{"id":242,"date":"2018-04-28T16:49:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T16:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/andersonlab\/?page_id=242"},"modified":"2019-08-19T17:03:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T17:03:45","slug":"242-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/andersonlab\/242-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rattlesnake research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Movement ecology of rattlesnakes and conservation genetics of snake hibernacula<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Anderson has an\u00a0ongoing interest in movement ecology and conservation genetics of rattlesnakes, stemming from his\u00a0Ph.D. work on the timber rattlesnake (<em>Crotalus horridus<\/em>). He is particularly interested in the effects of anthropogenic landscape features on patterns of dispersion and the implications of movement and mating patterns for conservation genetic management of\u00a0 overwintering populations (a.k.a. snake dens\/hibernacula).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_59\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/andersonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/67\/2015\/07\/DSC00513.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59\" class=\"wp-image-59 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/andersonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/67\/2015\/07\/DSC00513-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"DSC00513\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/andersonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/67\/2015\/07\/DSC00513-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/andersonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/67\/2015\/07\/DSC00513-644x483.jpg 644w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-59\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">For the timber rattlesnake patterns of genetic variation among hibernacula may be driven by the movement patterns of females and their offspring. Picture by &#8220;Kevin&#8221;.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Because snakes are notoriously difficult to study, much of the work the lab has moved towards systems that are more tractable doing spatial statistics; nevertheless, our lab is fully equipped for working with (venomous) snakes and we welcome motivated students who want to do snake research.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movement ecology of rattlesnakes and conservation genetics of snake hibernacula Dr. Anderson has an\u00a0ongoing interest in movement ecology and conservation genetics of rattlesnakes, stemming from his\u00a0Ph.D. work on the timber rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus). He is particularly interested in the effects &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/andersonlab\/242-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-242","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/andersonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/andersonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/andersonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/andersonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/andersonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/andersonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/andersonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/andersonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}