CANOPY STRUCTURE, MICROCLIMATE, AND HABITAT SELECTION BY A NOCTURNAL SNAKE, HOPLOCEPHALUS BUNGAROIDES

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Why don't small snakes bask? Juvenile broad-headed snakes trade thermal benefits for safety (2005, background): “Because snakes have access to both shaded and exposed rocks (Pringle et al. 2003), we measured rock temperatures at an exposed area 5 m from the cliffs and at a heavily shaded area 30 m from the cliffs, at a study site where there is long term data on snake demography.”
Nest site choice compensates for climate effects on sex ratios in a lizard with environmental sex determination (2006, background): “4; see also Pringle et al., 2003), and disentangling them would require experimental manipulation.”
Understanding avian nest predation: why ornithologists should study snakes (2004, background): “For nocturnally active snakes, the thermal quality of retreat sites used during the day can affect habitat selection (Pringle et al. 2003), so higher thermal heterogeneity may still make edges preferred habitat.”
Canopy Removal Restores Habitat Quality for an Endangered Snake in a Fire Suppressed Landscape (2005, methodology): “In May 2002 we allocated three ‘‘snake rocks’’ and five randomly chosen rocks to control (n 5 8) and experimental (n 5 8) groups and measured their canopy cover using hemispherical photography and gap analysis (see Pringle et al., 2003 for full details).”