Heating and cooling rates and their effects upon heart rate and subcutaneous temperatures in the desert tortoise, Gopherus agassizii

1. Heating and cooling rates of the desert tortoise, Gopherus agassizii, were measured in the field and in the laboratory. 2. Heating rates in the field were up to ten times faster than cooling rates. 3. Under controlled conditions, heating rates equalled rates of cooling. 4. Heart rates during heating were significantly faster than during cooling at any particular body temperature. 5. Subcutaneous neck temperatures did not differ from cloacal temperatures during heating or cooling, suggesting a state of continuous vasodilation. 6. Results are interpreted as suggesting that behavioral postures and activities play a greater role than physiology in the determination of thermal exchange rates of the desert tortoise....

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Journal Citation; Tags: Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Gopherus agassizii, heart rates, heating and cooling rates, thermal ecology, All tags... thermoregulation, tortoises, Fewer tags

Mojave Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) Morphometrics and Egg Data from Seven Sites across the Mojave, (1997-2002)

These data were acquired from 7 study sites distributed across the range of Gopherus agassizii. Data were collected from 1997 to 2002 as part of three separate studies, although data were not collected at all sites in each year. Radio-transmitters were attached to the carapace of 151 females and VHF radio-telemetry was used to relocate animals to assess reproductive status. Egg production was determined from X-radiographs taken weekly/biweekly intervals (depending on the study) using a portable X-ray machine between April and July or August of each year. In addition, the mean carapace length (MCL) of each tortoise was measured at each time of capture or recapture using calipers (mm). A nesting event was recorded...

Categories: Data; Tags: Area 31, Bird Spring Valley, California, Gopherus agassizii, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, All tags... Mojave Desert, Mojave National Preserve, Mojave desert tortoise, Nevada, Pahcoon Flat, Piute Valley, Redcliffs, Sandstone Mountain, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Wildlife Biology, X-radiography, biological production, biota, body size, climate change, climatic variability, climatic variation, clutch size, ecology, ecosystem functions, eggs, environmental effects, environmental variables, field inventory and monitoring, radiography, reproduction, reproductive output, reproductive status, reptile, reptiles, size, tortoises, total annual egg production, wildlife, wildlife biology, Fewer tags

Agassiz's desert tortoise and egg data from the Sonoran Desert of California (1997-2000, 2015-2018)

These data were compiled to evaluate reproductive output of Agassiz's desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizzi) in relation to environmental and individual-level variables. We collected data from four study sites in the Sonoran Desert of California, including two separate populations within Joshua Tree National Park, one population located on the northern versant of the Orocopia Mountains, and one population located at the extreme western end of the Coachella Valley. These data represent eight reproductive seasons that spanned over 20 years (1997-2000, 2015-2018). These data were compiled and added to a larger database with additional records collected by other scientists from eight other study sites in order to detect...

Tags: Agassiz's desert tortoise, Barrow Plot, California, Cottonwood Mountains, Ecology, All tags... Geography, Gopherus agassizii, Information Sciences, Joshua Tree National Park, Joshua Tree Wilderness, Mesa, Mesa Wind Farm, Orocopia Mountains, San Gorgonio Pass, Shavers Valley, Sonoran Desert, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, X-radiography, biological production, biota, body size, climate change, climatic variability, climatic variation, clutch size, ecology, ecosystem functions, eggs, environmental effects, environmental variables, field inventory and monitoring, radiography, reproduction, reproductive output, reproductive status, reptiles, size, tortoises, total annual egg production, wildlife, wildlife biology, Fewer tags

The Chesapeake Bay Multispecies Monitoring and Assessment Program (ChesMMAP)

In general, ChesMMAP is fishery-independent monitoring survey that uses a large-mesh bottom trawl to sample late juvenile-to-adult fishes in the mainstem of Chesapeake Bay. This program currently provides data on relative abundance, length, weight, sex ratio, maturity, age, and trophic interactions for several important fish species that inhabit the bay seasonally.

Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Artrópode, Chesapeake Bay, USA, Cifozoa, Loggerhead, Loggerhead Sea Turtles, All tags... Multispecies, Multispecies Fisheries, Multispecies Fisheries Research, Reptiles, Sea Turtles, Tortuga-marina caguama, Turtles, aigles de mer, anchois, anchovies, anglerfishes, antozoário, anémones de mer, anêmona, arthropodes, arthropods, ascidies, aulopiforms, bait shrimp, balistes, batrachoidiforms, baudroies, blood ark, blue mussel, bolacha da praia, bonnethead sharks, bony fishes, brown shrimp, butterfly rays, camarón blanco, camarón blanco norteño, camarón café, camarón café norteño, camarón fijador, camarón moreno, camarón pardo, camarón rosado norteño, caravela, cartilaginous fishes, catfishes, cazones, cazones aguijones, chabots, channeled whelk, cheliceriformes, chiens de mer, chordates, cifozoário, clawed lobsters, cnidaires, cnidarians, cnidario, cods, coelenterates, coelentérés, colorful sea whip, condrictes, corais, coral, corals, coraux, cordado, cordés, cow-nose rays, cowfishes, cownose rays, crabes, crabes de boue, crabs, crayfishes, crevette gambri, crevette ligubam de nord, crevette rodché, crevette royale grise, crevettes, crevettes pénaéïdes, crustaceans, crustacés, crustáceo, cup animals, cyprins, dogfish sharks, eagle rays, eastern oyster, echinoderms, edible blue mussel, equinoderma, equinodermata, esponja, estrela do mar, esturgeons, esturiones, filefishes, flatfishes, flounders, flower animals, gadiforms, golden shrimp, gorgônia, grenadiers, ground sharks, hakes, hammerhead sharks, harengs, herrings, hidra, hidrozoa, hidrozoário, homards, hooked mussel, horseshoe crabs, hound sharks, houndsharks, hydraires, hydralike animals, hydroids, hydromedusae, hydrozoaires, hydrozoans, jellyfish, jellyfishes, knobbed whelk, lake lamprey, lampreas, lampreys, lamproie marine, lamproies, leatherjackets, limandes, lion's mane, lobsters, loggerhead sea turtle, mail-cheeked fishes, mangeurs d'hommes, marine turtles, meduza, merlus, meuniers, minnows, modern sea turtles, molluscs, mollusks, mollusques, molusco, moon jelly, morues, mourines, mud crabs, mullets, méduses, neopterygians, northern brown shrimp, northern pink shrimp, northern quahog, northern white shrimp, osteíceto, ouriço do mar, paddlefishes, pastenagues, pebble crabs, peixe cartilaginoso, peixe ósseo, penaeid shrimps, penaeoid shrimps, perch-like fishes, pink shrimp, pipefishes, plies, poisson épineux, poissons cartilagineux, poissons osseux, poissons plats, poissons à nageoires rayonnées, poissons-coffres, poissons-globes, poissons-scie, porifero, prawns, puffers, purple-spined sea urchin, pólipo, quelicerado, queliceriforme, raies, raies-papillons, rascasses, ray-finned fishes, rayas, rayas gavilán, rayas látigo, rayas mariposa, rays, red shrimp, redtail shrimp, reptiles, requiem sharks, requins, requins-marteaux, right-handed hermit crabs, rock crabs, roughneck shrimp, rubble crabs, répteis, salmons, salps, sand dollars, sawfishes, scoophead sharks, scorpion fishes, sculpins, sea anemones, sea lamprey, sea nettle, sea squirts, sharks, short-tailed crabs, shrimp, silures, skates, smooth dogfishes, smooth-hounds, soft corals, soles, spider crabs, spiny dogfishes, spiny rayed fishes, sponges, spoonfishes, spotted shrimp, squillid mantis shrimps, sticklebacks, stingrays, sturgeons, suckers, swimming crabs, tamburataca, terrapins, thecate hydroids, tiburones gambuso, tiburones martillo, topes, torpedoes, tortoises, tortues, triggerfishes, true crabs, trunkfishes, tubarão, tunicates, urocordado, vertebrado, vertebrates, vertébrés, whip-tail stingrays, whiprays, whiptail stingrays, whiskery sharks, white shrimp, xanthidés, água viva, águilas marinas, échinodermes, écrevisses, émissoles, éponges, Fewer tags

Northeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program Near Shore Trawl Survey (NEAMAP)

