Turtles and tortoises (chelonians) have been integral components of global ecosystems for
about 220 million years and have played important roles in human culture for at least …

While urbanization is often associated to a loss of biodiversity, non-native animal species
are strikingly successful in urban landscapes. As biological invasions are recognized to …

Citizen science has become a popular way to collect biodiversity data and engage the wider
public in scientific research. It has the potential to improve the knowledge and skills of …

In the absence of systematic research institutions and local or long-term resident
systematists added by Buddhist culture that discourages lethal sampling of animals …

The Australian freshwater turtle fauna is dominated by species in the family Chelidae. The
extant fauna comprises a series of distinct lineages, each of considerable antiquity, relicts of …

Aim Roads impact wildlife in different ways, among which road mortality has been the most
studied. Budgets in conservation biology are usually small, and macroecological …

Globally, turtles are among the most threatened vertebrate taxa, with over 60% of all species
being listed as endangered, threatened, or vulnerable (Turtle Conservation Coalition 2011) …

The abilities of freshwater turtles to control their body temperatures by behavioural means
have implications for activity, food ingestion and digestion, growth, reproduction and …

Urbanization is one of the most influential land use changes globally and continues to affect
wetland ecosystems and their biota. Freshwater turtles, which rely on both terrestrial and …

A challenge to understanding the impacts of roads on koalas is that their effects operate
across multiple scales. To determine what conditions underlie koala roadkill, we looked at …