What Is Missing in Amphibian Decline Research: Insights from Ecological Sensitivity Analysis

By R. Biek, W. Funk, B. Maxell, L. S. Mills. 2002

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change

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Vulnerability of Southwest Iberian amphibians to an introduced crayfish, Procambarus clarkii (2005, neutral): “…of amphibian eggs and larvae and, since amphibian populations may be strongly inﬂuenced by changes in recruitment (Semlitsch et al., 1988, but see Biek et al., 2002), there is a need for ﬁeld studies to evaluate its effects on amphibian communities in natural habitats as well as an assessment…”
The Role of Microhabitats in the Desiccation and Survival of Anurans in Recently Harvested Oak–Hickory Forest (2008, background): “Recent population modeling work on pond-breeding amphibians has demonstrated that juvenile survival in terrestrial habitats is an important vital rate in determining population growth (Biek et al., 2002; Vonesh and De la Cruz, 2002).”
Climate change and amphibians (2005, background): “However, the populations of toads studied by Kiesecker et al. have not declined (Olson, 2001), and sensitivity analysis suggests that abundance is not strongly related to changes in embryo mortality (Biek et al., 2002; Vonesh & De la Cruz, 2002).”
Ultraviolet radiation, toxic chemicals and amphibian population declines (2003, background): “In fact, UV-B radiation and contaminants may have different effects on populations as they impact different life stages (Biek et al., 2002; Vonesh & De la Cruz, 2002).”
Demographic Processes Underlying Population Growth and Decline in Salamandra salamandra (2005, background): “In the future, the focus of amphibian population studies should be on all life-history stages and population growth rate rather than single vital rates (Hellriegel 2000; Biek et al. 2002; Forbes & Calow 2002; Vonesh & De la Cruz 2002).”
AMPHIBIAN UPLAND HABITAT USE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES FOR POPULATION VIABILITY (2005, background): “In this and similar studies, pond-breeding amphibian populations are sensitive to upland survivorship of adults and subadults (Taylor and Scott 1997, Biek et al. 2002, Vonesh and de la Cruz 2002).”
Direct and Indirect Effects of Climate Change on Amphibian Populations (2010, background): “Although survival of embryonic life history stages contributes very little to population dynamics in any given year [68,69], repeated years of complete reproductive failure due to changing”
Ranavirus Ecology and Evolution: From Epidemiology to Extinction (2015, background): “2.1 and 3.3 ) and for many taxa these stages can be less important demographically than adults (Biek et al. 2002 ).”
Density Dependence in the Terrestrial Stage of Wood Frogs: Evidence from a 21-Year Population Study (2009, background): “Theoretical studies have relied on a compilation of vital rates derived from a variety of different species (Biek et al., 2002).”
Problems and opportunities managing invasive Bullfrogs: is there any hope? (2007, background): “The demography of the typical pond breeding anuran is such that predation by Bullfrogs on recently transformed juveniles might be particularly detrimental to indigenous populations (Biek et al. 2002, Vonesh and de la Cruz 2002).”
Fire and amphibians in North America (2003, background): “Ecological sensitivity analyses have indicated that mortality of juveniles and adults would likely have the strongest influence on population dynamics of some species of frogs and toads (Biek et al., 2002).”
Long-term effects of experimental forest harvesting on abundance and reproductive demography of terrestrial salamanders (2009, methodology): “We used analytical sensitivity and elasticity analysis (Caswell, 2001) to determine the influence of individual vital rates on proportional changes in the population growth rate (k) ( Biek et al., 2002 ).”
Decline and extirpation of an endangered Panamanian stream frog population (Craugastor punctariolus) due to an outbreak of chytridiomycosis (2008, result): “However, none of those studies used mark-recapture analyses and thus they could not make strong inferences about demographic parameters (Wood et al., 1998; Biek et al., 2002 ).”