A 21-year study of seasonal and interspecific variation of hatchling emergence in a nearctic freshwater turtle community: To overwinter or not to overwinter?

Agriculture & Biology

• Chelydra serpentina 100%
• Glyptemys muhlenbergii 98%
• Chrysemys picta 76%
• turtles 68%
• interspecific variation 63%
• seasonal variation 56%
• Clemmys guttata 47%
• Sternotherus 22%
• hurricanes 17%
• air temperature 12%
• oviposition 11%
• nests 10%
• dates (fruit) 10%
• temperature 5%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• interspecific variation 94%
• turtle 71%
• seasonal variation 54%
• oviposition 8%
• nest 6%
• hurricane 5%
• air temperature 4%
• flooding 4%
• detection 3%
• comparison 2%
• effect 1%