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1 107 Allen, E. R., and W. T. Neill. 1952. Skinks and fence lizards. Florida Wildlife 5(8):13, 55–56.
2 185 Anderson, R. A., and H. M. Tiebout, III. 1993. The effects of timber management practices on the lizards of xeric pineland habitats: an investigation of the Florida sand pine scrub. Final Report to The Nature Conservancy, Washington, D.C.
3 7259 Branch, L. C., A. M. Clark, P. E. Moler, and B. W. Bowen. 2003. Fragmented landscapes, habitat specificity, and conservation genetics of three lizards in Florida scrub. Conservation Genetics 4:199–212.
4 1129 Branch, L. C., B. M. Stith, and D. G. Hokit. 2001. Fire, habitat connectivity, and patch size: key considerations in the management of scrub for lizards. Pages 12–14 in D. P. Zattau, editor. Proceedings of the Florida Scrub Symposium 2001, 5–7 June 2001, Orlando, Florida. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
5 1130 Branch, L. C., D. G. Hokit, and B. M. Stith. 1996. Habitat assessment in a landscape context: analysis of the factors affecting the distribution and abundance of the Florida scrub lizard. Final Report presented for the Species at Risk Initiative, National Biological Service Research Work Order 156 of the Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
6 1131 Branch, L. C., D. G. Hokit, and B. M. Stith. 1996. Landscape dynamics and scrub lizards: assessing the effects of landscape structure on populations at multiple scales. Final Report to U.S. Department of the Interior, Biological Resources Division, Cooperative Research Units for RWO 122, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 204pp.
7 1132 Branch, L. C., D. G. Hokit, B. M. Stith, B. W. Bowen, and A. Clark. 1999. Effects of landscape dynamics on endemic scrub lizards: an assessment with molecular genetics and GIS modeling. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission Final Report, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 88pp.
8 1381 Carr, A. 1994. An introduction to the herpetology of Florida. Pages 84–90 in M. H. Carr, editor. A naturalist in Florida: a celebration of Eden. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, Connecticut, USA.
9 1524 Christman, S. P., R. B. Huck, and E. D. Hardin. 1986. Endemism and Florida's interior sand pine scrub. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Annual Report Project GFC-84-101, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
10 1634 Cox, J., R. Kautz, M. MacLaughlin, and T. Gilbert. 1994. Closing the gaps in Florida's wildlife habitat conservation system. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Office of Environmental Services, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 239pp.
11 2098 Duellman, W. E., and A. Schwartz. 1958. Amphibians and reptiles of southern Florida. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 3:181–324.
12 2260 Enge, K. M., M. M. Bentzien, and H. F. Percival. 1986. Florida scrub lizard status survey. Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Technical Report No. 26, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 99pp.
13 6514 Gentry, J. B., and M. H. Smith. 1968. Food habits and burrow associates of Peromyscus polionotus. Journal of Mammalogy 49:562–565.
14 2730 Greenberg, C. H. 1993. Effect of high-intensity wildfire and silvicultural treatments on biotic communities of sand pine scrub. Dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 185pp.
15 8864 Greenberg, C. H. 2000. Fire, habitat structure and herpetofauna in the Southeast. Pages 91–99 in W. M. Ford, K. R. Russell, and C. E. Moorman, editors. The role of fire in nongame wildlife management and community restoration: traditional uses and new directions. Proceedings of a special workshop. U.S. Forest Service General Technical Report NE-288, Northeastern Research Station, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, USA.
16 2733 Greenberg, C. H., D. G. Neary, and L. D. Harris. 1994. Effect of high-intensity wildfire and silvicultural treatments on reptile communities in sand-pine scrub. Conservation Biology 8:1047–1057.
17 7274 Hokit, D. G., and L. C. Branch. 2003. Associations between patch area and vital rates: consequences for local and regional populations. Ecological Applications 13:1060–1068.
18 6776 Hokit, D. G., and L. C. Branch. 2003. Habitat patch size affects demographics of the Florida scrub lizard (Sceloporus woodi). Journal of Herpetology 37:257–265.
19 3085 Hokit, D. G., B. M. Stith, and L. C. Branch. 1999. Effects of landscape structure in Florida scrub: a population perspective. Ecological Applications 91:124–134.
20 9030 Hokit, D. G., B. M. Stith, and L. C. Branch. 2001. Comparison of two types of metapopulation models in real and artificial landscapes. Conservation Biology 15:1102–1113.
21 3291 Jackson, J. F. 1972. The population phenetics and behavioral ecology of the Florida scrub lizard (Sceloporus woodi). Dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 119pp.
22 3292 Jackson, J. F. 1973. Distribution and population phenetics of the Florida scrub lizard, Sceloporus woodi. Copeia 1973:746–761.
