Story: Lizards
Page 5 – External links and sources
More links and websites
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Lizards
The Department of Conservation’s web pages on lizards profile a number of species and discuss predators.
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NZ herpetofauna
Information published by the Society for Research on Amphibians and Reptiles in New Zealand, on the Victoria University of Wellington website.
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Patterns of range contraction and extinctions in the New Zealand herpetofauna following human colonisation
This is the abstract of a 1994 article by D. R. Towns and Charles H. Daugherty, originally published in the New Zealand Journal of Zoology, with a link to the entire article as a PDF (870 KB).
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Skinks with attitude: saving Otago’s high country lizards
This article by Mandy Tocher was originally published in Forest and Bird magazine in 1998.
More suggestions and sources
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Chapple, D. G., P. A. Ritchie, and C. H. Daugherty. ‘Origin, diversification, and systematics of the New Zealand skink fauna (Reptilia: Scincidae).’ Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 52 (2008): 470–487.
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Cree, A. ‘Low annual reproductive output in female reptiles from New Zealand.’ New Zealand Journal of Zoology 21 (1994): 351–372.
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Gill, B., and T. Whitaker. New Zealand frogs and reptiles. Auckland: David Bateman, 1996.
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Mark, Alan F., and others. ‘Tussock grasslands and associated mountain lands.’ In The natural history of southern New Zealand, edited by John Darby and others. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2003.
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Towns, D. R., and others. ‘Raising the prospects for a forgotten fauna: a review of 10 years of conservation effort for New Zealand reptiles.’ Biological Conservation 99 (2001): 3–16.
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Wilson, Kerry-Jayne. Flight of the huia: ecology and conservation of New Zealand’s frogs, reptiles, birds and mammals. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2004.
