{"id":1748,"date":"2014-05-28T20:17:21","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T01:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2014-06-02T11:20:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T16:20:18","slug":"do-roads-reduce-painted-turtle-populations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/do-roads-reduce-painted-turtle-populations\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Roads Reduce Painted Turtle Populations?<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1740\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PaintedTurtle_DavidShane.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1740\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1740\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PaintedTurtle_DavidShane.jpg\" alt=\"Painted turtle living in ponds near a major road in Eastern Ontario are not more likely to cross it as they are likely to be repelled by noise and vibration. (Photo credit: David Shane, via flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PaintedTurtle_DavidShane.jpg 640w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PaintedTurtle_DavidShane-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Painted turtle living in ponds near a major road in Eastern Ontario are not more likely to cross it as they are likely to be repelled by noise and vibration. (Photo credit: David Shane, via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/david_shane\/7292335988\/in\/photolist-6tQ2Zs-kyF1ZN-kyF8TX-f6SARj-9LjBMQ-d4MToA-ik5BaW-c7p8qQ-MLGJ9-9PANRM-6E8w54-nfKwGt-bNpDLH-cWQEmY-byjMmJ-eifBKu-KeBce-6ZUQuf-7MJbxz-o6vB8\">flickr<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A new study shows that high traffic roads in Eastern Ontario have\u00a0no significant effect on the relative abundance of painted turtles. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Researchers compared turtle populations from around 20 ponds, half of which were close to a freeway and the other half of which were as far as possible from any major roads. They found that road proximity didn\u2019t lead to more turtles getting killed. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The authors suggest that painted turtles may be repelled by noise and vibration and could cross traffic-heavy roads less often than previously thought. They also caution that this study applies only to painted turtles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0098414\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the the journal\u00a0<em>PLOS ONE\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>May 23, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Trina Rytwinski, Carleton University, Ontario<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/alexandra-dorland\/\">Alexandra Dorland<\/a>,\u00a0Carleton University, Ontario<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study shows that high traffic roads in Eastern Ontario have\u00a0no significant effect on the relative abundance of painted turtles. Researchers compared turtle populations from around 20 ponds, half of which were close to a freeway and the other half of which were as far as possible from any major roads. They found that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[39,174,113,215,917,50],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-animals","tag-biology","tag-environment","tag-evolution","tag-ontario"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PaintedTurtle_DavidShane.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-sc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1793,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions\/1793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}