David A. Steen
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David A. Steen's Degrees
- PhD Ecology Auburn University
- Masters Biology University of Alabama
- Bachelors Biology University of Alabama
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David A. Steen is an American herpetologist and conservation biologist. He is Reptile and Amphibian Research Leader of the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute , and was previously a research professor at Auburn University, where he completed his Ph.D. Steen runs a popular Twitter account where he offers reptile and amphibian identification and dispels myths about oft-maligned snakes such as copperheadss, cottonmouths, and rattlesnakes.
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- Effects of Roads on the Structure of Freshwater Turtle Populations (2004) (260)
- Relative vulnerability of female turtles to road mortality (2006) (211)
- Trends in Sex Ratios of Turtles in the United States: Implications of Road Mortality (2005) (190)
- Ethylene Effects in Pea Stem Tissue : EVIDENCE OF MICROTUBULE MEDIATION. (1981) (76)
- Terrestrial habitat requirements of nesting freshwater turtles (2012) (74)
- SNAKES IN THE GRASS : SECRETIVE NATURAL HISTORIES DEFY BOTH CONVENTIONAL AND PROGRESSIVE STATISTICS (2010) (64)
- Bird assemblage response to restoration of fire-suppressed longleaf pine sandhills. (2013) (55)
- Snake co-occurrence patterns are best explained by habitat and hypothesized effects of interspecific interactions. (2014) (51)
- Landscape-level influences of terrestrial snake occupancy within the southeastern United States. (2012) (51)
- Effects of predator exclusion on nest and hatchling survival in the gopher tortoise (2013) (47)
- Assessing the sensitivity of wetland bird communities to hydrologic change in the eastern Great Lakes region (2006) (41)
- The Vertebrate Fauna of Ichauway, Baker County, GA (2006) (38)
- Reptile assemblage response to restoration of fire-suppressed longleaf pine sandhills. (2013) (33)
- Habitat Use of Sympatric Rattlesnake Species Within the Gulf Coastal Plain (2007) (27)
- Prevalence of Ingested Fish Hooks in Freshwater Turtles from Five Rivers in the Southeastern United States (2014) (26)
- Multiscale Habitat Selection and Refuge Use of Common Kingsnakes, Lampropeltis getula, in Southwestern Georgia (2010) (26)
- Ethylene effects in pea stem tissue (1981) (25)
- Redefining baselines in endangered species recovery (2015) (23)
- Lizard Microhabitat and Microclimate Relationships in Southeastern Pine-Hardwood Forests Managed With Prescribed Burning and Thinning (2014) (22)
- Should states in the USA value species at the edge of their geographic range (2015) (21)
- Relative influence of weather and season on anuran calling activity (2013) (20)
- Terrestrial Movements and Microhabitat Selection of Overwintering Subadult Eastern Mud Turtles (Kinosternon Subrubrum) in Southwest Georgia (2007) (19)
- An Overlooked Hotspot? Rapid Biodiversity Assessment Reveals a Region of Exceptional Herpetofaunal Richness in the Southeastern United States (2010) (19)
- Copperheads are Common when Kingsnakes are Not: Relationships Between the Abundances of a Predator and One of their Prey (2014) (17)
- Taxonomic and conservation implications of population genetic admixture, mito-nuclear discordance, and male-biased dispersal of a large endangered snake, Drymarchon couperi (2019) (17)
- Effects of Forest Management on Amphibians and Reptiles: Generalist Species Obscure Trends Among Native Forest Associates (2010) (17)
- Ecology of the Eastern Kingsnake (Lampropeltis getula getula) in a longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) forest in Southwestern Georgia. (2010) (16)
- Effects of Cycloheximide on Indoleacetic Acid-induced Ethylene Production in Pea Root Tips. (1973) (16)
- Estimating freshwater turtle mortality rates and population declines following hook ingestion (2017) (16)
- Reproduction and hatchling performance in freshwater turtles associated with a remediated coal fly-ash spill. (2015) (14)
- Maternal transfer and embryonic assimilation of trace elements in freshwater turtles after remediation of a coal fly-ash spill. (2014) (14)
- Response of Six‐Lined Racerunner (Aspidoscelis sexlineata) to Habitat Restoration in Fire‐Suppressed Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris) Sandhills (2013) (11)
