LAB PUBLICATIONS
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Langkilde T., O’Connor D. and Shine R. 2007. The benefits of parental care: do juvenile lizards obtain better-quality habitat by remaining with their parents? Austral Ecology 32: 950-954Langkilde T. and Shine R. 2007. Interspecific conflict in lizards: social dominance depends upon an individual's species not its body size. Austral Ecology 32: 869-877
Allsop D. J., Warner D., Langkilde T., Du W., and Shine R. 2006. Do operational sex ratios influence sex allocation in viviparous lizards with temperature-dependent sex determination? Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19: 1175-1182
Shine R., Langkilde T., Wall M., and Mason R.T. 2006. Temporal dynamics of emergence and dispersal of garter snakes from a communal den in Manitoba. Wildlife Research 33: 103-111
Langkilde T. and Shine R. 2006. How much stress do researchers inflict on their study animals? A case study using a scincid lizard, Eulamprus heatwolei. Journal of Experimental Biology 209: 1035-1043
Langkilde T. and Shine R. 2005. Different optimal offspring sizes for sons and daughters may favor the evolution of temperature-dependent sex determination in viviparous lizards. Evolution 59: 2275-2280
Langkilde T., Alford R.A. and Schwartzkopf L. 2005. No behavioural compensation for fitness costs of autotomy in a lizard. Austral Ecology 30: 713-718
Shine R., Wall M., Langkilde T. and Mason R.T. 2005. Do female garter snakes evade males to avoid harassment or to enhance mate quality? American Naturalist 165: 660-668
Shine R., Wall M., Langkilde T. and Mason R.T. 2005. Battle of the sexes: forcibly-inseminating male garter snakes target courtship to more vulnerable females. Animal Behaviour 70: 1133-1140
Shine R., Wall M., Langkilde T. and Mason R.T. 2005. Scaling the heights: thermally-driven arboreality in garter snakes. Journal of Thermal Biology 30: 179-185
Shine R., Langkilde T., Wall M. and Mason R.T. 2005. The fitness correlates of scalation asymmetry in garter snakes Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis. Functional Ecology 19: 306-314
Shine R., Langkilde T., Wall M. and Mason R.T. 2005. Alternative male mating tactics in garter snakes, Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis. Animal Behaviour 70: 387-396
Langkilde T., Lance V.A. and Shine R. 2005. Ecological consequences of agonistic interactions in lizards. Ecology 86: 1650-1659
Shine R., O’Donnell R., Langkilde T., Wall M.D. and Mason R.T. 2005. Snakes in search of sex: the relationship between mate-locating ability and mating success in male garter snakes. Animal Behaviour 69: 1251-1258
Langkilde T. and Shine R. 2005. How do water skinks avoid shelters already occupied by other lizards? Behaviour 142: 203-216
Langkilde T., Schwartzkopf L., and Alford R.A. 2004. The function of tail displays in male rainbow skinks, Carlia jarnoldae. Journal of Herpetology 39: 325-328
Langkilde T., Shine R. and Mason R.T. 2004. Predatory attacks to the head versus body modify behavioural responses of garter snakes. Ethology 110: 937-947
Langkilde T. and Shine R. 2004. Competing for crevices: interspecific conflict influences retreat-site selection in montane lizards. Oecologia 140: 684-691
Shine R., Lemaster M., Wall M., Langkilde T. and Mason R. 2004. Why did the snake cross the road? Effects of roads on movement and location of mates by garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis). Ecology and Society 9: 9. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol9/iss1/art9
Shine R., Phillips B., Langkilde T., Lutterschmidt D., Waye H. and Mason R.T. 2004. Mechanisms and consequences of sexual conflict in garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis, Colubridae). Behavioral Ecology 15: 654-660
Shine R., Langkilde T. and Mason R.T. 2004. Courtship tactics in garter snakes: how does a male’s morphology and behavior influence his mating success? Animal Behaviour 67: 477-483
Shine R., Langkilde T. and Mason R.T. 2003. The opportunistic serpent: male garter snakes adjust courtship tactics to mating opportunities. Behavior 140: 1509-1526
Shine R., Langkilde T. and Mason R.T. 2003. Cryptic forcible insemination: male snakes exploit female physiology, anatomy and behavior to obtain coercive matings. American Naturalist 162: 653-667
Shine R., Langkilde T. and Mason R.T. 2003. Confusion within "mating balls" of garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis) - does misdirected courtship to other males impose significant selection on male tactics? Animal Behaviour 66: 1011-1017
Langkilde T., Schwarzkopf L. and Alford R. 2003. An ethogram for adult male rainbow skinks, Carlia jarnoldae. Herpetological Journal 13: 141-148
Langkilde T. and Schwarzkopf L. 2003. Observations of mating behaviour and reproduction in a small tropical scincid lizard Carlia jarnoldae. Herpetological Review 34:325-326
Langkilde T., O’Connor D. and Shine R. 2003. Shelter-site use by five species of montane scincid lizards in south-eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 51:175-186
Langkilde T., Smith V., Phillips S., Barrott E. and Shine R. 2003. Ornamental plant traps lizard. Herpetofauna 32:131
Langkilde T. and Alford R. 2002. The tail wags the frog: Harmonic Radar transponders affect movement behaviour in Litoria lesueuri. Journal of Herpetology 36:711-715