2006 Annual Meeting

Posted on: Tuesday, December 18th, 2007


IUCN TSA and IUCN TFTSG 2006 Annual Meeting - abstracts

The following index lists the Meeting Minutes and abstracts from the 2006 meeting.

Complete Document - Download Here (283 KB pdf file)

Introduction - From the Program Chair
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Message from IUCN Turtle Survival Alliance Co-chairs
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Message from IUCN Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group Chair
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abstracts

  • Hatchling and head starting programme for endangered chelonians in the National Chambal Sanctuary, India. Implementation of recommendations from the Conservation Action Plan for India’s Freshwater Turtles
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  • The Ecology, Demography, Home Range and Microhabitat Utilization of the Alligator Snapping Turtle, Macrochelys temminckii in the Santa Fe River
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  • Tracking tortoises: a local community or radiotelemetry approach
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  • Population ecology of the Blanding’s turtle (Emydoidea blandingii) in northeastern Illinois
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  • Passive fishing techniques: A cause of captured turtle mortality in the Mississippi River
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  • Assessment of Paternity in Alligator Snapping Turtle (Macrochelys temminckii) Clutches
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  • Biotelemetry of alligator snapping turtles (Macrochelys temminckii) in northwestern Louisiana: Comparison of native and relocated movement
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  • A Comprehensive Podocnemis unifilis Recovery Program Implemented by the Cofán Community on the Rio Aguarico, Ecuador
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  • Synopsis of the North Carolina State College of Veterinary Medicine’s Turtle Rescue Team involvement with TSA confiscations
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  • Lessons from 30 years of observation at Bog Brook Unique Area
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  • Reproductive ecology of the smooth softshell turtle (Apalone mutica) in Louisiana
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  • Australian barbeque locations and what lives in the streams
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  • Do not take our Freshwater Turtles for Granted
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  • Captive Management and Reproduction of the Roti Island Turtle
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  • Sexual Size Dimorphism of the Tail in the Alligator Snapping Turtle, Macrochelys temminckii (Testudines: Chelydridae)
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  • Nesting Ecology of the Wood Turtle (Glyptemys insculpta) at Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area: Managing Agricultural Fields as Wood Turtle Nesting Areas
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  • Population Genetics of the Wood Turtle (Glyptemys insculpta) at Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area: Implications for Species Management
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  • Demography and Spatial Ecology of Wood Turtles (Glyptemys insculpta) at Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area: Identifying Conservation Priorities
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  • Demographics of age and aging in a long-lived vertebrates (i.e., turtles)
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  • Conservation of the Central American River Turtle, Dermatemys mawii, in Veracruz, Mexico
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  • Population demographics of the alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys temminckii): evidence for past overexploitation and present recovery
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  • Turtle Communities of Northeastern Illinois Marshes
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  • Cambodia: A case study for in-situ tortoise and freshwater turtle research and conservation
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  • The Asian Scholarship Program (ASP) experience, seven years influence on in-situ chelonian conservation
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  • Field notes on the critically endangered Dahl ’s toad-headed turtle (Batrachemys dahli) in Colombia
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  • Efficacy of turtle exclusion devices on passive fishing techniques in freshwater systems
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  • Population Structure of Alligator Snapping Turtles: Conservation Implications
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  • Does gender affect seasonal microhabitat selection by wood turtles (Glyptemys insculpta) in Butler County, Iowa?
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  • The Wood Turtle, Glyptemys insculpta, in Michigan: Burning the Candle at Both Ends?
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  • Turtle Racing, the American Turtle Crisis
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  • WCS Joint Program for Chelonian Conservation in Myanmar
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  • Why Do Some Turtles Take So Long to Hatch?
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  • Thermoregulation in alligator snapping turtles (Macrochelys temminckii): correlates of habitat use, sex, and reproduction
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  • Mobilizing the Conservation Action Plan for India’s Endangered Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises
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  • Investigation of an upper alimentary tract disorder in a group of captive Arakan forest turtles (Heosemys depressa)
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  • Conservation of Sulawesi’s Two Endemic Chelonians, Leucocephalon yuwonoi and Indotestudo forstenii; An Investigation into In-Situ and Ex-Situ Conservation Concerns
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  • Nesting ecology of the alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys temminckii) along the lower Apalachicola River, Florida, with special reference to hatchling sex-determination
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  • Asian Turtle Ethics: An Analysis of the Religious, Ethical, Cultural and Ecological Factors Influencing the Current Decline in Asian Turtle Populations
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  • Incidental take of alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys temminckii): field observations and potential impacts on populations
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  • Nature tourism economics drives meta-landscape scale conservation in southern Namibia: implications for a diverse tortoise fauna
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  • Observations on reproduction in a captive colony of Malayan box turtles, Cuora amboinensis
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  • Status of the Malayan box turtle TMG in the United States
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  • Preliminary Evaluation of Pre-release Site Acclimation for Repatriation of Three-toed Box Turtles, Terrapene carolina triunguis
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  • Wetland complexes and upland-wetland linkages: landscape effects on the distribution of rare and common wetland species
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  • An ecophysiological approach to design and management of river turtle captive breeding and head starting facilities in tropical countries
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  • How to assess sex ratios and how to avoid gender bias mistakes in recovery projects of critically endangered turtles
