This book, first published in 1987 and here reprinted with a new
foreword by the authors has become a classic in the field of
herpetology. In ecological and evolutionary research snakes occupy
a unique niche. Studies of their adaptations and life histories
have broad applications for the most basic questions in biology.
This book fills the need for an up-to-date text/reference in the
growing field of snake ecology and evolutionary biology. Here, in
one volume is an extensive review of the biology of these
fascinating reptiles, including topics such as zoogeography, fossil
history, systematics, foraging and reproduction. With contributions
from many leading herpetologists, the work is divided into sections
on Systematics and Morphology, Methods and Techniques and Life
History and Ecology. Each section summarizes what is known about
these major fields of snake biology. This book serves the needs of
those actively involved in research as well as the amateur
naturalist and the beginning student. Dr. Richard A. Seigel became
interested in herpetology while an undergraduate at Rutgers
University, where he received his B.A. in Zoology and Physiology in
1977. He continued his work with amphibians and reptiles while
getting his M.S. in Biological Sciences from the University of
Central Florida in 1979 and his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas
in 1984. He is currently Full Professor and Chair of the Department
of Biological Sciences at Towson University in Maryland. Dr.
Siegel's primary research interests are in the population ecology
and conservation biology of amphibians and reptiles. He has
published over 50 peer-reviewed papers and has co-authored or
edited four texts on the ecology and biology of snakes. From
1993-2000, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of
Herpetology, the largest international publication in its field.
Joseph T. Collins has written more than 200 articles on reptiles,
amphibians, and fishes throughout North America and twenty-three
books, including: Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians
of Eastern and Central North America Third Edition (with Roger
Conant), Amphibians and Reptiles in Kansas Third Edition (with
photographs by Suzanne L. Collins), Natural Kansas, An Illustrated
Guide to Endangered or Threatened Species in Kansas, (with Suzanne
L. Collins, Jerry Horak, Dan Mulhern, William H. Busby, Craig C.
Freeman, and Gary Wallace), A Key to Amphibians and Reptiles of the
Continental United States and Canada (with Robert Powell and Errol
D. Hooper, Jr.). In 1978, Collins served as president of the
Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, the leading
international professional society in that field, as president of
the Kansas Association of Biology Teachers (1980-1981) and as
president of the Kansas Herpetological Society. He was a
distinguished delegate to the First World Congress of Herpetology
at Canterbury, England in 1989, and was made a Distinguished Life
Member of the Kansas Herpetological Society in 1998. Susan S.
Novak, a native of Chicago, has been a Lawrence, Kansas, resident
since 1986. Novak has been an editor of scientific/technical,
scholarly, and popular work for twenty years, working formerly as
the editor at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory. She joined the
staff of the Kansas State Historical Society in 1993, where she has
since served as the managing editor of Kansas Heritage magazine and
the associate editor of Kansas History: A Journal of the Central
Plains, providing regular departments, main articles, photographs,
book reviews, and layout and design work.
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