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1 9710 Adkins Giese, C. L., D. N. Greenwald, and T. Curry. 2012. Petition to list 53 amphibians and reptiles in the United States as threatened or endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. Center for Biological Diversity. 454pp.
2 407 Anonymous. 1991. Declining amphibians need study. Florida Department of Natural Resources, Office of Land Use Planning and Biological Services, Resource Management Notes 3(2):11.
3 446 Anonymous. 1992. Dusky gopher frog, American chaffseed proposed for federal listing. Florida Department of Natural Resources, Office of Land Use Planning and Biological Services, Resource Management Notes 4(1):15.
4 192 Anonymous. n.d. Cross Florida greenbelt state recreation and conservation area management plan. Volume IV. Report on biological issues. Report for Florida Department of Natural Resources and Canal Authority of State of Florida, University Planning Team, Department Landscape Architecture, College of Architecture, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 163pp.
5 10216 Ashton, R. E., Jr., and P. S. Ashton. 2004. A successful method for relocation of gopher tortoises and possibly other reptiles. Pages 19−20 (abstract) in 26th Annual Meeting of the Gopher Tortoise Council, 15−17 October 2004, Jekyll Island, Georgia, USA.
6 8042 Blihovde, W. B. 2006. Terrestrial movement and upland habitat use of gopher frogs in Central Florida. Southeastern Naturalist 5:265–276.
7 6945 Brandt, K., L. Chafin, and M. Hughes. 2003. Rare, threatened, and endangered species in forests of Florida: a guide to assist with forestry activities. International Paper Company, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Division of Forestry of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, and Florida Department of Transportation. 299pp.
8 1148 Breininger, D. R., M. J. Barkaszi, R. B. Smith, D. M. Oddy, and J. A. Provancha. 1998. Prioritizing wildlife taxa for biological diversity conservation at the local scale. Environmental Management 22:315–321.
9 8700 Concoby, R. E. 2007. Large scale gopher frog translocation – an experimental project. Page 13 (abstract) in 29th Annual Gopher Tortoise Council Meeting, 11–14 October 2007, Milton, Florida, USA.
10 1635 Cox, J. A., and R. S. Kautz. 2000. Habitat conservation needs of rare and imperiled wildlife in Florida. Office of Environmental Services, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 156pp.
11 7283 Delis, P. R., and H. R. Mushinsky. 2005. Human disturbance and Florida anurans. Pages 15–22 in W. E. Meshaka, Jr., and K. J. Babbitt, editors. Amphibians and reptiles: status and conservation in Florida. Krieger, Malabar, Florida, USA.
12 9797 Dubois, N., A. Caldas, J. Boshoven, and A. Delach. 2011. Integrating climate change vulnerability assessments into adaptation planning: a case study using the NatureServe Climate Change Vulnerability Index to inform conservation planning for species in Florida. Final Report. Defenders of Wildlife, Washington D.C. 242pp.
13 9810 Enge, K. M., A. Jernigan, R. Johnson, J. E. Diemer Berish, P. E. Moler, T. M. Thomas, and R. A. Kiltie. 2012. What the world needs is a better gopher tortoise trap. Herpetological Review 43:574–578.
14 10300 Enge, K. M., A. L. Farmer, J. D. Mays, T. D. Castellón, E. P. Hill, and P. E. Moler. 2014. Survey of winter-breeding amphibian species. Final report, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, Lovett E. Williams, Jr. Wildlife Research Laboratory, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 136pp.
15 2350 Fernald, R. T. 1989. Coastal xeric scrub communities of the Treasure Coast Region, Florida: a summary of their distribution and ecology, with guidelines for their preservation and management. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Nongame Wildlife Program Technical Report No. 6, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 113pp.
16 7928 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2005. Florida's endangered and threatened species management and conservation plan – FY 2004–2005 progress report. Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 79pp.
17 9113 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2008. FY 2007–2008 progress report on activities of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission – endangered and threatened species management and conservation plan. Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 89pp.
18 9117 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2009. Half Moon WMA species management strategy. Division of Habitat and Species Conservation, Terrestrial Habitat Conservation and Restoration Section, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 49pp.
19 9118 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2009. Salt Lake WMA species management strategy. Division of Habitat and Species Conservation, Terrestrial Habitat Conservation and Restoration Section, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 44pp.
20 10850 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2010. Fort White Mitigation Park Wildlife and Environmental Area species management strategy. Division of Habitat and Species Conservation, Terrestrial Habitat Conservation and Restoration Section, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 37pp.
21 10852 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2010. Hilochee Wildlfe Management Area species management strategy. Division of Habitat and Species Conservation, Terrestrial Habitat Conservation and Restoration Section, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 59pp.
22 10860 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2010. Suwannee Ridge Mitigation Park Wildlife and Environmental Area species management strategy. Division of Habitat and Species Conservation, Terrestrial Habitat Conservation and Restoration Section, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 33pp.
