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CHELONIAN CONSERVATION AND BIOLOGY
Volume 12, Issue 2, Pages 313-319Publisher
ALLEN PRESS INC
DOI: 10.2744/CCB-1028.1
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- Consejeria Medio Ambiente-Junta de Andalucia
- European Union
- Grupo PAI Junta Andalucia RNM [128]
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We radiotracked individuals of the exotic aquatic turtle Trachemys scripta elegans and 2 coexisting species of native turtles (Mauremys leprosa and Emys orbicularis) in southern Spain. Aquatic home range areas differed among species only in winter, when T s. elegans moved in larger areas and showed shorter inactivity periods than the native turtles. Differences in these activity patterns may provide an advantage for individuals of the exotic species, which were already moving widely when native turtles started their posthibernation activity and would have been expected to be recolonizing their home ranges in depleted physical condition.
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