Effects of timber management on pond-breeding salamanders

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1034-1041

  Morris, Katrina M ^a,b   Maret, Timothy J ^a  

^a SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Georgia Department of Natural Resources   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambystoma spp.; Amphibians; Forestry; Salamanders; Temporary ponds; Timber harvesting; Timber management; Vernal pools

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; CLEARCUTTING; COMPACTION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT TYPE; POND; SOIL TEMPERATURE; TIMBER HARVESTING;

AMBYSTOMA; AMBYSTOMA MACULATUM; AMBYSTOMA OPACUM; AMPHIBIA; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 36749005518     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2005-469     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Ash, A. N. 1995. Effects of clearcutting on litter parameters in the southern blue ridge mountains. Castanea 60:89-97.
2. Ash, A. N. 1997. Disappearance and return of Plethodontid salamanders to clearcut plots in the southern blue ridge mountains. Conservation Biology 11:983-989.
3. Ash, A. N., and R. C. Brace. 1994. Impact of timber harvesting on salamanders. Conservation Biology 8:300-301.
4. Aubry, K. B. 2000. Amphibians in managed, second-growth douglas-fir forests. Journal of Wildlife Management 64:1041-1052.
5. Blaustein, A. R., and D. B. Wake. 1990. Declining amphibian populations: a global phenomenon? Trends in Ecology 8c Evolution 5:203-204.
6. Blaustein, A. R., D. B. Wake, and W. P. Sousa. 1994. Amphibian declines: judging stability, persistence, and susceptibility of populations to local and global extinctions. Conservation Biology 8:60-71.
7. Chazal, A. C., and P. H. Niewiarowski. 1998. Responses of mole salamanders to clearcutting: using field experiments in forest management. Ecological Applications 8:1133-1143.
8. Crawford, E., and A. Kurta. 2000. Color of pitfall affects trapping success for anurans and shrews. Herpetological Review 31:222-224.
9. Dahlgren, R. A., and C. T. Driscoll. 1994. The effects of whole-tree dearcutting on soil processes at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, New Hampshire, USA. Plant and Soil 158:239-262.
10. DeMaynadier, P. G., and M. L. Hunter, Jr. 1999. Forest canopy closure and juvenile emigration by pool-breeding amphibians in Maine. Journal of Wildlife Management 63:441-450.
11. Dodd, C. K., Jr. 1991. The status of the red hills salamander, Phaeognathus hubrichti, Alabama, USA 1976-1988. Biological Conservation 55:57-75.
12. Faccio, S. D. 2003. Postbreeding emigration and habitat use by Jefferson and spotted salamanders in Vermont. Journal of Herpetology 37:479-489.
13. Gent, J. A., Jr., R. Ballard, and A. E. Hassan. 1983. Impact of harvesting and site preparation on the physical properties of lower coastal plain forest soils. Soil Science Society of America Journal 47:595-598.
14. Grialou, J. A., S. D. West, and R. N. Wilkins. 2000. The effects of forest clearcut harvesting and thinning on terrestrial salamanders. Journal of Wildlife Management 64:105-113.
15. Harper, C. A., and D. C. Guynn, Jr. 1999. Factors affecting salamander density and distribution within four forest types in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Forest Ecology and Management 114:245-252.
16. Harpole, D. N., and C. A. Haas. 1999. Effects of seven silvicultural treatments on terrestrial salamanders. Forest Ecology and Management 114:349-356.
17. Hatchell, G. E., C. W. Ralston, and R. R. Foil. 1970. Soil disturbance in logging. Journal of Forestry 68:772-775.
18. Houlahan, J. E., C. S. Findlay, B. R. Schmidt, A. H. Meyer, and S. L. Kuzmin. 2000. Quantitative evidence for global amphibian population declines. Nature 404:752-755.