23 9437 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2011. Gopher frog biological status review report. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 22pp.
24 9455 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2011. Gopher tortoise permitting guidelines, Gopherus polyphemus. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 75pp.
25 9116 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2012. Chassahowitzka WMA species management strategy. Revised - 07/09/2012. Division of Habitat and Species Conservation, Terrestrial Habitat Conservation and Restoration Section, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 65pp.
26 10856 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2012. Lake Wales Ridge Wildlife and Environmental Area species management strategy. Division of Habitat and Species Conservation, Terrestrial Habitat Conservation and Restoration Section, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 88pp.
27 10855 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2012. Litttle Gater Creek Wildlife and Environmental Area species management strategy. Division of Habitat and Species Conservation, Wildlife and Habitat Management Section, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 49pp.
28 10134 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2013. A species action plan for the gopher frog. Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 29pp.
29 10843 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2014. Babcock-Webb Wildlife Management Area species management strategy. Division of Habitat and Species Conservation, Wildlife and Habitat Management Section, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 80pp.
30 10854 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2014. Lafayette Forest Wildlife and Environmental Area species management strategy. Division of Habitat and Species Conservation, Wildlife and Habitat Management Section, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 55pp.
31 10861 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2014. Three Lakes Wildlilfe Management Area species management strategy. Division of Habitat and Species Conservation, Wildlife and Habitat Management Section, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 73pp.
32 10845 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2015. Crooked Lake Wildlife & Environmental Area species management strategy. Division of Habitat and Species Conservation, Wildlife and Habitat Management Section, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 65pp.
33 10848 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2015. Fisheating Creek Wildlife Management Area species management strategy. Division of Habitat and Species Conservation, Wildlife and Habitat Management Section, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 65pp.
34 10851 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2015. Herky Huffman/Bull Creek WMA and Triple N Ranch WMA species management strategy. Revised - 7/15/2015. Division of Habitat and Species Conservation, Wildlife and Habitat Management Section, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 75pp.
35 10857 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2015. Moody Branch and Bullfrog Creek wildlife and environmental areas species management strategy. Division of Habitat and Species Conservation, Wildlife and Habitat Management Section, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 63pp.
36 10863 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2015. Watermelon Pond Wildlife and Environmental Area species management strategy. Division of Habitat and Species Conservation, Wildlife and Habitat Management Section, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 53pp.
37 10846 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2016. Escribano Point Wildlife Management Area species management strategy. Division of Habitat and Species Conservation, Wildlife and Habitat Management Section, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 63pp.
38 10442 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2016. Florida’s imperiled species management plan. Tallahassee, Florida, USA. ?pp.
39 10858 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2016. Platt Branch and Hickey Creek wildlife & environmental areas species management strategy. Division of Habitat and Species Conservation, Wildlife and Habitat Management Section, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 80pp.
40 10859 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2016. Split Oak Forest Wildlife & Environmental Area species management strategy. Division of Habitat and Species Conservation, Wildlife and Habitat Management Section, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 61pp.
41 10839 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2018. Big Bend WMA species management strategy. Revision 2 - January 2018. Division of Habitat and Species Conservation, Wildlife and Habitat Management Section, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 56pp.
42 2427 Fogarty, M. J. 1978. Florida gopher frog, Rana areolata aesopus (Cope). Pages 5–6 in R. W. McDiarmid, editor. Rare and endangered biota of Florida. Volume 3. Amphibians and reptiles. University Presses of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
43 2483 Franz, R. 1986. The Florida gopher frog and the Florida pine snake as burrow associates of the gopher tortoise in northern Florida. Pages 16–20 in Proceedings of the 5th Annual Meeting of the Gopher Tortoise Council, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
44 2502 Franz, R., and L. L. Smith. 1999. Distribution of the striped newt and Florida gopher frog in peninsular Florida. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Final Report, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 46pp.
45 1546 Franz, R., D. Maehr, A. Kinlaw, C. O'Brien, and R. D. Owen. 1998. Avon Park Air Force Range Project: distribution and abundance of sensitive wildlife species at Avon Park Air Force Range. Final Report, Project RWO-169. 90pp.
46 2643 Godley, J. S. 1992. Gopher frog, Rana capito Le Conte. Pages 15–19 in P. E. Moler, editor. Rare and endangered biota of Florida. Volume III. Amphibians and reptiles. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
47 8594 Gregoire, D. R., and M. S. Gunzburger. 2008. Effects of predatory fish on survival and behavior of larval gopher frogs (Rana capito) and southern leopard frogs (Rana sphenocephala). Journal of Herpetology 42:97–103.
48 8180 Gregory, C. J., R. R. Carthy, and L. G. Pearlstine. 2006. Survey and monitoring of species at risk at Camp Blanding Training Site, northeastern Florida. Southeastern Naturalist 5:473–498.
