Animal Plant Mineral

Mitch is an accomplished ecophysiologist with his PhD (a study on how the same reptile can survive in two radically different environments) awarded a Distinction and several articles published in international scientific journals. He has also featured on wildlife documentaries shown in several countries around the world, including Australia:

         

Published Journal Articles:

• Ladyman M, Bradshaw SD (2006) Physiological and hormonal control of thermal depression in the Tiger snake, Notechis scutatus. J. Comp. Physiol B 176: 547 - 557.
• Ladyman MT, and Bradshaw SD (2003) The influence of dehydration on the thermal preferences of the Western tiger snake, Notechis scutatus. J. Comp. Physiol B 173: 239-246
• Ladyman MT, Bonnet X, Lourdais O, Bradshaw D, Naulleau G (2003) Gestation, Thermoregulation, and Metabolism in a viviparous snake, Vipera aspis: Evidence for fecundity-independent costs. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 76: 497 - 510
• Ladyman MT, Thompson SA (2003) Clutch Hydration following oviposition by urination may reduce desiccation in thorny devil (Moloch horridus) eggs. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 86: 83-84
• Bonnet X, Aubret F, Lourdais O, Ladyman M, Bradshaw D. Maumelet (2005) Do quiet places make animals placid? Island versus mainland tiger snakes. Ethology 111: 573 - 592
• Bonnet X, Pearson D, Ladyman MT, Lourdais O, Bradshaw SD (2002b) "Heaven" for serpents? A mark-recapture study of tiger snakes (Notechis scutatus) on Carnac Island, Western Australia. Austral Ecology 27: 442-450
• Johnson MS, Bentley SL, Ford SS, Ladyman MT, Lambert GJ (2001) Effects of a complex archipelego on genetic subdivision of the intertidal limpet (Siphonaria kurracheensis). Marine Biology 139: 1087 - 1094

Conference Papers:

• Water acquisition and conservation in island tiger snakes, Notechis scutatus. Australian New Zealand Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Hobart 2003
• Behavioural and physiological effects of arginine vasotocin (AVT) enhance the water economy of the Western Tiger Snake. European Society of Comparative
• Endocrinology in Uppsla, Sweden (August 2004). Dehydration causes thermal depression in tiger snakes, Notechis scutatus. Australian Society of Herpetologists, Canberra 2002.
• Reptiles in Resource Limited Environments. Royal Society Post Graduate Symposium, 2003 and the FNAS Presentation, University of Western Australia.

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