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7	Bartram, W. 1791. Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee country, the extensive territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the country of the Chactaws; containing, an account of the soil and natural productions of those regions, together with observations on the manners of the Indians. James & Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. 522pp. Bartram, W. 1947. The travels of William Bartram [edited by Mark van Doren]. Dover, New York, New York, USA. 414pp.
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13	Campbell, M. R. 1999. Everglades alligator holes: distribution and ecology. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 81pp.
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16	Carr, A. F., Jr. 1976. Foreword: excerpts from the life of an alligator: a re-appraisal of "The Alligator's Life History." Pages v–x in E. A. McIlhenny. The alligator's life history. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles Facsimile Reprints in Herpetology.
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	Caulfield, P. 1966. Alligator. Natural History 75(9):52–55.
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22	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.
23	de Castelnau, C. 1948. Essay on Middle Florida, 1837–1838 [Essai sur la Floride du Milieu; translated by A. R. Seymour]. Florida Historical Quarterly 26:199–255.
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25	Dickinson, J. C. 1946. An ecological reconnaissance of the biota of a series of roadside ponds and ditches in northern Florida. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 47pp.
26	Dimock, A. W., and J. A. Dimock. 1908. Florida enchantments. The Outing, New York, New York, USA. 318pp.
27	Dimock, A. W. 1926. Florida enchantments. Revised edition. Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, New York, USA. 338pp.
28	Division of Wildlife. 1997. Conceptual management plan for the J. W. Corbett Wildlife Management Area, Palm Beach County, Florida. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Bureau of Wildlife Management, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
29	Division of Wildlife. 1997. Conceptual management plan for the Rotenberger Wildlife Management Area, Palm Beach County, Florida. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Bureau of Wildlife Management, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
30	Division of Wildlife. 1998. Conceptual management plan for the Holey Land Wildlife Management Area, Palm Beach County, Florida. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Bureau of Wildlife Management, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
31	Duellman, W. E., and A. Schwartz. 1958. Amphibians and reptiles of southern Florida. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 3:181–324.
32	Dunson, W. A., and F. J. Mazzotti. 1989. Salinity as a limiting factor in the distribution of reptiles in Florida Bay: a theory for the estuarine origin of marine snakes and turtles. Bulletin of Marine Science 44:229–244.
33	Enge, K. M., and N. J. Douglass. 2000. Easement Documentation Report (Volume II: vertebrate surveys) for Fisheating Creek Ecosystem–Phase I, Glades County, Florida. Prepared for the Conservation and Recreational Lands Program and the Division of State Lands, Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 72pp.
34	Evert, J. D., A. R. Woodward, M. V. Hoyer, and C. Horsburgh. 1998. American alligator population densities and their relations to trophic status, fish biomass, and human development in Florida lakes. Pages 130–132 in S. H. Darling and H. H. Harper, editors. Integrating water resources and growth into the 21st century. Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Southeast Lakes Management Conference, 15–18 April 1998, Orlando, Florida, USA.
35	Evert, J. D. 1999. Relationships of alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) population density to environmental factors in Florida lakes. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 122pp.
36	Feilden, H. W. 1870. The nest of the alligator. Zoologist (Series 2) 5:2090–2092.
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	Fowler, H. W. 1906. Some cold-blooded vertebrates from the Florida Keys. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 58:77–113.
40	Franz, R., J. Bauer, and T. Morris. 1994. Review of biologically significant caves and their faunas in Florida and south Georgia. Brimleyana 20:1–109.
41	Goin, C. J. 1943. The lower vertebrate fauna of the water hyacinth community in northern Florida. Proceedings of the Florida Academy of Sciences 6:143–154.
42	Goodwin, T. M. 1977. Seasonal movements of adult alligators in a large freshwater lake in north-central Florida. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 56pp.
43	Goodwin, T. M. 1978. Use of radio telemetry for...tracking alligators. Florida Wildlife 32(1):14–15.
44	Goodwin, T. M., and W. R. Marion. 1979. Seasonal activity ranges and habitat preferences of adult alligators (Reptilia, Crocodilidae) in a north-central Florida lake. Journal of Herpetology 13:157–164.
45	Hartley, W., and E. Hartley. 1977. The alligator: king of the wilderness. Thomas Nelson, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. 175pp.
