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Goessling, JM, E Shelton-Nix, M Hilton, and C Guyer. 2026. Population consolidation and head-starting as demographic rescue for low-density Gopher Tortoise populations. Wildlife Research. WR25144. Link to paper.
Ebey, K,* ML Hilton, & JM Goessling. 2026. Mechanisms of movement patterns: physiology and sex influence gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) movement. Ecology and Evolution, 16: e73878. Link to paper.
Goessling, JM, G Weikert*, L Conrad, and ML Hilton. 2026. Old neighbours, long-lost siblings, and total strangers: social environment impacts on headstart tortoise behaviours. Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 294: 106869. Link to paper.
Craft, M, GL Heinrich, J Goessling, M Dallas, D Cassill & JS Doody. 2026. Nesting in bushes and burrows: potential climate responses in the gopher tortoise. Animal Behaviour. 233: 123522. PDF.
Hilton, M, C Ceballos*, GL Heinrich, and JM Goessling. 2024. The social and spatial structure of male-female interactions of the gopher tortoise, Gopherus polyphemus. Journal of Herpetology. 58: 251-260. Link to paper.
Lopez-Perez, JE, JM Goessling, and CM Murray. 2024. Testing androgen-induced immunosuppression: environmental androgens as a model system for steroid-immune interaction. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology. 341: 431-439. Link to paper.
Stiffler, W*, GL Heinrich, M Hilton, and JM Goessling. 2024. Relationships between spatial biology and physiological ecology in the gopher tortoise, Gopherus polyphemus. Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology. Link to paper.
Edwards, OM*, DD Edwards, SD Duncan, D Laurencio, and JM Goessling. 2023. Range expansion and dispersal traits of the green treefrog (Hyla cinerea). Journal of Herpetology. 57(2): 151-158. Link to paper.
Hawthorne, W*, and JM Goessling. A test of the tradeoff hypothesis between performance and immunity in hybrid water snakes (Nerodia clarkii X Nerodia fasciata). Copeia. PDF.
Goessling, JM, C Guyer, JC Godwin, SM Hermann, FC Sandmeier, LL Smith, and MT Mendonça. 2019. Upper respiratory tract disease and associated diagnostic tests of mycoplasmosis in Alabama populations of Gopher Tortoises, Gopherus polyphemus. PLoS One. PDF.
Goessling, JM and MT Mendonca. 2021. Physiological responses of gopher tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus) to trapping. Conservation Physiology. 9: 1-9. Link to paper.
Goessling, JM, C Ward, and MT Mendonça. 2019. Rapid thermal immune acclimation in common musk turtles (Sternotherus odoratus). Journal of Experimental Zoology, A. 2019; 1 - 7. PDF.
Goessling, JM, MT Mendonça, and AG Appel. 2018. Assessment of Seasonal Metabolic Acclimation in Gopher Tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus): Does Dormancy Reduce Metabolic Rate? Copeia 106: 56-62. PDF.
Goessling, JM, S Kohler*, B Overman*, C Guyer, EH Schwartz and MT Mendonça. 2017. An experimental evaluation of the seasonal lag hypothesis of constitutive innate and cell-mediated humoral immunity in Gopher Tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus). Journal of Experimental Zoology, A. PDF.
Goessling, JM, C Guyer, and MT Mendonça. 2017. More than fever: Thermoregulatory responses to acute immunological stimulation and consequences of thermoregulatory strategy on innate immune function in Gopher Tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus). Physiological and Biochemical Zoology: Ecological and Evolutionary Perspectives. PDF.
Goessling, JM, H Kennedy*, MT Mendonca, and AE Wilson. 2015. A meta-analysis of plasma corticosterone and heterophil: lymphocyte ratios: Is there stability in biomarkers of environmental stress? Functional Ecology. 29: 1189-1196. PDF.
Goessling JM, WI Lutterschmidt, HK. Reinert, L Bushar, and RA Odum. 2015. Multi-year sampling reveals an increased population density of an endemic lizard following the establishment of an invasive snake on Aruba. Journal of Herpetology. 49(3): 358-363. PDF.
Folt, B, T Pierson*, SM Goetz, JM Goessling, D Laurencio, D Thompson*, and SP Graham. 2013. Amphibians and reptiles of Jasper County, Mississippi with comments on the potentially extinct Bay Springs Salamander (Plethodon ainsworthi). Herpetological Review. 44(2): 283-286. PDF.