Javier A. Rodríguez - Publications

Publications
Javier A. Rodríguez-Robles

1. Rodríguez-Robles, J. A., J. D. Ackerman, and E. J. Meléndez. 1990. Host distribution and hurricane damage to an orchid population at Toro Negro Forest Reserve, Puerto Rico. Caribbean Journal of Science 26(3-4):163-164. [PDF file]

2. Rodríguez-Robles, J. A., and R. Thomas. 1992. Venom function in the Puerto Rican Racer, Alsophis portoricensis (Serpentes: Colubridae). Copeia 1992(1):62-68. [PDF file]

3. Rodríguez-Robles, J. A. 1992. Notes on the feeding behavior of the Puerto Rican Racer, Alsophis portoricensis (Serpentes: Colubridae). Journal of Herpetology 26(1):100-102. [PDF file]

4. Rodríguez-Robles, J. A., E. J. Meléndez, and J. D. Ackerman. 1992. Effects of display size, flowering phenology, and nectar availability on effective visitation frequency in Comparettia falcata (Orchidaceae). American Journal of Botany 79(9):1009-1017. [PDF file]

5. Rodríguez-Robles, J. A., and M. Leal. 1993. Effects of prey type on the feeding behavior of Alsophis portoricensis (Serpentes: Colubridae). Journal of Herpetology 27(2):163-168. [PDF file]

6. Rodríguez-Robles, J. A., and M. Leal. 1993. Natural History Notes: Alsophis portoricensis (Puerto Rican Racer). Diet. Herpetological Review 24(4):150-151.

7. Ackerman, J. D., J. A. Rodríguez-Robles, and E. J. Meléndez. 1994. A meager nectar offering by an epiphytic orchid is better than nothing. Biotropica 26(1):44-49. [PDF file]

8. Rodríguez-Robles, J. A. 1994. Are the Duvernoy's gland secretions of colubrid snakes venoms? Journal of Herpetology 28(3):388-390. [PDF file]

9. Leal, M., and J. A. Rodríguez-Robles. 1995. Antipredator responses of Anolis cristatellus (Sauria: Polychrotidae). Copeia 1995(1):155-161. [PDF file]

10. Rodríguez-Robles, J. A., and H. W. Greene. 1996. Ecological patterns in Greater Antillean macrostomatan snake assemblages, with comments on body-size evolution in Epicrates (Boidae), pp. 339-357. In: Contributions to West Indian Herpetology: A Tribute to Albert Schwartz (R. Powell and R. W. Henderson, eds.). Contributions to Herpetology, Volume 12. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Ithaca, New York. [Abstract]

11. Leal, M., and J. A. Rodríguez-Robles. 1997. Antipredator responses of the Puerto Rican Giant Anole, Anolis cuvieri (Squamata: Polychrotidae). Biotropica 29(3):372-375. [PDF file]

12. Leal, M., and J. A. Rodríguez-Robles. 1997. Signalling displays during predator-prey interactions in a Puerto Rican anole, Anolis cristatellus. Animal Behaviour 54(5):1147-1154. [PDF file]

13. Rodríguez-Robles, J. A. 1998. Alternative perspectives on the diet of Gopher Snakes (Pituophis catenifer, Colubridae): literature records versus stomach contents of wild and museum specimens. Copeia 1998(2):463-466. [PDF file]

14. Leal, M., J. A. Rodríguez-Robles, and J. B. Losos. 1998. An experimental study of interspecific interactions between two Puerto Rican Anolis lizards. Oecologia (Berlin) 117(1-2):273-278. [PDF file]

15. Rodríguez-Robles, J. A., D. G. Mulcahy, and H. W. Greene. 1999. Feeding ecology of the Desert Nightsnake, Hypsiglena torquata (Colubridae). Copeia 1999(1):93-100. [PDF file]

16. Rodríguez-Robles, J. A., C. J. Bell, and H. W. Greene. 1999. Food habits of the Glossy Snake, Arizona elegans, with comparisons to the diet of sympatric Long-nosed Snakes, Rhinocheilus lecontei. Journal of Herpetology 33(1):87-92. [PDF file]

17. Rodríguez-Robles, J. A., C. J. Bell, and H. W. Greene. 1999. Gape size and evolution of diet in snakes: feeding ecology of erycine boas. Journal of Zoology (London) 248(1):49-58. [PDF file]

18. Rodríguez-Robles, J. A., and H. W. Greene. 1999. Food habits of the Long-nosed Snake (Rhinocheilus lecontei), a "specialist" predator? Journal of Zoology (London) 248(4):489-499. [PDF file]

19. Rodríguez-Robles, J. A., D. F. DeNardo, and R. E. Staub. 1999. Phylogeography of the California Mountain Kingsnake, Lampropeltis zonata (Colubridae). Molecular Ecology 8(11):1923-1934. [PDF file]

20. Rodríguez-Robles, J. A., and J. M. De Jesús-Escobar. 1999. Molecular systematics of New World lampropeltinine snakes (Colubridae): implications for biogeography and evolution of food habits. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 68(3):355-385. [PDF file]

