Swimming against the tide: Resilience of a riverine turtle to recurrent extreme environmental events

Biology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Jergenson, Abigail M ^a   Miller, David A W ^b   Neuman Lee, Lorin A ^c   Warner, Daniel A ^d   Janzen, Fredric J ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Chrysemys picta; Climate change; Floods; Population alteration; Turtles

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; EXTREME EVENT; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; FLOODING; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; NESTING BEHAVIOR; POPULATION GROWTH; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SURVIVAL; TOLERANCE; TURTLE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHRYSEMYS PICTA; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEMALE; FLOODING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION ALTERATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SEASON; TURTLE; UNITED STATES;

CHRYSEMYS PICTA; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODS; POPULATION ALTERATION; TURTLES;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEMALE; FLOODS; ILLINOIS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; TURTLES;

EID: 84897974055     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0782     Document Type: Article

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