Roger W. Barbour’s scientific contributions

... The woody debris was mainly comprising dead wood and some living tree branches and root systems. This environment may be a refuge and retreat for juvenile ASTs and hosts various small animals (including insect larvae, crustaceans, mollusks, snails, amphibians, and fish) [47,48], which are potential prey for the turtles [49]. Additionally, water channels and submerged wood-abundant vegetated shorelines provide some of the few slow-velocity water current bodies, apart from the main watercourse, that are essential for the well-being of softshell turtles [50]. ...

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Amur Softshell Turtle (Pelodiscus maackii) Population Size, Structure, and Spatial Distribution

... Nest sites include grassy tussocks, hummocks of grass, sedge or sphagnum moss, marshy pastures, and edges of roads (Hunter et al. 1992, Ernst et al. 1994. Eastern fox snakes deposit their eggs in the soil, hollow logs, rotting stumps, root wads, mammal burrows, and rock crevices, as well as decaying leaf piles, compost piles, and sawdust or wood chip piles (Ernst and Barbour 1989, Harding 1997, Eastern Foxsnake Recovery Team 2010. Spotted turtles have been documented overwintering in shallow water in the mud or in muskrat burrows or lodges in waterways, swamps, bogs, and fens (Ernst et al. 1994, Graham 1995, Lewis and Ritzenthaler 1997, Haxton and Berrill 1999, Litzgus and Brooks 2000. ...

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Natural Features Inventory and Management Recommendations for St. John's Marsh State Wildlife Area

... There are five sea turtles commonly found in the Red Sea [Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas), Hawksbill Turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), Loggerhead Turtle (Caretta caretta), Olive Ridley Turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea), Leatherback Turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)] (Mancini et al. 2015). Of these, only two turtles are common Mediterranean Sea residents (Loggerhead Turtle and Leatherback Turtle) and the third, Green Turtle, a frequent Mediterranean Sea visitor (Ernst and Barbour 1989). The diets of all five species include a varying combination of algaes and seaweed ("plants"), crustaceans, and mollusks ("shellfish") (Ernst and Barbour 1989). ...

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Het Schildpadboeck: The Origins and Inspiration Behind the Turtle Watercolors of Adriaen Coenen’s Visboeck and Walvisboeck