Prioritizing nationally endemic species for conservation

D Kraus, A Enns, A Hebb, S Murphy… - … Science and Practice, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Over 90% of recent human‐caused extinctions are wild species known from only one nation.
These nationally endemic species represent one of the greatest global conservation …

Habitat selection by Blanding's turtles (Emydoidea blandingii) in a relatively pristine landscape

CB Edge, BD Steinberg, RJ Brooks, JD Litzgus - Ecoscience, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Identifying habitats in which a species is likely to be found is extremely important for
understanding the life history and general ecology of the species. Studies of habitat …

The effects of road mortality on small, isolated turtle populations

HJ Howell, RA Seigel - Journal of Herpetology, 2019 - meridian.allenpress.com
Roads impact wildlife in a variety of direct and indirect ways. Roads may act as barriers to
dispersal, lead to decreasing population size and genetic diversity, change animal behavior …

Conflicting Mitochondrial and Nuclear Phylogenies for the Widely Disjunct Emys (Testudines: Emydidae) Species Complex, and What They Tell Us about …

PQ Spinks, HB Shaffer - Systematic biology, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Understanding the mechanisms by which widely disjunct members of a clade came to
occupy their current distribution is one of the fundamental challenges of biogeography …

Evaluating the significance of paleophylogeographic species distribution models in reconstructing Quaternary range-shifts of Nearctic chelonians

D Rödder, AM Lawing, M Flecks, F Ahmadzadeh… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The climatic cycles of the Quaternary, during which global mean annual temperatures have
regularly changed by 5–10° C, provide a special opportunity for studying the rate …

Effects of landscape composition on wetland occupancy by Blanding's Turtles (Emydoidea blandingii) as determined by environmental DNA and visual surveys

VK Fyson, G Blouin-Demers - Canadian Journal of Zoology, 2021 - cdnsciencepub.com
Habitat loss and degradation have led to the extinction of many species worldwide. The
endangered Blanding's Turtle (Emydoidea blandingii (Holbrook, 1838)), a semi-aquatic …

Conservation genetics of Blanding's turtle and its application in the identification of evolutionarily significant units

SW Mockford, TB Herman, M Snyder, JM Wright - Conservation Genetics, 2007 - Springer
Blanding's turtle is a North American freshwater turtle whose main range occurs south of the
Great Lakes; disjunct populations occur east of the Appalachian Mountains from New York …

[HTML][HTML] PVA-based assessment of resiliency, redundancy, and representation in an imperiled freshwater turtle

RB King - Global Ecology and Conservation, 2023 - Elsevier
Conservation decisions benefit from projections about the future condition of a species as
generated using population viability analysis (PVA) or other analytical techniques. For listing …

Genetic structure, population dynamics, and conservation of black caiman (Melanosuchus niger)

B De Thoisy, T Hrbek, IP Farias, WR Vasconcelos… - Biological …, 2006 - Elsevier
Microsatellite DNA polymorphisms were screened in seven populations of the largest
Neotropical predator, the Black caiman Melanosuchus niger (n= 169), originating from …

Extremely low genetic diversity and weak population differentiation in the endangered Colombian river turtle Podocnemis lewyana (Testudines: Podocnemididae)

M Vargas-Ramírez, H Stuckas, OV Castano-Mora… - Conservation …, 2012 - Springer
Podocnemis lewyana is an endangered endemic river turtle of Colombia. Using ten unlinked
polymorphic microsatellite loci and a 691-bp-long DNA fragment corresponding to the more …