Northeastern Naturalist Volume 20, Number 3, 2013

Issue-in-Progress

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Front cover
Inside front cover
Board of Editors/indicia page
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Genetic Confirmation of Cougars (Puma concolor) in Eastern Canada Le Duing Lang, Nathalie Tessier, Marc Gauthier, Renee Wissink, Hélène Jolicoeur, and François-Joseph Lapointe	383
Rapid Assessment Tools for Conserving Woodland Vernal Pools in the Northern Blue Ridge Mountains Erik D. Lindquist, David K. Foster, Samuel P. Wilcock, and Jeffrey S. Erikson	397
Does Pitcher Plant Morphology Affect Spider Residency? Marc A. Milne and Deborah A. Waller	419
Chronic Natural Occurrence of Disseminated Neoplasia in Select Populations of the Soft-shell Clam, Mya arenaria, in New England S. Anne Böttger, Emily J. Amarosa, Paul Geoghegan, and Charles W. Walker	430
Freeze-Drying to Preserve Birds for Teaching Collections Alexandra V. Shoffner and Margaret C. Brittingham	441
Effects of Twenty Years of Deer Exclusion on Woody Vegetation at Three Life-History Stages in a Mid-Atlantic Temperate Deciduous Forest Jennifer C. McGarvey, Norman A. Bourg, Jonathan R. Thompson, William J. McShea, and Xiaoli Shen	451
Influences of Precipitation, Temperature, and Acorn Mast on White-Tailed Deer Body Weight in the Northern Piedmont of Virginia Sean A.B. Campbell and Thomas C. Wood	469
Morphometry and Claw Strength of the Non-nativeAsian Shore Crab, Hemigrapsus sanguineus Andrew Payne and George P. Kraemer	478
*Effects of Prescribed Fire on the Eastern Box Turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina)* Christopher A.F. Howey and Willem M. Roosenburg	493
Influence of Sediment Type on Antipredator Response of the Softshell Clam, Mya arenaria Elsie Thomson and Damon P. Gannon	498
*Overwater Movement of Raccoons (Procyon lotor) in a Naturally Fragmented Coastal Landscape* Raymond D. Dueser, Nancy D. Moncrief, Oskars Keišs, Joel D. Martin, John H. Porter, and Barry R. Truitt	511
A Preliminary Assessment of the Ground-Dwelling Arthropod Community Composition in Six Common Dune Cover Types at Cape Cod National Seashore Brad C. Timm and Kevin McGarigal	529
Short-term Effects of Beaver Dam Removal on Brook Trout in an Appalachian Headwater Stream Jonathan M. Niles, Kyle J. Hartman, and Patrick Keyser	540

NOTES
Documentation of the Mantleslugs Philomycus carolinianus and Megapallifera mutabilis (Gastropoda: Philomycidae) in Wisconsin Megan Paustian, Janis Annesley, Joan Jass, and Barbara Klausmeier	N1
Additional Winter Recoveries of Indiana Bats (Myotis sodalis) Banded during Summer in Michigan Craig D. Rockey, Joshua P. Stumpf, and Allen Kurta	N8

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