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Habitat use and response of freshwater turtles to human presence in an urban canal of central New Jersey
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Habitat use and response of freshwater turtles to human presence in an urban canal of central New Jersey
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Pittfield
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Taryn N.
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1985-
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Taryn N. Pittfield
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Joanna
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Joanna Burger
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Advisory Committee
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chair
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Lockwood
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Julie
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Julie Lockwood
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internal member
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Ehrenfeld
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David
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David Ehrenfeld
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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theses
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2016
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2016-05
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2016
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Pressures of urbanization and rapid development continue to increase and recreational activities are becoming a prominent force in many urban wildlife communities. Many urban environments are home to freshwater turtles and little attention has been given to the impact of human recreation upon these communities. We examined the response of basking turtles to observer presence along the towpath of a canal in central New Jersey. All four species, except K. subrubrum, were more frequently observed basking on log substrate and on substrate with less than 50% canopy cover. Along the towpath, 100% of K. subrubrum responded to observer presence by retreating (swimming away), while over 75% of observations on C. picta, T.s. elegans, and P. rubriventris responded to by retreating. There was a highly significant correlation between the distance from the towpath the turtle was first seen basking by the observer and the distance at which the turtle first responded to the observer. Nearly 80% of the variability in distance to first respond to the observer for K. subrubrum was accounted for by including the percent canopy cover, percent cloud cover, and height basking above the water, while less than 30% of the variability was accounted for C. picta, T.s. elegans, and P. rubriventris.
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Ecology and Evolution
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Turtles--New Jersey
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Recreation
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Chrysemys
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Urban wildlife management
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Urban parks
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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1 online resource (vii, 41 p. : ill.)
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M.S.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Taryn N. Pittfield
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Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T3T155S5
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ETD graduate
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Pittfield
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Taryn
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N.
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2016-04-04 20:14:50
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Taryn Pittfield
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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