Multiple stressors and amphibian declines: Dual impacts of pesticides and fish on yellow-legged frogs

Ecological Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 587-597

  Davidson, Carlos ^a   Knapp, Roland A ^b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Departments of Cognitive Science and Neurosciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian declines; Generalized additive models; Introduced fish; Mountain yellow legged frog; Multiple stressors; Pesticide drift; Rana muscosa; Sierra Nevada

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

AMPHIBIAN; FISH; FROG; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LANDSCAPE; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; POPULATION DECLINE; SCALE EFFECT; STRESS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FISH; FROGS AND TOADS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; ANURA; CALIFORNIA; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; PESTICIDES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; RANA MUSCOSA;

EID: 34247182649     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-0181     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. Angermann, J. E., G. M. Fellers, and F. Matsumura. 2002. Polychlorinated biphenyls and toxaphene in Pacific tree frog tadpoles (Hyla regilla) from the California Sierra Nevada, USA. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 21:2209-2215.
2. Armstrong, T. W., and R. A. Knapp. 2004. Response by trout populations in alpine lakes to an experimental halt to stocking. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 61:2025-2037.
3. Aston, L. S., and J. N. Seiber. 1997. Fate of summertime airborne organophosphate pesticide residues in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Journal of Environmental Quality 26:1483-1492.
4. Augustin, N. H., M. A. Muggelstone, and S. T. Buckland. 1998. The role of simulation in modelling spatially correlated data. Environmetrics 9:175-196.
5. Berry, W. D., and S. Felman. 1985. Multiple regression in practice. Sage Publications, Beverly Hills, California, USA.
6. BirdLife International. 2004. State of the world's birds: indicators for our changing world. BirdLife International, Cambridge, UK.
7. Boone, M. D., and R. D. Semlitsch. 2001. Interactions of an insecticide with larval density and predation in experimental amphibian communities. Conservation Biology 15:228-238.
8. Boone, M. D., and R. D. Semlitsch. 2002. Interactions of an insecticide with competition and pond drying in amphibian communities. Ecological Applications 12:307-316.
9. Bradford, D. F. 1983. Winterkill, oxygen relations, and energy metabolism of a submerged dormant amphibian, Rana muscosa. Ecology 64:1171-1183.
10. Bradford, D. F. 1989. Allotopic distribution of native frogs and introduced fishes in high Sierra Nevada lakes of California: implications of the negative impact of fish introductions. Copeia 1989:775-778.
11. Bradford, D. F. 1991. Mass mortality and extinction in a high elevation population of Rana muscosa. Journal of Herpetology 25:369-377.
12. Bradford, D. F., S. D. Cooper, T. M. Jenkins, Jr., K. Kratz, O. Sarnelle, and A. D. Brown. 1998. Influences of natural acidity and introduced fish on faunal assemblages in California alpine lakes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 55:2478-2491.
13. Census of Agriculture. 2002. Geographic area series, part 51. National Agricultural Statistics Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., USA.
14. Cory, L., P. Fjerd, and W. Serat. 1970. Distribution patterns of DDT residues in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Pesticide Monitoring Journal 3:204-211.
15. Crump, M. L., and N. J. Scott, Jr.. 1994. Visual encounter surveys. Pages 84-91 in W. R. Heyer, M. A. Donnelly, R. W. McDiarmid, L. A. C. Hayek, and M. S. Foster, editors. Measuring and monitoring biological diversity: standard methods for amphibians. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., USA.
16. Datta, S., L. Hansen, L. McConnell, J. Baker, J. LeNoir, and J. N. Seiber. 1998. Pesticides and PCB contaminants in fish and tadpoles from the Kaweah River Basin, California. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 60:829-836.
