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Phillips, C. A., Kuhns, A. R., & Hunkapiller, T. (2003). Kankakee sands ornate box turtle (terrapene ornata) population& ecosystem assessment Champaign, IL 61820: Center for Biodiversity. 
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Keywords: Emydidae, Habitat - habitat, Nordamerika - North America, Schildkröten - turtles + tortoises, Terrapene ornata
Creators: Hunkapiller, Kuhns, Phillips
Publisher: Center for Biodiversity (Champaign, IL 61820)
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Abstract     
Terrapene ornata IntroductionThe Kankakee Sands Macrosite is a complex of high-quality natural lands including wet/mesicsand prairie, oak barrens/savanna, and sedge meadows in northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana. A project is currently underway which targets over 7,500 acres of cropland anddegraded grassland/savanna for restoration into a mosaic of native grasslands, savannas andwetlands which will ultimately restore connectivity to a landscape-scale system exceeding40,000 acres. The Nature Conservancy, with assistance from professionals from IL DNR, INDNR, INHS, and state universities, is in the process of completing a viability study for theKankakee Sands Macrosite. One of the target species in the ornate box turtle (Terrapeneornata).It is easy to see why the ornate box turtle is considered a target species of sand prairies andsavannas of the Kankakee Sands ecosystem. The turtle is associated with open habitatscharacterized by rolling topography with grasses and low shrubs as the dominant vegetation.Disturbance factors such as fire, grazing, and the presence of plains pocket gopher maintain theopen structure of prairie and savannas which benefit the turtle. The Kankakee Sands populationof ornate box turtles is disjunct from other populations and is the northeastern most population.The ornate box turtle is long lived, and easy to capture, mark, and recapture. Therefore it is anideally suited vertebrate for long term monitoring of the Kankakee Sands ecosystem. It is also acharismatic species that has ideal characteristics for monitoring by citizen scientists.As a result of its importance to this particular ecosystem we investigated the status of the ornatebox turtle in the Kankakee Sands. The main goal of this study was to determine thepresence/absence of the ornate box turtle at various sites throughout the Kankakee SandsMacrosite: In addition, occurrence of pocket gophers and red-headed woodpeckers were notedin the immediate vicinity of all ornate box turtle locations.Secondary goals were to estimate population size and density of the ornate box turtle andcharacterize the habitat associated with the ornate box turtle at a subset of sites in the KankakeeSands Macrosite.
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