Harold F Heatwole

Works (35)

Updated: April 4th, 2024 17:22

2019 journal article

Structure of micrometazoan assemblages in the Larsemann Hills, Antarctica

POLAR BIOLOGY, 42(10), 1837–1848.

By: H. Heatwole* & W. Miller*

author keywords: Lichens; Mosses; Nematodes; Rotifers; Soils; Tardigrades
TL;DR: The above scenario serves as a baseline for assessing increasing structural complexity of Antarctic terrestrial communities as the continent undergoes warming, accompanied by inevitable invasion by external species, including non-cryptobiotic taxa. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action (Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water (Web of Science)
15. Life on Land (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: December 2, 2019

2018 journal article

Why Are There No Sea Snakes in the Atlantic?

BIOSCIENCE, 68(1), 15–24.

By: H. Lillywhite, C. Sheehy*, H. Heatwole*, F. Brischoux* & D. Steadman*

author keywords: sea snakes; Atlantic; Coral Triangle; distribution; paleoclimate
TL;DR: The Isthmus of Panama fully separated the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans before the speciation and dispersal of the sole pelagic species of sea snake to reach the Central American Pacific shoreline. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action (Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water (Web of Science; OpenAlex)
15. Life on Land (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2017 journal article

Anesthesia and Euthanasia of Amphibians and Reptiles Used in Scientific Research: Should Hypothermia and Freezing Be Prohibited?

BIOSCIENCE, 67(1), 52–60.

By: H. Lillywhite, R. Shine, E. Jacobson, D. Denardo, M. Gordon, C. Navas, T. Wang, R. Seymour ...

author keywords: euthanasia; freezing; amphibians; reptiles; animal ethics guidelines
TL;DR: It is argued that whole-body cooling, followed by freezing, should be a humane form of euthanasia for numerous smaller ectothermic species and that cooling offers a humane and useful means of supplementing currently acceptable methods of anesthesia. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2017 journal article

Paleoclimatology, paleogeography, and the evolution and distribution of sea kraits (Serpentes; Elapidae; Laticauda)

Herpetological Monographs, 31, 1–17.

By: H. Heatwole*, A. Grech* & H. Marsh*

TL;DR: Two major factors—paleogeographic alteration of the configuration of land and sea, and the directions of sea currents, past and present—provide an explanation of how these amphibious snakes originated from a terrestrial Asian elapid ancestor and subsequently generated the venomous Australian land snakes and their derivatives the true sea snakes. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water (OpenAlex)
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

2016 journal article

Physiological, ecological, and behavioural correlates of the size of the geographic ranges of sea kraits (Laticauda; Elapidae, Serpentes): A critique

JOURNAL OF SEA RESEARCH, 115, 18–25.

By: H. Heatwole*, H. Lillywhite* & A. Grech*

author keywords: Sea kraits; Distribution; Temperature; Salinity
TL;DR: Re-assessment of the relationships of temperature and salinity as determinants of the size of the geographic ranges of sea kraits resolved the paradox of lack of correspondence of size of range with degree of terrestrialism, but did not form a definitive test of the theory. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action (Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water (Web of Science; OpenAlex)
15. Life on Land (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2015 journal article

Dehydration and drinking behavior in true sea snakes (Elapidae: Hydrophiinae: Hydrophiini)

JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY, 296(4), 261–269.

By: H. Lillywhite*, H. Heatwole n & C. Sheehy*

author keywords: drinking behavior; dehydration; drought; water balance; sea snake; body water
TL;DR: The dehydration and drinking responses of five species of hydrophiin sea snakes collected during the dry season in northern Australia illustrate that sea snakes are characterized by diverse responses to dehydration and likely have different osmoregulatory strategies for survival, with implications for better understanding the evolutionary success of secondarily marine vertebrates. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action (Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water (Web of Science; OpenAlex)
15. Life on Land (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2015 journal article

Pristine Wilderness to Crippled Ecosystems: A Foray Through More Than Half a Century of Herpetology

JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY, 49(3), 333–342.

By: H. Heatwole n

TL;DR: A prominent trend in herpetology has been a shift from basic biology to conservation in the face of environmental degradation and the need to preserve the biodiversity of amphibians and reptiles, and research has spanned that change in paradigm. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action (Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water (Web of Science; OpenAlex)
15. Life on Land (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2013 journal article

Point-diversity, a critical tool for assessing dynamics of guilds of scavenging ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): an example from a eucalypt woodland

SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY, 11(2), 149–180.

By: H. Heatwole n, S. Tremont & E. Broese*

author keywords: activity; ants; assemblages; biodiversity; community; dominance; foraging; niches; point diversity; scavengers
TL;DR: Eurydielic species were most important in determining assemblage structure and species’ interactions and formicines had the greatest species richness but myrmicines and dolichoderines were more important ecologically. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land (Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2009 journal article

Vicissitudes of leaves in a tropical rain forest in Madagascar

JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY, 25, 615–624.

