Publications – Kiawah Island Diamondback Terrapin Project

Lovich, J.E., and J.W. Gibbons. 1990. Age at maturity influences adult sex ratio in the turtle Malaclemys terrapin. Oikos 59:126-134.

Lovich, J.E., A.D. Tucker, D.E. Kling, J.W. Gibbons, and T.D. Zimmerman. 1991. Behavior of hatchling diamondback terrapins (Malaclemys terrapin) released in a South Carolina salt marsh. Herpetological Review 22:81-83.

Tucker, A.D., and N.N. Fitzsimmons. 1992. A device for separating fecal samples of a mullusc-feeding turtle, Malaclemys terrapin. Herpetological Review 23:113-115.

Tucker, Tony, South Carolina Wildlife. November - December 1993

Tucker, A.D., N.N. Fitzsimmons, and J.W. Gibbons. 1995. Resource partitioning by the estuarine turtle Malaclemys terrapin: trophic, spatial, and temporal foraging constraints. Herpetologica 51:167-181.

Seigel, R.A., and J.W. Gibbons. 1995. Workshop on the ecology, status, and management of the diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin), Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, 2 August 1994: Final results and recommendations. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 1:240-243.

Buhlmann, K.A., and J.W. Gibbons. 1997, Imperiled aquatic reptiles of the southeastern United States: historical review and current conservation status. G. W. Benz, and D. E. Collins, eds. Aquatic fauna in peril: the southeastern perspective. Special Publication 1.

Tucker, A.D., S.R. Yeomans, and J.W. Gibbons. 1997. Shell strength of mud snails (Ilyanassa obsoleta) may deter foraging by diamondback terrapins (Malaclemys terrapin). American Midland Naturalist 138:224-229.

Hoyle, M.E., and J.W. Gibbons. 2000. Use of a marked population of diamondback terrapins (Malaclemys terrapin) to determine impacts of recreational crab pots. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 3:735-737.

Gibbons, J.W., D.E. Scott, T.J. Ryan, K.A. Buhlmann, T.D. Tuberville, B.S. Metts, J.L. Greene, et al. 2000. The global decline of reptiles, déjá vu amphibians. Bioscience 50:653-666.

Gibbons, J.W., J.E. Lovich, A.D. Tucker, N.N. Fitzsimmons, and J.L. Greene. 2001. Demographic and ecological factors affecting conservation and management of the diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) in South Carolina. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 4:66-74.

Tucker, A.D., J.W. Gibbons, and J.L. Greene. 2001. Estimates of adult survival and migration for diamondback terrapins: conservation insight from local extirpation within a metapopulation. Canadian Journal of Zoology 79:2199-2209.

Dorcas, M.E., J.D. Willson, and J.W. Gibbons. 2007. Crab trapping causes population decline and demographic changes in diamondback terrapins over two decades. Biological Conservation 137:334-340.

Harden, L.A., N.A. Diluzio, J.W. Gibbons, and M.E. Dorcas. 2007. Spatial and thermal ecology of diamondback terrapins (Malaclemys terrapin) in a South Carolina salt marsh. Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Sciences 123:154-162.

Cecala, K.K., J.W. Gibbons, and M.E. Dorcas. 2008. Ecological effects of major injuries in diamondback terrapins: implications for conservation and management. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 19:421-427.

Harden, L.A., S.E. Pittman, J.W. Gibbons, and M.E. Dorcas. 2009. Development of a rapid-assessment technique for diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) populations using head-count surveys. Applied Herpetology 6:237-245.

Congdon, J., J.W. Gibbons, R. Brooks, N. Rollinson, and R. Tsaliagos. 2013. Indeterminate growth in long-lived freshwater turtles as a component of individual fitness. Evolutionary Ecology 27:445-459.

Underwood, E.B., S. Bowers, J.C. Guzy, J.E. Lovich, C.A. Taylor, J.W. Gibbons, and M.E. Dorcas. 2013. Sexual dimorphism and feeding ecology of diamond-backed terrapins (Malaclemys terrapin). Herpetologica 69:397-404.

Dorcas, M.E., and J.W. Gibbons. 2013. Long-term ecological research on America's only estuarine turtle: the diamondback terrapin, Pages 447-461 in W.I. Lutterschmidt, ed. Reptiles in Research: Investigations of Ecology, Physiology, and Behavior from Desert to Sea. New York, Nova Biomedical.

Witczak, L.R., J.C. Guzy, S.J. Price, J.W. Gibbons, and M.E. Dorcas. 2014. Temporal and spatial variation in survivorship of diamondback terrapins (Malaclemys terrapin). Chelonian Conservation and Biology 13:146-151.

Akins, C.D., C.D. Ruder, S.J. Price, L.A. Harden, J.W. Gibbons, and M.E. Dorcas. 2014. Factors affecting temperature variation and habitat use in free-ranging diamondback terrapins. Journal of Thermal Biology 44:63-69.

McKee, R.A., K.K. Cecala, and M.E. Dorcas. 2016. Behavioural interactions of diamondback terrapins with crab pots demonstrate that bycatch reduction devices reduce entrapment. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 26:1081-1089.

Kern, M.M., J.C. Guzy, J.E. Lovich, J.W. Gibbons, and M.E. Dorcas. 2016. Relationships of maternal body size and morphology with egg and clutch size in the diamondback terrapin, Malaclemys terrapin (Testudines: Emydidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 117:295-304.

Lovich, J.E., J.W. Gibbons, and K. Green. 2018. Life history with emphasis on geographic variation. In, pp. 63-80. Roosenburg, W.M. and V.S. Kennedy (Eds.). Ecology and conservation of the diamondback terrapin Malaclemys terrapin. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland.

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Lovich, J.E., and K.M. Hart. 2018. Taxonomy: a history of controversy and uncertainty. In, pp. 37-50. Roosenburg, W.M. and V.S. Kennedy (Eds.). Ecology and conservation of the diamondback terrapin Malaclemys terrapin. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland.

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Gibbons, J. W. 2019. Chapter 1. Introduction and history of the diamond-backed terrapin. In, Ecology and Conservation of the Diamond-Backed Terrapin, edited by W.M. Roosenburg and V.S. Kennedy. Johns Hopkin University Press.

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Bangma, J.T., J.M. Ragland, T.R. Rainwater, J.A. Bowden, J.W. Gibbons, and J.L. Reiner. 2019. Perfluoroalkyl substances in diamondback terrapins (Malaclemys terrapin) in Coastal South Carolina. Chemosphere 215:305-312.

Carpenter, A.J., M.A. Thomas, and K.K Cecala. 2020. Effects of bait type and conspecific attraction in diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin). Bycatch. Journal of Young Investigators 38:1-7.

Leigh Anne Harden, Stephen R. Midway, and J. Whitfield Gibbons. 2021. Terrapin Station: Individual, Sex, and Site Factors Related to Turtle Growth Variablity