17. Davidson, C. 2004. Declining downwind: amphibian population declines in California and historic pesticide use. Ecological Applications 14:1892-1902.
18. Davidson, C., H. B. Shaffer, and M. R. Jennings. 2001. Declines of the California red-legged frog: climate, UV-B, habitat and pesticides hypotheses. Ecological Applications 11:464-479.
19. Davidson, C., H. B. Shaffer, and M. Jennings. 2002. Spatial tests of the pesticide drift, habitat destruction, UV-B and climate change hypotheses for California amphibian declines. Conservation Biology 16:1588-1601.
20. Department of Pesticide Regulation. 1999. Pesticide use report: 1998. Department of Pesticide Regulation, Sacramento, California, USA.
21. Drost, C. A., and G. M. Fellers. 1996. Collapse of a regional frog fauna in the Yosemite area of the California Sierra Nevada, USA. Conservation Biology 10:414-425.
22. Federal Register. 2003. 12-month finding for a petition to list the Sierra Nevada distinct population segment of the mountain yellow-legged frog (Rana muscosa). 68:2283-2303.
23. Fellers, G. M., L. L. McConnell, D. Pratt, and S. Datta. 2004. Pesticides in mountain yellow-legged frogs (Rana muscosa) from the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, USA. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 23:2170-2177.
24. Gilbertson, M., G. D. Haffner, K. G. Drouillard, A. Albert, and B. Dixon. 2003. Immunosuppression in the northern leopard frog (Rana pipiens) induced by pesticide exposure. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 22:101-110.
25. Gopal, K., R. N. Khanna, M. Anand, and G. S. D. Gupta. 1981. The acute toxicity of endosulfan to fresh-water organisms. Toxicology Letters 7:453-456.
26. Grinnell, J., and T. Storer. 1924. Animal life in the Yosemite. University of California Press, Berkeley, California, USA.
27. Hageman, K. J., S. L. Simonich, D. H. Campbell, G. R. Wilson, and D. H. Landers. 2006. Atmospheric deposition of current-use and historic-use pesticides in snow at national parks in the western United States. Environmental Science and Technology 40:3174-3180.
28. Hair, J. F., Jr., R. E. Anderson, R. L. Tatham, and W. C. Black. 1998. Multivariate data analysis. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, USA.
29. Hastie, T., and R. Tibshirani. 1991. Generalized additive models. Chapman and Hall, New York, New York, USA.
30. Hayes, T. B., A. Collins, M. Lee, M. Mendoza, N. Noriega, A. Stuart, and A. Vonk. 2002. Hermaphroditic, demasculinized frogs after exposure to the herbicide atrazine at low ecologically relevant doses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 99:5476-5480.
31. Hayes, T. P., J. J. R. Kinney, and N. J. M. Wheeler. 1984. California surface wind climatology. California Air Resources Board, Aerometric Data Division, Aerometric Projects and Laboratory Branch, Meteorology Section, Sacramento, California, USA.
32. Hobert, J. P., N. S. Altman, and C. S. Schofield. 1997. Analyses of fish species richness with spatial covariates. Journal of the American Statistical Association 92:846-855.
33. Hosmer, D. W., and S. Lemeshow. 1989. Applied logistic regression. Wiley, New York, New York, USA.
34. IUCN. 2003. 2003 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, Cambridge, UK.
35. Jennings, M. R., and M. P. Hayes. 1994. Amphibian and reptile species of special concern in California. California Department of Fish and Game, Inland Fisheries Division, Rancho Cordova, California, USA.
36. Kiesecker, J. M. 2002. Synergism between trematode infection and pesticide exposure: a link to amphibian limb deformities in nature? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 99:9900-9904.
37. Kiesecker, J. M., A. R. Blaustein, and L. K. Belden. 2001. Complex causes of amphibian population declines. Nature 410:681-683.
38. Knapp, R. A. 2005. Effects of nonnative fish and habitat characteristics on lentic herpetofauna in Yosemite National Park, USA. Biological Conservation 121:265-279.
39. Knapp, R. A., C. P. Hawkins, J. Ladau, and J. G. McClory. 2005. Fauna of Yosemite National Park lakes has low resistance but high resilience to fish introductions. Ecological Applications 15:835-847.
