Canopy closure, competition, and the endangered dusky gopher frog

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1845-1852

  Thurgate, Nicole Y ^a,b   Pechmann, Joseph H K ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Canopy closure; Competition; Persistence; Rana sevosa; Rana sphenocephala; Rarity

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FROG; GROWTH RESPONSE; METAMORPHOSIS; POND; RARITY; SURVIVAL;

ANURA; FELIDAE; RANA SEVOSA; RANA SPHENOCEPHALA;

EID: 48249138985     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2005-586     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Alford, R. A. 1999. Ecology resource use, competition, and predation. Pages 240-278 in R. W. McDiarmid and R. Altig, editors. Tadpoles: the biology of anuran larvae. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
2. Allen, M. J. 1932. A survey of the amphibians and reptiles of Harrison County, Mississippi. American Museum Novitiates 542:1-20.
3. Bailey, M. A. 1991. The dusky gopher frog in Alabama. Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science 62:28-34.
4. Bardsley, L., and T. J. C. Beebee. 2001. Strength and mechanisms of competition between common and endangered anurans. Ecological Applications 11:453-463.
5. Berven, K. A. 1990. Factors affecting population fluctuations in larval and adult stages of the wood frog (Rana sylvatica). Ecology 71:1599-1608.
6. Blaustein, L., J. E. Garb, D. Shebitz, and E. Nevo. 1999. Microclimate, developmental plasticity and community structure in artificial temporary ponds. Hydrobiologia 392:187-196.
7. De Steven, D., and M. M. Toner. 2004. Vegetation of upper coastal plain depression wetlands: environmental templates and wetland dynamics within a landscape framework. Wetlands 24:23-42.
8. Dirzo, R., and P. H. Raven. 2003. Global state of biodiversity and loss. Annual Review of Energy and the Environment 28:137-167.
9. Folkerts, G. W. 1997. Citronelle ponds: little-known wetlands of the central gulf coastal plain. Natural Areas Journal 17:6-16.
10. Goin, C. J., and M. G. Netting. 1940. A new gopher frog from the Gulf Coast with comments upon the Rana aereolata group. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 28:137-169.
11. Green, D. E., K. A. Converse, and A. K. Schrader. 2002. Epizootiology of sixty-four amphibian morbidity and mortality events in the USA, 1996-2001. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 969:323-339.
12. Griffies, M. R., and R. G. Jaeger. 1998. Competition leads to an extinction-prone species of salamander: interspecific territoriality in a metapopulation. Ecology 79:2494-2502.
13. Halverson, M. A., D. K. Skelly, J. M. Kiesecker, and L. K. Freidenburg. 2003. Forest-mediated light regime linked to amphibian distribution and performance. Oecologia 134:360-364.
14. Jaeger, R. G. 1972. Competitive exclusion as a factor influencing the distributions of two species of terrestrial salamanders. Ecology 52:632-637.
15. Kirkman, L. K., P. C. Goebel, L. West, M. B. Drew, and B. J. Palik. 2000. Depressional wetland vegetation types: a question of plant community development. Wetlands 20:373-385.
16. Kushlan, J. A. 1990. Freshwater marshes. Pages 324-363 in R. L. Myers and J. J. Ewel, editors. Ecosystems of Florida. University of Central Florida Press, Orlando, USA.
17. Littell, R. C., R. J. Freund, and P. C. Spector. 1991. SAS© system for linear models. Third edition. SAS Institute, Cary, North Carolina, USA.
18. Milliken, G. A., and D. E.Johnson. 1984. Analysis of messy data. Volume 1: designed experiments. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, New York, USA.
19. Morin, P. J., and E. A. Johnson. 1988. Experimental studies of asymmetric competition among anurans. Oikos 53:398-407.
20. Parris, M. J., and R. D. Semlitsch. 1998. Asymmetric competition in larval amphibian communities: conservation implications for the northern crawfish frog, Rana areolata circulosa. Oecologia 116:219-226.
21. Pechmann, J. H. K., R. A. Estes, D. E. Scott, and J. W. Gibbons. 2001. Amphibian colonization and use of ponds created for trial mitigation of wetland loss. Wetlands 21:93-111.
22. Pianka, E. R. 2000. Evolutionary ecology. Sixth edition. Benjamin-Cummings, Addison-Wesley-Longman, San Francisco, California, USA.
23. Richter, S. C., and R. A. Seigel. 2002. Annual variation in the population ecology of the endangered gopher frog, Rana sevosa Goin and Netting. Copeia 4:962-972.
24. Richter, S. C., J. E. Young, G. N. Johnson, and R. A Seigel. 2003. Stochastic variation in reproductive success of a rare frog, Rana sevosa: implications for conservation and for monitoring amphibian populations. Biological Conservation 111:171-177.
25. Richter, S. C., J. E. Young, R. A Seigel, and G. N Johnson. 2001. Postbreeding movements of the dark gopher frog, Rana sevosa Goin and Netting: implications for conservation and management. Journal of Herpetology 35:316-321.
26. Semlitsch, R. D. 2000. Critical elements for biologically based recovery plans of aquatic-breeding amphibians. Conservation Biology 16:619-629.
27. Skelly, D. K. 2001. Distributions of pond-breeding anurans: an overview of mechanisms. Israel Journal of Zoology 47:313-332.
28. Skelly, D. K. 2004. Microgeographic countergradient variation in the wood frog, Rana sylvatica. Evolution 58:160-165.
29. Skelly, D. K., L. K. Freidenburg, and J. M. Kiesecker. 2002. Forest canopy and the performance of larval amphibians. Ecology 83:983-992.
30. Skelly, D. K., and J. Golon. 2003. Assimilation of natural benthic substrate by two species of tadpoles. Herpetologica 59:37-42.
31. Skelly, D. K., E. E. Werner, and S. A. Cortwright. 1999. Long-term distributional dynamics of a Michigan amphibian assemblage. Ecology 80:2326-2337.
32. Smith, D. D. 1987. Adult recruitment in chorus frogs: effects of size and date at metamorphosis. Ecology 68:344-350.
33. Smith, G. C., M. W. Patterson, and H. R. Trendell. 2000. The demise of the longleaf-pine ecosytem. Southeastern Geographer 40:75-92.
34. Ultsch, G. R., D. F. Bradford, and J. Freda. 1999. Physiology: coping with the environment. Pages 215-239 in R. W. McDiarmid and R. Altig, editors. Tadpoles: the biology of Anuran larvae. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
35. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2001. Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants; final rule to list the Mississippi gopher frog distinct population segment of dusky gopher frogs. Federal register 66:62993-63002.
36. Werner, E. E., and K. S. Glennmeier. 1999. Influence of forest canopy cover on the breeding pond distributions of several amphibian species. Copeia 1:1-12.
37. Wijesinghe, M. R., and M. D. Brooke. 2004. What causes the vulnerablility of endemic animals? A case study from Sri Lanka. Journal of Zoology 263:135-140.
38. Wilbur, H. M. 1987. Regulation of structure in complex systems: experimental temporary pond communities. Ecology 68:1437-1452.
39. Young, J. E., and B. I. Crother. 2001. Allozyme evidence for the separation of Rana areolata and Rana capita and for the resurrection of Rana sevosa. Copeia 2:382-388.