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Billy Olds: My two partners and I will be contributing information on the impacts of climate change on rat snakes in North America. With a changing climate and raising temperatures, rat snakes will be both positively and negatively affected. I will be focusing on how climate change has negatively impacted rat snake populations and behaviours in North America. Some of my ideas include how the early hibernation emergence and increase in predators may negatively impact rat snakes.

Bibliography:

Weatherhead, Patrick J.; Sperry, Jinelle H.; Carfagno, Gerardo L. F.; Blouin-Demers, Gabrielle (2012-07-01). "Latitudinal variation in thermal ecology of North American ratsnakes and its implications for the effect of climate warming on snakes". Journal of Thermal Biology. 37 (4): 273–281. doi:10.1016/j.jtherbio.2011.03.008. ISSN 0306-4565.

"Study shows global warming could enhance habitat for ratsnakes". Engineer Research and Development Center. Retrieved 2018-04-06.

DeGregorio, Brett A.; Westervelt, James D.; Weatherhead, Patrick J.; Sperry, Jinelle H. (2015-09-24). "Indirect effect of climate change: Shifts in ratsnake behavior alter intensity and timing of avian nest predation". Ecological Modelling. 312: 239–246. doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2015.05.031. ISSN 0304-3800.

Chameides, Bill (2013-01-17). "Climate Change and Ratsnakes". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-04-06.

Sperry, Jinelle; P. Ward, Michael; J. Weatherhead, Patrick (2013-03-01). "Effects of Temperature, Moon Phase, and Prey on Nocturnal Activity in Ratsnakes: An Automated Telemetry Study". Journal of Herpetology. 47: 105–111. doi:10.1670/11-325.