Special Section: Gopher Tortoise Demographic Variables Estimated from Long‐Term Mark‐Recapture Data.

The gopher tortoise ( I Gopherus polyphemus i ) is a burrowing tortoise endemic to the sandy uplands of the southeastern United States Coastal Plain, and its range spans from eastern Louisiana to southwestern South Carolina to southern Florida. In McKee et al. (2021), the authors estimated apparent survival rates of waif tortoises (tortoises displaced by human collection) translocated to the Aiken Gopher Tortoise Heritage Preserve, South Carolina, at the extreme northern extent of the range. Special Section: Gopher Tortoise Demographic Variables Estimated from Long-Term Mark-Recapture Data. [Extracted from the article]