Northeastern Naturalist Volume 19, Number 2, 2012

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Front cover
Inside front cover
Board of Editors/indicia page
RESEARCH ARTICLES
*Testing GIS-generated Least-cost Path Predictions for Martes pennanti* (Fisher) and its Application for Identifying Mammalian Road-crossings in Northern New Hampshire** George Leoniak, Sarah Barnum, Jonathan L. Atwood, Kurt Rinehart, and Mark Elbroch	147
Winter Diet of River Otters in Kentucky Erin E. Barding and Michael J. Lacki	157
Distribution and Roost Selection of Bats on Newfoundland Allysia C. Park and Hugh G. Broders	165
Species Composition and Relative Abundance of the Mesopelagic Fish Fauna in the Slope Sea off Nova Scotia Daphne E. Themelis and Ralph G. Halliday	177
*Spatial and Temporal Variation in Otolith Chemistry for Tautog (Tautoga onitis) along the US Northeast Coast* Ivan Mateo, Edward G. Durbin, David A. Bengtson, Richard Kingsley, Peter K. Swart, and Daisy Durant	201
*Age, Growth, and Reproduction of the Eastern Mudminnow (Umbra pygmaea) at the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, New Jersey* Frank M. Panek and Judith S. Weis	217
Amphibian Sampling Techniques along Maryland Coastal-plain Streams Gabriel F. Strain and Richard L. Raesly	229
Density and Distribution of Amphipods in Oneida Lake, New York, after the Introduction of the Exotic Amphipod Echinogammarus ischnus John E. Cooper, Elin Wallquist, Kristen T. Holeck, Catharine E. Hoffman, Edward L. Mills, and Christine M. Mayer	249
*Managing Marginal Populations of the Rare Wetland Plant Trollius laxus* Salisbury (Spreading Globeflower): Consideration of Light Levels, Herbivory, and Pollination** Kristina N. Jones and Susan M. Klemetti	267
Parsimony Analysis of East Coast Salt Marsh Plant Distributions Joseph W. Rachlin, Richard Stalter, Dwight Kincaid, and Barbara E. Warkentine	279
*The Allelopathic Potentials of the Non-native Invasive Plant Microstegium vimineum* and the Native Ageratina altissima: Two Dominant Species of the Eastern Forest Herb Layer** Brian F. Corbett and Janet A. Morrison	297
*Asian Invasive Earthworms of the Genus Amynthas* Kinberg in Vermont** Josef H. Görres and Ryan D.S. Melnichuk	313
Connecticut Birds and Climate Change: Bergmann’s Rule in the Fourth Dimension Dakota E. McCoy	323
Male Savannah Sparrows Provide Less Parental Care with Increasing Paternity Loss Noah G. Perlut, Lindsay M. Kelly, Nathan J. Zalik, and Allan M. Strong	335
A Heretofore Unreported Instant Color Change In a Beetle, Nicrophorus tomentosus Weber (Coleoptera: Silphidae) Bernd Heinrich	345
NOTES
*Biogeographic and Conservation Significance of the Occurrence of the Canadian Endemic Sorex maritimensis* (Maritime Shrew) in Northern New Brunswick** Donald F. McAlpine, Howard M. Huynh, and Karen J. Vanderwolf	353

Noteworthy Books	359
Errata	360