Nesting and Recruitment of a Turtle

This dataset follows painted turtles (Chrysemys picta) and records the nesting behavior and depredation.

Dataset Location: Ecological Archives

Site Location: Island in the Mississippi River; South Potter's Marsh, Thomson Causeway, Thomson, Illinois (41o 57' N, 90o 07' W)

Sites Georefferenced: No

Timespan: 1989 - 2006

Sampling Frequency: Hourly from mid-May to July

Methods: During an hourly monitoring period, between sunrise and sunset, all observed nests were recorded. Location of the nest was trangulated using local landmarks. Vegitation cover was measured using a spherical densiometer. A subset of nests were excavated to count eggs.

Data Collected: nesting phenology, vegetation cover, nesting event count, clutch size, depredation, hatching survival

Citation: Lisa E. Schwanz, Rachel M. Bowden, Ricky-John Spencer, and Fredric J. Janzen. 2009. Nesting ecology and offspring recruitment in a long-lived turtle. Ecology 90:1709.

Available on EcoData Retriever: No