Southeastern Naturalist Volume 13, Number 2, 2014

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Front cover
Inside front cover
Board of Editors/indicia page
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Sex Ratios of Wild American Alligator Hatchlings in Southwest Louisiana Ruth M. Elsey and Jeffrey W. Lang	191
Patch Burning Improves Forage Quality and Creates Grassbank in Old-field Pasture: Results of a Demonstration Trial Devan Allen McGranahan, Charlotte B. Henderson, Jonas S. Hill, Gina M. Raicovich, W. Nathan Wilson, and C. Kenneth Smith	200
Species Richness Estimation and Rarefaction of Fish Assemblages in a Small Watershed J. Murray Hyde, Paul M. Stewart, and Jonathan M. Miller	208
Responses of Planted Native Warm-season Grasses and Associated Vegetation to Seasonality of Fire in the Southeastern US Elizabeth Holcomb, Patrick Keyser, and Craig Harper	221
A Comparison of Resident Fish Assemblages in Managed and Unmanaged Coastal Wetlands in North Carolina and South Carolina Kelly F. Robinson and Cecil A. Jennings	237
*Home Range and Habitat Selection of an Inland Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) Population at the Northwestern Edge of the Distribution Range* Joseph D. Lewis, James W. Cain III, and Robert Denkhaus	261
Melanistic Coyotes in Northwest Georgia Christopher B. Mowry and Justin L. Edge	280
The Vascular Flora of the Old Cahawba Forever Wild Tract, Dallas County, Alabama T. Wayne Barger, Brian D. Holt, Linda Derry, and Jonathan Matthews	288
Logging Legacies Affect Insect Pollinator Communities in Southern Appalachian Forests Michelle M. Jackson, Monica G. Turner, and Scott M. Pearson	317
*A Survey for the Alligator Snapping Turtle (Macrochelys temminckii) in Western Kentucky* Danna L. Baxley, James O. Barnard, and Heather Venter	337
Freshwater Mussels (Unionidae) in the Paint Rock River (Jackson, Madison, and Marshall Counties), Alabama Todd B. Fobian, Michael L. Buntin, Jesse T. Holifield, Thomas A. Tarpley, Jeffrey T. Garner, and Paul D. Johnson	347
*Simulating Potential Population Growth of Wild Pig, Sus scrofa, in Texas* Janell M. Mellish, Aaron Sumrall, Tyler A. Campbell, Bret A. Collier, William H. Neill, Billy Higginbotham, and Roel R. Lopez	367
Surface-soil Properties of Alder Balds with respect to Grassy and Rhododendron Balds on Roan Mountain, North Carolina–Tennessee James T. Donaldson, Zachary C. Dinkins, Foster Levy, and Arpita Nandi	377
Spider (O: Araneae) Responses to Fire and Fire Surrogate Fuel Reduction in a Piedmont Forest in Upstate South Carolina Michael E. Vickers and Joseph D. Culin	396
Ground Beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Species Composition in the Southern Appalachian Mountains Robert Browne, Sarah Maveety, Leigh Cooper, and Kathryn Riley	407

NOTES
Vocalization Observed in Starving White-tailed Deer Neonates M. Colter Chitwood, Marcus A. Lashley, Christopher E. Moorman, and Christopher S. DePerno	N6
*An Unusual Song-like Vocalization Produced by Female Bachman’s Sparrows (Peucaea aestivalis)* James A. Cox, Clark D. Jones, James W. Tucker, Jr., and Gregory F. Budney	N9
Female Performance of Male Courtship Display in Northern Cardinals M. Susan DeVries, Caitlin P. Winters, and Jodie M. Jawor	N13
Unusual Bat Behavior During Winter in Great Smoky Mountains National Park James A. Carr, Riley F. Bernard, and William H. Stiver	N18

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