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Project T-104-R1

Project Title: Assessing Wellness in Wildlife Herptile Species in Greatest Need of Conservation

Community and/or Species Focus: Eastern box turtle, Silver salamander, Ornate box turtle

Goals/Objectives:
  1. Assess the health of the 3 identified species through the generation of baseline hematology and disease prevalence data
  2. Use the health monitoring data to establish criteria that can be integrated into future conservation assessments
Achievements:
  1. ​Location of at least one population of the 3 SGCN for development of a health assessment protocol
  2. Ranavirus prevalence determined for each species, as well as herpesvirus 1 and Mycoplasma for turtle species and Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and B. salamandrivorans for the salamander species
  3. A protocol for assessing wellness in representative herptile SGCN

Post-Project Survey (if applicable): n/a

Project Period: 10/1/15 - 3/31/20

Principle Investigator(s):

 Dr. Matt Allender, Dr. Chris Phillips (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Illinois Natural History Survey)

Final Report:

T-104-R1