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1	Allen, E. R. 1935. Some alligator secrets. Florida Conservator 1(10):10–11.
2	Allen, E. R. 1950. Ward's great blue heron and the alligator. Florida Naturalist 23:38–39.
3	Allen, E. R., and W. T. Neill. 1952. The American alligator. Florida Wildlife 6(5):8–9, 44.
4	Allen, R. 1969. Why save the alligator. Presented to Conservation 70s Inc. Environmental Legislative Workshop, Panel No. 4, Wildlife Resources, Homosassa Springs, Florida, USA. 5pp. [Printed by International Crocodilian Society, Silver Springs, Florida, USA.]
5	Allen, C. R., K. G. Rice, D. P. Wojcik, and H. F. Percival. 1997. Effect of red imported fire ant envenomization on neonatal American alligators. Journal of Herpetology 31:318–321.
6	Allen, C. R., R. S. Lutz, and S. Demarais. 1998. Ecological effects of the invasive nonindigenous ant, Solenopsis invicta, on native vertebrates: the wheels on the bus. Transactions of the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference 63:56–65.
7	Allin, R. W. 1967. Inadequate water supply threatens Everglades National Park. Parks and Recreation 2(10):37, 51–54.
8	Anonymous. 1968. Life saving alligator. Sea Frontiers 14:174.
9	Anonymous. 1990. Tales from the food web. Florida Department of Natural Resources, Office of Land Use Planning and Biological Services, Resource Management Notes 2(3):3.
10	Ayotte, A. E. 1964. Last stand of the alligators? Audubon Magazine 66:237–241.
11	Bloomfield, V. L. 1971. The alligator: ugly old king of survival. American Forests 77(8):40–43.
12	Bondavalli, C., and R. E. Ulanowicz. 1999. Unexpected effects of predators upon their prey: the case of the American alligator. Ecosystems 2:49–63.
13	Brooks, D. R., and R. M. Overstreet. 1977. Acanthostome digeneans from the American alligator in the southeastern United States. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 9:1016–1029.
14	Byrd, E. E., and R. J. Reiber. 1942. Strigeid trematodes of the alligator, with remarks on the prostate gland and terminal portions of the genital ducts. Journal of Parasitology 28:51–73.
15	Carr, A. F., Jr. 1967. Alligators, dragons in distress. National Geographic Magazine 131:132–148.
16	Carr, A. F., Jr. 1973. The Everglades. Time-Life Books, New York, New York, USA. 184pp.
17	Carr, A. 1994. Alligator country. Pages 104–124 in M. H. Carr, editor. A naturalist in Florida: a celebration of Eden. Yale University Press, New Haven and London,Connecticut, USA.
18	Carrier, J. C. 1978. Endangered species: the battle for survival. Florida Sportsman 9(5):22–23.
19	Carter, W. H. 1980. Creatures and chronicles from Cross Creek. Atlantic, Tabor City, North Carolina, USA. 296pp.
20	Caulfield, P. 1966. Alligator. Natural History 75(9):52–55.
21	Chopp, M. D. 2003. Everglades alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) production and natural history in interior and canal habitats at Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 89pp.
22	Cooper, S. 1998. Not just another roadside attraction. Reptiles Magazine 6(1):10-12, 14, 16, 18–20, 22–27.
23	Cornwell, G. W., R. L. Downing, A. R. Marshall, and J. N. Layne. 1970. Everglades water and its ecological implications. Report of the Special Study Team on the Florida Everglades. South Florida Water Management District Report DRE-08, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA. 42pp.
24	Craighead, F. C., Sr. 1968. The role of the alligator in shaping plant communities and maintaining wildlife in the southern Everglades. Florida Naturalist 41:2–7, 69–74, 94.
25	Craighead, F. C., Sr. 1971. The trees of south Florida. Volume I. The natural environments and their succession. University of Miami Press, Coral Gables, Florida, USA. 212pp.
26	Dalrymple, G. H., and O. L. Bass, Jr. 1996. The diet of the Florida panther in Everglades National Park, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 39:173–193.
27	Davis, J. H. 1943. The natural features of southern Florida especially the vegetation and the Everglades. Florida Geological Survey Bulletin No. 25.
28	Deitz, D. C., and D. R. Jackson. 1979. Use of American alligator nests by nesting turtles. Journal of Herpetology 13:510–512.
29	Delany, M. F., S. B. Linda, and C. T. Moore. 1999. Diet and condition of American alligators in 4 Florida Lakes. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies 53:375–389.
30	Dimock, A. W., and J. A. Dimock. 1908. Florida enchantments. The Outing, New York, New York, USA. 318pp.
31	Dimock, A. W. 1926. Florida enchantments. Revised edition. Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, New York, USA. 338pp.
