James Van Dyke (@jamesuvandyke.bsky.social)

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Glad to have this work out, led by Donald McKnight with collaboration from many turtle researchers across the USA and Australia. It came about to answer a critique that fox predation mightn't drive low juvenile abundance in Australian systems.

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Does a lack of juveniles indicate a threat? Understanding body size distributions in a group of long‐lived vertebrates We used a large dataset to examine turtle size distributions and found that for most species in most areas, distributions are typically skewed towards large adults, with few juveniles present. Theref.... https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2656.70093?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwL6MStjbGNrAvoxGWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEekHJkej6ljq2_P4MN4SAVAmf5GkHyITzeLPbtjipF6GmOoQ66tLxVMP64Gkw_aem_cKTFi0LQ5jsujABB3YPPNw