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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)533-595
Number of pages63
JournalHerpetological Review
Volume55
Issue number4
StatePublished - 2025

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This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Solar Energy Technologies Office Award Number DE-EE0010380. We thank solar companies and private landowners for graciously allowing access to study sites for wildlife sampling. We thank M. Kirkland and L. Rodgers of the South Florida Water Management District for project support. These activities were authorized under Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Permit EXOT-20-72. Funding for radio-telemetric activities were provided by the South Florida Water Management District, the NOAA Hollings Scholarship Program at Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, the Naples Zoo Conservation Fund and through private philanthropy at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida. This work was conducted under the permission for herpetofaunal collection in Mizoram (Permit No. A.33011/2/99-CWLW/225) issued by the Chief Wildlife Warden, Environment, Forest and Climate Change Department, Govt. of Mizoram, India. We thank The Habitats Trust (THT) Action Grant, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, DST-SERB, New Delhi (DST Nos. EEQ/2021/000243 and CRG /2023/000805), and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR Nos. 58/6/2/SBCFP/AKM/2023/NCD-II and 58/6/3/SB-CFP/ AKM/2023/NCD-II) for financial support. Field work was supported by CFE/ASELEC (contract ALAND-RTA-AMB-002/2023) for Ivan Parra, as part of a long-term study on U. rufopunctata and U. cowlesi populations in the sand dunes of northern Sonora, Mexico. This observation was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), funded by the Ministry of Education (RS-2024-00392032). Our work in the Xe Champhone Wetlands is supported by the project “Ecosystem Conservation through Integrated Landscape Management in Lao PDR”, funded jointly by the European Union and the Agence Francaise de Development. We thank C. Paul for assistance with locating important literature references and thank L. Medlock for thoughtful comments on an early draft of this manuscript. This paper represents technical contribution number 7368 of the Clemson University Experimental Station. CAG and HSGF thank the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) for the financial support. This work was conducted under U.S. Fish and Wildlife Permit No. TE37416B-0 and Texas Parks and Wildlife Scientific Research Permit No. SPR-0319-056. We thank the Williamson County Conservation Foundation for funding and the property owners for site access. We thank the Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology and Conservation of Native Species (LEACEN) of the State University of Londrina (UEL) for providing the resources for the field visits. We thank the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) for the scholarship offered to the Biological Sciences Program - UEL for L. H. dos Santos (process 88887.695833/2022-00), as well as the Biodiversity Authorization and Information System (SISBio; process 85536-1) for scientific activities. The L. californiensis identification was confirmed by the third author (AB). Field work was supported by CFE/ASELEC (contract ALAND-RTA-AMB-002/2023) as part of a long-term study on Uma rufopunctata and U. cowlesi populations in the sand dunes of northern Sonora, Mexico. We thank Evgeny P. Pokhilyuk and Yury E. Dochevoy for their help during our field studies. The research was carried out within the state assignment of Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (theme No. 124012200182-1). This research is fully supported by the Rufford Foundation (Grant No. 30710-1) and IDEAWILD to V. D. H. Nguyen.

FundersFunder number
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
NOAA
U.S. Department of Energy
South Florida Water Management District
Naples Zoo Conservation Fund
THT
CFE
DST-SERB, New Delhi
National Research Foundation of Korea
Indian Council of Medical Research
Agence Francaise de Development
Habitats Trust
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Williamson County Conservation Foundation
European Union
EERE
Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel88887.695833/2022-00, 85536-1
ASELECALAND-RTA-AMB-002/2023
Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation124012200182-1
Rufford Foundation30710-1
ICMR58/6/3/SB-CFP/ AKM/2023/NCD-II, 58/6/2/SBCFP/AKM/2023/NCD-II
DSTEEQ/2021/000243, CRG /2023/000805
Ministry of EducationRS-2024-00392032
Solar Energy Technologies OfficeDE-EE0010380

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