Some recently published articles about gopher tortoises, their commensals, and upland communities in the southeast. Check out GTC's Education & Outreach page for more literature, including snake and tortoise bibliographies.

Dewald, G.S., C.M. Yon, and D.J. Gustafson. 2025. Using eDNA to characterize amphibian communities in isolated wetlands of the longleaf pine ecosystem. BIOS https://doi.org/10.1893/BIOS-D-25-00015

Goessling, J.M., G. Weikert, L. Conrad, and M.L. Hilton. 2025. Old neighbors, long-lost siblings, and total strangers: Social environment impacts on headstart tortoise behaviours. Applied Animal Behavior Science https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2025.106869

Gray, E.R., S.L. Wilkinson, M.C. Miller, W. Wilkinson, C. Adams, S. Ebert, C. Hitchens, J. Holloway, S.M. Welch, and J.L. Waldron. 2025. An emergent disease reduces survival of mature female eastern diamondback rattlesnakes (Crotalus adamanteus), a key demographic for a slow-lived species. Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-21190-4

Holbrook, J.D. and K. Barrett. 2025. Amphibian assemblages in isolated wetlands are predicted by interannual variation in fish occupancy: A case study from Florida, USA. Herpetological Conservation and Biology

Lloyd Jr., R.B., J.A. Henning, S.R. Schultze, D.H. Nelson, and A.D. Chupp. 2025. Burrow persistence and spatial distribution of federally and state-protected gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) populations in southwest Alabama. Animal Conservation https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.70046

Mullaney, A.J. and J.M. Flenniken. 2025. Novel observation of Colletes ultravalidus (Apoidea: Colletidae) from a gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) burrow apron. Southeastern Naturalist Notes https://doi.org/10.1656/058.024.0401

Wetterer, J.K., R.C. Jones, J. Moore, and V. Viluan. 2025. Stinging ant species at gopher tortoise burrows change over time with habitat change. Sociobiology https://doi.org/10.13102/sociobiology.v72i4.11787