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CANADIAN FIELD-NATURALIST
Volume 122, Issue 1, Pages 61-64Publisher
OTTAWA FIELD-NATURALISTS CLUB
DOI: 10.22621/cfn.v122i1.545
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Blanding's Turtle; Emydoidea blandingii; life range; home range; Wisconsin
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Most studies of home ranges occur over short time periods and may not represent the spacial requirements of long-lived organisms such as turtles. Home ranges of 18 individual Blanding's Turtles (Emydoidea blandingii) were measured using minimum convex polygons. Annual space use was compared to multi-year space use by individual turtles. We found a significant difference between annual home range size (25 5 hectares) and multi-year (two to six years) home range size (65 7 hectares n = 18, P = 0.016). Caution should be employed when making management decisions based on short-term studies of long lived species.
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