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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