Herpetology BP#1
We are killing the turtles, but you already knew that. We are killing the turtles and the crocs!! Today I will be sharing with you some disheartening information I gathered from the following article: "Anthropogenic impacts on threatened species erode functional diversity in chelonians and crocodilians" by R. C. Rodríguez-Caro 1,2,3 , E. Graciá2,4, S. P. Blomberg5, H. Cayuela6,M. Grace1, C. P. Carmona 7, H. A. Pérez-Mendoza8, A. Giménez2,4 & R. Salguero-Gómez. For starters, I had to look up what anthropocene meant because that was a bit new for me. Anthropocene can be defined as: "the current geological age, viewed as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment". This article looked at the threats that Testudines and Crocodilia face due to the pressure we have put them under. Some of the study that was observed in the article was examining 259 of the existing 375 species of Turtle...