Reproductive allometry in the common map turtle, Graptemys geographica

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 49-59

  Ryan, Kathleen M ^a,b   Lindeman, Peter V ^a  

^a EDINBORO UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Presque Isle State Park ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BODY SIZE; CLUTCH SIZE; EGG SIZE; NATURAL SELECTION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; TRADE-OFF; TURTLE;

ERIE COUNTY [PENNSYLVANIA]; NORTH AMERICA; PENNSYLVANIA; PRESQUE ISLE STATE PARK; UNITED STATES;

GRAPTEMYS GEOGRAPHICA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 34547759217     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(2007)158[49:RAITCM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. BLUEWEISS, L., H. FOX, V. KUDZMA, D. NAKASHIMA, R. PETERS AND S. SAMS. 1978. Relationships between body size and some life history parameters. Oecologica, 37:257-272.
2. BOSCH, H. A. J. IN DEN AND R. G. BOUT. 1998. Relationships between maternal size, egg size, clutch size, and hatchling size in European lacertid lizards. J. Herpetol., 32:410-417.
3. BROCKELMAN, W. Y. 1975. Competition, the fitness of offspring, and optimal clutch size. Am. Nat., 109:677-699.
4. CAGLE, F. R. 1939. A system for marking turtles for future identification. Copeia, 1939:170-173.
5. CLARK, P. J., M. A. EWERT AND C. E. NELSON. 2001. Physical apertures as constraints on egg size and shape in the common musk turtle, Sternotherus odoratus. Funct. Ecol., 15:70-77.
6. CONGDON, J. D. AND J. W. GIBBONS. 1983. Relationships of reproductive characteristics to body size in Pseudemys scripta. Herpetologica, 39:147-151.
7. _ AND _. 1985. Egg components and reproductive characteristics of turtles: relationships to body size. Herpetologica, 41:194-205.
8. _ AND _. 1987. Morphological constraints on egg size: a challenge to optimal egg size theory? Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 84:4145-4147.
9. _ AND J. L. GREENE. 1983. Parental investment in the chicken turtle (Deirochelys reticularia). Ecology, 64:419-425.
10. _ AND D. W. TINKLE. 1982. Reproductive energetics of the painted turtle (Chrysemys picta). Herpetologica, 38:228-237.
11. _ AND R. C VAN LOBEN SELS. 1991. Growth and body size in Blanding's turtles (Emydoidea blandingi): relationships to reproduction. Can. J. Zool., 69:239-245.
12. DA SILVA, E. 1995. Notes on clutch size and egg size of Mauremys leprosa from Spain. J. Herpetol., 29:484-485.
13. DEPARI, J. A. 1988. Overwintering in the nest chamber by hatchling painted turtles, Chrysemys picta, in northern New Jersey. Unpubl. Ph. D. Dissertation, Rutgers Univ., Newark, New Jersey.
14. DOBBS, K. A., J. D. MILLER, C. J. LIMPUS AND A. M. LANDRY, JR. 1999. Hawksbill turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, nesting at Milman Island, northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Chelonian Conserv. Biol., 3:344-361.
15. GIBBONS, J. W. AND J. L. GREENE. 1979. X-ray photography: a technique to determine reproductive patterns of freshwater turtles. Herpetologica, 35:86-89.
16. _ AND K. K. PATTERSON. 1982. Variation in reproductive characteristics of aquatic turtles. Copeia, 1982:776-784.
17. GRAHAM, T. E. AND P. J. PETOKAS. 1989. Correction for magnification when taking measurements directly from radiographs. Herpetol. Rev., 20:46-47.
18. IVERSON, J. B. 1991. Life history and demography of the yellow mud turtle, Kinosternon flavescens. Herpetologica, 47:373-395.
19. _. 1992. Correlates of reproductive output in turtles (order Testudines). Herpetol. Monogr., 6: 25-42.
20. _. 2002. Reproduction in female razorback musk turtles (Sternotherus carinatus. Kinosternidae). Southw. Nat., 47:215-224.
21. _, E. L. BARTHELMESS, G. R. SMITH AND C. E. DERIVERA. 1991. Growth and reproduction in the mud turtle Kinosternon hirtipes in Chihuahua, Mexico. J. Herpetol., 25:64-72.
22. _, H. HIGGINS, A. SIRULNIK AND C. GRIFFITHS. 1997. Local and geographic variation in the reproductive biology of the snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina). Herpetologica, 53:96-117.
23. _ AND G. R. SMITH. 1993. Reproductive ecology of the painted turtle (Chrysemys picta) in the Nebraska sandhills and across its range. Copeia, 1993:1-21.
24. JACKSON, D. R. 1988. Reproductive strategies of sympatric frewhwater emydid turtles in northern peninsular Florida. Bull. Fla. Mus. Biol. Sri., 33:113-158.
25. _ AND R. N. WALKER. 1997. Reproduction in the Suwannee cooter, Pseudemys concinna suwanniensis. Bull. Fla. Mus. Nat. Hist., 41:69-167.
26. JONES, R. L. 2006. Reproduction and nesting of the endangered ringed map turtle, Graptemys oculifera, in Mississippi. Chelonian Conserv. Biol., 5:195-209.
