Influence of drought on salamander occupancy of isolated wetlands on the southeastern coastal plain of the united states

Wetlands

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 345-354

  Walls, Susan C ^a   Barichivich, William J ^a   Brown, Mary E ^a   Scott, David E ^b   Hossack, Blake R ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Drought; Mole salamander; Occupancy dynamics; Pond breeding amphibians; Wetland hydrology

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL PLAIN; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DROUGHT; HYDROPERIOD; POND; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; WETLAND;

UNITED STATES;

AMBYSTOMA; AMBYSTOMA TALPOIDEUM; AMPHIBIA; INSECTIVORA; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 84902511974     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: 19436246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13157-013-0391-3     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. Babbitt KJ (2005) The relative importance of wetland size and hydroperiod for amphibians in southern New Hampshire, USA. Wetl Ecol Manag 13:269-279
2. Babbitt KJ, Tanner GW (2000) Use of temporary wetlands by anurans in a hydrologically modified landscape. Wetlands 20:313-322
3. Babbitt KJ, Baber MJ, Tarr TL (2003) Patterns of larval amphibian distribution along a wetland hydroperiod gradient. Can J Zool 81:1539-1552
4. Blaustein RJ (2008) Biodiversity hotspot: the Florida panhandle. BioScience 58:784-790
5. Brooks RT (2004) Weather-related effects on woodland vernal pool hydrology and hydroperiod. Wetlands 24:104-114
6. Brooks RT (2009) Potential impacts of global climate change on the hydrology and ecology of ephemeral freshwater systems of the forests of the northeastern United States. Climate Change 95:469-483
7. Burnham KP, Anderson DR (2002) Model selection and multimodal inference: a practical information-theoretic approach, 2nd edn. Springer, New York
8. Church DR, Bailey LL, Wilbur HM, Kendall WL, Hines JE (2007) Iteroparity in the variable environment of the salamander Ambystoma tigrinum. Ecology 2007:891-903
9. Comer P, Goodin K, Tomaino A, Hammerson G, Kittel G, Menard S, Nordman C, Pyne M, Reid M, Sneddon L, Snow K (2005) Biodiversity values of geographically isolated wetlands in the United States. NatureServe, Arlington
10. Daszak P, Scott DE, Kilpatrick AM, Faggioni C, Gibbons JW, Porter D (2005) Amphibian population declines at Savannah River Site are linked to climate, not chytridiomycosis. Ecology 86:3232-3237
11. Dodd CK Jr (1993) Cost of living in an unpredictable environment: the ecology of striped newts Notophthalmus perstriatus during a prolonged drought. Copeia 1993:605-614
12. Dodd CK Jr (1994) The effects of drought on population structure, activity, and orientation of toads (Bufo quercicus and B. terrestris) at a temporary pond. Ethol Ecol Evol 6:331-349
13. Dodd CK Jr (1995) The ecology of a sandhills population of the eastern narrow-mouthed toad, Gastrophyrne carolinensis, during a drought. Bull Fla Mus Nat Hist 38:11-41
14. Dodd CK Jr, Barichivich WJ, Johnson SA, Staiger JS (2007) Changes in a northwestern Florida gulf coast herpetofaunal community over a 28-y period. Am Midl Nat 158:29-48
15. Earl JA, Luhring TM, Williams BK, Semlitsch RD (2011) Biomass export of salamanders and anurans from ponds is affected differentially by changes in canopy cover. Freshw Biol 56:2473-2482
16. Fauth JE (1999) Identifying potential keystone species from field data - an example from temporary ponds. Ecol Lett 2:36-43
