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278. Downes, S. J., and R. Shine. 2001. Why does tail loss increase a lizard's later chances of being consumed by snake predators? Ecology 82:1293-1303.
279. Madsen, T., and R. Shine. 2001. Conflicting conclusions from long-term versus short-term studies on growth and reproduction of a tropical snake. Herpetologica 57:147-156.
280. Madsen, T., and R. Shine. 2001. Do snakes shrink? Oikos 92:187-188.
281. Shine, R., M. J. Elphick, P. S. Harlow, I. T. Moore, M. P. LeMaster, and R. T. Mason. 2001. Movements, mating and dispersal of red-sided garter snakes from a communal den in Manitoba. Copeia 2001:82-91.
282. Pfrender, M., R. T. Mason, J. T. Wilmslow, and R. Shine. 2001. Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis (red-sided garter snake). Male-male copulation. Herpetological Review 32:52.
283. Sun, L., R. Shine, D. Zhao, and Z. Tang. 2001. Biotic and abiotic influences on activity patterns of insular pit-vipers (Gloydius shedaoensis, Viperidae) from north-eastern China. Biological Conservation 97:387-398.
284. Webb, J. K., R. Shine, and W. R. Branch. 2001. Dietary habits and reproductive biology of typhlopid snakes from southern Africa. Journal of Herpetology 35:558-567.
285. Bonnet, X., G. Naulleau, R. Shine, and O. Lourdais. 2001. Short-term versus long-term effects of food intake on reproductive output in a viviparous snake Vipera aspis. Oikos 92:297-308.
286. Shine, R., and M. Kearney. 2001. Field studies of reptile thermoregulation: how well do physical models predict operative temperatures? Functional Ecology 15:282-288.
287. Bonnet, X., G. Naulleau, D. Bradshaw, and R. Shine. 2001. Changes in plasma progesterone in relation to vitellogenesis and gestation in the snake Vipera aspis. General and Comparative Endocrinology 121:84-94.
288. Olsson, M., and R. Shine. 2001. Facultative sex allocation in snow skink lizards (Niveoscincus microlepidotus). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 14:120-128.
289. Olsson, M., R. Shine, and E. Wapstra. 2001. Costs of reproduction in a lizard species: a comparison of observational and experimental data. Oikos 93:121-125.
290. Shine, R., M. P. LeMaster, I. T. Moore, M. M. Olsson, and R. T. Mason. 2001. Bumpus in the snake den: effects of sex, size and body condition on mortality in red-sided garter snakes. Evolution 55:598-604.
291. Koenig, J., R. Shine, and G. Shea. 2001. The ecology of an Australian reptile icon: how do bluetongue lizards (Tiliqua scincoides) survive in suburbia? Wildlife Research 28:215-227.
292. Bonnet, X., R. Shine, G. Naulleau, and C. Thiburce. 2001. Plastic vipers: genetic and environmental influences on the size and shape of Gaboon vipers, Bitis gabonica. Journal of Zoology (London) 255:341-351.
293. Pearson, D., R. Shine, X. Bonnet, A. Williams, B. Jennings, and O. Lourdais. 2001. Ecological notes on crowned snakes, Elapognathus coronatus, from the Archipelago of the Recherche in southwestern Australia. Australian Zoologist 31:610-617.
294. Shine, R., and M. Elphick. 2001. The effect of short-term weather fluctuations on temperatures inside lizard nests, and on the phenotypic traits of hatchling lizards. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 72:555-565.
295. Keogh, J. S., D. Barker, and R. Shine. 2001. Heavily exploited but poorly known: systematics and biogeography of commercially harvested pythons (Python curtus group) in Southeast Asia. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 73:113-129.
296. Shine, R., and S. Shetty. 2001. Moving in two worlds: aquatic and terrestrial locomotion in sea snakes (Laticauda colubrina, Laticaudidae). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 14:338-346.
297. Kearney, M., R. Shine, S. Comber, and D. Pearson. 2001. Why do geckos group? An analysis of "social" aggregations in two species of Australian lizards. Herpetologica 57:411-422.
298. Blomberg, S., and R. Shine. 2001. Modeling life history strategies with capture-recapture data: Evolutionary demography of the water skink Eulamprus tympanum. Austral Ecology 26:349-359.
299. Shine, R., and R. T. Mason. 2001. Courting male garter snakes use multiple cues to identify potential mates. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 49:465-473.
300. Caley, M. J., L. Schwarzkopf, and R. Shine. 2001. Does total reproductive effort evolve independently of offspring size? Evolution 55:1245-1248.
301. Wuster, W., B. Bush, J. S. Keogh, M. O'Shea, and R. Shine. 2001. Taxonomic contributions in the "amateur" literature: comments on recent descriptions of new genera and species by Raymond Hoser. Litteratura Serpentium 21:67-79, 86-91.
302. Fearn, S., B. Robinson, J. Sambono, and R. Shine. 2001. Pythons in the pergola: the ecology of "nuisance" carpet pythons (Morelia spilota) from suburban habitats in south-eastern Queensland. Wildlife Research 28:573-579.
303. Shine, R., D. O'Connor, M. P. LeMaster, and R. T. Mason. 2001. Pick on someone your own size: ontogenetic shifts in mate choice by male garter snakes result in size-assortative mating. Animal Behaviour 61:1133-1141.
304. Shine, R., and J. Koenig. 2001. Snakes in the garden: an analysis of reptiles "rescued" by community-based wildlife carers. Biological Conservation 102:271-283.
305. Shine, R., and S. Shetty. 2001. The influence of natural selection and sexual selection on the tails of sea-snakes (Laticauda colubrina). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 74:121-129.
306. Smith, S. A., C. C. Austin, and R. Shine. 2001. A phylogenetic analysis of variation in reproductive mode within an Australian lizard species (Saiphos equalis, Scincidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 74:131-139.
307. Webb, J. K., G. P. Brown, and R. Shine. 2001. Body size, locomotor speed and antipredator behaviour in a tropical snake (Tropidonophis mairii, Colubridae): the influence of incubation environments and genetic factors. Functional Ecology 15:561-568.
308. Flatt, T., R. Shine, P. A. Borges-Landaez, and S. J. Downes. 2001. Phenotypic variation in an oviparous montane lizard (Bassiana duperreyi): the effects of thermal and hydric incubation environments. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 74:339-350.
309. Shine, R., B. Phillips, H. Waye, M. LeMaster, and R. T. Mason. 2001. Advantage of female mimicry to snakes. Nature 414:267.
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