46	Heilprin, A. 1887. Explorations on the west coast of Florida and in the Okeechobee wilderness. Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science of Philadelphia 1:1–134.
47	Hines, T. C., M. J. Fogarty, and L. C. Chappell. 1968. Alligator research in Florida, a progress report. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Game and Fish Commissioners 22:166–180.
48	Hoole, W. S., editor. 1974. East Florida in 1834: letters of Dr. John Durkee. Florida Historical Quarterly 52:294–308.
49	Jacobsen, T. 1983. Crocodilians and islands: status of the American alligator and the American crocodile in the lower Florida Keys. Florida Field Naturalist 11:1–24.
50	Jennings, M. L., H. F. Percival, and C. L. Abercrombie. 1987. Habitat variables affecting nesting success of the American alligator in Florida. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies 41:334–342.
51	Kellogg, R. 1929. The habits and economic importance of alligators. U.S. Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin No. 147, Washington, D.C. 36pp.
52	Kolipinski, M. C., and A. L. Higer. 1966. Ecological research in the Everglades National Park. National Parks Magazine 40(229):14–17.
53	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.
54	Kushlan, J. A. 1974. Observations on the role of the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) in the southern Florida wetlands. Copeia 1974:993–996.
55	Kushlan, J. A. 1979. Temperature and oxygen in an Everglades alligator pond. Hydrobiologia 67:267–271.
56	Kushlan, J. A., and B. P. Hunt. 1979. Limnology of an alligator pond in south Florida. Florida Scientist 42:65–84.
57	Kushlan, J. A. 1982. The status of crocodilians in south Florida. Pages 99–107 in Proceedings of the 5th Working Meeting of the Crocodile Specialist Group, IUCN Publication New Series, ISBN 2-88032-209-X, Gland, Switzerland.
58	Larned, W. L. 1918. Fishing in the "no-man's land" of Florida. Field and Stream 23:607–610.
59	Lodge, T. E. 1994. The Everglades handbook: understanding the ecosystem. St. Lucie Press, Delray Beach, Florida, USA. 228pp.
60	Mahoney, L. T. 1991. Gator! Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, California, USA. 80pp.
61	Mazzotti, F. J. 1982. Effects of temperature and salinity on growth rates of hatchling crocodiles and alligators: implications for their distributions in southern Florida. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 63:83 (abstract).
62	Mazzotti, F. J., and L. A. Brandt. 1994. Ecology of the American alligator in a seasonally fluctuating environment. Pages 485–505 in S. M. Davis and J. C. Ogden, editors. Everglades: the ecosystem and its restoration. St. Lucie Press, Delray Beach, Florida, USA.
63	Moore, J. C. 1953. Alligator lore for Johnnie. Everglades Natural History 1:137–138.
64	Morea, C. R. 1999. Home range, movement, and habitat use of the American alligator in the Everglades. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 92pp.
65	Morea, C. R., K. G. Rice, H. F. Percival, and S. R. Howarter. 2000. Home range and daily movement of the American alligator in the Everglades. Pages 486–504 in Crocodiles: Proceedings of the 15th Working Meeting of the Crocodile Specialist Group, IUCN—The World Conservation Union, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, United Kingdom.
66	Morea, C. R., K. G. Rice, H. F. Percival, and S. R. Howarter. 2000. Habitat use of the American alligator in the Everglades. Page 61 (abstract) in Proceedings of the Florida Lake Management Society 2000 Annual Conference, 22–25 May 2000, Duck Key, Florida, USA.
67	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.
68	Naval Facilities Engineering Command. 1996. Facilities development necessary to support potential future aircraft carrier homeporting, Naval Station Mayport, Florida: draft programmatic environmental impact statement. U.S. Department of the Navy, Southern Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, North Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
69	Neill, W. T. 1971. The last of the ruling reptiles: alligators, crocodiles, and their kin. Columbia University Press, New York, New York, USA. 486pp.
70	Ogden, J. C. 1976. Crocodilian ecology in southern Florida. Pages 117–130 in Research in the parks. U.S. Department of Interior, National Park Service Symposium Series No. 1.
71	O'Keefe, M. T. 1996. Great adventures in Florida. Menasha Ridge Press, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. 266pp.
