Ecosystems continue to experience degradation worldwide, with diminishing ecosystem
services presenting unfavourable outlooks for all aspects of human wellbeing including …

Coastal habitats are some of the most imperiled due to climate change and anthropogenic
activities. As such, it is important to understand population dynamics of the species that may …

E very organism is defined by a set of vital rates that evolve to en-hance lifetime reproductive
success and survival of individuals and their progeny. These rates vary due to the complex …

Natural disturbances are an important driver of population dynamics. Because it is difficult to
observe wildlife during these events, our understanding of the strategies that species use to …

Management decisions for species are often based on estimates of abundance, which can
be difficult to obtain for species that are a challenge to survey, as are some reptiles …

Degradative alteration of ecological systems worldwide is progressing at a time when their
influence on human wellbeing is becoming more evident. For some ecosystems and aspects …

The Diamond-backed Terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) inhabits coastal islands along the Gulf
coast of Florida (sometimes in numbers> 100), but factors associated with terrapin …

Diamondback terrapins (Malaclemys terrapin) are an exclusively brackish water turtle found
along the east coast of the United States. Very little is known about the Florida east coast …

The diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin; hereafter terrapin) occurs in coastal
habitats from Massachusetts to Texas. Terrapins inhabit coastal islands along the Gulf coast …