27. KENNETT, R. 1999. Reproduction of two species of freshwater turtle, Chelodina rugosa and Elseya dentata, from the wet-dry tropics of northern Australia. J. Zool. (London), 247:457-473.
28. KING, R. B. 2000. Analyzing the relationship between clutch size and female body size in reptiles. J. Herpetol., 34:148-150.
29. LANDERS, J. L., J. A. GARNER AND W. A. MCRAE. 1980. Reproduction of gopher tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus) in southwestern Georgia. Herpetologica, 36:353-361.
30. LINDEMAN, P. V. 2005. Aspects of the life history of the Texas map turtle (Graptemys versa). Am. Midl. Nat., 153:378-388.
31. LITZGUS, J. D. AND R. J. BROOKS. 1998. Reproduction in a northern population of Clemmys guttata. J. Herpetol., 32:252-259.
32. LOVICH, J. E. AND K. MEYER. 2002. The western pond turtle (Clemmys marmorata) in the Mojave River, California, USA: highly adapted survivor or tenuous relict? J. Zool. (London), 256:537-545.
33. MACCULLOCH, R. D. AND D. M. GORDON. 1978. A simple trap for basking turtles. Herpetol. Rev., 9:133.
34. _ AND W. F. WELLER. 1988. Some aspects of reproduction in a Lake Erie population of Blanding's turtle, Emydoidea blandingii. Can. J. Zool., 66:2317-2319.
35. MICHAUD, E. J. AND A. C. ECHTERNACHT. 1995. Geographic variation in the life history of the lizard Anolis carolinensis and support for the pelvic constraint model. J. Herpetol., 29:86-97.
36. MITCHELL, J. C. 1985a. Female reproductive cycle and life history attributes in a Virginia population of painted turtles, Chrysemys picta. J. Herpetol., 19:218-226.
37. _. 1985b. Female reproductive cycle and life history attributes in a Virginia population of stinkpot turtles, Sternotherus odoratus. Copeia, 1985:941-949.
38. NIEUWOLT-DACANAY, P. M. 1997. Reproduction in the western box turtle, Terrapene ornata luteola. Copeia, 1997:819-826.
39. ROOSENBURG, W. M. AND A. E. DUNHAM. 1997. Allocation of reproductive output: egg-and clutch-size variation in the diamondback terrapin. Copeia, 1997:290-297.
40. ROSENZWEIG, A. 2003. The reproductive ecology and life history of Graptemys ouachitensis (Testudines: Emydidae) in the Red River of Louisiana. Unpubl. M.S. Thesis, Univ. Louisiana, Monroe.
41. ROWE, J. W. 1994a. Reproductive variation and the egg size-clutch size trade-off within and among populations of painted turtles (Chrysemys picta bellii). Oecologia, 99:35-44.
42. _. 1994b. Egg size and shape variation within and among Nebraskan painted turtle (Chrysemys picta bellii) populations: Relationships to clutch and maternal body size. Copeia, 1994:1034-1040.
43. _, K. A. COVAL AND K. C. CAMPBELL. 2003. Reproductive characteristics of female midland painted turtles (Chrysemys picta marginata) from a population on Beaver Island, Michigan. Copeia, 2003:326-336.
44. SCHWARZKOPF, L. AND R. J. BROOKS. 1986. Annual variation in reproductive characteristics of painted turtles (Chrysemys picta). Can. J. Zool., 64:1148-1151.
45. SMITH, C. C. AND S. D. FRETWELL. 1974. The optimal balance between size and number of offspring. Am. Nat., 108:499-506.
46. TINKLE, D. W. 1961. Geographic variation in reproduction, size, sex ratio, and maturity of Sternotherus odoratus (Testudinata: Chelydridae). Ecology, 42:68-76.
47. _, J. D. CONGDON AND P. C. ROSEN. 1981. Nesting frequency and success: implications for the demography of painted turtles. Ecology, 62:1426-1432.
48. TUCKER, J. K., R. S. FUNK AND G. L. PAUKSTIS. 1978. The adaptive significance of egg morphology in two turtles (Chrysemys picta And Terrapene Carolina). Bull. Maryland Herpetol. Soc., 14:10-22.
49. _, F. J. JANZEN AND G. L. PAUKSTIS. 1998a. Variation in carapace morphology and reproduction in the red-eared slider Trachemys scripta elegans. J. Herpetol., 32:294-298.
50. _ AND G. L. PAUKSTIS. 1998b. Annual and local variation in reproduction in the red-eared slider, Trachemys scripta elegans. J. Herpetol., 32:515-526.
51. VALENZUKLA, N. 2001. Maternal effects on life-history traits in the Amazonian giant river turtle Podocnemis expansa. J. Herpetol., 35:368-378.
52. VAN LOBEN SELS, R. C., J. D. CONGDON AND J. T. AUSTIN. 1997. Life history and ecology of the Sonoran mud turtle (Kinosternon sonoriense) in southeastern Arizona: a preliminary report. Chelonian Conserv. Biol., 2:338-344.
53. VOGT, R. C. 1980a. New methods for trapping aquatic turtles. Copeia, 1980:368-371.
54. _. 1980b. Natural history of the map turtles Graptemys pseudogeographica and G. ouachitensis in Wisconsin. Tulane Stud. Zool. Bot., 22:17-48.
55. _. 1990. Reproductive parameters of Trachemys scripta venusta in southern Mexico. p. 162-168. In: J. W. Gibbons (ed.). Life history and ecology of the slider turtle. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C.
56. YNTEMA, C. L. 1970. Observations on females and eggs of the common snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina. Am. Midl. Nat., 84:69-76.