RESISTANCE AND RESILIENCE OF STREAM SALAMANDER POPULATIONS TO DISTURBANCE

Urbanization and drought represent two pervasive disturbances that affect animal inhabitants of small, first-order streams. Stream salamanders (Family Plethodontidae) represent the dominant vertebrate group and play important ecological roles in first-order streams, although they have often been neglected in previous studies on the effects of disturbance on system ecosystems. It was hypothesized that urbanization and drought would strongly influence vital rates (e.g., occupancy, abundance, survival, etc.) of salamander populations.

Grantor dc:publisher

Wake Forest University

Year dc:date.issued

2011

Author dc:creator

• Price, Steven John

• Desmognathus

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/36146

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:wakespace.lib.wfu.edu:10339/36146