BULLETIN FLORIDA MUSEUM NATURAL HISTORY VOL. 38 PT. I


Table 1. List of reports and published papers concerning amphibians and reptiles of the Preserve.


Topic References


General survey
Ephemeral ponds

Trapping


Frog surveys
Bufo (quercicus)
Bufo terrestriss)
Cemophora
Cnemidophorus
Crotalis
Drymarchon
Elaphe
Gastrophryne
Gopherus

Notophthalmus (perstriatus)
Pituophis
Pseudemys floridanuss)
Seminatrix
Rana (areolata)


Franz 1991a
Moler & Franz 1987; Dodd & Charest 1988; Dodd 1992b; Franz 1991b;
LaClaire & Franz 1991; LaClaire 1992, 1995
Franz 1984, 1986; Humphrey et al. 1985; Dodd & Charest 1988;
Franz 1988; Franz et al. 1989; Dodd 1991, 1992b, 1993a, 1995;
Dodd& Franz 1995
Moler & Franz 1987; LaClaire & Franz 1991
Dodd 1994
Dodd 1994
Stuart & Dodd 1985
Dodd 1992a, 1993b
Timmerman 1989, 1990, 1995
Dodd 1988
Franz 1988
Dodd 1995
Eisenberg 1984; Franz 1984, 1986a; Ultsch & Anderson 1986;
Jones & Franz 1990; Smith 1992, 1995; Dodd 1993a
Dodd 1993a
Franz 1984, 1992
Franz 1986b
Dodd 1993c
Franz 1984, 1986a; Franz et al. 1988


for one 24-hr period).


The frog trapping data base was


supplemented by


vocalization surveys, which were conducted weekly between March 1983 and
March 1985 and irregularly in March and April 1993.
 The habitats on the Preserve include high pine sandhills, xeric oak
hammocks, mesic hardwood hammocks, sandhill ponds and lakes, swamp forests,
and dark water ponds, lakes, and marshes (Franz and Hall 1991). About 15-20%
of the Preserve has been severely altered by agriculture. Mesic hardwood
hammocks, swamp forests, and darkwater habitats are restricted to the Mill Creek
valley. The Mill Creek originates in Lake Melrose (west of the Preserve) and flows
across the Preserve in an easterly direction (Fig. 1). This intermittent creek is an
upper tributary of the Etoniah-Rice Creek drainage, an important tributary of the
lower St. Johns River. Sandhill lakes are generally isolated with respect to one
another and to the darkwater flow-through system. There are no flatwoods and
permanent streams or springs on the property.
 The Preserve includes a modest herpetofauna of mostly upland and aquatic
species (Appendix 1). The composition of this fauna reflects the Preserve's
geographical position on a N-S trending series of sand ridges that lie along the