Check out the 2024 Winter Edition of the GTC Newsletter
Click HERE for the latest news and announcements from the Gopher Tortoise Council, including:
- Letter from the Co-Chair
- GTC Announcements
- 2024 Annual Meeting Highlights
- Recent Research:
- Subterranean refuge use by Burmese pythons (Python bivattatus) in southwestern Florida
- Randomized climincal trial evaluating a novel Piperazine-based drug as a treatment for Gastric Cryptosporidiosis in eastern indigo snakes (Drymarchon couperi)
- Integrating systematic surveys with historical data to model the distribution of Ornithodoros turicata americanus, a vector of epidemiological concern in North America
- Gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) burrow associate communities are depauperate in modified landscapes
- Development of a rapid and reliable surveillance method for Ornithodoros turicata americanus in gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) burrows in the southeastern United States
- Genomic characterization of two ranavirus isolates identified from a gopher frog (Lithobates capito) and a striped newt (Notophthalmus perstriatus) during a mass mortality event in Florida
- Management of invasive iguanas mitigates deleterious impacts on an imperiled tortoise
- Persistence of reptile DNA in a terrestrial substrate: a case study using the eastern indigo snake
- Development of an assay for the detection of the federally threatened Florida eastern indigo snake (Drymarchon couperi) using soil eDNA
- Gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) densities and habitat suitability across a xeric-mesic gradient in peninsular Florida, USA
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