One of the most important hotspots of herpetological biodiversity in the United States, California is home to many endemic amphibians and reptiles found nowhere else on earth …
JH Roe, A Georges - Biological Conservation, 2007 - Elsevier
While the importance of nearby terrestrial habitats is gaining recognition in contemporary wetland management strategies, it is rarely recognized that different wetlands are often …
CJ Butler, BD Stanila, JB Iverson… - Ecology and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Chelonians are expected to be negatively impacted by climate change due to limited vagility and temperature‐dependent sex determination. However, few studies have examined how …
A variety of means, including forelimb proportions and shell bone histology have been used to infer the paleoecology of extinct turtles. However, the height-to-width ratio of the shell (as …
We quantified movements, spacing, and activity of Sonoran Mud Turtles (Kinosternon sonoriense) in interrupted mountain streams of southern Arizona over an 18-year period …
A Pérez‐Pérez, AE López‐Moreno… - Ecology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We describe the home range and movements of a population of Kinosternon integrum in Tonatico, Estado de México, México, over 3.5 years (during rainy and dry season months) …
LA Harden, SJ Price, ME Dorcas - Copeia, 2009 - meridian.allenpress.com
In urbanized landscapes, golf course ponds may provide the only remaining habitat for semi- aquatic animals. Eastern Mud Turtles (Kinosternon subrubrum), which rely heavily on both …
MT Jones, PR Sievert - The Canadian Field-Naturalist, 2009 - canadianfieldnaturalist.ca
The homing ability of non-marine turtles has been studied in a variety of taxa, and many species appear to be capable of short-range homing on the scale of several hundred meters …
Drought is an ecological challenge for turtle species worldwide and can be exacerbated by habitat fragmentation and loss, especially for small populations. We studied the activity of 16 …