Home Range and Seasonal Activity of Southern Spotted Turtles (Clemmys guttata): Implications for Management

JD Litzgus, TA Mousseau - Copeia, 2004‏ - meridian.allenpress.com
Abstract Information about animal movement patterns is critical to understanding their
ecology, and such information is essential to the design of conservation plans for threatened …

Home is where the shell is: predicting turtle home range sizes

A Slavenko, Y Itescu, F Ihlow… - Journal of Animal …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Home range is the area traversed by an animal in its normal activities. The size of home
ranges is thought to be tightly linked to body size, through size effect on metabolic …

Spatial ecology and seasonal activity of Blanding's turtles (Emydoidea blandingii) in Ontario, Canada

CS Millar, G Blouin-Demers - Journal of Herpetology, 2011‏ - BioOne
Understanding the spatial ecology of species at risk is essential for conservation because
this information forms the base from which management and recovery plans are delineated …

Sound Communication and Social Behavior in an Amazonian River Turtle (Podocnemis expansa)

CR Ferrara, RC Vogt, RS Sousa-Lima… - …, 2014‏ - meridian.allenpress.com
The social behavior of turtles during the nesting season can be attributed to a series of
functions such as reducing predation, increasing hatchling survivorship, and information …

Seasonal, environmental and anthropogenic influences on nocturnal basking in turtles and crocodiles from North‐Eastern Australia

EJ Nordberg, DT McKnight - Austral Ecology, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Many ectotherms bask in the sun as a behavioural mechanism to increase body temperature
and facilitate metabolism, digestion or gamete production, among other functions. Such …

Terrestrial activity, movements and spatial ecology of an Australian freshwater turtle, Chelodina longicollis, in a temporally dynamic wetland system

JH Roe, A Georges - Austral Ecology, 2008‏ - Wiley Online Library
Animal movements, use of space, activity patterns and habitat use are in part determined by
proximal factors such as the landscapes they occupy, seasonal or environmental cues and …

Movements of translocated and resident three-toed box turtles

CD Rittenhouse, JJ Millspaugh, MW Hubbard… - Journal of …, 2007‏ - BioOne
Translocation of terrestrial turtles occurs to mitigate habitat loss, increase population size or
genetic diversity, and to establish new populations. The success of many translocation …

Movements, Activity, and Spacing of Sonoran Mud Turtles (Kinosternon Sonoriense) in Interrupted Mountain Streams

DH Hall, RJ Steidl - Copeia, 2007‏ - meridian.allenpress.com
We quantified movements, spacing, and activity of Sonoran Mud Turtles (Kinosternon
sonoriense) in interrupted mountain streams of southern Arizona over an 18-year period …

Determinants of reproductive success and offspring sex in a turtle with environmental sex determination

JS Doody, A Georges, JE Young - Biological Journal of the …, 2004‏ - academic.oup.com
Despite the importance of maternal effects in evolution, and knowledge of links among nest
site choice, timing of nesting, offspring sex, and reproductive success in animals with …

First Evidence of the Pig-nosed Turtle (Carettochelys insculpta) Vocalizing Underwater

CR Ferrara, RC Vogt, CC Eisemberg, JS Doody - Copeia, 2017‏ - meridian.allenpress.com
Recent research has demonstrated that some freshwater turtles vocalize underwater, but the
taxonomic breadth of this mode of communication in freshwater turtles is unknown …