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Nicola Mitchell | Publications

Mitchell, N.J. and Janzen, F.J. 2009. Temperature-dependent sex determination and contemporary climate change. Sexual Development, (in press).

Mitchell, N.J., Allendorf, F.W., Keall, S.N., Daugherty, C.H. and Nelson, N.J. 2009. Demographic effects of temperature-dependent sex determination: will tuatara survive global warming? Global Change Biology, (in press).

Andrewartha, S.J, Mitchell, N.J. and Frappell, P.B. 2008. Phenotypic differences in terrestrial frog embryos: effect of water potential and phase. Journal of Experimental Biology, 211, 3800-3807.

Mitchell, N.J., Kearney, M.R., Nelson, N.J and Porter, W.P. 2008. Predicting the fate of a living fossil: how will global warming affect sex determination and hatching phenology in tuatara? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 275, 2186-2193.

Hoare, J.M, Pledger, S., Keall, S.N., Nelson, N.J., Mitchell, N.J. and Daugherty, C.H. 2006. Conservation implications of a disproportionate decline of female body condition in the Brothers Island tuatara, Sphenodon guntheri. Animal Conservation 9:456-462.

Mitchell, N.J., Nelson, N.J., Cree, A., Pledger, S., Keall, S.N. and Daugherty, C.H. 2006. Support for a unique pattern of temperature-dependent sex determination in archaic reptiles: evidence from two species of tuatara (Sphenodon). Frontiers in Zoology 2006, 3:9

Mitchell, N.J. 2005. Nest swapping in an Australian toadlet (Pseudophryne bibroni): do males respond to chemical signals? Herpetological Review 36: 19-21

Bell, B.D., Carver, S., Mitchell, N.J. and Pledger, S. 2004. The recent decline of a New Zealand endemic: how and why did populations of Archey’s frog Leiopelma archeyi crash over 1996-2001? Biological Conservation 120: 193-203.

Mitchell, N.J. and Seymour, R.S. 2003. The effects of nest temperature, nest substrate and clutch size on the oxygenation of embryos and larvae of the Australian moss frog, Bryobatrachus nimbus. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 76: 60-71.

Mitchell, N.J. 2002. Low tolerance of embryonic desiccation in the terrestrial nesting frog Bryobatrachus nimbus (Anura: Myobatrachinae). Copeia 102: 364-373.

Mitchell, N.J. 2002. Nest site selection in a terrestrial-breeding frog with protracted development. Australian Journal of Zoology 50: 225-236.

Mitchell, N.J. 2001. The energetics of endotrophic development in the frog Geocrinia vitellina (Anura: Myobatrachinae). Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 74: 832-842.

Mitchell, N.J. 2001. Males call more from wetter nests: effects of substrate water potential on reproductive behaviours of terrestrial toadlets. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 268: 87-93.

Seymour, R.S., Roberts, J.D., Mitchell, N.J. and Blaylock, A.J. 2000. Influence of environmental oxygen on development and hatching of aquatic eggs of the Australian Frog, Crinia georgiana. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 73:501-507.

Mitchell, N.J., and R.S. Seymour. 2000. Effects of temperature on the energy cost and timing of embryonic and larval development of the terrestrially breeding moss frog, Bryobatrachus nimbus. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 73:829-840.

Green, B., Libke, J., Mitchell, N. and Newgrain, K. 1999. Validation of 22Na sodium turnover in estimating sodium and food intake in an amphibian (Bufo marinus). Copeia 1999:487-490.

Mitchell N. and Swain R. 1996. Terrestrial development in the Tasmanian frog, Bryobatrachus nimbus (Anura: Myobatrachinae): larval development and a field staging table. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 130: 75-80

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