Study skins of neotropical shrews

Selected Publications:
Matson, J. O. and B. Blood. 1998. Morphological Variability and Species Limits in Two Species of Elephant Shrew (Elephantulus intufi and E. ruprestris) from Namibia. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde 63: 199-208.
Matson, J. O. and B. Blood. 1996. An Analysis of Variation in a Single population of Spring Hare (Rodentia, Pedetes capensis) from Botswana. J. African Zool. 110(6):403-411.
Matson, J. O. and D. P. Christian. 1996. Patterns of Variation in Cranial Size and Shape in Two Coexisting Gerbilline Rodents. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde 61: 295-303.
Matson, J. O. and Brad Blood. 1994. A Report on the Distribution of Small Mammals from Namibia. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde 59:289-298.
Matson, J. O. and R. H. Baker. 1986. Mammals of Zacatecas. Spec. Publ. Museum, Texas Tech Univ., no. 24:1-88.
Blood, B. R., J. O. Matson, and D. R. Patten. 1985. Multivariate Analysis of Allometry in a Single Population of Coyotes (Canis latrans Say). Australian Mamm. 8:221-231.
Pine, R. H., P. Dalby, and J. O. Matson. 1985. Ecology, Postnatal Development, Morphometrics, and Taxonomic Status of the Short-tailed Opossum, Monodelphis dimidiata, an Apparently Semelparous Annual Marsupial. Ann. Carnegie Mus. 54(6):195-231.

Papers Presented:
Matson, J. O. 2000.  Morphological Variability in the Verapaz Shrew (Sorex veraepacis) from Guatemala with Comments on Natural History. 81^st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists, University of New Hampshire.
Matson, J. O. and B. R. Blood. 1996. Patterns of morphologic variation in Aethomys namaquensis from Namibia. American Society of Mammalogists.
Matson, J. O. and B. R. Blood. Patterns of Morphologic Variation in Rhabdomys pumilio from Namibia. American Society of Mammalogists. (1995)
Matson, J. O. and B. R. Blood. A comparison of morphological variability in two species of elephant shrew (Elephantulus intufi and E. rupestris) from Namibia. American Society of Mammalogists. (1994)
Matson, J. O. and B. R. Blood. An analysis of variation in the spring hare (Pedetes capensis) from Botswana and Namibia. American Society of Mammalogists. (1993)