A review of the effects of climate change on chelonians

CJ Butler - Diversity, 2019 - mdpi.com
Climate change is occurring at an unprecedented rate and has begun to modify the
distribution and phenology of organisms worldwide. Chelonians are expected to be …

Individual heterozygosity predicts translocation success in threatened desert tortoises

PA Scott, LJ Allison, KJ Field, RC Averill-Murray… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Anthropogenic environmental modification is placing as many as 1 million species at risk of
extinction. One management action for reducing extinction risk is translocation of individuals …

[HTML][HTML] Rewilding in cold blood: restoring functionality in degraded ecosystems using herbivorous reptiles

G Stark, M Galetti - Global Ecology and Conservation, 2024 - Elsevier
Rewilding constitutes an ecological recovery approach that has been promoted to restore
vanished ecological functions by replacing recently extinct or extirpated species through the …

[PDF][PDF] Population trends in Mojave desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii)

LJ Allison, AM McLuckie - Herpetological Conservation and Biology, 2018 - fws.gov
Populations of the Mojave Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) experienced severe
declines in abundance in the decades leading up to 1990, when the species was listed as …

Long-term turtle declines: protected is a verb, not an outcome

HJ Howell, RH Legere Jr, DS Holland, RA Seigel - Copeia, 2019 - meridian.allenpress.com
Long-term studies on wildlife populations are necessary to track population abundance and
shifts in demography over time, yet such studies are difficult to plan, fund, and conduct and …

[HTML][HTML] Habitat suitability models for the imperiled wood turtle (Glyptemys insculpta) raise concerns for the species' persistence under future climate change

CC Mothes, HJ Howell, CA Searcy - Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020 - Elsevier
The use of ecological niche models to predict how future climate change may impact habitat
suitability is a critical component of imperiled species management. These models allow for …

Where has turtle ecology been, and where is it going?

JW Gibbons, JE Lovich - Herpetologica, 2019 - meridian.allenpress.com
Over 9000 articles have been published on turtles and tortoises (excluding sea turtles) since
1950 according to the Web of Science, including over 8000 contained in a personal …

Long‐term changes in abundances of Sonoran Desert lizards reveal complex responses to climatic variation

AD Flesch, PC Rosen, P Holm - Global Change Biology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how climatic variation affects animal populations and communities is
essential for addressing threats posed by climate change, especially in systems where …

Too dry for lizards: short‐term rainfall influence on lizard microhabitat use in an experimental rainfall manipulation within a piñon‐juniper

MJ Ryan, IM Latella, JT Giermakowski… - Functional …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Ectotherms such as lizards are expected to alter their behaviour and microhabitat use and
experience population declines in response to rising temperatures. But the role of changing …

Contemporary Drought and Future Effects of Climate Change on the Endangered Blunt-Nosed Leopard Lizard, Gambelia sila

MF Westphal, JAE Stewart, EN Tennant, HS Butterfield… - Plos One, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Extreme weather events can provide unique opportunities for testing models that predict the
effect of climate change. Droughts of increasing severity have been predicted under …