Publications

Below is a list of my publications.  If you would like a copy of a paper, I have reprints of many of these and can be contacted at sbeaupre@uark.edu.

Beaupre, S. J. and  H. W.  Greene.  2010. In Press.  Handling Hazardous Live Reptiles. Appendix for R. McDiarmid (ed.) Reptiles: Standard Methods of Inventory and monitoring.

Gardner-Santana, L.C. and S. J. Beaupre. 2009. Timber Rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus) exhibit elevated and less variable body temperatures during pregnancy. Copeia, 2009: 363-368.

Beaupre, S. J. and L. E. Douglas.  2009.  Snake populations as indicators of ecosystem health.  Chapter 9  pp. 244-261  In S. Mullin and R.A. Seigel, eds. Snakes: Applied Ecology and Conservation. Cornell University Press..  

Hill, J.G. and S.J. Beaupre 2008. Body size, growth and reproduction in a population of western cottonmouths (Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma) in the Ozark Mountains of Northwest Arkansas.  Copeia 2008; 103-112.

 

Hill, J.G. III. I. Hanning, S.J. Beaupre, S.C. Ricke, and M.M. Slavik. 2008. Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis for the determination of bacterial species diversity in the gastrointestinal tracts of two Crotaline snakes.  Herpetological Review, 39:433-438.

Beaupre, S. J.  2008. Annual variation in time-energy allocation by Timber Rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus) in relation to food acquisition. pp 111-122, In  Biology of Rattlesnakes (W.K. Hayes, S.P. Bush, D. Caldwell, and K. Beaman Eds.). Loma Linda University Press.  

Beaupre, S. J. and C. E. Montgomery.  2007.  The meaning and consequences of foraging mode in snakes.  Chapter 14 in Foraging Behavior in Lizards. S. M. Reilly, D. Miles, and L. McBrayer (eds.).  Cambridge University Press. 

Beaupre, S. J. 2005.  Technical Comment:  Ratio representations  of specific dynamic action (mass-specific SDA and SDA coefficient) do not standardize for body mass and meal size. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology.  78:126-131.

Browning, D. M., S.J. Beaupre, and L. Duncan.  2005. Using partitioned malahanobis D2(k) to formulate a GIS-based model of Timber rattlesnake hibernacula.  Journal of Wildlife Management, 69:33-44

Montgomery, C. E., N. E. Haertle, and S. J. Beaupre.  2004. Agkistrodon contortrix (Copperhead) Predation.  Herpetological Review, 35(3): 271.

Beaupre, S. J., E. R. Jacobson, H. B. Lillywhite, and K. Zamudio.  2004.  Guidelines for the use of live amphibians and reptiles in field and laboratory research.  A publication of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Approved by board of Governors  June 30, 2004, Norman Oklahoma. 

Zaidan III, F., D.L. Kreider, and S.J. Beaupre.  2003.  Testosterone cycles and reproductive energetics:  Implications for northern range limits of the cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma).  Copeia, 2003: 231-240.

Zaidan, III, F., and  S. J. Beaupre.  2003.  The effects of body mass, meal size, fast length, and temperature on specific dynamic action (SDA) in the Timber Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus).  Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 76:447-458.

Beaupre, S. J.  2002. Modeling time-energy allocation in vipers: individual responses to environmental variation and implications for populations.  In G. Schuett, M. Hoggren, M. E. Douglas and H. W. Greene  (eds), Biology of Vipers. Eagle Mountain Publishing LC.

Cundall, D.  and  S. J. Beaupre.  2001.  Field records of predatory strike kinematics in Timber Rattlesnakes, Crotalus horridus.  Amphibia-Reptilia, 22:492-498.

Beaupre, S. J.  and F. Zaidan.  2001 Scaling of CO2 production in the timber rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus), with comments on the cost of growth in neonates and comparative patterns.  Physiological and Biochemical Zoology.  74:757-768.

