The effect of body size on cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus) survival, recapture probability, and behavior in an Alabama swamp

Herpetological Conservation and Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 221-235

  Koons, David N ^a,b   Birkhead, Roger D ^b   Boback, Scott M ^b,c   Williams, Matthew I ^b   Greene, Matthew P ^b,d  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DICKINSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^d THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agkistrodon piscivorus; Behavior; Capture mark recapture; Cottonmouth; Life history; Snake; Survival

Indexed keywords

AGKISTRODON; AGKISTRODON PISCIVORUS; SERPENTES;

EID: 70349609891     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19317603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (72)

1. Akaike, H. 1973. Information theory and an extension of the maximum likelihood principle. Pp. 267-281 In International Symposium on Information Theory. Petran, B.N., and F. Csaki (Eds.). 2nd Edition. Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, Hungary
2. Aubry, L.M., E. Cam, and J.-Y. Monnat. 2009. Habitat selection, age-specific recruitment, and reproductive success in a long-lived seabird, the Black-legged Kittiwake. Pp. 365-392 In Modeling Demographic Processes in Marked Populations. Thomson, D.L., E.G. Cooch, E.G., and M.J. Conroy (Eds.). (Series) Environmental and Ecological Statistics, Vol. 3.
3. Birkhead, R.D., M.I. Williams, S.M. Boback, and M.P. Greene. 2004. The Cottonmouth condo: A novel venomous snake transport device. Herpetological Review 35:153-154.
4. Blem, C.R., and L.R. Blem. 1995. The Eastern Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus) at the northern edge of its range. Journal of Herpetology 29:391-398.
5. Blueweiss, L., H. Fox, V. Kudzma, D. Nakashima, R. Peters, and S. Sams. 1978. Relationships between body size and some life history parameters. Oecologica 37:257-272.
6. Bonnet, X., R. Shine, O. Lourdais, and G. Naulleau. 2003. Measures of reproductive allometry are sensitive to sampling bias. Functional Ecology 17:39-49.
7. Bronikowski, A.M., and S.J. Arnold. 1999. The evolutionary ecology of life history variation in the garter snake Thamnophis elegans. Ecology 80:2314-2325.
8. Brown, W.S., M. KÉry, and J.E. Hines. 2007. Survival of Timber Rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus) estimated by capture-recapture models in relation to age, sex, color morph, time and birth place. Copeia 2007:656-671.
9. Burgman, M., S. Ferson, and H.R. Akçakaya. 1993. Risk Assessment in Conservation Biology. Chapman & Hall, New York, New York, USA.
10. Burkett, R.D. 1966. Natural history of the Cottonmouth Moccasin, Agkistrodon piscivorus (Reptilia). University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History 1966:435-491.
11. Burnham, K.P., and D.R. Anderson. 1998. Model Selection and Inference: A Practical Information-Theoretic Approach. Springer, New York, New York, USA.
12. Bury, R.B. 2006. Natural history, field ecology, conservation biology and wildlife management: Time to connect the dots. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 1:56-61.
13. Caswell, H. 2001. Matrix Population Models: Construction, Analysis, and Interpretation. 2nd Edition. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts, USA.
14. Conant, R., and J.T. Collins. 1991. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
15. Conn, P.B., and D.R. Diefenbach. 2007. Adjusting age and stage distributions for misclassification errors. Ecology 88:1977-1983.
16. Cormack, R.M. 1964. Estimates of survival from the sighting of marked animals. Biometrika 51:429-438.
17. Diller, L.V., and R.L. Wallace. 2002. Growth, reproduction, and survival in a population of Crotalus viridis oreganus in north central Idaho. Herpetological Monographs 16:26-45.
18. Dufour, K.W., and R.G. Clark. 2002. Differential survival of yearling and adult female Mallards and its relation to breeding habitat conditions. Condor 104:297-308.
19. Dunham, A.E., and D.B. Miles. 1985. Patterns of covariation in life history traits of Squamate reptiles: The effects of size and phylogeny reconsidered. American Naturalist 126:231-257.
20. Dunham, A.E., D.B. Miles, and D.N. Reznick. 1988. Life history patterns in Squamate reptiles. Pp. 441-522 In Biology of the Reptilia, Vol. 16. Gans, C., and R.B. Huey (Eds.). Alan R. Liss, Inc., New York, New York, USA.
21. Flatt, T., S. Dummermuth, and B.R. Anholt 1997. Markrecapture estimates of survival in populations of the Asp Viper, Vipera aspis aspis. Journal of Herpetology 31:558-564.
