Multiple stressors and complex life cycles: Insights from a population-level assessment of breeding site contamination and terrestrial habitat loss in an amphibian

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2874-2882

  Salice, Christopher J ^a   Rowe, Christopher L ^b   Pechmann, Joseph H K ^c   Hopkins, William A ^d,e  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^e VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Complex life cycle; Gastrophryne carolinensis; Population level; Stochasticity

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; COMPLEX LIFE; GASTROPHRYNE CAROLINENSIS; POPULATION LEVELS; STOCHASTICITY;

COAL COMBUSTION; ECOSYSTEMS; LIFE CYCLE;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

AMPHIBIAN; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BREEDING SITE; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; COMBUSTION; DATA SET; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FROG; HABITAT LOSS; LIFE CYCLE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTION EFFECT; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; STOCHASTICITY; SURVIVAL; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ABIOTIC STRESS; AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; BIOTIC STRESS; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HABITAT; LAND BIOME; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TOAD; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BREEDING; BUFONIDAE; COAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; POPULATION DENSITY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; GASTROPHRYNE CAROLINENSIS;

EID: 81155151404     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.680     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Wilbur HM. 1980. Complex life cycles. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 11: 67-93.
2. Dunson WA, Wyman RL, Corbett ES. 1992. A symposium on amphibian declines and habitat acidification. J Herpetol 26: 349-352.
3. Lips K, Reeve J, Witters L. 2003. Ecological traits predicting amphibian population declines in Central America. Conserv Biol 17: 1078-1088.
4. Hero J, Williams S, Magnusson W. 2005. Ecological traits of declining amphibians in upland areas of eastern Australia. J Zool 267: 221-232.
5. Hellriegel B. 2000. Single-or multistage regulation in complex life cycles: Does it make a difference? Oikos 88: 239-249.
6. Delis PR, Mushinsky HR, McCoy ED. 1996. Decline of some west-central Florida anuran populations in response to habitat degradation. Biodiv Conserv 5: 1579-1595.
7. Marsh D, Pearman P. 1997. Effects of habitat fragmentation on the abundance of two species of Leptodactylid frogs in an Andean montane forest. Conserv Biol 11: 1323-1328.
8. Knutson M, Sauer J, Olsen D, Mossman M, Hemesath L, Lannoo M. 1999. Effects of landscape composition and wetland fragmentation on frog and toad abundance and species richness in Iowa and Wisconsin, USA. Conserv Biol 13: 1437.
9. Caswell H. 2001. Matrix Population Models, 2nd ed. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA, USA.
10. Morris W, Doak D. 2002. Quantitative Conservation Biology. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland MA, USA.
11. Barnthouse L, Munns W, Sorensen M. 2007. Population-level Ecological Risk Assessment. SETAC, Pensicola, FL, USA.
12. Pechmann J. 1994. Population regulation in complex life cycles: Aquatic and terrestrial density-dependence in pond-breeding amphibians. PhD thesis. Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
13. Hopkins W, DuRant S, Staub B, Rowe C, Jackson B. 2006. Reproduction, embryonic development, and maternal transfer of contaminants in the amphibian Gastrophryne carolinensis. Environ Health Perspect 114: 661-666.
14. Collins J, Storfer A. 2003. Global amphibian declines: Sorting the hypotheses. Divers Distrib 9: 89-98.
15. Taylor BE, Scott DE, Gibbons JW. 2006. Catastrophic reproductive failure, terrestrial survival, and persistence of the marbled salamander. Conserv Biol 20: 792-801.
16. Bartlett RD, Bartlett PP. 1999. A Field Guide to Florida Reptiles and Amphibians. Gulf, Houston, TX, USA.
17. New Mexico Department of Game and Fish. 2002. Biota Information System of New Mexico (BISON), Species Account Great Plains Narrowmouth Toad, Gastrophryne olivacea. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
18. Electric Power Research Institute. 1997. Coal combustion by-products and low-volume wastes comanagement survey. Palo Alto, CA, USA.
19. Rowe C, Hopkins W, Congdon J. 2002. Ecotoxicological implications of aquatic disposal of coal combustion residues in the United States: A review. Environ Monit Assess 80: 207-276.
20. Snodgrass J, Hopkins W, Broughton J, Gwinn D, Baionno J, Burger J. 2004. Species-specific responses of developing anurans to coal combustion wastes. Aquat Toxicol 66: 171-182.
21. Brooks TM, Mittermeier RA, Mittermeier CG, Da Fonseca GAB, Rylands AB, Konstant WR, Flick P, Pilgrim J, Oldfield S, Magin G. 2002. Habitat loss and extinction in the hotspots of biodiversity. Conserv Biol 16: 909-923.
22. Semlitsch R, Bodie J. 2003. Biological criteria for buffer zones around wetlands and riparian habitats for amphibians and reptiles. Conserv Biol 17: 1219-1228.
23. Homan RN, Windmiller BS, Reed JM. 2004. Critical thresholds associated with habitat loss for two vernal pool-breeding amphibians. Ecol Appl 14: 1547-1553.
24. Trenham P, Shaffer H. 2005. Amphibian upland habitat use and its consequences for population viability. Ecol Appl 15: 1158-1168.
25. Harper E, Rittenhouse T, Semlitsch R. 2008. Demographic consequences of terrestrial habitat loss for pool-breeding amphibians: Predicting extinction risks associated with inadequate size of buffer zones. Conserv Biol 22: 1205-1215.
