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This section focuses on the specific vertebrate
group, AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES
- Allen, W.B., Jr.
- 1988 State Lists of Endangered and Threatened Species of Reptiles
and Amphibians and Laws and Regulations Covering Collecting of Reptiles
and Amphibians in Each State. Revised 3rd Printing. Order
from the Chicago Herpetological Society, 2001 North Clark St., Chicago,
Illinois 60614. 87 pp.
- Beebee, T.J.C.
- 1996 Ecology and Conservation of Amphibians. Chapman &
Hall, London 214 pp.
- Bjorndal, K.A. (Editor
- 1995 Biology and Conservation of Sea Turtles: Revised Edition.
Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC. 616 pp. (Four sections:
first on aspects of basic biology as applies to conservation problems;
second presents status of populations and subsistence hunting; third,
conservation theory, techniques, laws, new section on developments
and recent literature for fourteen areas of sea turtle biology and
conservation.)
- Blaustein, A.R. and D.B. Wake
- 1995 The Puzzle of Declining Amphibian Populations. Scientific
American, Vol. 272, No. 4, pp. 52-57.
- Corbett, K. (Editor)
- 1989 The Conservation of European Reptiles and Amphibians.
C. Helm, London, North Pomfret, Vermont. 274 pp.
- Dodd, C.K., Jr.
- 1988 Synopsis of the Biological Data on the Loggerhead Sea Turtle
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus 1758). U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
Biological Report 88 (14). 110 pp.
- Environmental Agency (editors)
- 2000 Threatened Wildlife of Japan: Red Data Book. 2nd
edition. Reptilia/Amphibia. Japan Wildlife Research Center,120 pp.
- Ernst, C.H., J. E. Lovich, and R.W. Barbour
- 1994 Turtles of the United States and Canada. Smithsonian
Institution Press, Washington, DC 682 pp. (56 life histories accounts
and conservation of threatened species.)
- Frank, N. and E. Ramus
- 1994 State, Federal, and C.I.T.E.S Regulations for Herpetologists.
NG Publishing, RD #3 Box 37009-A, Pottsville, Pennsylvania 1790, 64
pp. (Lists endangered and threatened species for each State with regulations
governing those species.)
- Frazer, N.
- 1992 Sea Turtle Conservation and Halfway Technology. Conservation
Biology, Vol. 266, No. 5, pp. 179-184.
- Green, D.M. (Editor)
- 1997 Amphibians in Decline. Forward by W.R. Heyer. Herpetological
Conservation, Volume I. Society for the Study of Amphibians and
Reptiles, Saint Louis, Missouri. 338 pp.
- Groombridge B. (Compiler)
- 1988 World Checklist of Threatened Amphibians and Reptiles.
4th edition. Nature Conservancy Council, UK. 138 pp. (Summary
of basic information on all species listed on the CITES appendicies
or appearing in IUCN Red Data Books. Contains English common
names and list of countries.) Difficult to obtain. Only available
from Dept BRV, Nature Conservancy Council, Northminster House, Peterborough
PE1 1VA, U. K.
- Herpetologists League
- 1994 Herpetological Monographs, No. 8, 1994. Issue devoted
to studies of the desert tortoise, Gopherus agassizii. 340
pp.
- Heyer, W.R. et al (editors)
- 1994 Measuring and Monitoring Biological Diversity: Standard
Methods for Amphibians. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington,
DC. 364 pp. (Includes natural history, standardization and quantification,
research design inventory and monitoring, populations estimates, data
analysis.)
- International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
- Cont. Froglog. Newsletter of the IUCN/SSC Task Force on Declining
Amphibians.(Current research and events regarding declining amphibians.)
- Jaffe, M.
- 1994 And No Birds Sing: the Story of an Ecological Disaster in
a Tropical Paradise. Simon & Schuster, New York. 283 pp. (Story
of the Brown Tree Snake in Guam.)