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  • Reproduction of captive ploughshare tortoises Geochelone yniphora at Ampijoroa, Madagascar: Ovulation is obligatorily induced by mating and copulation
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  • Developing a Biomaterials Action Plan for Turtles and Tortoises
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  • Cap Sainte Marie “at the end of the earth”: The Radiated Tortoise (Geochelone radiata) in Southwest Madagascar
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  • The Reintroduction of Geochelone yniphora
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  • Conservation implications of incubation temperature for alligator snapping turtles (Macrochelys temminckii)
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  • Elements of Captive Tortoise Nutrition
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  • Ecological Aspects of a Turtle Assemblage in the Tennessee River
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  • Seasonal Movements of Freshwater Turtles Among Missouri River Floodplain Wetlands – A Preliminary Report
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  • An Analysis of Trap Captures on a Riverine Turtle Assemblage in Tennessee
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  • Distribution and population status of the narrow-headed softshell turtle Chitra spp. in Thailand
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  • Last Curtain Call for the Drummer - A Perspective on the Global Decline of River Turtles
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  • Levels of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in plasma from two species of riverine turtle
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  • St. Catherines Island Gopher Tortoise Translocation Project 1994-2004: An Overview
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  • Health assessment of the alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys temminckii) in Georgia and Florida
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  • Captive Management and Propagation of the Endangered Madagascar Flat-tail tortoise (Pyxis planicauda)
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  • Orientation of five species of naïve river turtles (Graptemys and Apalone) dispersing from experimental nests
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  • Reassessment of the turtle community in the North Fork of White River, Ozark County Missouri USA
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  • River surveys for the black soft-shelled turtleAspideretes nigricans and the topical situation of the turtle trade in Bangladesh
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  • Impact Assessment of turtle habitats in the Ganga River, India
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  • Health assessments of radiated tortoises (Geochelone radiata) in Madagascar
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  • Effects of habitat degradation on corticosterone and parasites in aquatic turtles
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  • Field Report for the Roti Island Snake-Neck Turtle, Chelodina mccordi, May 2006: Surveys for Possible Protected Areas
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  • Collaborative conservation planning and the alligator snapping turtle
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  • Status of the alligator snapping turtle in Oklahoma: Effects of historical harvest and habitat alteration
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  • Ecology, biology and conservation of the Stripe-necked Terrapin, Mauremys rivulata, in Jordan
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  • Health assessment of captive Dermatemys mawii in Nacajuca, Mexico
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  • Parasites present in a stable, captive breeding population of Malayan box turtles, Cuora amboinensis
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  • Spatial ecology of turtle populations within an urban landscape: implications for conservation and habitat management
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  • Effects of haying and agricultural practices on an imperiled species: the North American Wood Turtle, Glyptemys insculpta
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  • The process and progress of the John L. Behler Chelonian Conservation Center
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  • John Behler; a tribute in pictures
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  • Images of Testudo terrapin (Schoepf)
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  • Chelonian zooarchaeology and ethnozoology in southwest Florida
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  • A survey of early European chelonian images
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  • The impacts of hurricane Katrina on a population of yellow-blotched sawback turtles (Graptemys flavimaculata): An aquatic perspective
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  • Is there a population structure in the yellow-blotched sawback turtle (Graptemys flavimaculata) in a seemingly continuous environment?
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  • Conservation phylogenetics of the Asian box turtles (Geoemydidae, Cuora): Inferences from multiple nuclear loci
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  • Demography and Home Range of the Bog Turtle (Glyptemys muhlenbergii): An Endangered Species in New Jersey
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  • Advances on the Central American River Turtle’s Conservation Program
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  • Notes on the successful reproduction of Platysternon megacephalum in captivity
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  • Population structure and function of Emydura and Chelodina in the Kimberley Plateau, Western Australia prior to arrival of invasive cane toads
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  • The Tennessee Bog Turtle Program – A 20 Year Review
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  • Keeping and breeding yellow blotched sawback turtles, Graptemys flavimaculata
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  • Recent Developments in Asian Turtle Trade
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  • Neotropical Freshwater Turtle Conservation Update
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  • Use of satellite transmitters in determining habitat use of Podocnemis expansa in the Rio Trombetas, Para, Brazil
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  • Microhabitat selection by Desert Tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) in the Mojave Desert
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  • An evaluation of the turtle assemblage and sampling methodology of Donaldson Point Conservation Area, Missouri
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  • Using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Science to Predict and Delineate Critical Habitat for the Bog Turtle, (Glyptemys muhlenbergii)
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  • Using Turtles to Promote a Grassroots Environmental Education Program in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia
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  • Reproduction of Alligator Snapping Turtles (Macrochelys temminckii) in northern Louisiana
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  • Turtle Survival Alliance Taxon Management Group Report 2005-2006
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  • Reproduction of the pig-noised turtle Carettochelys insculpta (Ramsay, 1886) at the Rotterdam Zoo
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  • The ex situ status of the genus Cuora in Europe
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  • Final Thought: Troubled Times for Turtles by John L. Behler
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