Technical Reports

Barichivich, W.J., K.J. Sulak, and R.R. Carthy. 1999. Annual Report. Feeding ecology and habitat affinities of Kemp’s ridley sea turtles (Lepidochelys kempi) in the Big Bend, Florida. Submitted to National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP).

Bass. A.L. 1997. Preliminary report to the Florida Marine Research Institute regarding the genetic identity and origins of stranded green turtles in south Florida. Report to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.

Bass, A.L. and B.W. Bowen. 1997. Population structure and conservation genetics of juvenile loggerhead (Caretta caretta) and green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) in North Carolina. Report to the National Marine Fisheries Service.

Bass, A.L. and B.W. Bowen. 1997. Region of origin for captive marine turtles based on mtDNA markers. Report to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Berish, S.J. and G.W. Tanner. Understory response to longleaf pine sandhill restoration techniques. Final Report. Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Florida, Research Work Order # 111.

Bjorndal, Karen A. and Alan B. Bolten. 1999. Final Report (RWO #172). Research and Management Techniques for the Conservation of Sea Turtles.

Brandt, Laura A. 1999. Final Report (RWO #184). Landscape Level Assessment of the Relationship of Hydrologic Conditions of Tree Island in Water Conservation Area 3.

Carthy, R., M.K. Oli, J.B. Wooding, J.E. Berish, and W.D. Meyer. 2005. Analysis of gopher tortoise population estimation techniques. Report to USACOE-CERL.

Coulter, M.C. and P.C. Frederick. 1997. Movements and population dynamics of colonial waterbirds as guides for the temporal and spatial scale of conservation. Colonial Waterbirds, Vol. 20:295-297.

Cox, J.H., H.F. Percival, and S.V. Colwell. 1994. Impact of Vehicular Traffic on Beach Habitat and Wildlife at Cape San Blas, Florida. Final report to Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit.

Darby, Philip C. and H. Franklin Percival. 1999. Final Report (RWO #182). Dry Down Tolerance of the Florida Apple Snail (Pomacea paludosa say): Effects of Age and Season.

Darby, P.C., P.L. Valentine-Darby and H.F. Percival. 1997. Assessing the impact of the Lake Kissimmee Restoration on Apple Snails. 1997 Annual Report prepared for the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Bureau of Nongame Wildlife, Tallahassee, FL.

Delany, M.F., D.W. Perkins, and B. Pranty. 1999. Final Report (RWO #175a). Demographic Genetic Relationships, and Impacts from Red Imported Fire Ants on the Florida Grasshopper Sparrow.

Frank, P.A., H.F. Percival, B.W. Keith, C.R. Sasso, M.S. Gaines, and J. Duquesnel. 1997. A Status Survey for the Key Largo Woodrat (Neotoma floridana smalli) and Key Largo Cotton Mouse (Peromyscus gossypinus allapaticola) on North Key Largo, Monroe County, Florida. USGS Biological Resources Division, Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Technical Report No. 55, 32 pp.

Frederick, P.C., J. Heath, G. Babbitt, and M.G. Spalding. 1999. Final Report (RWO 188). Factors affecting breeding status of wading birds in the Everglades. Submitted to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville, FL, 91 pp.

Frederick, P.C., M.G. Spalding, M.S. Sepulveda, G.W. Williams, S. Bouton, H. Lynch, J. Arrecis, S. Loerzel and D. Hoffman. 1997. Effects of environmental mercury exposure on reproduction, health, and survival of wading birds in the Florida Everglades. Final Report to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Atlanta, Georgia.

Garmestani, A.S., H.F. Percival, K.G. Rice and K.M. Portier. 1997. Sea Turtle Nesting in the Ten Thousand Islands of Florida. USGS Biological Resources Division, Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Technical Report No. 56-1, 79 pp.

Hardesty, J.L., R.J. Smith, B.W. Hagedorn, C.J. Petrick, H.F. Percival and W.R. Marion. 1994. Status Distribution, and Ecosystem-Based Management of the Red-Cockaded Woodpecker (Picoides borealis) on Eglin Air Force Base. Final Report to Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit.

Jacobson, S.K. and S.B. Marynowski. 1996. An ecosystem approach to public education and information at Eglin Air Force Base: Preliminary Plan: Jackson Guard outdoor ecosystem management education and demonstration area. University of Florida, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (Gainesville) for Department of Defense, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.

Jacobson, S.K. and S.B. Marynowski. 1996. An ecosystem approach to public education and information at Eglin Air Force Base: Final Report of the military leaders and unit environmental coordinators education program: 1994-1996. University of Florida, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (Gainesville) for Department of Defense, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.

Jacobson, S.K. and S.B. Marynowski. 1996. An ecosystem approach to public education and information at Eglin Air Force Base: Metrics for customer satisfaction and recreational user knowledge and attitudes at Eglin Air Force Base: Final Report. University of Florida, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (Gainesville) for Department of Defense, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.

