Modern Toolbox to address a decades-old problem in the conservation of freshwater turtles: Blanding's Turtles as a case study.

Research into freshwater turtles can be challenging because of their physiology, behavioural processes, and interaction with their environments. Traditional monitoring and survey methods such as radio telemetry and visual encounter surveys have many limitations and have experienced few advancements in the past decades. Limitations such as limited behavioural inference, high labour costs and long periods between tracking require the use of a new …