Community structure and differential responses of aquatic turtles to agriculturally induced habitat fragmentation

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1361-1375

  Rizkalla, Carol E ^a   Swihart, Robert K ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Common snapping turtle; Eastern spiny softshell; Fragmentation; Midland painted turtle; Nestedness; Northern map turtle; Occupancy; Red eared slider

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TURTLE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WABASH RIVER;

AMPHIBIA; APALONE SPINIFERA; APALONE SPINIFERA SPINIFERA; CHELYDRA; CHELYDRA SERPENTINA SERPENTINA; CHELYDRIDAE; CHRYSEMYS; CHRYSEMYS PICTA MARGINATA; EMYDOIDEA BLANDINGII; GRAPTEMYS; GRAPTEMYS GEOGRAPHICA; GRAPTEMYS PSEUDOGEOGRAPHICA; GRAPTEMYS PSEUDOGEOGRAPHICA PSEUDOGEOGRAPHICA; STERNOTHERUS ODORATUS; TESTUDINES; TRACHEMYS SCRIPTA ELEGANS;

EID: 33749330356     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-006-0019-6     Document Type: Article

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