- Klemens, M.W. (editor)
- 2000 Turtle Conservation. Foreward by Nat B. Frazer. Smithsonian
Institution Press, Washington DC 344 pp. (past strategies described,
more effective ones proposed; reviews outlook for freshwater, semi-aquatic
and terrestrial species.)
- Lannoo, M.J. (Editor)
- 1998 Status and Conservation of Midwestern Amphibians. University
of Iowa Press, Iowa City. 507 pp.
- Levell, J.P.
- 1995 A Field Guide to Reptiles and the Law. Serpent’s
Tale Natural History book distributors, Excelsior, Minnesota. 240
pp. (Rare amphibians and reptiles and the laws dealing with collecting
and conservation)
- Luxmoore, R., B. Groombridge, and S. Broad (Editors)
- 1988 Significant Trade in Wildlife: A review of Selected
Species in CITES Appendix II. Volume 2: Reptiles and Invertebrates.
IUCN, Gland, Switzerland. 306 pp. (285 pp. on reptiles; 2nd
section-species accounts.)
- Marquez-M., R.
- 1990 Sea Turtles of the World: An Annotated and Illustrated Catalogue
of Sea Turtle Species Known to Date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis Volume
II (125). 81 pp. (Eight species of sea turtles described with up-to-date
information on the status of various populations. Includes a key for
species identification.)
- Marquez-M., R. (Compiler)
- 1994 Synopsis of Biological Data on the Kemp's Ridley Turtle,
Lepidochelys kempi (Garman 1880). U.S. Department of Commerce,
NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-343. 91 pp.
- Mrosovsky, N.
- 1983 Conserving Sea Turtles. The British Herpetological
Society, London. 176 pp.
- Murphy, J.B., K. Adler, and J.T. Collins
- 1994 Captive Management and Conservation of Amphibians and Reptiles.
Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. Ithaca, New York.
408 pp.
- National Research Council
- 1990 Decline of the Sea Turtles. Causes and Prevention. National
Academy Press, Washington, DC 259 pp. (Causes and significance of
turtle mortality; includes ecology, biology, and behavior of 5 endangered
species.)
- Petranka, J.
- 1998 Salamanders of the United States and Canada. Smithsonian
Institution Press, Washington. 592 pp.(For each species, a section
on conservation biology is included.)
- Phillips, K.
- 1995 Tracking the Vanishing Frogs: An Ecological Mystery.
Paperback, Penguin Books, New York. 244 pp. (Includes 21 page bibliography.)
- Phillips, P.
- 1989 The Great Ridley Rescue. Mountain Press, Missoula, Montana.
180 pp. (Popular account of the history and habitat of the Kemp's
Ridley turtle and past and present efforts to save it.)
- Pritchard, P.C. H.
- 1996 The Galapagos Tortoises: Nomenclatural and Survival Status.
Chelonian Research Monographs No. 1. Contribution of the Charles Darwin
Foundation for the Galapagos Isles; no. 199.
- Rebel, T.P.
- l974 Sea Turtles and the Turtle Industry of the West Indies,
Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. l949 revised edition. University
of Miami Press, Florida. 250 pp.
- Riedman, S.R. and R. Witham
- l974 Turtles, Extinction or Survival? Abelard-Schuman, New
York. l56 pp.
- Ross, C.A. (Editor)
- 1989 Crocodiles and Alligators. Facts on File, New York.
240 pp. (Includes sections on evolution, biology, behavior, environment,
trade in crocodilians, farming and ranching, and conservation and
management. Children's edition, 1990, edited by Leslie Dow.)
- Swingland, I.R., and M.W. Klemens (Editors)
- 1989 The Conservation Biology of Tortoises. IUCN, Gland,
Switzerland. 204 pp. (Results of Operation Tortoise, a worldwide project
by IUCN/SSC.
- Wang Sung (Chief editor)
- 1998 China Red Data Book of Endangered Animals: Amphibia and
Reptilia. Pei-ching: Ko hsueh chu pan she. 330 pp.
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