By: H. Heatwole n, S. Unsicker*, L. Andriamiarisoa* & M. Lowman*

author keywords: epiphyllae; folivory; fungi; galls; herbivory; insects; leaf miners; skeletonizers; vertical stratification
TL;DR: The observed vertical stratification means that a tree not only needs to balance its defences to meet multiple threats in any stratum, but must adapt to a different suite of challenges during its lifetime. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
2. Zero Hunger (Web of Science)
13. Climate Action (Web of Science)
15. Life on Land (Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2007 journal article

Distribution of two species of sea snakes, Aipysurus laevis and Emydocephalus annulatus, in the southern Great Barrier Reef: metapopulation dynamics, marine protected areas and conservation

CORAL REEFS, 26(2), 291–307.

By: V. Lukoschek*, H. Heatwole*, A. Grech*, G. Burns* & H. Marsh*

author keywords: classification tree; connectivity; marine protected area; metapopulation; sea snake
TL;DR: The potential for inter-population exchange among sea snake populations is poorly understood, as is the degree of protection that will be afforded to sea snakes by the recently implemented network of No-take areas in the GBR. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action (Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water (Web of Science; OpenAlex)
15. Life on Land (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2007 journal article

Laterality in coiling behaviour of snakes: Another interpretation

LATERALITY, 12(6), 536–542.

By: H. Heatwole n, P. King* & S. Levine n

MeSH headings : Agkistrodon / physiology; Animals; Behavior, Animal / physiology; Functional Laterality / physiology; Snakes / physiology
TL;DR: The data from the combined studies suggest that if laterality in coiling direction does occur, it is extremely weak and inconsistent. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water (OpenAlex)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2006 journal article

Laticauda frontalis (de Vis, 1905) and Laticauda saintgironsi n.sp from Vanuatu and New Caledonia (Serpentes : Elapidae : Laticaudinae) - a new lineage of sea kraits?

RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM, 58(2), 245–256.

By: H. Cogger* & H. Heatwole n

TL;DR: Two members of this complex previously subsumed under the specific name colubrina are here formally elevated to full species status. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action (Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water (Web of Science; OpenAlex)
15. Life on Land (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2005 review

Geographic variation in sea kraits of the Laticauda colubrina complex (Serpentes : Elapidae : Hydrophiinae : Laticaudini)

[Review of ]. HERPETOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS, 19, 1–136.

By: H. Heatwole n, S. Busack* & H. Cogger*

author keywords: sea kraits; Laticauda; geographic variation; distribution; taxonomy; color pattern; dispersal
TL;DR: The results confirmed the distinctiveness of the three original species and suggested that widely peripheral populations were more similar morphologically to each other than to more central ones, and alternative hypotheses accounting for this are discussed. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action (Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water (Web of Science; OpenAlex)
15. Life on Land (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2004 journal article

Effect of the venoms of two viperid snakes, the copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix) and the cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus), on the liver and kidney of the bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana).

Russian Journal of Herpetology, 11(1), 21–29.

By: J. Green, H. Heatwole, B. Black & N. Poran

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

2001 article

Tardigrades of the Australian Antarctic: Macquarie Island, sub-Antarctica

Miller, W. R., Horning, D. S., & Heatwole, H. F. (2001, December). ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEIGER, Vol. 240, pp. 475–491.

By: W. Miller*, D. Horning* & H. Heatwole n

author keywords: predator-prey relationships; association; distribution
TL;DR: Possible predator-prey relationships are suggested by patterns of association in flora and fauna samples collected during the 1977—78 Australian Museum Expedition on Sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action (Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water (Web of Science; OpenAlex)
15. Life on Land (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2000 journal article

Ants from northwestern China (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

Psyche, 103(1), 1.

By: C. Collingwood n & H. Heatwole n

TL;DR: An ecological survey of the ant fauna of the southern part of the Junggar Basin and adjacent mountains, Xinjiang, China, revealed 46 species of which 27 were new records for China, and most of the species are widespread and no endemics were found. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land (OpenAlex)
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

2000 journal article

Cutaneous glands in the Australian hylid Litoria caerulea (Amphibia, Hylidae)

ANATOMY AND EMBRYOLOGY, 201(5), 341–348.

By: M. Warburg, M. Rosenberg, . Roberts* & H. Heatwole*

author keywords: amphibian skin; dermal glands; lipids; water balance; xeric adaptations
MeSH headings : Animals; Anura / anatomy & histology; Anura / physiology; Body Water / metabolism; Exocrine Glands / metabolism; Exocrine Glands / ultrastructure; Lipid Metabolism; Microscopy, Electron; Skin / metabolism; Skin / ultrastructure; Water Deprivation / physiology
TL;DR: The subject of skin lipid secretion is discussed in relation to the ecophysiological adaptations of this xeric-inhabiting frog. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2000 journal article

Growth, sexual dimorphism, and population biology of the olive sea snake, Aipysurus laevis, on the Great Barrier Reef of Australia

AMPHIBIA-REPTILIA, 21(3), 289–300.

