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Sarver, L., & Walton, E. M. , An analysis of box turtle injury and mortality facilitated by anthropogenic activity - abstract. Unpublished paper presented at Program and Abstracts of the Tenth Annual Symposium on the Conservation and Biology of Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles.
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| Resource type: Conference Paper BibTeX citation key: Sarver2012 View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Emydidae, Habitat - habitat, Nordamerika - North America, Schildkröten - turtles + tortoises, Terrapene carolina, Veterinärmedizin - veterinary medicine Creators: Sarver, Walton Collection: Program and Abstracts of the Tenth Annual Symposium on the Conservation and Biology of Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles |
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The Turtle Research and Rescue Lab at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville takes in injured turtles from the surrounding area as well as conducts visual searches and trapping in a specified research site north of campus. A total of 132 records for Eastern Box Turtles, Terrapene carolina carolina, were obtained from spring 2010 to winter 2011. The Carapace Mutilation Index (CMI) and a Plastron Mutilation Index (PMI) were utilized to quantify number and severity of injuries to each individual turtle. The average CMI value for all records was 0.20 and the average PMI value was 0.07, with humans being the main facilitator of higher CMI values. Significance was determined though statistical analysis of CMI, PMI, potential cause of injury, gender, and age. An overall analysis showed that human related causes of injury can be the most detrimental to a population; therefore, conservation management plans should focus on decreasing Box Turtle-human interactions, especially in terms of landscape maintenance and road crossings, and maintaining population numbers and demographics.
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