40. Knapp, R. A., and K. R. Matthews. 1998. Eradication of non-native fish by gill-netting from a small mountain lake in California. Restoration Ecology 6:207-213.
41. Knapp, R. A., and K. R. Matthews. 2000. Non-native fish introductions and the decline of the mountain yellow-legged frog from within protected areas. Conservation Biology 14:428-438.
42. Knapp, R. A., K. R. Matthews, H. K. Preisler, and R. Jellison. 2003. Developing probabilistic models to predict amphibian site occupancy in a patchy landscape. Ecological Applications 13:1069-1082.
43. Knapp, R. A., K. R. Matthews, and O. Sarnelle. 2001. Resistance and resilience of alpine lake fauna to fish introductions. Ecological Monographs 71:401-421.
44. Legendre, P. 1993. Spatial autocorrelation: trouble or new paradigm? Ecology 74:1659-1673.
45. Legendre, P., and M.-J. Fortin. 1989. Spatial pattern and ecological analysis. Vegetatio 80:107-138.
46. LeNoir, J. S., L. L. McConnell, G. M. Fellers, T. M. Cahill, and J. N. Seiber. 1999. Summertime transport of current-use pesticides from California's Central Valley to the Sierra Nevada mountain range, USA. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 18:2715-2722.
47. Linder, G., S. K. Krest, and D. W. Sparling, editors. 2003. Amphibian decline: an integrated analysis of multiple stressor effects. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), Pensacola, Florida, USA.
48. Marco, A., and A. R. Blaustein. 1999. The effects of nitrite on behavior and metamorphosis in Cascades frogs (Rana cascadae). Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 18:946-949.
49. Matthews, K. R., and K. L. Pope. 1999. A telemetric study of the movement patterns and habitat use of Rana muscosa, the mountain yellow-legged frog, in a high-elevation basin in Kings Canyon National Park, California. Journal of Herpetology 33:615-624.
50. McConnell, L. L., J. S. LeNoir, S. Datta, and J. N. Seiber. 1998. Wet deposition of current-use pesticides in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, California, USA. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 17:1908-1916.
51. Mullally, D. P., and J. D. Cunningham. 1956. Ecological relations of Rana muscosa at high elevations in the Sierra Nevada. Herpetologica 12:189-198.
52. Pounds, J. A., et al. 2006. Widespread amphibian extinctions from epidemic disease driven by global warming. Nature 439:161-167.
53. Relyea, R. A. 2003. Predator cues and pesticides: a double dose of danger for amphibians. Ecological Applications 13:1515-1521.
54. Relyea, R. A., and M. Mills. 2001. Predator-induced stress makes the pesticide carbaryl more deadly to gray treefrog tadpoles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 98:2491-2496.
55. Sparling, D. W., G. M. Fellers, and L. L. McConnell. 2001. Pesticides and amphibian population declines in California, USA. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 20:1591-1595.
56. S-PLUS. 2001. S-PLUS 6 for Windows user's guide. Insightful Corporation, Seattle, Washington, USA.
57. Stebbins, R. C. 2003. A field guide to western reptiles and amphibians. Third edition. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
58. Stuart, S. N., J. S. Chanson, N. A. Cox, B. E. Young, A. S. L. Rodrigues, D. L. Fischman, and R. W. Waller. 2004. Status and trends of amphibian declines and extinctions worldwide. Science 306:1783-1786.
59. Taylor, S. K., E. S. Williams, and K. W. Mills. 1999. Effects of malathion on disease susceptibility in Woodhouse's toads. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 35:536-541.
60. Vredenburg, V. T. 2004. Reversing introduced species effects: experimental removal of introduced fish leads to rapid recovery of a declining frog. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 101:7646-7650.
61. Vredenburg, V. T., G. M. Fellers, and C. Davidson. 2005. The mountain yellow-legged frog (Rana muscosa). Pages 563-566 in M. J. Lannoo, editor. Status and conservation of U.S. amphibians. University of California Press, Berkeley, California, USA.
62. Zabik, J. M., and J. N. Seiber. 1993. Atmospheric transport of organophosphate pesticides from California's Central Valley to the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Journal of Environmental Quality 22:80-90.