21. Rodríguez-Robles, J. A., and J. M. De Jesús-Escobar. 2000. Molecular systematics of New World gopher, bull, and pinesnakes (Pituophis: Colubridae), a transcontinental species complex. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 14(1):35-50. [PDF file]

22. Meléndez-Ackerman, E. J., J. D. Ackerman, and J. A. Rodríguez-Robles. 2000. Reproduction in an orchid can be resource-limited over its lifetime. Biotropica 32(2):282-290. [PDF file]

23. Rodríguez-Robles, J. A., G. R. Stewart, and T. J. Papenfuss. 2001. Mitochondrial DNA-based phylogeography of North American Rubber Boas, Charina bottae (Serpentes: Boidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 18(2):227-237. [PDF file]

24. Rodríguez-Robles, J. A. 2002. Feeding ecology of North American Gopher Snakes (Pituophis catenifer, Colubridae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 77(2):165-183. [PDF file]

25. Rodríguez-Robles, J. A., D. A. Good, and D. B. Wake. 2003. Brief History of Herpetology in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, with a List of Type Specimens of Recent Amphibians and Reptiles. University of California Publications in Zoology 131:1-119 + xvi. [PDF file]

26. Greene, H. W., and J. A. Rodríguez-Robles. 2003. Feeding ecology of the California Mountain Kingsnake, Lampropeltis zonata (Colubridae). Copeia 2003(2):308-314. [PDF file]

27. Rodríguez-Robles, J. A. 2003. Home ranges of Gopher Snakes (Pituophis catenifer, Colubridae) in central California. Copeia 2003(2):391-396. [PDF file]

28. Rodríguez-Robles, J. A. 2003. Neotropical Sunbeam Snakes (Loxocemidae), pp. 405-407. In: Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, 2nd. edition, Volume 7, Reptiles (M. Hutchins, J. B. Murphy, and N. Schlager, eds.). Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.

29. Rodríguez-Robles, J. A., and P. Galina-Tessaro. 2005. Natural History Notes: Masticophis flagellum fuliginosus (Baja California Coachwhip). Diet. Herpetological Review 36(2):195. [PDF file]

30. Rodríguez-Robles, J. A., M. Leal, and J. B. Losos. 2005. Habitat selection by the Puerto Rican Yellow-chinned Anole, Anolis gundlachi. Canadian Journal of Zoology 83(7):983-988. [PDF file]

31. Rodríguez-Robles, J. A., and H. W. Greene. 2005. Genes, rats, and sinking boats: a biographical perspective on James L. Patton, pp. 5-56. In: Mammalian Diversification: From Chromosomes to Biogeography (A Celebration of the Career of James L. Patton) (E. A. Lacey and P. Myers, eds.). University of California Publications in Zoology 133:1-383 + viii. [PDF file]

32. Rodríguez-Robles, J. A. 2005. La Culebra Común (Alsophis portoricensis). Compendio de Especie, pp. 169-180. In: Biodiversidad de Puerto Rico: Vertebrados Terrestres y Ecosistemas. Serie de Historia Natural (R. L. Joglar, ed.). Editorial del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico. [In Spanish]

33. de Queiroz, A., and J. A. Rodríguez-Robles. 2006. Historical contingency and animal diets: the origins of egg-eating in snakes. The American Naturalist 167(5):682-692. [PDF file] [Appendix A] [Appendix B]

34. Rodríguez-Robles, J. A., and P. Galina-Tessaro. 2006. Natural History Notes: Thamnophis hammondii (Two-striped Gartersnake). Diet. Herpetological Review 37(3):355. [PDF file]

35. Rodríguez-Robles, J. A., and P. Galina-Tessaro. 2006. Natural History Notes: Thamnophis validus celaeno (Cape Gartersnake, Mexican Pacific Lowlands Gartersnake). Diet. Herpetological Review 37(3):355. [PDF file]

36. Rodríguez-Robles, J. A., T. Jezkova, and M. A. García. 2007. Evolutionary relationships and historical biogeography of Anolis desechensis and A. monensis, two lizards endemic to small islands in the eastern Caribbean Sea. Journal of Biogeography 34(9):1546-1558. [PDF file]

37. Rodríguez-Robles, J. A., T. Jezkova, and M. Leal. 2008. Genetic structuring in the threatened "Lagartijo del Bosque Seco" (Anolis cooki) from Puerto Rico. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 46(2):503-514. [PDF file]

38. Glaudas, X., T. Jezkova, and J. A. Rodríguez-Robles. 2008. Feeding ecology of the Great Basin Rattlesnake (Crotalus lutosus, Viperidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology 86(7):723-734. [PDF file]

39. Jezkova, T., M. Leal, and J. A. Rodríguez-Robles. Living together but remaining apart: comparative phylogeography of Anolis poncensis and A. cooki, two lizards endemic to the aridlands of Puerto Rico. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, in press.