Harry Greene

Publications (selected from last 25 years, from among 237 since 1961):

2024

• Greene, H. W. A part or apart: ought nature lovers ever wear fur? Pp. 215-229, 248-250 in B. A. Minteer and J. B. Losos (eds.), Heart of the wild: essays on nature, wilderness, and our ecological future. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ.
• Greene, H. W. (Review of) D. J. Gower and H. Zaher (eds.), The origin and early evolution of snakes. Cambridge University Press, UK. Quarterly Review of Biology 99:54-55.

2023

• Greene, H. W., and K. D. Wiseman. Heavy, bulky, or both: what does “large prey” mean to snakes? Journal of Herpetology 57:340-366.
• Minteer, B. A., and H. W. Greene (eds.). A wilder kingdom: rethinking nature in zoos, wildlife parks, and beyond. Columbia University Press, NY.
• Wagner, C., A. K. Miller, H. M. Engelbrecht, H. W. Greene, and G. J. Alexander. When to shed? Patterns and drivers of time to first ecdysis in snakes. Ecology and Evolution 13:e10364.
• Wallis, J., and H. W. Greene. Dendroaspis jamesoni kaimosae (Black-tailed Jameson’s Mamba). Ectoparasitism and encounter with Chimpanzees. Herpetological Review 54:483-484.
• Greene, H. W., and B. D. Hollingsworth. Why museum specimens matter: predation by a Red Diamond Rattlesnake (Crotalus ruber) on a Western Spotted Skunk (Spilogale gracilis). Herpetological Review 54:573-574.

2022

• Schuett, G. W., R. S. Reiserer, A. M. Salywon, S. Blackwell, W. C. Hodgson, D. Foster, J. Hall, R. Zach, M. A. Davis, and H. W. Greene. Secondary seed ingestion in snakes: germination frequency and rate, seedling viability, and implications for dispersal in nature. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9:761293.

2021

• Maritz, B., E. P. Hofmann, R. A. Maritz, H. W. Greene, M. Grundler, and A. M. Durso. Challenges and opportunities in the study of snake diets. Herpetological Review 52:769-773.
• Kazandjian, T., D. Petras, S. Robinson, J. van der Thiel, H.W. Greene, K. Arbuckle, A. Barlow, D. Carter, G. Whiteley, SC Wagstaff, A.S. Arias, L-O. Albulescu, A. von Plettenberg-Laing, C. Hall, A. Heap, S. Penrhyn-Lowe, C. McCabe, S. Ainsworth, M.K. Richardson, J.M. Gutiérrez, R.A. Harrison, J.J. Calvete, I. Vetter, E.A.B. Undheim, W. Wüster, N.R. Casewell. Convergent evolution of pain-inducing defensive venom components in spitting cobras. Science 371:386-390.

2020

• Greene, H. W. Pomegranates, peccaries, and love. Ecopsychology 12:166-172.

2019

• Zancolli, G., J. J. Calvete, M. D. Cardwell, H. W. Greene, W. K. Hayes, M. J. Hegarty, H.-W. Herrmann, A. T. Holycross, D. I. Lannutti, J. F. Mulley, L. Sanz, Z. D. Travis, J. R. Whorley, C. E. Wüster , and W. Wüster. When one phenotype is not enough: divergent evolutionary trajectories govern venom variation in a widespread rattlesnake species. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286:20182735.
• Wiseman, K., H. W. Greene, M. S. Koo, and D. J. Long. Feeding ecology of a generalist predator, the California kingsnake (Lampropeltis californiae): Why rare prey matter. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 14:1-30.
• Greene, H. W. Existential natural history: Artist-ornithologist survived possible bite from Black Mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis, Elapidae) at remote African field site, died in New York car-train wreck. Herpetological Review 50:315-319.

2018

• Alencar, L. R. V., M. Martins, and H. W. Greene. Evolutionary history of vipers. Pp. 1-10 in eLS. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester. DOI:10.1002/9780470015902.a0027455
• Reiserer, R. S., G. W. Schuett, and H. W. Greene. Seed ingestion and germination in rattlesnakes—overlooked agents of rescue and secondary dispersal. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285:20172755 [5 pp].
• Greene, H. W. Re-wilding the lifeboats. Pp. 360-369 in B. A. Minteer, J. Maeienschein, and J. P. Collins (eds.), The ark and beyond: The evolution of zoo and aquarium conservation. University of Chicago Press.

2017

• Barnosky, A. D., E. A. Hadly, P. Gonzalez, D. Ackerly, K. Alex, E. Biber, J. Blois, J. Brashares, G. Ceballos, E. Davis, G. Dietl, R. Dirzo, H. Doremus, J. Eronen, M. Fortelius, , H. W. Greene, J. Head, J. Hellmann, T. Hickler, S. Jackson, M. Kemp, P. Koch, C. Kremen, M. Lawing, E. Lindsey, C. Looy, C. Marshall, C. Mendenhall, A. Mulch, A. Mychaljliw, C. Nowak, P. D. Polly, U. Ramakrishnan, J. Schnitzler, K. Das Shrestha, K. Solari, L. Stegner, M. A. Stegner, N. C. Stenseth, M. H. Wake, and Z. Zhang. Merging paleontology with conservation biology to guide the future of terrestrial ecosystems. Science 355:594 (expanded version at http://dx.doi.org./10.1126/science.aah4787).
• Ballen, C. J., and H. W. Greene. Walking and talking the tree of life: Why and how to teach about biodiversity. PLoS Biology 15(3): e2001630 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2001630.
• Fleischner, T. L., R. Espinoza, G. Gerrish, H. W. Greene, R. W. Kimmerer, E. Lacey, S. Pace, J. Parrish, H. Swain, S. Trombulak, S. Weisberg, D. W. Winkler, and L. Zander. Teaching biology in the field: justification, obstacles, and solutions. BioScience 67:558-567.
• Robertson, J. M., and H. W. Greene. Bright color patterns as social signals in nocturnal frogs. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 121:849-857.
• Greene, H. W. Evolutionary scenarios and primate natural history. American Naturalist 190 (suppl.):S69-86.