NEAMAP stands for NorthEast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program. NEAMAP was developed to meet the needs of fisheries management and stock assessment activities in the northeastern United States. NEAMAP began in 2006 with a fall pilot survey and in 2008 began conducting both a spring and fall survey. NEAMAP samples from Cape Cod, MA south to Cape Hatteras, NC and targets both juvenile and adult fishes. NEAMAP is an integrated, cooperative state/federal data collection program. Its mission is to facilitate the collection and dissemination of fishery-independent information obtained in the Northeast for use by state and federal fisheries management agencies, the fishing industry (commercial and recreational),...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Anelídeo, Artrópode, Atlantic hagfish, Atlantic ridley, Atlantic ridley sea turtle, All tags... Atlantic surfclam, Cifozoa, Green Sea Turtle, Green Sea Turtles, Kemp's Ridley, Kemp's ridley sea turtle, Loggerhead, Loggerhead Sea Turtles, Mid-Atlantic, USA, Multispecies, Multispecies Fisheries, Multispecies Fisheries Research, Reptiles, Ridley Sea Turtles, Sea Turtles, Tortuga-marina caguama, Tortuga-marina verde-del Atlántico, Turtles, aigles de mer, anchois, anchovies, anglerfishes, anguilles, annelids, annélides, antozoário, anémones de mer, anêmona, arachnids, aracnídeo, araignées, aranhas, arañas, arthropodes, arthropods, arácnidos, aulopiforms, bait shrimp, balistes, batrachoidiforms, baudroies, blue mussel, bolacha da praia, bonnethead sharks, bony fishes, brown shrimp, brujas, butterfly rays, cabbagehead, camarón blanco, camarón blanco norteño, camarón café, camarón café norteño, camarón fijador, camarón moreno, camarón pardo, camarón rosado norteño, cannonball jelly, cannonball jellyfish, caravela, cartilaginous fishes, cazones, cazones aguijones, chabots, channeled whelk, cheliceriformes, chiens de mer, chordates, cifozoário, clawed lobsters, cloportes, cnidaires, cnidarians, cnidario, cods, coelenterates, coelentérés, colorful sea whip, common green sea turtle, condrictes, corais, coral, corals, coraux, cordado, cordés, cow-nose rays, cowfishes, cownose rays, crabes, crabs, crayfishes, crevette gambri, crevette ligubam de nord, crevette rodché, crevette royale grise, crevettes, crevettes pénaéïdes, crustaceans, crustacés, crustáceo, cup animals, dogfish sharks, eagle rays, echinoderms, edible blue mussel, eels, electric rays, equinoderma, equinodermata, esponja, estrela do mar, esturgeons, esturiones, filefishes, flatfishes, flounders, flower animals, gadiforms, golden shrimp, gorgônia, grenadiers, ground sharks, hagfishes, hakes, hammerhead sharks, harengs, herrings, hidra, hidrozoa, hidrozoário, homards, horseshoe crabs, hound sharks, houndsharks, hydraires, hydralike animals, hydroids, hydromedusae, hydrozoaires, hydrozoans, isopodes, isopods, jaquetones, jellyfish, jellyfishes, knobbed whelk, leatherjackets, limandes, lion's mane, lobsters, loggerhead sea turtle, mackerel sharks, mail-cheeked fishes, mangeurs d'hommes, marine turtles, meduza, merlus, minhoca, modern sea turtles, molluscs, mollusks, mollusques, molusco, moon jelly, morues, mourines, mullets, myxine du nord, myxines, méduses, neopterygians, northern brown shrimp, northern pink shrimp, northern quahog, northern white shrimp, ophidiiforms, osteíceto, ouriço do mar, paddlefishes, pastenagues, peixe cartilaginoso, peixe ósseo, penaeid shrimps, penaeoid shrimps, perch-like fishes, pillbugs, pink shrimp, pipefishes, plies, poisson épineux, poissons cartilagineux, poissons osseux, poissons plats, poissons à nageoires rayonnées, poissons-coffres, poissons-globes, poissons-scie, porbeagles, porifero, prawns, puffers, purple-spined sea urchin, pólipo, quelicerado, queliceriforme, raies, raies-papillons, rascasses, ray-finned fishes, rayas, rayas gavilán, rayas látigo, rayas mariposa, rays, red shrimp, redtail shrimp, reptiles, requiem sharks, requins, requins-marteaux, requins-renards, requins-taupes, right-handed hermit crabs, rock crabs, roughneck shrimp, répteis, salmons, sand dollars, sanguessuga, sawfishes, scoophead sharks, scorpion fishes, sculpins, sea anemones, sea scallop, sharks, short-tailed crabs, shrimp, skates, smooth dogfishes, smooth-hounds, soft corals, soles, sowbugs, spider crabs, spiders, spiny dogfishes, spiny rayed fishes, sponges, spoonfishes, spotted shrimp, squillid mantis shrimps, sticklebacks, stingrays, sturgeons, swimming crabs, tamburataca, terrapins, thecate hydroids, thresher sharks, tiburones gambuso, tiburones martillo, tiburones zorro, topes, torpedo electric rays, torpedo rays, torpedoes, torpedos, torpilles, tortoises, tortues, triggerfishes, true crabs, trunkfishes, tubarão, vertebrado, vertebrates, vertébrés, whip-tail stingrays, whiprays, whiptail stingrays, whiskery sharks, white sharks, white shrimp, água viva, águilas marinas, échinodermes, écrevisses, émissoles, éponges, Fewer tags