Quantifying demographic parameters of freshwater turtle populations at the local scale is
necessary in order to understand their natural history and assess their status. To examine …

Determining the demographic structure of turtles is important to understanding their
population status and conservation needs. Concern has been raised for the long-term …

Demographic information from geographically isolated conspecific populations is important
for understanding how a species is locally adapted, and can thus inform conservation …

Changes to population and community structure can have important ecological
consequences and raise conservation concerns when causes are anthropogenic; however …

Background Freshwater turtle populations are vulnerable to a range of human activities
because of particular life history attributes, and anthropogenic impacts can cause shifts in …

The Eastern Box Turtle, Terrapene carolina carolina, is a species of concern in Tennessee,
USA, due to population declines. These declines are primarily due to anthropogenic causes …

Since 2007 the Turtle Survival Alliance-North American Freshwater Turtle Research Group
(NAFTRG) has surveyed aquatic turtles in Volusia Blue Spring State Park, Orange City …

Despite great advances in the understanding of marine turtle biology over the past 60 yrs,
there is still a paucity of demographic data on the juvenile stage of their life history. These …

Life‐history traits such as age at maturity, body size and clutch size tend to vary across a
species' distribution. The purpose of our study was to describe the demography of a newly …

Urbanisation is causing rapid land-use change worldwide. Populations of freshwater turtles
are vulnerable to impacts of urbanisation such as habitat loss, fragmentation and …