ABSTRACT
Editor’s Note: Since the previous edition of this book was printed in 2000, there has been relatively little information published regarding the effects of nonorganochlorine (non-OC) pesticides on reptiles. The authors and editors felt that due to the paucity of recently published data on the effects of pesticides on reptiles, the completion of an entirely new chapter, which would contain sufficiently novel information to represent a new peer-reviewed publication, would not be possible. Therefore, the following chapter is a near verbatim reprint of the text of a chapter with the same title included in the first edition of the present book (Pauli and Money 2000), with 1 difference: more recent studies are inserted in the appropriate sections of the present chapter. In total there were only 23 new, open-literature publications added for this updated version of the original chapter. The chapter now reviews the literature describing the effects of non-OC pesticides on reptiles up to and including studies published through early 2010. Following the format of the original chapter, information is included on pyrethroid, organophosphate, and carbamate pesticides, and piscicides, herbicides, and fungicides, with descriptions of sublethal, lethal, and potential population level effects. It should be noted that the more recent literature has shifted in focus to examining the effects of pesticides on reptiles in the laboratory and in the field rather than simply reporting residues, as was the case prior to 2000; some of these studies are discussed elsewhere in this volume. The original chapter (Pauli and Money 2000) included extensive appendices listing pesticide residue measurements in reptiles. More than 90% of that data, however, dealt with chlorinated pesticides such as DDT, mirex, toxaphene, etc. We have not included these older studies in the present chapter.
