landscape Archives - The Orianne Society

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Faces of the Forest

Animating Landscape-level Movements by Wood Turtles

ByKiley Briggs
March 13, 2024

We attached GPS transmitters to 15 Wood Turtles as part of a project aimed at identifying opportunities to prevent them from crossing a busy highway. The solar powered GPS units allowed us to collect a lot of data from each turtle. See where they ventured to.

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Faces of the Forest

How Male and Female Wood Turtles Use the Landscape Differently

ByKiley Briggs
August 8, 2023

Male and female Wood Turtles often use the same landscapes very differently. Like many wildlife species, females primarily search for the food needed to produce young, while males focus on finding females.

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Science of Scales

New Published Research: Landscape Structure and Turtle Communities

ByHouston Chandler
August 2, 2023

This month, I take a look at a recently published paper that leverages the large dataset built over several field seasons to examine how landscape characteristics influence abundance in freshwater turtle communities.