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- Title
Logging Road Effects on Breeding-site Selection in Notophthalmus viridescens (Red-spotted Newt) and Three Ambystomatid Salamanders in South-central Pennsylvania.
- Authors
Chambers, David L.
- Abstract
This study examined possible effects of several abiotic parameters on breeding-pool selection of Ambystoma jeffersonianum (Jefferson Salamander), A. maculatum (Spotted Salamander), d. opacum (Marbled Salamander), and Notophthalmus viridescens (Red-spotted Newt). Twenty-four ephemeral pools and permanent ponds, all adjacent to a logging road, were observed in south-central Pennsylvania in 2006. There was a significant correlative effect of distance from the logging road on breeding-site selection. Specifically, the distance from the road significantly differed between the breeding-sites of Jefferson Salamanders and Red-spotted Newts and between those of Marbled Salamander and Red-spotted Newts with both ambystomatid species breeding farther from the road than Red-spotted Newts. This study supports the idea that ambystomatid salamander breeding-site selection can be influenced by habitat disturbance, while generalist species are not as easily influenced.
- Subjects
PENNSYLVANIA; ARTIFICIAL selection of animals; AMBYSTOMA jeffersonianum; LOGGING roads; SPOTTED salamander; AMBYSTOMA opacum; NOTOPHTHALMUS viridescens
- Publication
Northeastern Naturalist, 2008, Vol 15, Issue 1, p123
- ISSN
1092-6194
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1656/1092-6194(2008)15[123:LREOBS]2.0.CO;2