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Syllabus (pdf)

Sample Exams

Note: The sample exams are NOT meant to be study guides.  They are meant to help you visualize what your test will look and feel like.

• Exam I (pdf)

Lecture Notes:

• Course introduction and Life histories (pdf)

• Taxonomy and classification (pdf)

• Thermoregulation and macroecological rules (pdf)

• Diversity and Life History of Salamanders (Caudata) (pdf)

• Heterochrony (pdf)

• Courtship in Salamanders (pdf)

• Frog calling mechanics and Frog calling (pdf)

• Declining Amphibians (pdf)

• Amphisbaenian adaptations (pdf)

• Diversity and Life History of Caecilians (Gymnophiona) (pdf)

• Turtles: survey of families, longevity, and biology (pdf)

• Rhyncocephalia, Lepidosauria, and Tuatara conservation (pdf)

• Ontogenetic Niche Shifts (pdf)

• Conservation, Evolution, and Ecology of Crocodylia (pdf)

• Foraging Ecology and Community Ecology of Squamates (pdf)

• Tegu lizard conservation (pdf)

Student Study Guides:

• Section 501- Frogs (doc)

• Section 501 - Snakes (doc)

• Section 501 - Lizards (doc)

• Section 502 - Frogs (doc)

• Section 502 - Snakes (doc)

• Section 502 - Lizards (doc)

Articles:

• Dayton and Fitzgerald, 2001: Competition, predation, and the distributions of four desert anurans (pdf)

• Skelly, 1997:  Tadpole Communities (pdf)

• Wright and Zamudio, 2001: Color pattern asymmetry as a correlate of habitat disturbance in spotted salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum) (pdf)

Lab Powerpoints:

• Lab 1: Introduction (ppt)

• Lab 2: Caecilians and Salamanders (ppt)

• Lab 3: Anurans I (ppt)

• Lab 4: Anurans II (ppt)

• Lab 5: Crocodilians and Turtles (ppt)

• Lab 6: Lizards I (ppt)

• Lab 7: Lizards II (ppt)

• Lab 8: Serpentes I (ppt)

• Lab 9: Serpentes II (ppt)

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