22. Ford, N.B. 2002. Ecology of the Western Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorous leucostoma) in northeastern Texas. Pp. 166-177 In Biology of the Vipers. Schuett, G.W., M. Höggren, M. Douglas, and H.W. Greene (Eds.). Eagle Mountain Publishing, Eagle Mountain, Utah, USA.
23. Forsman, A. 1993. Survival in relation to body size and growth rate in the Adder, Vipera berus. Journal of Animal Ecology 62:647-655.
24. Gibbons, J.W., and M.E. Dorcas. 2002. Defensive behavior of Cottonmouths (Agkistrodon piscivorus) toward humans. Copeia 2002:195-198.
25. Glaudas, X., C.T. Winne, and L.A. Fedewa. 2006. Ontogeny of anti-predator behavioral habituation in Cottonmouths (Agkistrodon piscivorus). Ethology 112:608-615.
26. Glaudas, X., and C.T. Winne. 2007. Do warning displays predict striking behavior in a viperid snake, the Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus)? Canadian Journal of Zoology 85:574-578.
27. Graybill, F.A., and H.K. Iyer. 1994. Regression Analysis: Concepts and Applications. Duxbury Press, Pacific Grove, California, USA.
28. Hill, J.G. III, and S.J. Beaupre. 2008. Body size, growth, and reproduction in a population of Western Cottonmouths (Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma) in the Ozark Mountains of northwest Arkansas. Copeia 2008:105-114.
29. Hosmer, D.W., and S. Lemeshow. 2000. Applied Logistic Regression. 2nd Edition. Wiley, New York, New York, USA
30. Jolly, G.M. 1965. Explicit estimates from capture-recapture data with both death and immigration-stochastic model. Biometrika 52:225-247.
31. Kendall, W.L., K.H. Pollock, and C. Brownie. 1995. A likelihood-based approach to capture-recapture estimation of demographic parameters under the robust design. Biometrics 51:293-308.
32. Kendall, W.L., J.D. Nichols, and J.E. Hines. 1997. Estimating temporary emigration using capture-recapture data with Pollock's robust design. Ecology 78:563-578.
33. Koons, D.N., J.B. Grand, B. Zinner, and R.F. Rockwell. 2005. Transient population dynamics: Relations to life history and initial population state. Ecological Modelling 185:283-297.
34. Lebreton, J.-D., K.P. Burnham, J. Clobert, and D.R. Anderson. 1992. Modeling survival and testing biological hypotheses using marked animals: A unified approach with case studies. Ecological Monographs 62:67-118.
35. Lind, A.J., H.H. Welsh, Jr., and D.A. Tallmon. 2005. Garter snake population dynamics from a 16-year study: Considerations for ecological modeling. Ecological Applications 15:294-303.
36. Lourdais, O., X. Bonnet, D. DeNardo, and G. Naulleau. 2002. Do sex divergences in reproductive ecophysiology translate into dimorphic demographic patterns? Population Ecology 44:241-249.
37. Martin, T.E., J. Clobert, and D.R. Anderson. 1995. Return rates in studies of life history evolution: Are biases large? Journal of Applied Statistics 22:863-875.
38. Mazerolle, M.J. 2006. Improving data analysis in herpetology: Using Akaike's Information Criterion (AIC) to assess the strength of biological hypotheses. Amphibia-Reptilia 27:169-180.
39. Mazerolle, M.J., L.L. Bailey, W.L. Kendall, J.A. Royle, S.J. Converse, and J.D. Nichols. 2007. Making great leaps forward: Accounting for detectability in herpetological field studies. Journal of Herpetology 41:672-689.
40. McCallum, M.L., and J.L. McCallum. 2006. Publication trends of natural history and field studies in herpetology. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 1:63-68.
41. McCullagh, P. 1980. Regression models for ordinal data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series 42:109-142.
42. Mitchell, J.C. 1986. Cannibalism in Reptiles: A Worldwide Review. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
43. Nichols, J.D., and W.L. Kendall. 1995. The use of multistate capture-recapture models to address questions in evolutionary ecology. Journal of Applied Statistics 22:835-846.
44. Parker, W.S., and M.V. Plummer. 1987. Population ecology. Pp. 253-301 In Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Seigel, R.A., J.T. Collins, and S.S. Novak (Eds.). MacMillan Publishing Company, New York, New York, USA.
45. Pike, D.A., L. Pizzatto, B.A. Pike, and R. Shine. 2008. Estimating survival rates of uncatchable animals: The myth of high juvenile mortality in reptiles. Ecology 89:607-611.
46. Pollock, K.H., J.D. Nichols, C. Brownie, and J.E. Hines. 1990. Statistical inference for capture-recapture experiments. Wildlife Monographs 107.
