Evaluation of headstarting as a conservation tool to recover Blanding’s Turtles (Emydoidea blandingii) in a highly fragmented urban landscape

• Tharusha Wijewardena ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: twijewardena@laurentian.ca

  Affiliations School of Natural Sciences, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4167-5031

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• Matthew G. Keevil,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Natural Sciences, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4596-1879

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• Nicholas E. Mandrak,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Andrew M. Lentini,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Toronto Zoo, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

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• Jacqueline D. Litzgus

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Natural Sciences, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

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