Kitchens, Wiley M. 1999. Final Report (RWO #139). Research Objectives to Support the South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Initiative – Water Conservation Areas, Lake Okeechobee, and the East/West Waterways.

Klinkenberg, J. 1997. Surviving on a Wing and a Prayer. National Wildlife, Vol. 35(4):36-41. Lamont, M.M., H.F. Percival, L.G. Pearlstine, S.V. Colwell, W.M. Kitchens and R.R. Carthy. 1997. The Cape San Blas Ecological Study. USGS Biological Resources Division, Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Technical Report No. 57, 210 pp.

Lamont, M.M., et al. 1998. Sea Turtle Nesting Activity Along Eglin Air Force Base on Cape San Blas and Santa Rosa Island, Florida From 1994-1997. Technical Report #59. U.S. Geological Survey/Biological Resources Division, Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. 52 pp.

Loftin, C.S. and W.M. Kitchens. 1998. The Effects of the Suwannee River Sill on the Hydrology and Vegetation of Okefenokee Swamp. Technical Report #60. U.S. Geological Survey/Biological Resources Division, Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. 834 pp.

Mazzotti, F.J. and M.R. Campbell. 1997. Evaluating the ecological role of alligator holes in the Everglades landscape. Final Report for Year 1 to the Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Gainesville, FL.

Miller, D.L. and M. Thetford. 1998. Enhancement of Natural Dune Building and Revegetation Processes on Santa Rosa Island. Research Highlights for 1997 FAES Annual Research Report, pp. 25.

Miller, Deborah L., Mack Thetford, and Lisa Yager. 1999. Final Report (RWO #159). Enhancement of Natural Dune Building & Revegetation Process on Santa Rosa Island.

Morrison, J.L. and S.M. McGehee. 1996. Habitat associations, reproduction, and foraging ecology of Audubon’s Crested Caracara (Caracara plancus audubonii) in south central Florida. Final Report to Avon Park Air Force Range, Avon Park, FL, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Florida, Research Work Order # 114.

O’Brien, C.A. 1997. Reproductive Biology of Amblema neislerii, Elliptoideus sloatianus, Lampsilis subangulata, Medionidus penicillatus, and Pleurobema pyriforme (Bivalvia: Unionidae). Final Report for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Jacksonville, FL, 70 pp.

Ogden, J.C., G.T. Bancroft and P.C. Frederick. 1997. Ecological success indicators: reestablishment of healthy wading bird populations. In: Ecologic and precursor success criteria for south Florida ecosystem restoration. A Science Sub-Group report to the Working Group of the South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force. U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville, FL.

Pearlstine, Leonard, S. Smith, L. Ojanen, J. Stenberg, and A. Abd-Elrahman. 2000. Technical Report #63. Land cover classification and mapping in North Florida. U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. 16 pp.

Percival, H.F., P.C. Darby, P. Valentine-Darby, and R.E. Bennetts. 1996. Assessing the impact of the Lake Kissimmee restoration on apple snails. Annual Report. Prepared for the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Bureau of Nongame Wildlife, Tallahassee, FL.

Percival, H.F., T.S. Gross, L.J. Guillette, A.R. Woodward, C.L. Abercrombie, and K.G. Rice. 1994. Egg Viability, Sexual Development, Hatchling Viability, and Growth in Alligators from Lake Apopka. Final Report to Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit.

Rice, K.G. and H.F. Percival. 1996. Effects of environmental contaminants on the demographics and reproduction of Lake Apopka’s alligators and other taxa. Technical Report #53. Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Department of Wildlife Ecology & Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 85 pp.

Rice, K.G., J. H. Waddle, M.E. Crockett, R.R. Carthy, and H. F. Percival. 2005. Herpetofaunal inventories of the National Parks of South Florida and the Caribbean: Volume II. Virgin Islands National Park. US Geological Survey, Open File Report 2005-1301, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Rice, K.G., J. H. Waddle, M.E. Crockett, R.R. Carthy, and H. F. Percival. 2005. Herpetofaunal inventories of the National Parks of South Florida and the Caribbean: Volume III. Big Cypress National Preserve. US Geological Survey, Open File Report 2005-1300, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Silveira, J.E. 1996. Methods for determining change in Florida wetland habitats using SPOT satellite data. Technical Report #52. Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 67 pp.

Tanner, G.W. and D.R. Gordon. 1997. Plant and invertebrate community responses to restoration techniques in degraded Florida sandhill systems: Phase III. RWO 147 Final Report to the Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Gainesville, FL.

Tanner, G.W. and D.R. Gordon. 1997. Plant and invertebrate community responses to restoration techniques in degraded Florida sandhill systems. Third year posttreatment. RWO 162 Final Report to the Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Gainesville, FL.