Some Effects of the Sex Hormones on Aggression and Reproductive Behavior in Terrepene Carolina Major, Stewart Ensign, Thesis, 1954, University of Wyoming

THE MOVEMENT PATTERNS OF FREE-RANGING ANIMALS,  NEW THEORY AND METHODS OF STUDY ILLUSTRATED BY COMPARISONS OF THE ROUTES OF TRAVEL ASSOCIATED WITH RESIDENCY, TRANSIENCY AND EXPERIMENTAL DISPLACEMENT IN A POPULATION OF EASTERN BOX TURTLES (TERRAPENE C. CAROLINA),
Stephen Porter Hall, Dissertation, University of North Carolina, 1987    614 pages!!

ASPECTS OF THE SOCIAL AND SPATIAL EXPERIENCE OF EASTERN BOX TURTLES, TERRAPENE CAROLINA CAROLINA,  Marilla Davis, 1981, Dissertation, University of Tennessee

Thermoregulation of the Box Turtles Terrapene Carolina and Terrapene Ornata,
Dissertation,  Jose Pedro Sousa do Amaral, University of Oklahoma, 2001

POPULATIONS OF THE EASTERN BOX TURTLE, TERRAPENE CAROLINA CAROLINA, IN URBAN FOREST FRAGMENTS,  JENIE JO CHUTE,   Thesis: Fayetteville State University, 2007

PREDICTING SPRING EMERGENCE IN A NORTHERN POPULATION OF THE EASTERN BOX TURTLE (Terrapene c. carolina), Thesis, Christopher L. Woodley, Purdue University, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 2013

Home Range Studies of the Eastern Box Turtle Using Radio Telemetry, Thesis, 1984, Jonathan Bayless, A complex (complicated) study using triangulation and "data bursts"  Only 56 days of tracking for six turtles, Fairax, Virginia, lots of cites, questionable value.

Demographics, Activity, and Habitat Selection of the Eastern Box Turtle (Terrapene c. carolina) in West Virginia  Justin Adam Weiss   Another single-season thesis (2009) from a West Virginia study site under 900 foot elevation.  Good general information source and lots of color photos. Lots of literature cites.

Influence of Season and Sex on Terrapene c. carolina (Eastern Box Turtle) Movements: An Observation of a Population in West Virginia, Nathalie Caroline Aall  2011, 9 turtles, one season, 780 foot elevation, 2010 Thesis


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Research papers on Box Turtle subject matter and aerial photos of study area  Some files are large, but all can be downloaded for later viewing.   Dissertations/Thesis are included but are highlighted due to the fact that, with few exceptions, they are usually very time-limited investigations using very few turtle subjects and containing lots of literature cites, good or bad, to make conclusions.



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High Elevation Study
Eastern Box Turtle
                Terrapene carolina carolina
A Relict Population Doomed To Extinction?

Demographic Characteristics of the Eastern Box Turtle, Terrapene carolina carolina, in a Relictual, Suburban, Wetland Habitat of Middle Tennessee,  Peer review  This paper by Jessica West, was never peer reviewed prior to being published in the journal "Herpetological Conservation and Biology", not even by the journal's own staff.

Demographic Characteristics of the Eastern Box Turtle, Terrapene carolina carolina, in a Relictual, Suburban, Wetland Habitat of Middle Tennessee, Jessica M. West (Jessica Marie Vannatta) and Matthew Klukowski,  Middle Tennessee State University, Tennessee, 2016 (Herpetological Conservation and Biology 11:459-466)

DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS, INCIDENCE OF RANAVIRUS INFECTION, AND SEASONAL CORTICOSTERONE LEVELS IN THE EASTERN BOX TURTLE, TERRAPENE CAROLINA CAROLINA, IN A
SUBURBAN WETLANDS HABITAT OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE Jessica Marie Vannatta, Middle Tennessee State University, August 2015 (Thesis)  (Matthew Klukowski was the Thesis advisor and Thesis Committee Chair)


Eastern Box Turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina) Population Structure in Franklin County, Virginia  2019 Todd S. Fredericksen,  Ferrum College, Virginia.  Catesbeiana 39(2)  I include this paper to demonstrate how  bad information and data is easily and quickly transferred into new research...i.e. quoting and referencing  from the above "research" by Jessica West.



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