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Research Reports

• Louisiana Pigtoe (Pleurobema riddellii) and Texas Heelsplitter (Potamilus amphichaenus) Surveys and Tolerances (PDF)
  Bonner et al. Texas State University. February 2025.
• Understand the Survivability and Habitat Use of Alligator Snapping Turtles (Macrochelys temminckii) in East Texas via Telemetry Studies (PDF)
  Schalk et al. Stephen F. Austin State University. November 2024.
  
• 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 (PDF)
  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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