32	Dodd, C. K., Jr. 1978. Amphibians and reptiles, the declining species. Water Spectrum 10(1):24–32.
33	Enge, K. M., H. F. Percival, K. G. Rice, M. L. Jennings, G. R. Masson, and A. R. Woodward. 2000. Summer nesting of turtles in alligator nests in Florida. Journal of Herpetology 34:497–503.
34	Evert, J. D. 1998. Prediction and interpretation of the abundance of alligators in lentic environments. Abstract in Proceedings of the 78th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 41st Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 46th Annual Meeting of the Herpetologists' League, 14th Annual Meeting of the American Elasmobranch Society, and the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Herpetologists, 16–22 July 1998, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
35	Fichter, G. S. 1958. Living fossil of the swamp. Nature Magazine 51:13–16, 50.
36	Fichter, G. S. 1958. That "terrible lizard," the alligator. Reader's Digest 72(January):97–100.
37	Fogarty, M. J. 1974. The ecology of the Everglades alligator. Pages 367–373 in P. J. Gleason, editor. Environments of south Florida: present and past. Miami Geological Society Memoirs 2.
38	Fogarty, M. J. 1984. The ecology of the Everglades alligator. Pages 211–218 in P. J. Gleason, editor. Environments of south Florida: present and past II. Miami Geological Society, Coral Gables, Florida, USA.
39	Forrester, D. J., and R. T. Sawyer. 1974. Placobdella multilineata (Hirundinea) from the American alligator in Florida. Journal of Parasitology 60:673.
40	Fritchey, J. E. 1992. Everglades journal. Edited by B. R. Read. Florida Heritage Press, Miami, Florida, USA. 308pp.
41	Gantz, C. O. 1971. A naturalist in southern Florida. University of Miami Press, Coral Gables, Florida, USA. 256pp.
42	Gorden, R. W., T. C. Hazen, G. W. Esch, and C. B. Fliermans. 1979. Isolation of Aeromonas hydrophila from the American alligator, Alligator mississippiensis. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 15:219–243.
43	Grenard, S. 1991. Grenard on crocodilians. Reptile & Amphibian Magazine (July–August):10–16.
44	Grow, G. 1997. Florida parks: a guide to camping and nature. Sixth edition. Longleaf, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 288pp.
45	Hoole, W. S., editor. 1974. East Florida in 1834: letters of Dr. John Durkee. Florida Historical Quarterly 52:294–308.
46	Hubbard, C. C. 1876. The Florida alligator; his customs, capture and care. C. C. Hubbard, Middletown, Connecticut, USA. 49pp.
47	Jackson, D. R., and D. C. Deitz. 1978. Effects of severe drought on the herpetofauna (and ichthyofauna) of a Florida marsh. Abstract in Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 26th Annual Meeting of The Herpetologists' League, and 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 31 May–2 June 1978, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
48	Kahl, M. P. 1964. Food ecology of the wood stork (Mycteria americana) in Florida. Ecological Monographs 34:97–117.
49	Kam, Y.-C. 1994. Effects of simulated flooding on metabolism and water balance of turtle eggs and embryos. Journal of Herpetology 28:173–178.
50	Khan, R. A., D. J. Forrester, T. M. Goodwin, and C. A. Ross. 1980. A haemogregarine from the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). Journal of Parasitology 66:324–328.
51	Kolipinski, M. C., and A. L. Higer. 1966. Ecological research in the Everglades National Park. National Parks Magazine 40(229):14–17.
52	Kushlan, J. A. 1972. An ecological study of an alligator pond in the Big Cypress Swamp of southern Florida. M.S. Thesis, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA. 197pp.
53	Kushlan, J. A. 1990. Freshwater marshes. Pages 324–363 in R. L. Myers and J. J. Ewel, editors. Ecosystems of Florida. University of Central Florida Press, Orlando, Florida, USA.
54	Leigh, W. H. 1960. The Florida spotted gar as the intermediate host for Odhneriotrema incommodum (Leidy, 1856) from Alligator mississippiensis. Journal of Parasitology (Section 2 Supplement) 46:16.
55	Leigh, W. H. 1978. Studies on Odhneriotrema incommodum (Leidy 1856) (Trematoda: Clinostomidae) from Alligator mississippiensis. Journal of Parasitology 64:831–834.
56	Lodge, T. E. 1994. The Everglades handbook: understanding the ecosystem. St. Lucie Press, Delray Beach, Florida, USA. 228pp.
57	McCarthy, K. M., compiler. 1998. Alligator tales. Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, USA. 170pp.
58	McCoid, M. J. 1995. Non-native reptiles and amphibians. Pages 433–437 in E. T. Laroe, G. S. Farris, C. E. Puckett, P. D. Doran, and M. J. Mac, editors. Our living resources. National Biological Survey, Washington, D.C.
59	Moreland, A. F., D. J. Forrester, and M. F. Delany. 1989. Sebekia mississippiensis (Pentastomida) from juvenile American alligators in north central Florida. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington 56:42–43.
