Dr. Pablo Delis - Shippensburg Univeristy, Department of Biology

Shippensburg University, Biology Department

Presentations / Publications

Presentations

2008. (with K. Tarasan) Eastern Box Turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina) Morphology and Incidence of Disease in an Anthropogenically Modified Area: Letterkenny Army Depot, South-Central Pennsylvania.. Oral Presentation to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania University Biologists Annual Meeting, in Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA. USA.

2008. (with K. L. Waisanen) Movement of Gravid Female Eastern Box Turtles, Terrapene carolina carolina, in Response to Precipitation and Temperature.. Poster Presentation to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania University Biologists Annual Meeting, in Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA. USA.

2007. (With K. Tarasan) Demography and morphology of the Eastern Box Turtle (Terrapene c. carolina) in a partly agriculturally disturbed habitat, Letterkenny Army Depot, South-Central Pennsylvania. Oral presentation to the 3rd Box Turtle Conservation and Ecology Workshop Edgewater, Maryland. USA.

2006. Natural history of the Eastern Box Turtle (Terrapene carolina) in an anthropogenically impacted area: LEAD, South Central Pennsylvania. Oral Presentation to the Joint Meeting of the Herpetologists’ League, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, and the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA..

2005. Between a Rocket and a Hard Place: The Herpetofauna of LEAD, South Central Pennsylvania. Oral Presentation to the Joint Meeting of the Herpetologists’ League, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, and the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. Tampa, Florida, USA.

2005. (with Lacey Conrad) Transepidermal water loss in shed snake skin from aquatic and terrestrial snakes. Oral Presentation to the Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Sciences. Radisson Inn, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, USA.

2005. (with Matthew Rach) Thermoregulation in gravid timber rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus) at basking sites in North Central Pennsylvania. Oral Presentation to the Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Sciences. Radisson Inn, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, USA.

2003. Fossorial preferences of Three West Central Florida treefrogs: Implications for conservation. Oral Presentation to the Joint Meeting of the Herpetologists' League, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, and the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. Manaus, Brazil.

2003. Spatial and Temporal mechanisms affecting anuran population fluctuations in Florida sandhill habitats. With Brian J. Halstead, Henry R. Mushinsky, and Earl D. McCoy. Oral Presentation to the Joint Meeting of the Herpetologists’ League, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, and the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. Manaus, Brazil.

Publications

Stewart, Richard L. Jr., Pablo R. Delis, and Craig M. Kindlin. 2008. An inventory of the small mammals of Letterkenny Army Depot, Franklin county Pennsylvania. Journal of the Pennsylvania Academy of Sciences 81(2):59-65.

Delis, Pablo R. and H. R. Mushinsky. 2005. Human Disturbance and Florida Anurans. In Walter E. Meshaka, Jr. and Kimberly J. Babbitt, Editors, Status and Conservation of Florida Amphibians and Reptiles. Krieger Press. Pages 15-22.

Delis, Pablo R. and P. E. Sutton. 2005. Cnemidophorus sexlineatus (Six-Lined Racerunner). Behavior. Herpetological Review. 36(2): 173.

Nelson R. T., B. J. Cochrane, P. R. Delis and D. Te Strake. 2002. Basidioboliasis in anurans in Florida. Journal of Wildlife Disease 38(2): 463-467.

Jansen, K. P., A. P. Summers, and P. R. Delis. 2001. Spadefoot toads (Scaphiopus holbrookii holbrookii) in an urban landscape: effects of non-natural substrates on burrowing in adults and juveniles. Journal of Herpetology 35:141-145.

Christman, S. P., C. A. Young, S. Gonzalez, K. Hill, G. Navratil, and P. R. Delis. 2000. New Records of Amphibians and Reptiles from Hardee County, Florida. Herpetological review 31: 116-117.

Delis, Pablo R., Henry R. Mushinsky, and Earl D. McCoy. 1996. Decline of some west-central Florida anuran populations in response to habitat degradation. Biodiversity and Conservation 5: 1579-1595.

Delis, Pablo R. and Adam P. Summers. 1996. Note on the Barking Treefrog (Hyla gratiosa) Reproduction in West Central Florida. Herpetological Review 27: 25-26

Summers, A. P. and P. R. Delis. 1994. Burrowing Performance and Kinematics in the Eastern Spadefoot Toad, Scaphiopus holbrookii. American Zoologist, index: 34/b-14A.

Pablo Delis, PhD
Associate Professor

Ph. - 717-477-1092
FAX - 717-477-4064
e-mail - prdeli@ship.edu

My areas of interest include vertebrates, population, biology, morphology, behavior, evolution and conservation.

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Last Updated:

Nov - 16 - 2008