Home Range and Habitat Use of Florida Box Turtles (Terrapene bauri) in the Ten Thousand Islands, Florida

Demetrio, Christina; Willey, Lisabeth L.; Jones, Michael T.; Danaher, Mark; Franklin, Jared

doi:10.1670/20-071

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“…We calculated Kernel density estimations using three methods to determine “h”. The first is the default “href” estimate (Khref), the second is the Least Squared Cross Validation method (lscv; Klscv), and the third is a distance method that uses the average distances between relocations to define “h” (Kdistance; [ 32 , 33 ]). We also calculated the home range overlap of the Kernel density estimate to quantify the amount of space species share.…”

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Home range of three turtle species in Central Yucatan. A comparative study

Enríquez-Mercado,

Butterfield,

Aguilar-Romero

et al. 2024

BMC Ecol Evo

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Home range is a fundamental characteristic of an animal natural history. The study of home range provides information on the sites where organisms forage for food, find shelter, or locate mates. Home range size and shape can change throughout the lifespan of an organism, during the year, or across seasons, driven by resource availability and the basic needs for each organism. For freshwater and semi-aquatic turtles, home range is greatly affected by water availability, humidity, and temperature throughout the year, nevertheless demographic factors such age and sex are also important determinants of home range size. In this study we estimated home range and dispersal movements for Kinosternon creaseri, Terrapene yucatana, and Rhinoclemmys areolata in a semi-tropical dry forest in central Yucatán. For a two-year period, turtles were surveyed using hoop traps and visual encounters. Twenty-one individuals (5–8 per species) were equipped with radio transmitters to track them across the landscape. Distances between relocations and home range were compared across species seasons, sex, and interactions of these variables. Monthly average movements were positively correlated with rain in the three species studied. Home range of R. areolata was larger than those of K. creaseri and T. yucatana. Home range of the three studied species were larger during the wet season. Home range overlap index within same species individuals was higher during the rainy than dry season, but overall overlap is low between and within species.

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confidence: 99%