Early environments can profoundly influence an organism in ways that persist over its life. In
reptiles, early thermal environments (nest temperatures) can impact offspring phenotype and …

Sex-determining mechanisms in reptiles can be divided into two convenient classifications:
genotypic (GSD) and environmental (ESD). While a number of types of GSD have been …

Despite increasing concern over the possible impact of global temperature change, there is
little empirical evidence of direct temperature effects on biotic interactions in natural systems …

New data on the genders of young turtles from eggs incubated at controlled temperatures
demonstrate temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) in 17 species surveyed for the …

Among reptiles that show temperature‐dependent sex determination, sex ratios vary across
constant incubation temperatures in ways sufficiently predictable to allow classification into …

Road mortality has the potential to alter the structure of turtle populations because turtle
populations are highly sensitive to additive sources of adult mortality. To address the issue …

Biostatistics channels ecologists into thinking primarily about the mean and variance of a
probability distribution. But many problems of biological interest concern the extremes in a …

The nesting habitat of most freshwater turtle species has been described, but factors
influencing maternal nest site selection have rarely been tested experimentally. Offspring …

Mean daily temperature in natural nests of freshwater turtles with temperature dependent
sex determination is a poor predictor of hatchling sex ratios when nest temperatures …

I monitored natural nests of an Illinois population of the western painted turtle (Chrysemys
picta bellii), a species with temperature—dependent sex determination, for 4 yr to investigate …