Population Structure of the Spiny Softshell Turtle (Apalone spinifera) in Five Montana Rivers

Ostovar, Kayhan; Wolff, Gabriel; Dockery, David; Hoensch, Ulrich; Ruggles, Mike P.; Massey, Andrhea; Robinett, Reece; Radonski, Earl

doi:10.2744/ccb-1466.1

Chelonian Conservation and Biology

2021

DOI: 10.2744/ccb-1466.1

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Population Structure of the Spiny Softshell Turtle (Apalone spinifera) in Five Montana Rivers

Kayhan Ostovar

Gabriel Wolff

David Dockery³

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“…Environmental and anthropogenic effects on aquatic turtles are often inferred from hoop trap surveys (Hollender and Ligon 2021, Mota et al 2021, Ostovar et al 2021). Using this monitoring method, counts of turtles across survey sites and through time are standardized to a measure of catch per unit effort (CPUE) using trapping effort, which is the product of the number of traps deployed and the number of nights they are set (trap‐nights).…”

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Detection, occupancy, and abundance of the alligator snapping turtle in Texas

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The alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys temminckii) is a long‐lived species that is widely distributed across the southeastern United States. Both these characteristics make monitoring its occupancy and abundance particularly challenging. In 2020 and 2021, we conducted hoop trap surveys at 51 permanent water bodies across the Texas, USA, range of the species to estimate occupancy and average abundance with site occupancy models and multinomial N‐mixture models, respectively. We confirmed the species to be present at 61% of surveyed locations. Mean detection probability was 0.77, and was influenced methodologically by the spacing of traps, and environmentally by lunar phase and water flow velocity. Mean occupancy probability was 0.82, and mean estimated abundance was 7.57 turtles/site. Our data provided evidence that the species has a higher occurrence probability in waters of highly forested catchments, and is most probable to occur in highest abundances at median latitudes within its Texas range. Despite known microhabitat preferences of the species, instream habitat characteristics (e.g., canopy coverage, depth, sinuosity) did not strongly influence its occupancy or abundance. Spatial dynamics of the occupancy and abundance of the species in Texas are influenced by landscape features more than local habitat. These results further corroborate the importance of watershed land cover to aquatic organisms, and our methods provide a standardized template for monitoring and quantifying important demographic parameters of the species across multiple locations while accounting for imperfect detection.

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Population Structure of the Spiny Softshell Turtle (Apalone spinifera) in Five Montana Rivers

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Detection, occupancy, and abundance of the alligator snapping turtle in Texas

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