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Kramer, M. (1995). Home range of the florida red-bellied turtle (pseudemys nelsoni) in a florida spring run. Copeia, 1995, 883–890.
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| Resource type: Journal Article BibTeX citation key: Kramer1995 View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Emydidae, Habitat = habitat, Nordamerika = North America, Pseudemys, Pseudemys nelsoni, Pseudemys peninsularis, Schildkröten = turtles + tortoises Creators: Kramer Collection: Copeia |
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The home range of the Florida red-bellied turtle, Pseudemys nelsoni, in a Florida spring run is described using both maximum distance over water and Ford and Krumme's (1979) technique for producing a "composite" home range. Ford and Krumme's (1979) technique was also used to find the probabilities of capture/relocation within the composite home range. Spatial positions in the river were based on underwater captures/relocations and basking relocations. The results from both methods suggest that individuals at this study site use a small home range, on the order of 120 m in length, with no sex differences. These results are constrasted with those for P. floridana at the same site and with telemetry-generated data for P. nelsoni in a shallow lake in Paynes Prairie, Florida. Sympatric P. floridana appear to have larger home ranges, with a patchier distribution of nonzero capture/relocation probabilities. Estimates of the home-range areas of P. nelsoni in the lake are an order of magnitude larger than those in the run, perhaps due to more dispersed resources or the use of telemetry for relocating animals.
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