Click HERE for the latest news and announcements from the Gopher Tortoise Council, including:
- Letter from the Co-Chair
- GTC Announcements
- 2024 Annual Meeting Details
- Recent Research:
- Seasonal frugivory drives both diet inconsistency and individual specialization in the generalist herbivore gopher tortoise
- Simulation modeling to assess line transect distance sampling under a range of translocation scenarios
- Status of historical translocations of gopher tortoises outside of their geographic range in central Alabama
- Inflated predictions from a flawed model influenced the decision to deny federal protection for the gopher tortoise
- Common-garden experiment reveals outbreeding depression and region-of-origin effects on reproductive success in a frequently translocated tortoise
- Gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) vertebrate burrow commensals within a private, working forest landscape
- Status, distribution, and management of gopher tortoises in highly urbanized southeastern Florida