49 2931 Hay Smith, L. 1991. The Nature Conservancy purchases four upland tracts. Tortoise Burrow, Bulletin of The Gopher Tortoise Council 11(3):7.
50 2979 Hendry, L. C., T. M. Goodwin, and R. F. Labisky. 1982. Florida's vanishing wildlife. Revised edition. Florida Cooperative Extension Service No. 485, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 69pp.
51 3066 Hipes, D. L., and D. R. Jackson. 1996. Rare vertebrate fauna of Camp Blanding Training Site, a potential landscape linkage in northeastern Florida. Florida Scientist 59:96–114.
52 3065 Hipes, D., D. R. Jackson, K. NeSmith, D. Printiss, and K. Brandt. 2001. Field guide to the rare animals of Florida. Florida Natural Areas Inventory, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
53 8539 Jackson, D. R. 2004. Occurrence of the gopher frog, Rana capito, on conservation lands in southern Florida. Florida Natural Areas Inventory, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 22pp.
54 3629 LaClaire, L. V. 1997. Amphibians in peril: resource management in the Southeast. Pages 307–338 in G. W. Benz and D. E. Collins, editors. Aquatic fauna in peril: the southeastern perspective. Special Publication 1, Southeast Aquatic Research Institute, Lenz Design & Communications, Decatur, Georgia, USA.
55 4108 Means, D. B. 1976. Survey of the status of amphibians and reptiles of the Apalachicola National Forest, Florida. Unpublished Report to the U.S. Forest Service. 58pp.
56 4109 Means, D. B. 1976. Survey of the status of amphibians and reptiles of the Ocala National Forest, Florida. Unpublished Report to the U.S. Forest Service. 43pp.
57 4179 Means, D. B., and G. O. Grow. 1985. The endangered longleaf pine community. ENFO (Florida Conservation Foundation) 85(4):1–12.
58 8688 Means, R. 2008. Management strategies for Florida’s ephemeral ponds and pond-breeding amphibians. Final report 2008. FWC Agreement Number 05039, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 102pp.
59 4809 Palis, J. G., and J. B. Jensen. 1995. Distribution and breeding biology of the flatwoods salamander (Ambystoma cingulatum) and gopher frog (Rana capito) on Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Final report. Florida Natural Areas Inventory, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 32pp.
60 4807 Palis, J. G., and R. A. Fischer. 1997. Species profile: gopher frog (Rana capito spp.) on military installations in the southeastern United States. Technical Report SERDP-97-5, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA. 20pp.
61 4967 Printiss, D., and D. Hipes. 2001. Inventory and management considerations of amphibians and reptiles on the Sumatra Tract, Tate's Hell State Forest, Florida. Final Report to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Forestry. Florida Natural Areas Inventory, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 40pp.
62 10192 Richter, S. C., E. M. O’Neill, S. O. Nunziata, A. Rumments, E. S. Gustin, J. E. Young, and B. I. Crother. 2014. Cryptic diversity and conservation of gopher frogs across the southeastern United States. Copeia 2014:231–237.
63 8649 Roznik, E. A. 2007. Terrestrial ecology of juvenile and adult gopher frogs (Rana capito). M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 97pp.
64 9000 Roznik, E. A., and S. A. Johnson. 2009. Canopy closure and emigration by juvenile gopher frogs. Journal of Wildlife Management 73:260–268.
65 9341 Roznik, E. A., S. A. Johnson, C. H. Greenberg, and G. W. Tanner. 2009. Terrestrial movements and habitat use of gopher frogs in longleaf pine forests: a comparative study of juveniles and adults. Forest Ecology and Management 259:187−194.
66 8944 Stuart, S. N., M. Hoffmann, J. S. Chanson, N. A. Cox, R. J. Berridge, P. Ramani, and B. E. Young (editors). 2008. Threatened amphibians of the world. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain; IUCN, Gland, Switzerland; and Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, USA. 758pp.
67 7104 Trani (Griep), M. K. 2002. Maintaining species in the South. Pages 113–150 in D. N. Wear and J. G. Greis, editors. The southern forest resource assessment: summary report. U.S. Forest Service General Technical Report SRS-54, Southern Research Station, Asheville, North Carolina, USA.
68 8130 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 1994. Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants; animal candidate review for listing as endangered or threatened species. Federal Register, Part IV.
69 10566 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2015. Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants; 90-day findings on 31 petitions. Federal Register 80:37568−37579.
70 9531 Woodward, A. 2009. Notes from the field: reptile and amphibian research. FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute Field Notes No. 49:4.
71 9532 Woodward, A. 2009. Notes from the field: reptile and amphibian research. FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute Field Notes No. 51:4.
72 9527 Woodward, A. 2010. Notes from the field: reptile and amphibian research. FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute Field Notes No. 54:4

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