47. Pradel, R., E.G. Cooch, and F. Cooke. 1995. Transient animals in a resident population of Snow Geese: Local emigration or heterogeneity? Journal of Applied Statistics 22:695-710.
48. Pradel, R., J.E. Hines, J.-D. Lebreton, and J.D. Nichols. 1997. Capture-recapture survival models taking account of transients. Biometrics 53:60-72.
49. Rodda, G.H., R.J. Rondeu, T.H. Fritts, and O.E. Maughnan. 1992. Trapping the arboreal snake Boiga irregularis. Amphibia-Reptilia 13:47-56.
50. Rodda, G.H., T.H. Fritts, C.S. Clark, S.W. Gotte, and D. Chiszar. 1999. A state-of-the-art trap for the Brown Tree Snake. Pp. 268-284 In Problem Snake Management: The Habu and the Brown Treesnake. Rodda, G.H., Y. Sawai, D. Chiszar, and H. Tanaka (Eds.). Comstock Publishing Associates, New York, New York, USA.
51. Rodda, G.H., T.H. Fritts, E.W. Campbell III, K. Dean-Bradley, G. Perry, and C.P. Qualls. 2002. Practical concerns in the eradication of island snakes. Pp. 260-265 In Turning the Tide: The Eradication of Invasive Species. Veitch, C.R., and M.N. Clout (Eds.). IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group, IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
52. Roth, E.D., and J.A. Johnson. 2004. Size-based variation in antipredator behavior within a snake (Agkistrodon piscivorus) population. Behavioral Ecology 15:365-370.
53. Roth, E.D. 2005. Buffer zone applications in snake ecology: A case study using Cottonmouths (Agkistrodon piscivorus). Copeia 2005:399-402.
54. Sandercock, B.K. 2006. Estimation of demographic parameters from live-encounter data: A summary review. Journal of Wildlife Management 70:1504-1520.
55. Seber, G.A.F. 1965. A note on the multiple-recapture census. Biometrika 52:249-259.
56. Seber, G.A.F. 1982. The Estimation of Animal Abundance and Related Parameters. 2nd Edition. MacMillan, New York, New York, USA.
57. Shine, R. 1996. Life-history evolution in Australian snakes: A path analysis. Oecologica 107:484-489.
58. Shine, R., and E.L. Charnov. 1992. Patterns of survival, growth, and maturation in snakes and lizards. American Naturalist139:1257-1269.
59. Shine, R., and L. Schwarzkopf. 1992. The evolution of reproductive effort in lizards and snakes. Evolution 46:62-75.
60. Shine, R. 1993. Sexual dimorphism. Pp. 49-86 In Snakes: Ecology and Behavior. Seigel, R., and J. Collins (Eds.). McGraw-Hill, New York, New York, USA.
61. Shine, R., L. Sun, M. Fitzgerald, and M. Kearney. 2002. Antipredator responses to free-ranging Pit Vipers (Gloydius shedaoensis, Viperidae). Copeia 2002:843-850.
62. Stanford, K.M., and R.B. King. 2004. Growth, survival, and reproduction in a northern Illinois population of the Plains Gartersnake, Thamnophis radix. Copeia 2004:465-478.
63. Stearns, S.C. 1992. Evolution of Life Histories. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
64. Sun, L., R. Shine, Z. Debi, and T. Zhengren. 2001. Biotic and abiotic influences on activity patterns of insular Pit-vipers (Gloydius shedaoensis, Viperidae) from north-eastern China. Biological Conservation 97:387-398.
65. Turner, F.B. 1977. The dynamics of populations of Squamates, Crocodilians and Rhynchocephalians. Pp. 157-264 In Biology of the Reptilia, Vol. 7. Gans, C., and D.W. Tinkle (Eds.). Academic Press, New York, New York, USA.
66. Viallefont, A., F. Cooke, and J.-D. Lebreton. 1995. Agespecific costs of first-time breeding. Auk 112:67-76.
67. Webb, J.K., B.W. Brook, and R. Shine. 2003. Does foraging mode influence life history traits? A comparative study of growth, maturation and survival of two species of sympatric snakes from south-eastern Australia. Austral Ecology 28:601-610.
68. Wharton, C.W. 1966. Reproduction and growth in the Cottonmouths, Agkistrodon piscivorus Lacépède, of Cedar Keys, Florida. Copeia 1996:149-161.
69. Whitaker, P.B., and R. Shine. 1999. When, where and why do people encounter Australian Brownsnakes (Pseudonaja textilis: Elapidae)? Wildlife Research 26:675-688.
70. White, G.C., and K.P. Burnham. 1999. Program MARK: Survival estimation from populations of marked animals. Bird Study 46 (supplement):S120-139.
71. White, G.C., K.P. Burnham, and D.R. Anderson. 2001. Advanced features of program MARK. Pp. 368-377 In Wildlife, Land, and People: Proceedings of the Second International Wildlife Management Congress. Fields, R., R.J. Warren, and H. Okarma (Eds.). The Wildlife Society, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
72. Williams, B.K., J.D. Nichols, and M.J. Conroy. 2002. Analysis and Management of Animal Populations. Academic Press, San Diego, California, USA.