17. Gibbons JW, Winne CT, Scott DE, Willson JD, Glaudas X, Andrews KM, Todd BD, Fedewa LA, Wilkinson L, Tsaliagos RN, Harper SJ, Greene JL, Tuberville TD, Metts BS, Dorcas ME, Nestor JP, Young CA, Akre T, Reed RN, Buhlmann KA, Norman J, Croshaw DA, Hagen C, Rothermel BB (2006) Remarkable amphibian biomass and abundance in an isolated wetland: implications for wetland conservation. Conserv Biol 20:1457-1465
18. Houlahan JE, Findlay CS, Schmidt BR, Meyer AH, Kuzmin SL (2000) Quantitative evidence for global amphibian population declines. Nature 404:752-755
19. Johnson SA, Barichivich WJ (2004) A simple technique for trapping Siren lacertina, Amphiuma means, and other aquatic vertebrates. J Freshw Ecol 19:263-269
20. Karl TR, Melillo JM, Peterson TC (eds) (2009) Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
21. Kinkead KE, Otis DL (2007) Estimating superpopulation size and annual probability of breeding for pond-breeding salamanders. Herpetologica 63:151-162
22. Lawler JJ, Shafer SL, White D, Kareiva P, Maurer EP, Blaustein AR, Baratlein PJ (2009) Projected climate-induced faunal change in the Western Hemisphere. Ecology 90:588-597
23. MacKenzie D, Nichols JD, Royle JA, Pollock KH, Bailey LA, Hines JE (2006) Occupancy estimation and modeling: inferring patterns and dynamics of species occurrence. Elsevier Academic Press, Burlington
24. Mattfeldt SD, Bailey LL, Grant EHC (2009) Monitoring multiple species: estimating state variables and exploring the efficacy of a monitoring program. Biol Conserv 142:720-737
25. Maxwell JT, Soulé PT, Ortegren JT, Knapp PA (2012) Drought-busting tropical cyclones in the southeastern Atlantic United States: 1950-2008. Ann Assoc Am Geogr 102:259-275
26. McMenamin SK, Hadly EA (2010) Developmental dynamics of Ambystoma tigrinum in a changing landscape. BMC Ecology 10:10 (http://www.biomedcentral. com/1472-6785/10/10)
27. Muths E, Jung RE, Bailey LL, AdamsMJ, Corn PS, Dodd CK Jr, Fellers GM, SadinskiWJ, Schwalbe CR,Walls SC, Fisher RN, Gallant AL, Battaglin WA, Green DE (2005) Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative (ARMI): A successful start to a national program in the United States. Appl Herpetol 2:355-371
28. National Assessment Synthesis Team (2000) Climate Change Impacts on the United States: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington
29. National Climatic Data Center (2012) Climate Data Online. Climate Indices. http://www7.ncdc.noaa.gov/CDO/cdodivisionalselect. cmd?nationSelect= 110&stateSelect=08&divisionSelect= 01&startMonthSelect= 01&startYearSelect=1895&endMonth Select=12&endYearSelect= 2011&outputRadio=Text&text OutputSelect=space&method= doTextOutput&reqtype=division. Accessed 19 June 2012
30. Palis JG, Aresco MJ, Kilpatrick S (2006) Breeding biology of a Florida population of Ambystoma cingulatum (Flatwoods salamander) during a drought. Southeast Nat 5:1-8
31. Paton PWC, Crouch WB III (2002) Using the phenology of pondbreeding amphibians to develop conservation strategies. Conserv Biol 16:194-204
32. Patterson KK (1978) Life history aspects of paedogenic populations of the mole salamander, Ambystoma talpoideum. Copeia 1978:649-655
33. Pechmann JHK, Scott DE, Semlitsch RD, Gibbons JW (1989) Influence of wetland hydroperiod on diversity and abundance of metamorphosing juvenile amphibians. Wetl Ecol Manag 1:1-9
34. Price SJ, Browne RA, Dorcas ME (2012) Resistance and resilience of a stream salamander to supraseasonal drought. Herpetologica 68:312-323
35. Regester KJ, Lips KR, Whiles MR (2006) Energy flow and subsidies associated with the complex life cycle of ambystomatid salamanders in ponds and adjacent forest in southern Illinois. Oecologia 147:303-314
