swaps, creeks, streams, and slow-flowing rivers. The invasive species is throughout the world, which makes it highly dangerous with fighting native turtles for the perfect area and habitat for them. Description of Species: The Red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) is a semi-aquatic turtle belonging the the Emydidae family. They are titled the Re... ... middle of paper ... ...turtles, such as Little RES Q. People dump their Red-Eared Sliders daily, and makes the Red-Eared Sliders go up
Biology, I wondered about what types of organisms are being directly affected by it. Afterward, I went home and did research on how climate change has affected different organisms. One organism that struck me was the red-eared slider turtles, or Trachemys scripta elegans. The sex determination process of these turtles is influenced by temperature in the surrounding environment. Reading that for the first time amazed me because we, as humans, are not only affecting the Earth, but also many different
Introduction In this study, the effect of temperature on yellow-bellied slider turtle (Trachemys scripta scripta) reproductive rates will be measured. The experiment will be controlled in a laboratory setting to determine whether either higher or lower temperatures will cause the reproductive rates of the turtle to increase or decrease. Reproductive rate, according to Pianka (1997), is defined as “average number of age class zero offspring produced by an average newborn organism during its entire