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Squirrel treefrogs (Hyla squirrella) are highly competent acrobats. Robert T. Zappalorti Frogs and Toads of the Southeast Mike Dorcas and Whit Gibbons Bog frogs, spring peepers, and more With more than forty native and introduced species of frogs and toads occurring in the southeastern United States, the region represents the heart of frog and toad diversity in the country. Renowned herpetologists Mike Dorcas and Whit Gibbons provide us with the most comprehensive and authoritative, yet accessible and fun-to-read, guide to these sometimes wet, sometimes warty wonders of nature. Dorcas and Gibbons enumerate the distinguishing characteristics of frogs and toads, including how they are different from other amphibians and the differences between a frog and a toad. Also discussed are the morphology of frogs and toads, the main groups to be found in the Southeast, and their habitats. Individual species accounts contain a physical description of the species plus information about distribution and habitat, behavior and activity, food and feeding, predators and defense, calls and vocalizations, reproduction and description of eggs and tadpoles, and conservation. Accompanying each account are photographs illustrating typical adults and variations and distribution maps for the Southeast and the United States. John D. Willson The Cuban treefrog (Osteopilus septentrionalis) is an invasive species that has had noticeable negative impacts on our native frogs. Given the recent worldwide decline in amphibian populations and increasing scientific and popular concern for what these declines mean for all other organisms, Frogs and Toads of the Southeast will appeal to people of all ages and levels of knowledge interested in natural history and conservation. The guide will help foster the growing interest in frogs and toads as well as cultivate a desire to protect and conserve these fascinating amphibians and their habitats. Other southeastern nature guides E. Pierson Hill When threatened, a spadefoot toad (Scaphiopus holbrooki) may curl into a ball. Snakes of the Southeast Whit Gibbons and Mike Dorcas Paper, $22.95t | 978-0-8203-2652-8 Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award Turtles of the Southeast Kurt Buhlmann, Tracey Tuberville, and Whit Gibbons Coming in April 2008 Paper, $22.95t | 978-0-8203-2902-4 Forthcoming Lizards and Crocodilians of the Southeast Salamanders of the Southeast 16 The University of Georgia Press Spring & Summer 2008
Aubrey M. Heupel A southern leopard frog (Rana sphenocephala) from South Carolina. July 7 1 ⁄2 x 10 | 264 pp. 250 color photos | 1 table 45 maps | 2 figures Flexibind, $22.95t 978-0-8203-2922-2 A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book Features • Conservation-oriented approach • Approximately 250 color photographs • Approximately 45 distribution maps • Clear description and photographs of each species in both tadpole and adult stages • Chapters on identification, vocalizations, reproduction, global diversity (including remarkable species such as the gastric brooding frog, poison dart frogs, and saltwater frogs), and introduced species • A selection of frog and toad vocalizations at www.ugapress.org/FrogsAndToads John D. Willson American toads (Bufo americanus) are often reddish in color. A male green treefrog (Hyla cinerea) intercepted a female attracted to a calling male. Trip Lamb Mike Dorcas, a biologist at Davidson College, is author of A Guide to the Snakes of North Carolina and coauthor of The Frogs and Toads of North Carolina. Whit Gibbons, is a professor of ecology at the University of Georgia and the former Head of the Environmental Outreach and Education Program at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory. He is the coauthor, with Kurt Buhlmann and Tracey Tuberville, of Turtles of the Southeast (Georgia). Dorcas and Gibbons are coauthors of Snakes of the Southeast (Georgia). Thomas Luhring Nature Guides / Biology www.ugapress.org 800.266.5842 17
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