36. Regester KJ, Whiles MR, Lips KR (2008) Variation in the trophic basis of production and energy flow associated with emergence of larval salamander assemblages from forest ponds. Freshw Biol 53:1754-1767
37. Richter SC, Young JE, Johnson GN, Seigel RA (2003) Stochastic variation in reproductive success of a rare frog, Rana sevosa: implications for conservation and for monitoring amphibian populations. Biol Conserv 111:171-177
38. Semlitsch RD (1985) Analysis of climatic factors influencing migrations of the salamander Ambystoma talpoideum. Copeia 1985:477-489
39. Semlitsch RD (1987) Relationship of pond drying to the reproductive success of the salamander Ambystoma talpoideum. Copeia 1987:61-69
40. Semlitsch RD, Scott DE, Pechmann JHK (1988) Time and size at metamorphosis related to adult fitness in Ambystoma talpoideum. Ecology 69:184-192
41. Semlitsch RD, Harris RN, Wilbur HM (1990) Paedomorphosis in Ambystoma talpoideum: maintenance of population variation and alternative life history pathways. Evolution 44:1604-1613
42. Semlitsch RD, Scott DE, Pechmann JHK, Gibbons JW (1996) Structure and dynamics of an amphibian community: evidence from a 16-yr study of a natural pond. In: Cody ML, Smallwood JA (eds) Long-term studies of vertebrate communities. Academic, San Diego, pp 217-248
43. Skelly DK (1997) Tadpole communities: pond permanence and predation are powerful forces shaping the structure of tadpole communities. Am Sci 85:36-45
44. Smith DC (1987) Adult recruitment in chorus frogs: effects of size and date at metamorphosis. Ecology 68:344-350
45. Snodgrass JW, Bryan AL Jr, Burger J (2000) Development of expectations of larval amphibian assemblage structure in southeastern depression wetlands. Ecol Appl 10:1219-1229
46. Stuart SN, Chanson JS, Cox NA, Young BE, Rodrigues ASL, Fishman DL, Waller RW (2004) Status and trends of amphibian declines and extinctions worldwide. Science 306:1783-1786
47. Taylor BE, Scott DE, Gibbons JW (2006) Catastrophic reproductive failure, terrestrial survival, and persistence of the marbled salamander. Conserv Biol 20:792-801
48. Walls SC, Altig R (1986) Female reproductive biology and larval life history of Ambystoma salamanders: comparison of egg size, hatchling size, and larval growth. Herpetologica 42:334-345
49. Walls SC, Barichivich WJ, Brown ME (2011) Ambystoma talpoideum (Mole Salamander). Oviposition mode and timing. Herpetol Rev 42:579-580
50. Wellborn GA, Skelly DK, Werner EE (1996) Mechanisms creating community structure across a freshwater habitat gradient. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 27:337-363
51. Werner EE, Skelly DK, Relyea RA, Yurewicz KL (2007) Amphibian species richness across environmental gradients. Oikos 116:1697-1712
52. Werner EE, Relyea RA, Yurewicz KL, Skelly DK, Davis CJ (2009) Comparative landscape dynamics of two anuran species: climatedriven interaction of local and regional processes. Ecol Monogr 79:503-521
53. Wilbur HM (1987) Regulation of structure in complex systems: experimental temporary pond communities. Ecology 68:1437-1452
54. Wilbur HM, Collins JP (1973) Ecological aspects of amphibian metamorphosis. Science 182:1305-1314
55. Willson JD, Winne CT, Pilgrim MA, Romanek CS, Gibbons JW (2010) Seasonal variation in terrestrial resource subsidies influences trophic niche width and overlap in two aquatic snake species: a stable isotope approach. Oikos 119:1161-1171
56. Zipkin EF, Grant EHC, Fagan WF (2012) Evaluating the predictive abilities of community occupancy models using AUC while accounting for imperfect detection. Ecol Appl 22:1962-1972