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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Ephemeral Wetlands"”.
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Testing The Peninsula Effect: Does It Affect Freshwater Crustaceans Inhabiting Ephemeral Wetlands On Florida's Ridges?
… I studied freshwater crustaceans in isolated wetlands because crustaceans are diverse and disperse passively among these discrete habitats. My study design and statistical analyses controlled for two of the three mechanisms (habitat and history) that may generate a peninsula effect to better …
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Interactions between Eastern Newts and Wood Frogs in an anthropogenically altered wetland system in eastern Kentucky
… ecosystem in eastern Kentucky is the presence of ephemeral wetlands. Ephemeral wetlands of the ridge-top ecosystem support an amphibian community assemblage characterized by species with short larval periods (e.g., Wood Frogs [<em>Lithobates sylvaticus<em>] and Marbled Salamanders [<em>Ambystoma …
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The Effects of Climate Change and Long-term Fire Suppression on Ephemeral Pond Communities in the Southeastern United States
In the southeastern United States, ephemeral wetlands in pine flatwoods provide important habitat for amphibians and aquatic invertebrates, but extensive deforestation has destroyed or isolated many wetlands and fire suppression has altered vegetation in others. My goals were to identify how …
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Efficacy Of Constructed Wetlands Of Various Depths For Natural Amphibian Community Conservation
<p>Wetlands provide critical habitat for a diverse group of amphibians and provide important ecosystem functions and services to humans. Despite this, most natural wetlands have been lost to land use practices. Consequently, constructing wetlands has become a common practice to mitigate for removed …
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Fairy shrimp (Anostraca) in the vernal pools of Eastern Washington
<p>Vernal pools are ephemeral wetlands that retain water annually from winter and spring precipitation and snowmelt but are dry the rest of the year. Though important habitats and sources of freshwater biodiversity, they are little accounted for in wetland conservation and restoration practices. …
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The effects of warming on carbon and microbial community wetland dynamics at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, Washington
<p>Wetlands are biodiverse ecosystems that play a key role in the biogeochemical cycling of carbon. In the face of global warming, wetland hydroperiods could shift causing changes in their functionality. My field experiment surveyed 3 plots within 12 wetlands of each hydroperiod class (i.e. 12 …
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Ecology and distribution of the Florida bog frog and flatwoods salamander on Eglin Air Force Base
… (Ambystoma cingulatum). I compared 13 breeding wetlands with different fire histories in addition to burned and unburned halves of a partiallyâ burned wetland. In general, areas that burned more recently had more open canopies, higher dissolved oxygen concentrations, higher water temperatures, …
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Hydrogeologic Characterization of a discharge wetland in northeastern Grand Forks County, North Dakota
… Dakota. Saline discharge occurs in a belt of ephemeral wetlands in the lake plain. The physical and chemical hydrology of .the Lunby-stewart saline discharge wetland were investigated in order to provide information which could facilitate land management strategies applicable to this and other …
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Amphibian and plant communities of natural and constructed upland-embedded wetlands in the Daniel Boone National Forest
<p>Wetlands fulfill many vital ecological functions, including providing habitat for amphibians and plants. Some wetlands, known as upland-embedded wetlands (UEWs), are depressional wetlands surrounded completely by upland habitat. This wetland type has been constructed in many areas for …
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Invasion Routes and Evolution of Brook Stickleback (Culaea inconstans) in Eastern Washington
… Average age of brook stickleback in permanent wetlands was significantly greater than that of fish in semi-permanent and ephemeral wetlands, but there was no significant difference in age structure between semi-permanent and ephemeral wetlands (permanent x̄ = 1.24, semi-permanent x̄ = 0.73, …
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Evolutionary potential of a dispersal-restricted species in response to climate change
… an annual plant species restricted to ephemeral wetlands called vernal pools in California to adapt to the projected patterns of climate change. Across <em>L. fremontii</em> distribution there is a latitudinal gradient in precipitation which, combined with reduced gene flow rates, might …
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Amphibian Community Composition And Disease Susceptibility In Ridge-Top Wetlands Of The Daniel Boone National Forest
<p>Ephemeral wetlands are a natural feature of the ridge-top ecosystem in the Daniel Boone National Forest (DBNF) in eastern Kentucky, and support a diverse amphibian assemblage characterized by species with short larval periods. However, hundreds of hydrologically permanent ponds have been …
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Validation Of Kentucky Wetlands Rapid Assessment Method (ky-Wram) Metrics Using Macroinvertebrate Communities Of Forested Depressional Wetlands
<p>The Kentucky Wetlands Rapid Assessment Method (KY-WRAM) is currently being developed by the collaborative efforts of the Kentucky Division of Water and Eastern Kentucky University as a tool to measure the function and condition of wetlands. To ensure the rapid assessment method properly …