Decades of road mortality cause severe decline in a common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina) poplation from an urbanized wetland
Road networks threaten biodiversity and particularly herpetofauna, including common snapping turtles (Chelydra serpentina), which have an especially slow life history that prevents rapid recovery of populations subjected to road mortality. Cootes Drive is a 2.5-km 4-lane highway
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Assessment of critical habitat for common snapping turtles (Chelydra serpentina) in an urbanized coastal wetland
Critical habitats such as nesting areas and overwintering sites are specific areas used by organisms to carry out important lifefunctions. In many urbanized centers, critical habitats of at-risk species have often become degraded and/or fragmented becauseof human activities. Such
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