This study uses the American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) to assess the use of reproductive allometry as a tool to infer crocodilian population marginality based on conformation to advantageous life-history strategies. It is hypothesized that reproductive allometry, a morphometric relationship between mother's size and her reproductive output, varies intraspecifically between populations and that this variation reflects population marginality based on size, stress, temporal exploitation, habitat fragmentation, and/or the presence of social hierarchy. This hypothesis is tested using relative comparisons of allometric correlation between a marginal population inundated with saline storm surge from Hurricane Ike in southeastern Texas and a hypothesized unstressed core population in southeastern Louisiana. Heterophil to lymphocyte ratios fail to falsify the hypothesis of a saline stressor. The number of significant morphometric correlations between various parameters, degree of correlation (R²), and slope of correlation between mother and her respective nest and clutch varied greatly between study sites. Reproductive allometry, as a measure of relative population marginality, may provide a cost effective way to prioritize management with local support for crocodilian taxa.