By: G. Burns* & H. Heatwole n

TL;DR: The olive sea snake, Aipysurus laevis (Lacepede) grows at a rate of 0.22-0.95 cm/month, with young animals growing faster than older ones; there is sexual dimorphism in size, with females larger than males; at snout-vent lengths greater than 80 cm, females are heavier than males of equivalent length. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action (Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water (Web of Science; OpenAlex)
15. Life on Land (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2000 journal article

Ultrastructure of the skin mechanoreceptors of the Chinese giant salamander, Andrias davidianus

JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY, 245(1), 80–85.

By: C. Hong*, Y. Guo-Hua* & H. Heatwole n

author keywords: salamanders; sensory organs; pit organs; surface neuromasts; lateral-line system
TL;DR: The ultrastructure of two kinds of mechanoreceptive organs, pit organs and neuromasts, in the skin of adult giant salamanders (Andrias davidianus) was studied by transmission electron microscopy. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

1999 book

From bedrock to biota: Weathering, physico-chemical properties, protozoans and micrometazoans of some soils of East Antarctica

Kingston, Tasmania: Australian Antarctic Division.

By: H. Heatwole, D. Alter, J. Charley, N. Stephenson, J. Bedford, P. O'Donoghue, W. Miller, F. Reay

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

1999 journal article

Grazing on Australian eucalypt leaves by insects

Selbyana, 20(2), 299.

By: H. Heatwole, M. Lowman & K. Abbott

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

1999 journal article

Ontogenetic changes in the resistance of bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana) to the venom of copperheads (Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix) and cottonmouths (Agkistrodon piscivorus piscivorus)

COPEIA, (3), 808–814.

By: H. Heatwole*, N. Poran & P. King

TL;DR: A population of bullfrogs introduced into California early this century and isolated from copperheads and cottonmouths since that time still had equivalent resistances as did those snakes from within the geographic range of the snakes; the LD50 to the venoms had not changed significantly. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water (OpenAlex)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

1999 book

Sea snakes

Malabar, FL: Krieger Pub. Co.

By: H. Heatwole

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

1999 journal article

Seasonal comparison of hemoglobins in three species of turtles

JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY, 33(4), 691–694.

By: P. King & H. Heatwole*

UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action (Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water (Web of Science)
15. Life on Land (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

1999 journal article

Tardigrades of the Australian Antarctic territories: Males in the genus Echiniscus (Tardigrada: Heterotardigrada)

Zoologischer Anzeiger, 238(3-4), 303–309.

By: W. Miller, S. Claxton & H. Heatwole

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

1998 journal article

Evidence for sidewinding in the banded sea krait, Laticauda colubrina

Herpetofauna, 28(2), 14–15.

By: H. Heatwole & P. Abbott

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

1998 chapter

Habitats and adaptations

In H. G. Cogger & R. G. Zweifel (Eds.), Encyclopedia of reptiles & amphibians (2nd ed.) (pp. 30–35). McMahons Point, N.S.W.: Weldon Owen; San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

By: W. Duellman & H. Heatwole

Ed(s): . H. G. Cogger & R. Zweifel

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

1998 journal article

Home range and habitat use of the olive sea snake, Aipysurus laevis, on the Great Barrier Reef Australia

JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY, 32(3), 350–358.

By: G. Burns & H. Heatwole*

TL;DR: Short-term movements of 12 olive sea snakes, Aipysurus laevis, were tracked using ultrasonic transmitters fed to snakes, finding home ranges of individuals broadly overlap. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action (Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water (Web of Science; OpenAlex)
15. Life on Land (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

1998 journal article

Hypersensitivity of some lizards to pilocarpine

Herpetological Review, 29(4), 223–224.

By: B. Stuart, W. Croom & H. Heatwole

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

1998 journal article

Phenology of leaf-flushing and macroarthropod abundances in canopies of Eucalyptus saplings

Selbyana, 18(2), 200–214.

By: H. Heatwole, M. Lowman, C. Donovan & M. McCoy

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

1998 journal article

Resistance of eels (Gymnothorax) to the venom of sea kraits (Laticauda colubrina): A test of coevolution

TOXICON, 36(4), 619–625.

By: H. Heatwole n & J. Powell n

MeSH headings : Animals; Biological Evolution; Eels; Elapid Venoms / toxicity; Elapidae; Heart Rate / drug effects
TL;DR: It is found that Gymnothorax moringa from the Caribbean, where no sea snakes occur, are sensitive to sea krait venom, with doses as low as 0.1 mg/kg proving to be lethal. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action (Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water (Web of Science; OpenAlex)
15. Life on Land (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

1997 journal article

Marine snakes: Are they a sustainable resource?

Wildlife Society Bulletin, 25(4), 766–772.

By: H. Heatwole

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

1996 journal article

Ant assemblages at their dry limits: The northern Atacama Desert, Peru, and the Chott El Djerid, Tunisia

JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS, 33(4), 449–456.

By: H. Heatwole n

author keywords: ants; deserts; assemblages
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

1994 book

Amphibian biology

Chipping Norton, NSW: Surrey Beatty & Sons.

By: H. Heatwole

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

1994 book

Amphibian biology1994

Chipping Norton, NSW: Surrey Beatty & Sons-.

By: . Harold Heatwole.

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

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