26. Semlitsch R, Scott D, Pechmann J, Gibbons J. 1996. Structure and dynamics of an amphibian community: Evidence from a 16-year study of a natural pond. In Cody ML, Smallwood JA, eds, Long-term Studies of Vertebrate Communities. Academic, San Diego, CA, USA, pp 217-248.
27. Conant R, Hudson R. 1949. Longevity records for reptiles and amphibians in the Philadelphia Zoological Garden. Herpetologica 5: 1-8.
28. Wilbur H. 1976. Density-dependent aspects of metamorphosis in Ambystoma and Rana sylvatica. Ecology 57: 1289-1296.
29. Wilbur H. 1977. Density-dependent aspects of growth and metamorphosis in Bufo americanus. Ecology 58: 196-200.
30. Smith-Gill S, Berven K. 1979. Predicting amphibian metamorphosis. Am Nat 113: 563-585.
31. Petranka J, Sih A. 1986. Environmental instability, competition, and density-dependent growth and survivorship of a stream-dwelling salamander. Ecology 67: 729-736.
32. Scott DE. 1990. Effects of larval density in Ambystoma opacum: An experiment large-scale field enclosures. Ecology 71: 296-306.
33. Vonesh J, De la Cruz O. 2002. Complex life cycles and density dependence: Assessing the contribution of egg mortality to amphibian declines. Oecologia 133: 325-333.
34. Henle K, Sarre S, Wiegand K. 2004. The role of density regulation in extinction processes and population viability analysis. Biodiv Conserv 13: 9-52.
35. Rowe C, Hopkins W, Coffman V. 2001. Failed recruitment of southern toads (Bufo terrestris) in a trace element-contaminated breeding habitat: Direct and indirect effects that may lead to a local population sink. Arch Environ Contam Toxicol 40: 399-405.
36. Snodgrass J, Hopkins W, Jackson B, Baionno J, Broughton J. 2005. Influence of larval period on responses of overwintering green frog (Rana clamitans) larvae exposed to contaminated sediments. Environ Toxicol Chem 24: 1508-1514.
37. Biek R, Funk W, Maxell B, Mills L. 2002. What Is missing in amphibian decline research: Insights from ecological sensitivity analysis. Conserv Biol 16: 728-734.
38. Vonesh JR, De la Cruz O. 2002. Complex life cycles and density dependence: Assessing the contribution of egg mortality to amphibian declines. Oecologia 133: 325-333.
39. Harper E, Semlitsch R. 2007. Density dependence in the terrestrial life history stage of two anurans. Oecologia 153: 879-889.
40. Dodd C. 1996. Use of terrestrial habitats by amphibians in the sandhill uplands of north-central Florida. Alytes 14: 42-52.
41. Dodd C. 1992. Biological diversity of a temporary pond herpetofauna in north Florida sandhills. Biodiv Conserv 1: 125-142.
42. Rowe C, Dunson W. 1995. Impacts of hydroperiod on growth and survival of larval amphibians in temporary ponds of central Pennsylvania, USA. Oecologia 102: 397-403.
43. Daszak P, Scott D, Kilpatrick A, Faggioni C, Gibbons J, Porter D. 2005. Amphibian population declines at Savannah River site are linked to climate, not chytridiomycosis. Ecology 86: 3232-3237.
44. Tanaka Y. 2003. Ecological risk assessment of pollutant chemicals: Extinction risk based on population-level effects. Chemosphere 53: 421-425.
45. Forbes V, Sibly R, Calow P. 2001. Toxicant impacts on density-limited populations: A critical review of theory, practice, and results. Ecol Appl 11: 1249-1257.
46. Moe S, Stenseth N, Smith R. 2002. Density-dependent compensation in blowfly populations give indirectly positive effects of a toxicant. Ecology 83: 1597-1603.
47. Boone M. 2005. Juvenile frogs compensate for small metamorph size with terrestrial growth: Overcoming the effects of larval density and insecticide exposure. J Herpetol 39: 416-423.
48. Distel CA, Boone MD. 2010. Effects of aquatic exposure to the insecticide carbaryl are species-specific across life stages and mediated by heterospecific competitors in anurans. Funct Ecol 24: 1342-1352.
49. James SM, Semlitsch RD. 2011. Terrestrial performance of juvenile frogs in two habitat types after chronic larval exposure to a contaminant. J Herpetol 45: 186-194.
50. Rohr J, Palmer B. 2005. Aquatic herbicide exposure increases salamansder desiccation risk eight months later in a terrestrial environment. Environ Toxicol Chem 24: 1253-1258.
51. Scott D. 1994. The effect of larval density on adult demographic traits in Ambystoma opacum. Ecology 75: 1383-1396.
52. Chelgren N, Rosenberg D, Heppell S, Gitelman A. 2006. Carryover aquatic effects on survival of metamorphic frogs during pond emigration. Ecol Appl 16: 250-261.
53. Boone M, Semlitsch R. 2002. Interactions of an insecticide with competition and pond drying in amphibian communities. Ecol Appl 12: 307-316.
54. Mills N, Semlitsch R. 2004. Competition and predation mediate the indirect effects of an insecticide on southern leopard frogs. Ecol Appl 14: 1041-1054.
55. Metts B, Hopkins W, Nestor J. 2005. Interaction of an insecticide with larval density in pond-breeding salamanders (Ambystoma). Freshwater Biol 50: 685-696.
56. Roe J, Hopkins W, DuRant S, Unrine J. 2006. Effects of competition and coal-combustion wastes on recruitment and life history characteristics of salamanders in temporary wetlands. Aquatic Toxicol 79: 176-184.
57. Pellet J, Benedikt RS, Fabien F, Nocolas P, Kurt G. 2006. Density, climate and varying return points: An analysis of long-term population fluctuations in the threatened European tree frog. Oecologia 149: 65-71.
58. Pechmann J, Scott D, Semlitsch R, Caldwell J, Vitt L, Gibbons J. 1991. Declining amphibian populations: The problem of separating human impacts from natural fluctuations. Science 253: 892-895.
59. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 2007. Summary for Policymakers. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.