Research Links
Links to reports, results, and updates arising from Eastern Box Turtle Conservation Trust field research:
Links to reports, results, and updates arising from Eastern Box Turtle Conservation Trust field research:
Photo-dependent localized color development in the eastern box turtle carapace
We thank Mark Miller and the Philadelphia Herpetological Society for the above posting.
Pioneering Box Turtle Conservation Strategies at McKeever, Critical Background Issues
The following four articles appeared in the "Box Turtle Research and Conservation Newsletter" (BTRCN)
Just click on their titles to go directly to the article. Many thanks to Mark Miller and the Philadelphia Herp Society for their help in getting this fourth pdf on-line. We couldn't have done it without you!
Some Box Turtle Conservation Issues BTRCN, 1996, 4: 13-14
Survival among translocated eastern box turtles BTRCN, 1999, 8: 7
Sexual proclivity among translocated male T. c. carolina BTRCN, 1999, 8: 8
Home Range Establishment byTranslocated Eastern Box Turtles BTRCN, 1999, 8:3-7 and 19-22
The following articles appeared in the "Turtle and Tortoise Newsletter" (TTN)
-----The first two articles below appeared in older issues of TTN (Nos. 1-8).
Just click on their titles to go directly to the article.
A Nine Year Study of Eastern Box Turtle Courtship with Implications for Reproductive Success and Conservation in a Translocated Population
Putative Chipmunk Predation of Juvenile Eastern Box Turtles
-----The next five articles below appear in more current issues of TTN (Nos. 9 and up).
These issues of TTN are available with a subscription from Allen Press. If you hold a subscription you can link to these articles on the Chelonian Research Foundation website. To obtain a subscription you can click on this link to Allen Press .
" A Natural History of Ranavirus in an Eastern Box Turtle Population"
Turtle and Tortoise Newsletter, 2011, 15:18-25
"A Transmitter Attachment Method for Terrestrial Turtles, Designed to Protect the Radio Module from Mammalian Chewing"
Turtle and Tortoise Newsletter, 2009, 14:18-21
"How Do Male Box Turtles Find Mates?"
Turtle and Tortoise Newsletter, 2009, 13:11-21
Turtle and Tortoise Newsletter, 2009, 13:11-21
"Soil Temperature and Nest Site Selection by the Eastern Box Turtle, Terrapene carolina carolina"
Turtle and Tortoise Newsletter, 2007, 10:10-13
Turtle and Tortoise Newsletter, 2007, 10:10-13
"Variable Production of Annual Growth Rings by Juvenile Chelonians"
Turtle and Tortoise Newsletter, 2007, 11:10-13
Turtle and Tortoise Newsletter, 2007, 11:10-13
Update on Box Turtle Conservation Research at McKeever, as published in Hemlock Pathways summer issue 2009
Comments by Dr W. Belzer commending a ban of box turtle collecting;
Presented at the PA-FBC Herp Advisory Committee meeting of 5/15/00
The Box Turtle: Room with a View on Species Decline
Update on Box Turtle Conservation Research at McKeever, as published in Hemlock Pathways summer issue 2009
Comments by Dr W. Belzer commending a ban of box turtle collecting;
Long term movement histories for headstarted juvenile, and translocated adult and juvenile Eastern Box Turtles in NW Pennsylvania sanctuaries.
Third Box Turtle Conservation Workshop, November 9-10, 2007, London Town Public House and Gardens, Edgewater, Maryland, USA
Field observations of North America’s eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina)
Other turtle articles of interest:
Endangered Box Turtles
by Kenneth Friedman, 5-5-2000
Other turtle web sites of interest:
Chelonian Research Foundation
Turtle and Tortoise Newsletter
The New York Turtle and Tortoise Society
University of Florida, College of Veterinary Medicine Research
Krieger Publishing Company
------( for a great list of available herpetology books. )