Wood Turtle Paper Published

In collaboration with Jason Tesauro Consulting, we have finished the sixth season of radiotracking wood turtles at a local organic farm and analyzing how they are exposed to farm hazards. Farm equipment-related mortality is associated with wood turtle feeding, thermoregulating, and reproductive behaviors and with certain weather and streamflow conditions.

Our first paper on this study, Wood Turtle Habitat Use and Agricultural Mortality at a Farm Landscape in Eastern New York (Tesauro et al.) has been published by Northeastern Naturalist in Special Issue 12 (2024; Biology and Conservation of Emydine Turtles)

This project is part of The Applied Farmscape Ecology Research Collaborative [AFERC]. AFERC is co-coordinated by Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program and the Hudson Valley Farm Hub.