23 3293 Jackson, J. F. 1973. The phenetics and ecology of a narrow hybrid zone. Evolution 27:58–68.
24 7968 Johnson, D. H. 2000. Effects of habitat variation on Florida scrub lizard (Sceloporus woodi) populations during post-logging site recovery. M.S. Thesis, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, USA. 57pp.
25 10274 Kaunert, M. D. 2013. Variation in population densities of the Florida scrub lizard (Sceloporus woodi) between managed sand pine scrub and longleaf pine stands in the Ocala National Forest. M.S. Thesis, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, USA.
26 10492 Kaunert, M. D., and L. D. McBrayer. 2015. Population density of the Florida scrub lizard (Sceloporus woodi) in managed sand pine scrub and longleaf pine sandhill habitats. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 10:883–893.
27 3714 Lee, D. S, and J. B. Funderburg. 1970. The geographic and ecological distribution of the Florida scrub lizard, Sceloporus woodi Stejneger. ASB Bulletin 17:52 (abstract).
28 3736 Lee, D. S. 1974. Possible role of fire on population density of the Florida scrub lizard, Sceloporus woodi Stejneger. Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society 10:20–22.
29 3796 Lips, K. R. 1991. Vertebrates associated with tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) burrows in four habitats in south-central Florida. Journal of Herpetology 25:477–481.
30 4058 Meshaka, W. E., Jr., and J. N. Layne. 2002. Herpetofauna of a long-unburned sandhill habitat in south-central Florida. Florida Scientist 65:35–50.
31 4535 Mushinsky, H. R., and E. D. McCoy. 1995. Vertebrate species composition of selected scrub islands on the Lake Wales Ridge of central Florida. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission Nongame Wildlife Program Project Report, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 325pp.
32 10515 Neel, L. K. 2016. The effects of thermal opportunity and habitat on ecologically distinct populations of the Florida scrub lizard Sceloporus woodi. M.S. Thesis, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, USA. 74pp.
33 10795 Orton, R. W. and L. D. McBrayer. 2019. Resolving tradeoffs among crypsis, escape behavior, and microhabitat use in sexually dichromatic species. Oecologia 189:91–104.
34 9374 Robbins, T. R. 2010. Geographic variation in life history tactics, adaptive growth rates, and habitat-specific adaptations in phylogenetically similar species: the eastern fence lizard, Sceloporus undulatus undulatus, and the Florida scrub lizard, Sceloporus woodi. Dissertation, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA. 141pp.
35 8039 Robbins, T. R., L. E. Straub, and S. A. Karl. 2006. Hybridization, extinction risk, and ecological correlates in the endemic Florida scrub lizard Sceloporus wood. Abstract in Joint Meeting of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the American Elasmobranch Society, 86th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 64th Annual Meeting of the Herpetologists' League, and the 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles; 12–17 July 2006, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
36 6505 Smith, M. H. 1966. The evolutionary significance of certain behavioral, physiological, and morphological adaptations of the old-field mouse, Peromyscus polionotus. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 187pp.
37 5774 Telford, S. R., Jr. 1992. Factors affecting the distribution of Neoseps reynoldsi, the sand skink, in Ocala National Forest. Unpublished U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Contract Report, Ocala National Forest, Silver Springs, Florida. 35pp.
38 5757 Tiebout, H. M., III, and R. A. Anderson. 1994. Using paired-choice tests in mesocosms to evaluate the impacts of commercial logging on a rare endemic lizard, Sceloporus woodi. Page 79 (abstract) in Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Herpetologists' League and the 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 28 July–1 August 1994, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
39 5807 Tiebout, H. M., III, and R. A. Anderson. 1995. Experiment in ecosystem management: how can clearcutting help an endemic lizard? Page 87 (abstract) in Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 8–13 August 1995, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, USA.
40 5808 Tiebout, H. M., III, and R. A. Anderson. 1997. A comparison of corridors and intrinsic connectivity to promote dispersal in transient successional landscapes. Conservation Biology 11:620–627.
41 5809 Tiebout, H. M., III, and R. A. Anderson. 2001. Mesocosm experiments on habitat choice by an endemic lizard: implications for timber management. Journal of Herpetology 35:173–185.
42 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.
43 10076 Williams, S. C. 2010. Sources and consequences of ecological intraspecific variation in the Florida scrub lizard (Sceloporus woodi). M.S. Thesis, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, USA. 62pp.
44 10491 Williams, S. C., and L. D. McBrayer. 2015. Behavioral and ecological differences of the Florida scrub lizard (Sceloporus woodi) in scrub and sandhill habitat. Florida Scientist 78:95–110.
45 6256 Witz, B. W., D. S. Wilson, and M. D. Palmer. 1991. Distribution of Gopherus polyphemus and its vertebrate symbionts in three burrow categories. American Midland Naturalist 126:152–158.

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