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310. Ujvari, B., T. Madsen, T. Kotenko, M. Olsson, R. Shine, and H. Witzell. 2002. Low genetic diversity threatens imminent extinction for the Hungarian meadow viper (Vipera ursinii rakosiensis). Biological Conservation 105:127-130.
311. Shetty, S., and R. Shine. 2002. Sexual divergence in diets and morphology in Fijian sea snakes, Laticauda colubrina (Laticaudidae). Austral Ecology 27:77-84.
312. Bonnet, X., R. Shine, and O. Lourdais. 2002. Taxonomic chauvinism. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17:1-3.
313. Sun, L., R. Shine, D. Zhao, and Z. Tang. 2002. Low costs, high output: reproduction in an insular pit-viper (Gloydius shedaoensis, Viperidae) from north-eastern China. Journal of Zoology (London) 256:511-521.
314. Koenig, J., R. Shine, and G. Shea. 2002. The dangers of life in the city: patterns of activity, injury and mortality in suburban lizards (Tiliqua scincoides). Journal of Herpetology 36:62-68.
315. Shine, R. 2002. Do dietary habits predict scale counts in snakes? Journal of Herpetology 36:268-272.
316. Shetty, S., and R. Shine. 2002. Activity patterns of yellow-lipped sea kraits (Laticauda colubrina) on a Fijian island. Copeia 2002:77-85.
317. Shetty, S., and R. Shine. 2002. The mating system of yellow-lipped sea kraits (Laticauda colubrina, Laticaudinae). Herpetologica 58:170-180.
318. Fitzgerald, M., R. Shine, and F. Lemckert. 2002. A radiotelemetric study of habitat use by the arboreal snake Hoplocephalus stephensii (Elapidae) in eastern Australia. Copeia 2002:321-332.
319. Brown, G. P., R. Shine, and T. Madsen. 2002. Responses of three sympatric snake species to tropical seasonality in northern Australia. Journal of Tropical Ecology 18:549-568.
320. Shine, R., L. Sun, M. Fitzgerald, and M. Kearney. 2002. Behavioral responses of free-ranging pit-vipers (Gloydius shedaoensis, Viperidae) to approach by a human. Copeia 2002:843-850.
321. Whitaker, P. B., and R. Shine. 2002. Thermal biology and activity patterns of the eastern brownsnake (Pseudonaja textilis): a radiotelemetric study. Herpetologica 58:436-462.
322. Shine, R., and L. Sun. 2002. Arboreal ambush-site selection by pit-vipers (Gloydius shedaoensis). Animal Behaviour 63:565-576.
323. Brown, G. P., and R. Shine. 2002. Reproductive ecology of a tropical natricine snake, Tropidonophis mairii (Colubridae). Journal of Zoology (London) 258:63-72.
324. Webb, J. K., B. W. Brook, and R. Shine. 2002. Reptile collectors threaten Australia's most endangered snake, the broad-headed snake Hoplocephalus bungaroides. Oryx 36:170-187.
325. Webb, J. K., B. W. Brook, and R. Shine. 2002. What makes a species vulnerable to extinction? Comparative life-history traits of two sympatric snakes. Ecological Research 17:59-67.
326. Bonnet, X., O. Lourdais, R. Shine, and G. Naulleau. 2002. Reproduction in a typical capital breeder: cost, currencies and complications in the asp viper (Vipera aspis). Ecology 83:2124-2135.
327. Aubret, F., X. Bonnet, R. Shine, and O. Lourdais. 2002. Fat is sexy for females but not males: the influence of body reserves on reproduction in snakes (Vipera aspis). Hormones and Behaviour 42:135-147.
328. Pearson, D., R. Shine, and A. Williams. 2002. Geographic variation in sexual size dimorphism within a single snake species (Morelia spilota, Pythonidae). Oecologia 131:418-426.
329. Reed, R. N., and R. Shine. 2002. Lying in wait for extinction? Ecological correlates of conservation status among Australian elapid snakes. Conservation Biology 16:451-461.
330. Mokany, A., and R. Shine. 2002. Pond attributes influence competitive interactions between tadpoles and mosquito larvae. Austral Ecology 27:396-404.
331. Lourdais, O., X. Bonnet, R. Shine, D. Denardo, G. Naulleau, and M. Guillon. 2002. Capital-breeding and reproductive effort in a variable environment: a longitudinal study of a viviparous snake. Journal of Animal Ecology 71:470-479.
332. Shetty, S., and R. Shine. 2002. Philopatry and homing behavior of sea snakes (Laticauda colubrina) from two adjacent islands in Fiji. Conservation Biology 16:1422-1426.
333. Shine, R., L. Sun, M. Kearney, and M. Fitzgerald. 2002. Thermal correlates of foraging-site selection by Chinese pit-vipers (Gloydius shedaoensis, Viperidae). Journal of Thermal Biology 27:405-412.
