: The book is well written by all the authors, the
pictures are for the most part quite good, and the information is
fun and exciting. BUY IT!" -- Bayard H. Brattstrom, Professor of
Zoology, Emeritus, California State University, Amphibian & Reptile
Conservation
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