Covering all facets of the biology of a little-known genus, Peter V. Lindeman's lavishly
illustrated Map Turtle and Sawback Atlas is both a scientific treatise and an engaging …

The Recovery Plan for the federally threatened Louisiana black bear (Ursus americanus
luteolus) mandates that remnant populations be estimated and monitored. In 1999 we …

The impact of fire and mechanical habitat destruction on a population of the tortoise Testudo
hermanni in northern Greece varied with vegetation type and season. A major fire in summer …

Recovery strategies for endangered species vary in scope and scale, and uncertainties
regarding their effectiveness make it necessary to implement evidence-based methods to …

Estimates of roosting habitat availability and population size using unbiased sampling
regimes are completely lacking for any bat species. The use of conspicuous and accessible …

Landscape‐scale alterations that accompany urbanization may negatively affect the
population structure of wildlife species such as freshwater turtles. Changes to nesting sites …

Context Understanding the effects that learned responses to being captured have on
subsequent recapture rates and associated abundance estimates is important for …

Molecular polymorphisms have been used in a variety of ways to estimate both effective and
local census population sizes in nature. A related approach for estimating the current size of …

Fundamental questions in ecology and conservation require reliable data about population
size and structure. For freshwater turtles, such data are often obtained via mark–recapture …

Podocnemis unifilis and P. expansa abundance was compared at 3 sites in eastern lowland
Bolivia in 2000. Two of the sites were adjacent to human communities while the third was …