19. Howard, J. H., and A. R. Caschetta. 1999. Effects of clearcutting on amphibian abundance in western Maryland. Northeast Wildlife 54:35-43.
20. Johnson, J. E., D. W. Smith, and J. A Burger. 1985. Effects on the forest floor of whole tree harvesting in an Appalachian oak forest. American Midland Naturalist 114:51-61.
21. Knutson, M. G., J. R. Sauer, D. A. Olsen, M. J. Mossman, L. M. Hemesath, and M. J. Lannoo. 1999. Effects of landscape composition and wetland fragmentation on frog and toad abundance and species richness in Iowa and Wisconsin, U.S.A. Conservation Biology 13:1437-1446.
22. Kolozsvary, M. B., and R. K. Swihart. 1999. Habitat fragmentation and the distribution of amphibians: patch and landscape correlates in farmland. Canadian Journal of Zoology 77:1288-1299.
23. Laan, R., and B. Verboom. 1990. Effects of pool size and isolation on amphibian communities. Biological Conservation 54:251-262.
24. Mitchell, J. C., S. C. Rinehart, J. F. Pagels, K. A. Buhlmann, and C. A. Pague. 1997. Factors influencing amphibian and small mammal assemblages in central Appalachian forests. Forest Ecology and Management 96:65-76.
25. Naughton, G. P., C. B. Henderson, K. R. Foresman, and R. L. McGraw, II. 2000. Long-toed salamanders in harvested and intact douglas fir forests of western Montana. Ecological Applications 10:1681-1689.
26. Petranka, J. W. 1998. Salamanders of the United States and Canada. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., USA.
27. Petranka, J. W., M. E. Eldridge, and K. E. Haley. 1993. Effects of timber harvesting on southern Appalachian salamanders. Conservation Biology 7:363-370.
28. Pough, H., E. M. Smith, D. H. Rhodes, and A. Llazo. 1987. The abundance of salamanders in forest stands with different histories of disturbance. Forest Ecology and Management 20:1-9.
29. Raymond, L. R., and L. M. Hardy. 1991. Effects of a clearcut on a population of the mole salamander, Ambystoma talpoideum, in an adjacent unaltered forest. Journal of Herpetology 25:509-512.
30. Renken, R. B., W. K. Gram, D. K. Fantz, S. C. Richter, T. J. Miller, K. B. Ricke, B. Russell, and X. Wang. 2004. Effects of forest management on amphibians and reptiles in Missouri Ozark forests. Conservation Biology 18:174-188.
31. Rothermel, B. B., and R. D. Semlitsch. 2002. An experimental investigation of landscape resistance of forest versus old-field habitats to emigrating juvenile amphibians. Conservation Biology 16:1324-1322.
32. Semlitsch, R. D. 1998. Biological delineation of terrestrial buffer zones for pond breeding salamanders. Conservation Biology 12:1113-1119.
33. Semlitsch, R. D. 2000. Principles for management of aquatic-breeding amphibians. Journal of Wildlife Management 64:615-631.
34. Shoop, C. R. 1968. Migratory orientation of Ambystoma maculatum: movements near breeding ponds and displacements of migrating individuals. Biological Bulletin 135:230-238.
35. Sokal, R. R., and F. J. Rohlf. 1995. Biometry. Third edition. Freeman, San Francisco, California, USA.
36. Stuart, S. N., J. S. Chanson, N. A. Cox, B. E. Young, A. S. L. Rodrugues, D. L. Fischman, and R. W. Waller. 2004. Status and trends of amphibian declines and extinctions worldwide. Science 306:1783-1786.
37. Vasconcelos, D., and A. J. K. Calhoun. 2004. Movement patterns of adult and juvenile Rana sylvatica (LeConte) and Ambystoma maculatum (Shaw) in three restored seasonal pools in Maine. Journal of Herpetology 38:551-561.
38. Vitt, L. J., J. P. Caldwell, H. M. Wilbur, and D. C. Smith. 1990. Amphibians as harbingers of decay. Bioscience 40:418.
39. Waldick, R. 1997. Effects of forestry practices on amphibian populations in eastern North America. Herpetological Conservation 1:191-205.
40. Ward, J. S., and T. E. Worthley. 2003. Forest regeneration handbook. Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, USA.