2016

• Maritz, B, J. Penner, M. Martins, J. Crnobrnja-Isailović, S. Spear, L. R. V. Alencar, J. Sigala-Rodriguez, K. Messenger, R. W. Clark, P. Soorae, L. Luiselli, C. Jenkins, and H. W. Greene. Identifying global priorities for the conservation of vipers. Biological Conservation 204:94-102.
• Schuett, G. W., R. W. Clark, R. A. Repp, M. Amarello, and H. W. Greene. Social behavior in rattlesnakes: a shifting paradigm. Pp. 177-258 in G. W. Schuett, M. J. Feldner, C. F. Smith, and R. S. Reiserer (Eds.), Rattlesnakes of Arizona, vol. 2. Eco Press, Rodeo, NM.
• Nowak, E. M., and H. W. Greene. Rattlesnake conservation in the 21st Century. Pp. 407-452 in G. W. Schuett, M. J. Feldner, C. F. Smith, and R. S. Reiserer (Eds.), Rattlesnakes of Arizona, vol. 2. Eco Press, Rodeo, NM.

2015

• Gardner, C. J., P. Radolalaina, M. Rajerison, and H. W. Greene. Cooperative rescue and predator fatality involving a group-living strepsirrhine, Coquerel’s sifaka (Propithecus coquereli) and a Madagascan ground boa (Acrantophis madagascariensis). Primates 56:127-129.
• Greene, H. W. Pleistocene rewilding and the future of biodiversity. Pp. 105-113 in B. A. Minteer and S. J. Pyne (eds.), After preservation: saving American nature in the age of humans. University of Chicago Press.

2012

• Fenwick, A. M., H. W. Greene, and C. L. Parkinson. The serpent and the egg: unidirectional evolution of reproductive mode in vipers? Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolution Research 50:59-66.
• Clark, R. W., W. S. Brown, R. Stechert, and H. W. Greene. Cryptic sociality in rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus) detected by kinship analysis. Biology Letters 8:523-525.

2011

• Donlan, C. J., and H. W. Greene. Paul S. Martin (1928-2010): Luminary, natural historian, and innovator. PLoS Biology 9(2):e1001016.
• Huang, W-S., H. W. Greene, T-J. Chang, and R. Shine. Territorial behavior in Taiwanese kukrisnakes (Oligodon formosanus). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108:7455-7459.
• Headland, T. N., and H. W. Greene. Hunter-gatherers and other primates as prey, predators, and competitors of snakes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108:20865-20866, E1470-1474.

2009

• Sigala-Rodríguez, J. J., and H. W. Greene. Landscape change and conservation priorities: Mexican herpetofaunal perspectives at local and regional scales. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 80:231-240.

2008

• Gartner, G., and H. W. Greene. Adaptation in the African egg-eating snake: a comparative approach to a classic study in evolutionary functional morphology. Journal of Zoology (London) 275:368-374.

2006

• Greene, H. W., J. J. Sigala-Rodríguez, and B. J. Powell. Parental care in anguid lizards. South American Journal of Herpetology 1:9-19.
• Donlan, C. J., J. Berger, C. E. Bock, J. H. Bock, D. A. Burney, J. A. Estes, D. Foreman, P. S. Martin, G. W. Roemer, F. A. Smith, M. E. Soulé, and H. W. Greene. Pleistocene rewilding: an optimistic agenda for 21st century conservation. American Naturalist 168:660-681.

2005

• Greene, H. W. Organisms in nature as a central focus for biology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20:23-27.
• Greene, H. W., and R. W. McDiarmid. Wallace and Savage: heroes, theories, and venomous snake mimicry. Pp. 190-208 in M. A. Donnelly, B. I. Crother, C. E. Guyer, M. H. Wake, and M. E. White (eds.), Ecology and Evolution in the Tropics: a Herpetological Perspective. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.
• Greene, H. W. Historical influences on community ecology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 102:8395-8396.
• Donlan, C. J., H. W. Greene, J. Berger, C. E. Bock, J. H. Bock, D. A. Burney, J. A. Estes, D. Foreman, P. S. Martin, G. W. Roemer, F. A. Smith, and M. E. Soulé. Re-wilding North America. Nature 436:913-914.
• Schuett, G. W., D. L. Hardy Sr., H. W. Greene, R. L. Earley, M. S. Grober, E. A. Van Kirk, and W. J. Murdoch. 2005i. Sympatric rattlesnakes with contrasting mating systems show differences in seasonal patterns of plasma sex steroids. Animal Behaviour 70:257-266.
• Schuett, G. W., D. L. Hardy Sr., R. L. Earley, and H. W. Greene. 2005j. Does prey size induce head skeleton phenotypic plasticity during early ontogeny in the snake Boa constrictor? Journal of Zoology (London) 267:363-369.

2003

• Greene, H. W. and J. A. Rodríguez-Robles. Feeding ecology of the California Mountain Kingsnake, Lampropeltis zonata (Colubridae). Copeia 2003:308-314.
• Greene, H. W. Appreciating rattlesnakes. Wild Earth 13(2/3):28-32.

2002

• Schuett, G. W., M. Höggren, M. E. Douglas, and H. W. Greene (eds.). Biology of the Vipers. Eagle Mountain Publ., Eagle Mountain, UT.

2001

• Greene, H. W. Improved taxonomy for us and the other fishes. Nature 411:738.