Road avoidance and its energetic consequences for reptiles
Roads are one of the most widespread human‐caused habitat modifications that can increase wildlife mortality rates and alter behavior. Roads can act as barriers with variable permeability to movement and can increase distances wildlife travel to access habitats. Movement is
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The true cost of partial fencing: evaluating strategies to reduce reptile road mortality
One of the deadliest roads in North America for species at risk fragments a marsh-lakeecosystem. To reduce road mortality, stakeholders installed >5 km of exclusion fencing along a southwestern Ontario, Canada, causeway in 2008–2009. Between 2012 and 2014, 7 culverts were
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Thermal characteristics of overwintering habitat for the Blanding’s turtle (Emydoidea blandingii) across three study areas in Ontario, Canada
Habitat restoration is a necessary strategy to protect populations of Blanding’s Turtles (Emydoidea blandingii) living in settled areas. Relatively little is known about thermal tolerances and requirements of this species in situ during the overwintering period, except that
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Use of GPS loggers to enhance radio-tracking studies of semi-aquatic freshwater turtles
Ecologists have spent many hours manually tracking the movements of animals in their habitat to determine their home range, and to ascertain their use of critical habitat and wildlife corridors. This is costly, logistically burdensome, and can disturb the animal from its natural
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Relationship of road density and marsh condition to turtle assemblage characteristics in the Laurentian Great Lakes
Human-induced degradation of coastal wetlands often leads to altered trophic dynamics and species assemblages. Here we use data from 77 coastal marshes in three Laurentian Great Lakes collected between 2001 and 2007 to examine the relationship between human disturbance (road
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