- Two Significant Records of Exotic Tropical Freshwater Fishes in Southern Alabama (2016) (11)
- The effect of coachwhip presence on body size of North American racers suggests competition between these sympatric snakes (2013) (11)
- Expanding Shifting Baseline Syndrome to Accommodate Increasing Abundances (2013) (11)
- Eastern Indigo Snakes Exhibit an Innate Response to Pit Viper Scent and an Ontogenetic Shift in Their Response to Mouse Scent (2018) (10)
- Additional Exploiters of Nectar (1976) (9)
- Spatial differences in trace element bioaccumulation in turtles exposed to a partially remediated coal fly ash spill (2017) (8)
- Argentine Black and White Tegu (Salvator merianae) can survive the winter under semi-natural conditions well beyond their current invasive range (2021) (7)
- Eastern Kingsnake (Lampropeltis Getula Getula) Home Ranges Exhibit Limited Overlap (2009) (7)
- In search of the “missing majority” of nesting loggerhead turtles: improved inter-seasonal recapture rates through subpopulation-scale genetic tagging (2021) (7)
- Description of an extant salamander from the Gulf Coastal Plain of North America: The Reticulated Siren, Siren reticulata (2018) (6)
- A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION INTO THE SHORT-TERM EFFECTS OF A PRESCRIBED FIRE ON HABITAT QUALITY FOR A SNAKE ASSEMBLAGE (2015) (6)
- Conceptualizing communities as natural entities: a philosophical argument with basic and applied implications (2017) (6)
- Post-breeding Terrestrial Movements of Ambystoma tigrinum (Eastern Tiger Salamanders) (2006) (5)
- Serum-based inhibition of pitviper venom by eastern indigo snakes (Drymarchon couperi) (2019) (5)
- 9. Accounting for Potential Physiological, Behavioral, and Community-Level Responses to Reintroduction (2016) (5)
- Terrestrial Movements of the Red-bellied Mudsnake (Farancia abacura) and Rainbow Snake (F. erytrogramma) (2013) (5)
- Informing management of endemic habitat specialists: Multiscale habitat selection by the Red Hills salamander (2014) (5)
- 12. Effective and Purposeful Monitoring of Species Reintroductions (2019) (4)
- Reexamining effects of urbanization on population structure of freshwater turtles: response to Bowne et al. 2018 (2019) (4)
- Modeling strategies and evaluating success during repatriations of elusive and endangered species (2019) (4)
- Snapping Turtle, Chelydra serpentina, Overland Movements Near the Southeastern Extent of its Range (2010) (4)
- Regina rigida (glossy crayfish snake) (2011) (3)
- Snakes Using Stumpholes and Windfall Tree-associated Subterranean Structures in Longleaf Pine Forests (2010) (2)
- Landscape Scale Habitat Selection of Harlequin Coralsnakes (Micrurus fulvius) in Three Large, Protected Areas in the Southeastern United States (2015) (2)
- Phylogenetic, population genetic, and morphological analyses reveal evidence for one species of Eastern Indigo Snake (Drymarchon couperi) (2018) (2)
- Interspecific combat observed among viperid snakes. (2017) (1)
- Secrets of Snakes: The Science beyond the Myths (2019) (1)
- Wildlife Restoration via Forest Management in Fire-Suppressed Longleaf Pine Sandhills (2011) (1)
- Southern Flying Squirrels (Glaucomys volans) as Major Predators of Avian Nest Boxes in Conecuh National Forest, Alabama (2019) (1)
- Potential influence of the terrestrial landscape on the distribution of pond-breeding eastern newts, Notophthalmus viridescens (2005) (1)
- The evolutionary community concept is fully armed and operational: a reply to Sagoff (2020) (0)
- Author's personal copy Terrestrial habitat requirements of nesting freshwater turtles (2012) (0)
- Book review (2019) (0)
- INFLUENCES ON SNAKE OCCUPANCY WITHIN A LANDSCAPE (2012) (0)
- Integrating early detection with DNA barcoding: species identification of a non- native monitor lizard (Squamata: Varanidae) carcass in Mississippi, U.S.A. (2016) (0)
- Movement Ecology of Flattened Musk Turtles (Sternotherus depressus) (2022) (0)
- Dreaming in Turtle: A Journey Through the Passion, Profit, and Peril of our Most Coveted Prehistoric Creatures, P. Laufer, St. Martin's Press (2018) Ecology and Conservation of the Diamond-Backed Terrapin, W.M. Roosenburg, V.S. Kennedy (Eds.), Johns Hopkins University Press (2018) (2019) (0)
- Conceptualizing communities as natural entities: a philosophical argument with basic and applied implications (2017) (0)
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