Northeastern Naturalist Volume 23, Number 3, 2016

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Front cover
Inside front cover
Board of Editors/indicia page
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Testing Rapid-Assessment Models for the Conservation of Woodland Vernal Pools in South-central Pennsylvania Timothy M. Swartz, Ellie Stuart, David K. Foster, and Erik D. Lindquist	339
Raccoon (Procyon lotor) Activity is Better Predicted by Water Availability than Land Cover in a Moderately Fragmented Landscape Edward J. Heske and Adam A. Ahlers	352
Internal Body Temperatures of an Overwintering Adult Terrapene carolina (Eastern Box Turtle) Russell L. Burke, Paul P. Calle, Miranda P. Figueras, and Timothy M. Green	364
*Evidence of Successful Spawning and Other Life-History Aspects of Alosa sapidissima* (American Shad) in the Penobscot River and Estuary** Christine A. Lipsky, Rory Saunders, and Justin R. Stevens	367
Spatial Analysis of Forest Damage in Central Massachusetts Resulting from the December 2008 Ice Storm William J. Hansen and Jeffery Cranson	378
Status of Exotic Round Goby and Tubenose Goby in Pennsylvania Jay R. Stauffer Jr., Jeanette Schnars, Casey Wilson, Richard Taylor, and Charles K. Murray	395
Asexual Reproduction and its Potential Influence on the Distribution of an Invasive Macrophyte Rebecca A. Urban and Matthew E. Dwyer	408
*A Fine-scale Examination of Larix laricina* and Picea mariana Abundances along Abiotic Gradients in an Adirondack Peatland** Celia Evans, Robert DeSotle, Chloe Mattilio, Erik Yankowsky, Andre-Anne Chenaille, and Alexander Whiston	420

NOTES
Documentation of Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis (Eastern Hellbender) Predation on Nest-associate Stream Fishes Corey G. Dunn	N8
A Note on Iris Flower Anthesis: Mechanism and Meaning of Sudden Flower Opening Bernd Heinrich	N12
*Detection of Snake Fungal Disease from a Lampropeltis triangulum* (Eastern Milksnake) in Northern Michigan** Michael J. Ravesi, Sasha J. Tetzlaff, Matthew C. Allender, and Bruce A. Kingsbury	N18
Observations of Fish Consumption by Piping Plovers Julia D. Monk, Audrey DeRose-Wilson, James D. Fraser, Daniel H. Catlin, and Sarah M. Karpanty	N22

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