Scientific investigations on the red-eared turtle, Trachemys scripta elegans Tucker, J. K., F. A. Cronin, N. I. Filoramo, B. J. Kerans, F. J. Janzen, R. J. Maher, D. Moll, G. L. Paukstis, and C. H. Theiling. 1997. Scientific investigations on the red-eared turtle, Trachemys scripta elegans. Reprinted by U.S. Geological Survey, Environmental Management Technical Center, Onalaska, Wisconsin, August 1997. LTRMP 97-R012. 45 pp. (NTIS #PB98-100845) ABSTRACT This publication contains reprints of eight articles on the red-eared turtle, Trachemys scripta elegans, which originally appeared in the Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 1995, 30(7):148 149, 1996, 31(3):41 43, and 1996, 31(12):218 219; Chelonian Conservation and Biology, 1995, 1(4):317 318, 1997, 2(3):345 351, and 1997, 2(3):352 357; Herpetological Review, 1996 27(3):142; and Journal of Herpetology, 1995, 29(2):291 296 KEYWORDS Conservation, ecology, egg size, eggs, embryonic survival, Emydidae, Illinois, flooding, growth, hatchling size, long-lived vertebrates, morphology, red-eared slider, reproduction, Reptilia, survivorship, Testudines, Trachemys scripta, twinning, turtle