Intraguild predation, thermoregulation, and microhabitat selection by snakes (2009)
Webb, Jonathan K., Pringle, Robert M., Shine, Richard
Intraguild (IG) predation, the killing and eating of potential competitors, can be a powerful force within faunal assemblages. If both the IG predator and its prey prefer similar microhabitats in...
Llewelyn, John, Phillips, Benjamin L., Alford, Ross A., Schwarzkopf, Lin, Shine, Richard
Cane toads (Bufo marinus) are now moving about 5 times faster through tropical Australia than they did a half-century ago, during the early phases of toad invasion. Radio-tracking has revealed higher...
Pizzatto, Lígia, Child, Travis, Shine, Richard
Why are some animals active by day and others by night? The selective forces that favor diurnal versus nocturnal activity may be evaluated by comparing age classes within a species that exhibits...
Disentangling the complexities of vertebrate sex allocation: a role for squamate reptiles? (2007)
Olssen, Mats, Komdeur, Jan, Pen, Ido, Uller, Tobias, Wapstra, Erik, Shine, Richard
Sex allocation is an important field in evolutionary biology, both historically and currently. However, while sex allocation theory has successfully predicted sex ratio bias in some taxa, most...
Radder, Rajkumar, Ali, Sinan, Shine, Richard
The eggs of birds and reptiles contain detectable levels of several steroid hormones, and experimental application of such steroids can reverse genetically determined sex of the offspring. However,...
Kin discrimination in the social lizard Egernia saxatilis (Scincidae) (2006)
O'Connor, David E., Shine, Richard
The ability to discriminate kin from nonkin is critical for the evolution of kin-based sociality. Black rock skinks, Egernia saxatilis, are viviparous lizards that typically live in “nuclear...
Size matters : extraordinary rodent abundance on an Australian tropical floodplain (2006)
Madsen, Thomas, Ujvari, Beata, Shine, Richard, Buttemer, William, Olsson, Mats
Published estimates of the total biomass of natural populations of mammalian herbivores generally have ignored small-bodied taxa (especially, rodents). Including such taxa may dramatically change our...
Shine, Richard; University Of Sydney; Rics@bio.usyd.edu.au
If animals avoid road surfaces or are unable to follow conspecific trails across such surfaces, previously continuous populations may be fragmented. We gathered data on the effects of a small (4-m...
Shine, Richard, Lemaster, Michael, Wall, Michael, Langkilde, Tracy, Mason, Robert
"If animals avoid road surfaces or are unable to follow conspecific trails across such surfaces, previously continuous populations may be fragmented. We gathered data on the effects of a small (4-m...
Shine, Richard, Phillips, Ben, Langkilde, Tracy, Lutterschmidt, Deborah I., Waye, Heather, Mason, Robert T.
Red-sided garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis) court and mate in early spring around large communal overwintering dens in central Manitoba. Emerging females are immediately covered by...
Does total reproductive effort evolve independently of offspring size? (2001)
Caley, M. Julian, Schwarzkopf, Lin, Shine, Richard
In all species, patterns of reproductive allocation have important fitness consequences and therefore important implications for life-history evolution. Nearly universally, theory in this field has...
Shine, Richard, Olsson, Mats M., Lemaster, Michael P., Moore, Ignacio T., Mason, Robert T.
Gartersnakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis) in southern Manitoba are subject to intense predation (primarily by crows) during their spring breeding season. The huge numbers of snakes provide a...
Male snow skinks (Niveoscincus microlepidotus) in the Tasmanian highlands have broadly overlapping home ranges, and fight vigorously (often with substantial damage to one or both participants) upon...
Patterns of survival, growth, and maturation in snakes and lizards (1992)
Dimensionless invariants for reptile life-histories are discussed
Validation and Use of 22Na Turnover to Measure Food Intake in Free-Ranging Lizards (1983)
Gallagher, Kerri J., Morrison, David A., Shine, Richard, Grigg, Gordon C.
As the food intake of free-ranging animals has proved to be difficult to measure by traditional means, the feasibility of using radioactive Na to measure food consumption in a small scincid lizard...
Validation and Use of 22Na Turnover to Measure Food Intake in Free-Ranging Lizards (1983)
Gallagher, Kerri J., Morrison, David A., Shine, Richard, Grigg, Gordon C.
As the food intake of free-ranging animals has proved to be difficult to measure by traditional means, the feasibility of using radioactive Na to measure food consumption in a small scincid lizard...
Mating and Male Combat in Australian Blacksnakes, Pseudechis porphyriacus (1981)
Shine, Richard, Grigg, Gordon, Shine, Terri G., Harlow, Peter
We observed ritual combat and other agonistic behavior between male blacksnakes (Pseudechis porphyriacus) in a field population in central New South Wales. Combat bouts vary greatly in duration (2 to...
Mating and Male Combat in Australian Blacksnakes, Pseudechis porphyriacus (1981)
Shine, Richard, Grigg, Gordon, Shine, Terri G., Harlow, Peter
We observed ritual combat and other agonistic behavior between male blacksnakes (Pseudechis porphyriacus) in a field population in central New South Wales. Combat bouts vary greatly in duration (2 to...
Adapting to the unpredictable: reproductive biology of vertebrates in the Australian wet–dry tropics
Shine, Richard, Brown, Gregory P
In the wet–dry tropics of northern Australia, temperatures are high and stable year-round but monsoonal rainfall is highly seasonal and variable both annually and spatially. Many features of...
Genetic evidence for co-occurrence of chromosomal and thermal sex-determining systems in a lizard
Radder, Rajkumar S, Quinn, Alexander E, Georges, Arthur, Sarre, Stephen D, Shine, Richard
An individual's sex depends upon its genes (genotypic sex determination or GSD) in birds and mammals, but reptiles are more complex: some species have GSD whereas in others, nest temperatures...
Kearney, Michael, Shine, Richard, Porter, Warren P.
Increasing concern about the impacts of global warming on biodiversity has stimulated extensive discussion, but methods to translate broad-scale shifts in climate into direct impacts on living...