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Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 11:54:45 -0500
From: Gary Casper
Subject: New Book, Status & Conservation Midwest Amphibians
Apologies for cross-postings
Announcing the new book "Status and Conservation of Midwestern Amphibians"
1998. Lannoo, M.J. (ed), 507 pp. University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, ISBN
#0-87745-632-1.
Chapter titles are listed below. To purchase (US$30.00 softcover, $50.00
hardcover) call 773-568-1550 or ask your favorite bookseller.
Table of Contents
Landscape Patterns and Biogeography
Chapter 1: Late Quaternary environmental changes in midwestern United
States Richard G. Baker
Chapter 2: Amphibian recolonization of midwestern states in the
post-glacial Pleistocene J. Alan Holman
Chapter 3: Amphibian habitat in the midwestern United States
Kenneth S. Mierzwa
Chapter 4: Biogeography of midwestern amphibians
Robert Brodman
Chapter 5: Amphibians, ecosystems, and landscapes
Anthony J. Krzysik
Species Status
Chapter 6: Distribution, habitats, and status of four-toed salamanders in
Illinois Thomas G. Anton, David Mauger, Ronald A. Brandon, Scott R.
Ballard, and Donald M. Stillwaugh, Jr
Chapter 7: Population sizes of two endangered Ohio plethodontid
salamanders, green salamanders and cave salamanders
J. Eric Juterbock
Chapter 8: Discovery of green salamanders in Indiana and a distributional
survey Robert F. Madej
Chapter 9: Ten to eleven year population trends in two pond-breeding
amphibian species, red-spotted newts and green frogs
Spencer A. Cortwright
Chapter 10: Status of plains spadefoot toads in western Iowa
Eugenia S. Farrar and Jane D. Hey
Chapter 11: Blanchard's cricket frogs in Wisconsin: a status report Robert
Hay
Chapter 12: Status and distribution of two uncommon frogs, pickerel frogs
and wood frogs, in IllinoisMichael Redmer
Chapter 13: Status of northern leopard frogs in northeastern Ohio
Lowell Orr, Jeffrey Neumann, Elke Vogt, and Alexander Collier
Chapter 14: Status of Illinois chorus frogs in Madison County, Illinois
John K. Tucker
Chapter 15: Status of Illinois chorus frogs in southern Illinois
Ronald A. Brandon and Scott R. Ballard
Regional and State Status
Chapter 16: Status of Chicago region amphibians
Kenneth S. Mierzwa
Chapter 17: Status of the amphibians in rural northwestern Indiana Robert
Brodman and Mary Kilmurry
Chapter 18: Amphibian surveys in the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation
Area Geza Varhegyi, Spiro M. Mavroidis, B. Michael Walton, Cynthia A.
Conaway, and A. Ralph Gibson
Chapter 19: Status of amphibian populations in Hamilton County, Ohio
Jeffrey G. Davis, Paul J. Krusling, and John W. Ferner
Chapter 20: Status of amphibians in Minnesota
John J. Moriarty
Chapter 21: Monitoring long term trends in Wisconsin frog and toad
populations Michael J. Mossman, Lisa Hartman, Robert Hay, and John Sauer
Chapter 22: Review of the status of Wisconsin amphibians
Gary S. Casper
Chapter 23: Iowa's frog and toad survey, 1991 to '94
Lisa M. Hemesath
Chapter 24: Observations on Indiana amphibian populations: a 45 year
overview Sherman A. Minton
Chapter 25: Distribution of Ohio amphibians
Ralph A. Pfingsten
Diseases and Toxins
Chapter 26: Infectious diseases of amphibians
Sandra Faeh, Donald K. Nichols, and Val R. Beasley
Chapter 27: Amphibian toxicology
Stephen G. Diana and Val R. Beasley
Chapter 28: Evidence for home ranges in mudpuppies and implications for
impacts due to episodic application of the lampricide TFM
Timothy O. Matson
Chapter 29: Investigation of deformed northern leopard frogs in Minnesota
Judy Helgen, Robert G. McKinnell, and Mark C. Gernes
Conservation
Chapter 30: Illinois chorus frogs and the Sand Lake dilemma
Lauren E. Brown and John E. Cima
Chapter 31: Cooperative resolution of an environmental dilemma: a case
study Owen J. Sexton, Christopher A. Phillips, Mathew Parks, John F. Stinn,
and Robert Preston
Chapter 32: Conserving alternative amphibian phenotypes: is there anybody
out there? Howard H. Whiteman and Richard D. Howard
Chapter 33: Tiger salamander life history in relation to agriculture in
the northern Great Plains: a hypothesis Diane L. Larson
Chapter 34: Amphibian conservation and wetland management in the upper
midwest: a catch 22 for the cricket frog? Michael J. Lannoo
Chapter 35: Abandon not hope: status of repatriated populations of spotted
salamanders and wood frogs at the Tyson Research Center, St. Louis County,
Missouri Owen J. Sexton, Christopher A. Phillips, Thore J. Bergman,
Elizabeth B. Wattenberg, and Robert E. Preston
Chapter 36: Aquatic habitats in the midwest: waiting for amphibian
conservation initiatives William T. Leja
Monitoring and Applications
Chapter 37: Missouri frog and toad calling survey: the first year
Tom R. Johnson
Chapter 38: Monitoring amphibians in created and restored wetlands Joanne
Kline
Chapter 39: Anurans as indicators of wetland condition in the prairie
pothole region of North Dakota: an environmental monitoring and assessment
program (EMAP) pilot project Dorothy G. Bowers, David E. Anderson, and Ned
H. Euliss, Jr.
Chapter 40: Sources for locating historical information on amphibian
populations Alan R. Resetar
Chapter 41: Ecological design and analysis: principles and issues in
environmental monitoring Anthony J. Krzysik
Chapter 42: Geographic information systems, landscape ecology, and spatial
modeling Anthony J. Krzysik
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Gary S. Casper
http://www.mpm.edu/collect/garyc.html
Wisconsin Herpetology Homepage
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please direct correspondance for Gary S. Casper to:
Vertebrate Zoology Section, Milwaukee Public Museum
800 W. Wells St., Milwaukee, WI 53233
voice (414)278-2766 fax (414)278-6100 E-mail gsc@uwm.edu