72	O'Reilly, J. 1940. South Florida's amazing Everglades. National Geographic Magazine 77:115–142.
73	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.
74	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.
75	Palmer, M. L. 2000. The structure and function of Everglades alligator holes. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 59pp.
76	Percival, H. F., K. G. Rice, G. R. Masson, A. R. Woodward, C. L. Abercrombie, and M. L. Jennings. 1994. Lake Apopka's alligators: the last of the ruling reptiles? Page 65 (abstract) in Proceedings of the 12th Working Meeting of the IUCN Crocodile Specialist Group, Volume 2, 2–6 May 1994, Pattaya, Thailand.
77	Printiss, D., and D. Hipes. 2001. Inventory and management considerations of amphibians and reptiles on the Sumatra Tract, Tate's Hell State Forest, Florida. Final Report to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Forestry. Florida Natural Areas Inventory, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 40pp.
78	Rabkin, R., and J. Rabkin. 1978. Nature guide to Florida. Banyan Books, South Miami, Florida, USA. 80pp.
79	Reese, A. M. 1910. The home of the alligator. Popular Science Monthly 77:365–372.
80	Ricciuti, E. R. 1972. The American alligator: its life in the wild. Harper and Row, New York, New York, USA. 67pp.
81	Rice, K. G. 1992. Alligator nest production estimation in Florida. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 57pp.
82	Rice, K. G., and H. F. Percival. 1999. American alligator ecology. Pages 90–91 in S. Gerould and A. Higer, compilers. U.S. Geological Survey program on the South Florida ecosystem. Proceedings of South Florida restoration science forum, 17–19 May 1999, Boca Raton, Florida, USA. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-181, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
83	Rice, K. G., H. F. Percival, and A. R. Woodward. 2000. Estimating sighting proportions of American alligator nests during helicopter surveys. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies 54:314–321.
84	Rice, K. G., H. F. Percival, and T. S. Gross. 2001. American alligator distribution, thermoregulation, and biotic potential relative to hydroperiod in the Everglades. Pages 131–133 in A. L. Higer, J. R. Eggleston, T. L. Embry, R. H. Mooney, L. Wedderburn, C. R. Goodwi, H. S. Henkel, K. M. H. Pegram, and T. J. Enright, compilers. U.S. Geological Survey Program on the South Florida Ecosystem: 2000 Proceedings. Greater Everglades Restoration (GEER) Conference, 11–15 December 2000, Naples, Florida. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-449, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
85	Sand, G. X. 1971. The Everglades today: endangered wilderness. Four Winds Press, New York, New York, USA. 191pp.
86	Silverstone, P. A. 1972. Final report of a study of the behavior of the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) at the Fort Pierce, Florida Bureau of the Smithsonian Institution. Unpublished Report to Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA. 55pp.
87	Sleeper, B. 1996. Beneath the blackwater: alligators. NorthWord Press, Minocqua, Wisconsin, USA. 127pp.
88	Steel, R. 1989. Crocodiles. Christopher Helm, London, United Kingdom. 198pp.
89	Timmerman, W. 1992. Alligator survey. Florida Department of Natural Resources, Office of Resource Management, Resource Management Notes 4(4):5.
90	Toops, C. M. 1979. The alligator: monarch of the Everglades. Everglades Natural History Association, Homestead, Florida, USA. 63pp.
91	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.
92	Ward, F. 1972. The imperiled Everglades. National Geographic Magazine 141:1–27.
93	Williams, J. L. 1962. The Territory of Florida or sketches of the topography, civil and natural history, of the country, the climate, and the Indian tribes, from the first discovery to the present time. [A facsimile reproduction of the 1837 edition, with an introduction by Herbert J. Doherty, Jr.] University of Florida Press, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 304pp.
94	Williams, J. L. 1976. A view of West Florida. [A facsimile reproduction of the 1827 edition with an introduction and index by Herbert J. Doherty, Jr.] University Presses of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 178pp.
95	Wisenbaker, M. 1991. El lagarto. Florida Wildlife 45(4):1–18.
96	Woodward, A. R., T. C. Hines, C. L. Abercrombie, and J. D. Nichols. 1987. Survival of young American alligators on a Florida lake. Journal of Wildlife Management 51:931–937.

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