334. Pearson, D. J., and R. Shine. 2002. Expulsion of interperitoneally-implanted radiotransmitters by Australian pythons. Herpetological Review 33:261-263.
335. Brown, G. P., and R. Shine. 2002. The influence of weather conditions on activity of tropical snakes. Austral Ecology 27:596-605.
336. Shine, R. 2002. Eggs in autumn: responses to declining incubation temperatures by the eggs of montane lizards. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 76:71-77.
337. Shine, R., E. G. Barrott, and M. J. Elphick. 2002. Some like it hot: effects of forest clearing on nest temperatures of montane reptiles. Ecology 83:2808-2815.
338. Reed, R. N., R. Shine, S. Shetty, and H. Cogger. 2002. Sea kraits (Squamata: Laticauda spp.) as a useful bioassay for assessing local diversity of eels (Muraenidae, Congridae) in the western Pacific Ocean. Copeia 2002:1098-1101.
339. Shine, R., and G. P. Brown. 2002. Effects of seasonally varying hydric conditions on hatchling phenotypes of keelback snakes (Tropidonophis mairii, Colubridae) from the Australian wet-dry tropics. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 76:339-347.
340. Shea, G. M., J. Koenig, and R. Shine. 2002. The eastern bluetongue skink Tiliqua scincoides in the Sydney metropolitan area: the great survivor, or just hanging on? Herpetofauna 32:39-46.
341. Shine, R. 2002. Reconstructing an adaptationist scenario: what selective forces favor the evolution of viviparity in montane reptiles? American Naturalist 160:582-593.
342. Pearson, D., R. Shine, and R. How. 2002. Sex-specific niche partitioning and sexual size dimorphism in Australian pythons (Morelia spilota imbricata). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 77:113-125.
343. Shine, R., L. Sun, M. Fitzgerald, and M. Kearney. 2002. Accidental altruism in insular pit-vipers (Gloydius shedaoensis, Viperidae). Evolutionary Ecology 16:541-548.
344. Shine, R., R. N. Reed, S. Shetty, and H. G. Cogger. 2002. Relationships between sexual dimorphism and niche partitioning within a clade of sea-snakes (Laticaudinae). Oecologia 133:45-53.
345. Olsson, M. M., and R. Shine. 2002. Sexual dimorphism in lizard body shape: the roles of sexual selection and fecundity selection. Evolution 56:1538-1542.
346. Shine, R. 2002. An empirical test of the "predictability" hypothesis for the evolution of viviparity in reptiles. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 15:553-560.
347. Shine, R., M. Elphick, and S. Donnellan. 2002. Co-occurrence of multiple, supposedly incompatible modes of sex determination in a lizard population. Ecology Letters 5:486-489.
348. Shine, R., L. Sun, E. Zhao, and X. Bonnet. 2002. A review of 30 years of ecological research on the Shedao pit-viper. Herpetological Natural History 9:1-14.
349. Shine, R., L. Sun, M. Kearney, and M. Fitzgerald. 2002. Why do juvenile Chinese Pit-Vipers (Gloydius shedaoensis) select arboreal ambush sites? Ethology 108: 897-910.
350. Madsen, T., and R. Shine. 2002. Short and chubby or long and thin? Food intake, growth and body condition in free-ranging pythons. Austral Ecology 27:672-680.
351. Shine, R., R. N. Reed, S. Shetty, M. LeMaster, and R. T. Mason. 2002. Reproductive isolating mechanisms between two sympatric sibling species of sea-snakes. Evolution 56:1655-1662.
352. Shine, R., and T. Shine. 2002. An observation of copulation by garden skinks, Lampropholis delicata. Herpetofauna 32:55.
353. Mirtschin, P. J., R. Shine, T. J. Nias, N. L. Dunstan, B. J. Hough, and M. Mirtschin. 2002. Influences on venom yield in Australian tigersnakes (Notechis scutatus) and brownsnakes (Pseudonaja textilis: Elapidae, Serpentes). Toxicon 40:1581-1592.
354. Olsson, M., and R. Shine. 2002. Growth to death in lizards. Evolution 56:1867-1870.
355. Langkilde, T., V. Smith, S. Phillips, E. Barrott, and R. Shine. 2002. Ornamental plant traps lizard. Herpetofauna 32:131.
356. Fitzgerald, M., R. Shine, and F. Lemckert. 2002. Spatial ecology of arboreal snakes (Hoplocephalus stephensii, Elapidae) in an eastern Australian forest. Austral Ecology 27:537-545.
357. Mokany, A., and R. Shine. 2002. Competition between tadpoles and mosquitoes: the effects of larval density and tadpole size. Australian Journal of Zoology 50:549-563.
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