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Amphibians & Reptiles

2024

Wilk, A.J., Peterman, W.E. 2024. Impacts of Wildfire Burn Severity on Plethodontid Salamander Populations of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Herpetologica, 80(2), 199-208. https://doi.org/10.1655/Herpetologica-D-23-00050

2024

Grant, E.H.C., Fleming, J., Bastiaans, E., Brand, A.B., Brooks, J.L. et al. 2024. Range-wide salamander densities reveal a key component of terrestrial vertebrate biomass in eastern North American forests. Biology Letters, 20 (8), 20240033. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0033

2024

Ochs, A.E., Swihart, R.K., Saunders, M.R. 2024. Population-level effects of prescribed fires on terrestrial salamanders. Forest Ecology and Management, 560, 121842. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2024.121842.

2020

Jacobsen, C.D., Brown, D.J., Flint, W.D., Schuler, J.L., Schuler, T.M. 2020. Influence of prescribed fire and forest structure on woodland salamander abundance in the central Appalachians, USA. Forest Ecology and Management, 468. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118185.

2019

Gade, M.R., Gould, P.R., Peterman, W.E. 2019. Habitat-dependent responses of terrestrial salamanders to wildfire in the short-term. Forest Ecology and Management, 449. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117479.

2018

Greenberg, C.H., Seiboldt, T., Keyser, T.L., McNab, W.H., Scott, P., Bush, J., Moorman, C.E. 2018. Reptile and amphibian response to season of burn in an upland hardwood forest. Forest Ecology and Management, 409, 808-816. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2017.12.016.

2018

Hromada, S.J., Howey, C.A.F., Dickinson, M.B., Perry, R.W., Roosenburg, W.M., Gienger, C.M. 2018. Response of reptile and amphibian communities to the reintroduction of fire in an oak/hickory forest. Forest Ecology and Management, 428, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.06.018.

2016

Harper, C.A., Ford, W.M., Lashley, M.A. et al. 2016. Fire Effects on Wildlife in the Central Hardwoods and Appalachian Regions, USA. Fire Ecology, 12, 127–159. https://doi.org/10.4996/fireecology.1202127

2016

Mahoney, K.R., Russell, K.R., Ford, W.M., Rodrigue, J.L., Riddle, J.D., Schuler, T.M., Adams, M B. 2016. Woodland salamander responses to a shelterwood harvest-prescribed burn silvicultural treatment within Appalachian mixed-oak forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 359, 277-285. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2015.09.042.

2016

Greenberg, C.H., Moorman, C.E., Raybuck, A.L., Sundol, C., Keyser, T.L., Bush, J., Simon, D.M., Warburton, G.S. 2016. Reptile and amphibian response to oak regeneration treatments in productive southern Appalachian hardwood forest. Forest Ecology and Management, 377, 139-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2016.06.023.

2012

Humphries, W.J., Sisson, M.A. 2012. Long Distance Migrations, Landscape Use, and Vulnerability to Prescribed Fire of the Gopher Frog (Lithobates capito). Journal of Herpetology, 46(4), 665-670. https://doi.org/10.1670/11-124

2011

Brown, J.D., Baccus, J.T., Means, D.B., Forstner, M.R.J. 2011. Potential Positive Effects of Fire on Juvenile Amphibians in a Southern USA Pine Forest. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management, 2(2), 135-145. DOI: 10.3996/062011-JFWM-037

2010

Matthews, C.E., Moorman, C.E., Greenberg, C.H. and Waldrop, T.A. 2010. Response of Reptiles and Amphibians to Repeated Fuel Reduction Treatments. The Journal of Wildlife Management, 74: 1301-1310. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1937-2817.2010.tb01251.x

2008

Greenberg, C.A., Waldrop, T.A. 2008. Short-term response of reptiles and amphibians to prescribed fire and mechanical fuel reduction in a southern Appalachian upland hardwood forest. Forest Ecology and Management, 255(7), 2883-2893. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2008.01.064

2004

Robert D. Davic, Hartwell H. Welsh Jr.. 2004. On the Ecological Roles of Salamanders*. Annual Review Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 35:405-434. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.35.112202.130116

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