Petraitis, P., S. J. Beaupre, and A. E. Dunham. 2001.  Non-parametric and randomization approaches to analysis of covariance: ecological applications.  Pages 116-133 In Design and Analysis of Ecological Experiments (2nd Ed) S.M. Scheiner and J. Gurevitch (eds).  Chapmann and Hall, New York.

Beaupre, S. J. and K. Roberts.  2001. Agkistrodon contortrix, chemotaxis, diet and arboreality. Herpetological Review, 32:44-45.

Wills, C. A. and S. J. Beaupre. 2000.  An application of randomization for detecting thermoregulation in timber rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus) from northwest Arkansas.  Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 73:325-334.

Ungar, P.  and S.  Beaupre.  1999.  Feeding adaptations: Vertebrates.  Encyclopedia of Paleontology. R. Singer (ed.), Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago, IL.

Beaupre, S. J. and D. Duvall.  1998.  Variation in oxygen consumption of the western diamondback rattlesnake, Crotalus atrox: Implications for sexual size dimorphism.  Journal of Comparative Physiology, B 168:497-506.

Beaupre, S.J., and D. Duvall.  1998.  The integrative biology of rattlesnakes: Contributions to ecology and evolution. BioScience, 48:531-538.

Duvall, D.  and S.  J.  Beaupre.  1998. Sexual strategy and size dimorphism in rattlesnakes: integrating proximate and ultimate causation.  American Zoologist, 38:152-165.

Dunham, A. E. and S. J. Beaupre.  1998.  Ecological experiments: Scale, phenomenology, mechanism and the illusion of generality. in Experimental Ecology: Issues and Perspectives. (J. Bernardo, and W. Resetarits eds.). Oxford University Press, NY

Beaupre, S. J., D. Duvall, and J. O’Leile.  1998. Ontogenetic variation in growth and sexual size dimorphism in a central Arizona population of the western diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox).  Copeia, 1998: 40-47.

Beaupre, C. E., C. J. Tressler, S. J. Beaupre, J. L. Morgan, W.  G. Bottje, and J. D. Kirby. 1997.  Determination of testes temperature rhythms and effects of constant light on testicular function in the domestic fowl (Gallus domesticus).  Biology of Reproduction, 56:1570-1575.

Beaupre, S.J. 1996. Field metabolic rate, water flux, and energy budgets of mottled rock rattlesnakes, Crotalus lepidus from two populations.  Copeia, 1996:319-329.

Beaupre, S.J. and A.E. Dunham, 1995. A comparison of ANCOVA and ratio-based analyses of a nutritional data set.  Functional Ecology, 9:876-880.

Beaupre, S.J. 1995. Effects of geographically variable thermal environment on bioenergetics of mottled rock rattlesnakes, Crotalus lepidus.  Ecology, 76:1655-1665.

Beaupre, S.J. 1995. Comparative ecology of the mottled rock rattlesnake, Crotalus lepidus in Big Bend National Park. Herpetologica, 51:45-56.

Beaupre, S.J. and R.W. Beaupre. 1994. An inexpensive data collection method for temperature telemetry.  Herpetologica, 50(4):509-516.

Beaupre, S.J., A.E. Dunham, and K.L. Overall. 1993. Metabolism of a desert lizard: the effects of mass, sex, population of origin, temperature, time of day, and feeding on oxygen consumption of Sceloporus merriami. Physiological Zoology, 66(1):128-147.

Beaupre, S.J., A.E. Dunham, and K.L. Overall. 1993. The effects of consumption rate and  temperature on ADC, urate production, MEC, and passage time in canyon lizards (Sceloporus merriami) from two populations. Functional Ecology, 7:273-280.

Beaupre, S.J. 1993. An ecological study of oxygen consumption in the mottled rock rattlesnake, Crotalus lepidus lepidus and the black-tailed rattlesnake, Crotalus molossus molossus.  Physiological Zoology, 66(3): 437-454.