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Research Reports

• Establishing an eDNA Protocol for the Detection of the Karst Salamander Group Eurycea from Central Texas
  Hillis et al. University of Texas at Austin. February 2024.
  Final Report (PDF)
  Environmental DNA Sampling Protocol (PDF)
• Identifying Best Practices to Survey for Spot-Tailed Earless Lizards
  Henke et al. Texas A&M University Kingsville. December 2023.
  Final Report Part I (PDF)
  Final Report Part 2 (PDF)
  Final Data (XLS)
• Range-wide Survey for Louisiana Pigtoe (Pleurobema riddellii) and Texas Heelsplitter (Potamilus amphichaenus) (PDF)
  Bonner et al. Texas State University. September 2023.
• Spatial Ecology of the Plains Spotted Skunk, Spilogale interrupta, in Texas (PDF)
  Dowler et al. Angelo State University. August 2023.
• Spatial Ecology of the Texas Kangaroo Rat.
  Stevens et al. Texas Tech University. June 2023.
• Multi-disciplinary Ecosystem Assessment of West Matagorda Bay
  Stunz et al. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. May 2023.
• Assessment of Available Habitat and Occurrence of the Black-Spotted Newt (Notophthalmus Meridionalis) in Texas (PDF)
  Davis et al. University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. April 2023
• Baseline Study of Alligator Snapping Turtle (Macrochelys temminckii) Population Viability in Texas Watersheds [PDF]
  Guillen et al. University of Houston – Clear Lake. March 2023.
• Distribution, Abundance, and Habitat Associations of the Western Chicken Turtle in Texas [PDF]
  Guillen et al. University of Houston – Clear Lake. March 2023.
• Landscape Assessment of West and South Texas Grasslands: Spot-tailed Earless Lizard Final Report [PDF]
  [Supplemental data] [PDF]
  Kahl et al. Texas Tech University. March 2022.

• Multiple Freshwater Mussel Species in the Brazos River, Colorado River, and Guadalupe River Basins [PDF]
  Bonner et al. Texas State University. March 2020.

• Distribution and Abundance of the Texas Heelsplitter (Potamilus amphichaenus) and Louisiana Pigtoe (Pleurobema riddellii) [PDF]
  Banta et al. University of Texas at Tyler. January 2020.

• Movement and Habitat Use of the Plateau Spot-tailed Earless Lizard (Holbrookia lacerata) and the Tamaulipan Spot-tailed Earless Lizard (Holbrookia subcaudalis): 2017-2019 [PDF]
  LaDuc et al. University of Texas at Austin. December 2019.

• Development and Application of a Novel Suite of Field Survey Methods to Inform Conservation of the Rio Grande Cooter (Pseudemys gorzugi) [PDF]
  Davis et al. University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. December 2019.

• Texas Kangaroo Rat (Dipodomys elator) [PDF]
  Stuhler et al. Texas Tech University. December 2019.

• Translocation of Dunes Sagebrush Lizards (Sceloporus arenicolus) to Unoccupied Habitat in Crane County, Texas [PDF]
  Parker et al. Texas A&M University. December 2019.

• Louisiana Pigtoe Genomic Research [PDF]
  Williams et al. University of Texas at Tyler. June 2019.

• Frac Sand Facilities and Their Potential Effects on the Groundwater Resources of the Monahans-Mescalero Sand Ecosystem, Permian Basin, Texas [PDF]
  Robert E. Mace. Texas State University. January 2019.

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