60	Mueller, J. F. 1951. Spargana from the Florida alligator. Journal of Parasitology 37:317–318.
61	Murphy, J. M. 1987. Alligator shooting in Florida (1899). Pages 353–364 in F. Oppel and T. Meisel, editors. Tales of Old Florida. Castle, Secaucus, New Jersey, USA.
62	Neill, W. T., and E. R. Allen. 1954. Algae on turtles: some additional considerations. Ecology 35:581–584.
63	Neill, W. T. 1971. The last of the ruling reptiles: alligators, crocodiles, and their kin. Columbia University Press, New York, New York, USA. 486pp.
64	Overstreet, R. M., J. T. Self, and K. A. Vliet. 1985. The pentastomid Sebekia mississippiensis sp. n. in the American alligator and other hosts. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington 52:266–277.
65	Packard, W. 1910. Florida trails as seen from Jacksonville to Key West and from November to April inclusive by Winthrop Packard ... illustrated from photographs by the author and others. Small, Maynard and Company, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. 300pp.
66	Palmer, M. L., and F. J. Mazzotti. 1999. The ecological role of Everglades alligator holes. Page 178 (abstract) in Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the 79th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 15th Annual Meeting of the American Elasmobranch Society, 47th Annual Meeting of the Herpetologists' League, and the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 24–30 June 1999, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, USA.
67	Peters, L. 1982. Methyl mercury and PCB in the alligator: public health implications, environmental monitoring and pathological effects. Pages 12–13 in P. Cardeilhac, T. Lane, and R. Larsen, editors. Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Alligator Production Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
68	Peters, L. J. 1983. Mercury accumulation in the American alligator, Alligator mississippiensis. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 57pp.
69	Rabkin, R., and J. Rabkin. 1978. Nature guide to Florida. Banyan Books, South Miami, Florida, USA. 80pp.
70	Raynor, A. C., H. G. Bingham, H. H. Caffee, and P. Dell. 1983. Alligator bites and related infections. Journal of the Florida Medical Association 70:107–110.
71	Shotts, E. B., Jr., J. L. Gaines, Jr., L. Martin, and A. K. Prestwood. 1972. Aeromonas-induced deaths among fish and reptiles in an eutrophic inland lake. Journal of the American Veterinary Medicine Association 161:603–607.
72	Shupe, S. 1980. Living dangerously: an observation of nature's strange bedfellows. Florida Naturalist 53(2):8–9.
73	South Florida Water Management District. 1991. Draft surface water improvement and management plan for the Everglades. Supporting information document. The District, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA. 465pp.
74	Spillan, T. 1983. Gator bite. Florida Wildlife 37(2):41–42.
75	Steel, R. 1989. Crocodiles. Christopher Helm, London, United Kingdom. 198pp.
76	Sunquist, F., M. Sunquist, and L. Beletsky. 2002. Florida: the ecotravellers' wildlife guide. Academic Press, New York, New York, USA. 532pp.
77	Tansey, M. R. 1973. Isolation of thermophilic fungi from alligator nesting materials. Mycologia 65:594–601.
78	Teale, E. W. 1945. The lost woods: adventures of a naturalist. Dodd, Meade and Company, New York, New York, USA. 326pp.
79	Toops, C. M. 1979. The alligator: monarch of the Everglades. Everglades Natural History Association, Homestead, Florida, USA. 63pp.
80	Toops, C. 1998. The Florida Everglades. Voyageur Press, Stillwater, Minnesota, USA. 112pp.
81	Trexler, J. C., W. F. Loftus, F. Jordan, J. H. Chick, K. L. Kandl, T. C. McElroy, and O. L. Bass, Jr. 2002. Ecological scale and its implications for freshwater fishes in the Everglades. Pages 153–181 in J. W. Porter and K. G. Porter, editors. The Everglades, Florida Bay, and coral reefs of the Florida Keys: an ecosystem sourcebook. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA.
82	Usina, F. C., and W. I. Dyrsdale. 1949. Alligator!: a review of the life and habits of the American alligator with added chapters on crocodiles, Galapagos tortoises, African ostriches and alligators in motion pictures. St. Augustine Alligator Farm, St. Augustine, Florida, USA. 32pp.
83	van Heeckeren, A. M., E. J. Skoch, and P. T. Cardeilhac. 1988. Heavy metal levels in alligator embryos from six lakes in Florida. Pages 117–122 in Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference and Workshop of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine.
84	Voris, S. M. 1998. Alligator mississippiensis (American alligator) and Gopherus polyphemus (gopher tortoise). Commensalism. Herpetological Review 29:166.
85	Walker, S. L., and M. P. Majorin. 1992. Everglades: wondrous river of life. Camelback Design Group and Elan, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. 64pp.
86	White, T. E. 1942. A new alligator from the Miocene of Florida. Copeia 1942:3–7.
87	Williams, T. 1993. Why alligators? Gatortales, The Florida Alligator Trapping Association Newsletter 1(2):5.

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