Staff Spotlight
L. Richard Franz
Associate Scientist
288 Dickinson Hall
Museum Road & Newell Drive
Gainesville, FL 32611
(352) 273-1956
Email: dfranz@flmnh.ufl.edu
M.S. University of Montana, 1969
Concurrent Appointments
Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
Research Interests
Recent and fossil amphibians and reptiles
Ongoing Fieldwork
Fossil tortoises in the White River deposits of Nebraska
Current Graduate Students
Dana Ehret, School of Natural Resources
- Gopher tortoise ecology in Florida coastal areas
Al Kinlaw, Dept of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Gopher tortoise burrow ecology
Representative Publications
Franz and Buckner. 1999. Survey of the herpetofauna of Conception Island, Bahamas. Proceedings Bahamas Field Station, San Salvador (Symposium, 1997).
Franz, Carlson, Owen, Steadman. 2000. Fossil tortoises from the Turks and Caicos Islands, BWI. Proceedings Bahamas Field Station, San Salvador (Symposium, 1999).
Boughton, Staiger, and Franz. 2000. Use of PVC pipes as passive traps for treefrogs. Amer. Midl. Nat. 144 :168-177.
Franz. 2001. Pituophis melanoleucus mugitus (Florida pine snake). Digging behavior. Herpetol. Review, 32(2):109.
Litt, Provencher, Tanner and Franz. 2001. Herpetological responses to restoration treatments of longleaf pine sandhills in Florida. Restoration Ecology, 9(4): 462-474.
Hamilton, Freedman, and Franz. 2002. Effects of deer feeders, habitat and sensory cues on predation rates on artificial turtle nests. Amer. Midl. Nat., 147:123-134.
Franz. 2004. Wet mountains and mountain frogs. (Book). Powell and Henderson (eds). Adventures in Paradise. Univ. Florida Press.
Franz and Quitmeyer. 2005. Fossil and Archeological Records for Gopher Tortoises in the Southeastern United States. Bull. Florida Museum Nat. Hist. In press.
Franz 2005. Florida pine snake: Up close and personal. (Book) In Meshaka and Babbitt (eds). Status and Conservation of Florida Amphibians and Reptiles. Univ. Florida Press. In press.
Means and Franz. 2005. Amphibians and reptiles of altered wetlands on municipial well fields in peninsular Florida. (Book). In Meshaka and Babbitt. Status and Conservation of Florida Amphibians and Reptiles. Univ. Florida Press. In press.