A Case for Using Plethodontid Salamanders for Monitoring Biodiversity and Ecosystem Integrity of North American Forests

By H. Welsh, S. Droege. 2001

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, Insect Science

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Monitoring distributions using call surveys: estimating site occupancy, detection probabilities and inferring absence. (2005, background): “Amphibians are often considered reliable indicators of ecosystem health (Welsh and Droege, 2001).”
Initial Effects of Clearcutting and Alternative Silvicultural Practices on Terrestrial Salamander Abundance (2003, background): “Welsh and Droege (2001) suggest that terrestrial plethodontid salamanders would be ideal indicator species with which to monitor the biodiversity and ecosystem integrity of North American forests because of their abundance; their sensitivity to environmental stresses such as temperature (Spotila…”
Effects of Timber Harvest on Amphibian Populations: Understanding Mechanisms from Forest Experiments (2009, result): “This lack of data is of great concern because recent estimates indicate that 1896 species of amphibians worldwide, about one-third, are currently threatened with extinction (Stuart et al. 2004), and 89% of all threatened species are affected by habitat loss (Young et al. 2004).”
Assessing the fit of site-occupancy models (2004, background): “, longevity, sensitivity to environmental perturbation) which are believed to make them good indicators of forest biodiversity and integrity (Welsh and Droege 2001).”
Sex, isolation and fidelity: unbiased long-distance dispersal in a terrestrial amphibian (2006, background): “For many species, such as plethodontid salamanders (Welsh and Droege 2001), with low variance in demographic characteristics, this ‘‘rescue effect’’ (Brown and Kodric-Brown 1977) may not be noticeable (Green 2003).”
Biodiversity management approaches for stream–riparian areas: Perspectives for Pacific Northwest headwater forests, microclimates, and amphibians (2007, background): “They are proposed to be used as metrics of forest ecosystem health (Davic and Welsh, 2004; Welsh and Droege, 2001), with stream amphibians as specific indicators of aquatic ecosystem stress (Welsh and Ollivier, 1998).”
Monitoring Terrestrial Salamanders: Biases Caused by Intense Sampling and Choice of Cover Objects (2003, background): “Because of this, plethodontid salamanders have been proposed as good indicator species for monitoring environmental change (Welsh and Droege, 2001).”
EFFECTS OF FOREST ROADS ON THE ABUNDANCE AND ACTIVITY OF TERRESTRIAL SALAMANDERS (2004, background): “In some surveys, surface counts have been estimated to represent ,10% of the overall population, even during times that are conducive to surface activity (Welsh and Droege 2001).”
ESTIMATING SITE OCCUPANCY AND SPECIES DETECTION PROBABILITY PARAMETERS FOR TERRESTRIAL SALAMANDERS (2004, background): “Among amphibians, plethodontid salamanders have been promoted as indicators of overall biodiversity and forest ecosystem integrity (Welsh and Droege 2001).”
SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION IN DETECTION PROBABILITY OF PLETHODON SALAMANDERS USING THE ROBUST CAPTURE–RECAPTURE DESIGN (2004, background): “Variability of counts likely is lower on high-quality sites (Smith and Petranka 2000, Hyde and Simons 2001, and see Welsh and Droege 2001 for review), and high surface/superpopulation ratios on these sites suggest that changes in the superpopulation should be reflected by the count indices.”
Making habitat selection more “familiar”: a review (2011, background): “…indirect evidence, including strict site fidelity to a space over months or years (Stimson 1970; Catterall et al. 1989; Komers 1996; Marnane 2000; Welsh and Droege 2001; Cooper and Randall 2007) and costly treks by animals to reach such spaces (Gratto et al. 1985; Thorpe 1988; Limpus et al.…”
The ecology of extinction: population fluctuation and decline in amphibians (2003, methodology): “For each time series, I also calculated a coefficient of variation (CV), which is the standard deviation of population size divided by the mean, as used by Marsh and Trenham (2001) and Welsh and Droege (2001).”
Effects of structural complexity enhancement on eastern red-backed salamander (Plethodon cinereus) populations in northern hardwood forests (2006, background): “Plethodontid salamander populations are highly indicative of rates and efficiency in several ecological processes, such as nutrient and energy cycling through forest floor biota (Welsh and Droege, 2001).”