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Publications

Chatfield MWH, LeClair G, Dunckel, K, Frederick CA (In press) Home range and movement patterns in a Maine population of Wood Turtles

           (Glyptemys insculpta)

Honan C, Hopkins III JB, Chatfield MWH (2024) Evidence of handedness in turtles. Ecosphere 15:e4716

LeClair GD, Chatfield MWH (2024) A high-frequency erythristic population of Eastern Red-backed Salamanders (Plethodon cinereus) in

          Kennebec County, Maine. Northeastern Naturalist 31:N1–N3

Hopkins III JB, Frederick CA, Yorks D, Pollock E, Chatfield MWH (2023) Advancing forensic chemical analysis to classify wild and captive wood 

          turtles. Diversity 15:1056

Chatfield MWH, LeClair G, Howell HJ, Frederick CA (2023) Demography and viability of a central Maine population of wood turtles

          (Glyptemys insculpta). Chelonian Conservation and Biology 22:58-67

Chatfield MWH, Frederick CA, LeClair GD, Wantman TM (2022) Glyptemys insculpta: Long distance movement. Herpetological Review

          53:668-669

Hopkins III JB, Frederick CA, Yorks D, Pollock E, Chatfield MWH (2022) Forensic application of stable isotopes to distinguish between wild 

          and captive turtles. Biology 11:1728

Bates AE…Chatfield MWH…et al. (2021) Diverse Human-Nature Interactions Revealed by the Global COVID-19 Lockdown. Biological

          Conservation 263:109175

LeClair GD, Chatfield MWH, Wood Z, Parmelee JR, Frederick CA (2021) Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on amphibian road mortality. 
         Conservation Science and Practice 3:e535
Enbody ED, Boersma J, Johns JA, Chatfield MWH, Ketaloya S, Baldassarre DT, Hazlehurst J, McGowen O, Schwabl H, Karubian J (2019) Social

          organization and breeding biology of the white-shouldered fairy-wren Malurus alboscapulatus. EMU–Austral Ornithology 119:274-285
Brannelly LA, Chatfield MWH, Sonn J, Robak M, Richards-Zawacki CL (2018) Fungal infection has sublethal effects in a lowland subtropical

          amphibian population. BMC Ecology 18:34
Drabeck DH, Chatfield MWH, Richards-Zawacki CL (2014) The status of Louisiana’s diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) populations in

          the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill: Insights from population genetic and contaminant analyses. Journal of Herpetology 48:125-

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Brannelly LA, Chatfield MWH, Richards-Zawacki CL (2013) Visual implant elastomer tags are an unreliable method of identification in adult

          anurans. Herpetological Journal 23:125-129
Chatfield MWH, Brannelly LA, Robak MJ, Freeborn L, Lailvaux SP, Richards-Zawacki CL (2013) Sublethal fitness consequences of infection by

          Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in northern leopard frogs (Lithobates pipiens). EcoHealth 10:90-98
McMahon TA, Brannelly LA, Chatfield MWH, Johnson PTJ, Joseph MB, McKenzie VJ, Richards-Zawacki CL, Vesesky MD, Rohr JR (2013)

          Chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis has non-amphibian hosts and releases chemicals that cause pathology in the absence

          of infection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110:210-215
Chatfield MWH, Moler P, Richards-Zawacki CL (2012) The amphibian chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, in fully aquatic

          salamanders from southeastern North America. PLoS One 7:e44821
Brannelly LA, Chatfield MWH, Richards-Zawacki CL (2012) Field and laboratory studies of the susceptibility of the green treefrog (Hyla cinerea)

          to Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection. PLoS One 6:e38473
Chatfield MWH, Richards-Zawacki CL (2011) Elevated temperature as a treatment for Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection in captive

          frogs. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 94:235-238
Chatfield MWH, Kozak KH, Fitzpatrick BM, Tucker PK (2010) Differential introgression in a salamander hybrid zone: inferences from genetic

          data and ecological niche modeling. Molecular Ecology 19:4265-4282 
Chatfield MWH, Rothermel BB, Brooks C, Kay J (2009) Detection of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in amphibians from the Great Smoky

          Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee, USA. Herpetological Review 40:176-179
Semlitsch RD, Ryan TJ, Hamed K, Chatfield M, Drehman B, Pekarek N, Spath M, Watland A (2007) Salamander abundance along road edges

          and within abandoned logging roads in Appalachian forests. Conservation Biology 21:159-167

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