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- Title
EFFECTS OF TIMBER HARVESTING ON POND-BREEDING AMPHIBIAN PERSISTENCE: TESTING THE EVACUATION HYPOTHESIS.
- Authors
Semlitsch, Raymond D.; Conner, Christopher A.; Hocking, Daniel J.; Ritrenhouse, Tracy A. G.; Harper, Elizabeth B.
- Abstract
The article presents a summary of the mechanisms by which abundance of amphibians may initially decline following timber harvest into three testable hypotheses. The three hypotheses include, mortality, retreat and evacuation. In this context, the authors tested the evacuation hypothesis within a large-scale, replicated experiment. Drift fences with pitfall traps were used to capture pond-breeding amphibians moving out of experimental clearcut quadrants and into control quadrants at four replicate arrays located within the Daniel Boone Conservation Area on the upper Ozark Plateau in Warren County, Missouri.
- Subjects
MISSOURI; AMPHIBIANS; VERTEBRATES; HERPETOLOGY; CAPTIVE amphibians; SALAMANDERS; HARVESTING; HABITATS; ANIMAL research
- Publication
Ecological Applications, 2008, Vol 18, Issue 2, p283
- ISSN
1051-0761
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1890/07-0853.1