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Status and Conservation of Midwestern Amphibians.
In 1990 an international group of biologists, meeting to discuss rumors of declines in the number of amphibians, discovered that amphibian disappearances once thought to be a local problem were not & mdash;the problem was global. And, even more disturbing, amphibians were disappearing not just f...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa :
University of Iowa Press,
1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; Landscape Patterns and Biogeography; 1. Late Quaternary Environmental Changes in the Midwestern United States; 2. Amphibian Recolonization of Midwestern States in the Postglacial Pleistocene; 3. Amphibian Habitat in the Midwestern United States; 4. Biogeography of Midwestern Amphibians; 5. Amphibians, Ecosystems, and Landscapes; Species Status; 6. Distribution, Habitats, and Status of Four-toed Salamanders in Illinois; 7. Population Sizes of Two Endangered Ohio Plethodontid Salamanders, Green Salamanders and Cave Salamanders.
- 8. Discovery of Green Salamanders in Indiana and a Distributional Survey9. Ten- to Eleven-Year Population Trends of Two Pond-Breeding Amphibian Species, Red-spotted Newts and Green Frogs; 10. Status of Plains Spadefoot Toads in Western Iowa; 11. Blanchard's Cricket Frogs in Wisconsin: A Status Report; 12. Status and Distribution of Two Uncommon Frogs, Pickerel Frogs and Wood Frogs, in Illinois; 13. Status of Northern Leopard Frogs in Northeastern Ohio; 14. Status of Illinois Chorus Frogs in Madison County, Illinois; 15. Status of Illinois Chorus Frogs in Southern Illinois.
- Regional and State Status16. Status of Northeastern Illinois Amphibians; 17. Status of Amphibians in Northwestern Indiana; 18. Amphibian Surveys in the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area; 19. Status of Amphibian Populations in Hamilton County, Ohio; 20. Status of Amphibians in Minnesota; 21. Monitoring Long-term Trends in Wisconsin Frog and Toad Populations; 22. Review of the Status of Wisconsin Amphibians; 23. Iowa's Frog and Toad Survey, 1991-1994; 24. Observations on Indiana Amphibian Populations: A Forty-five-Year Overview; 25. Distribution of Ohio Amphibians; Diseases and Toxins.
- 26. Infectious Diseases of Amphibians27. Amphibian Toxicology; 28. Evidence for Home Ranges in Mudpuppies and Implications for Impacts Due to Episodic Applications of the Lampricide TFM; 29. Investigation of Malformed Northern Leopard Frogs in Minnesota; Conservation; 30. Illinois Chorus Frogs and the Sand Lake Dilemma; 31. Cooperative Resolution of an Environmental Dilemma: A Case Study; 32. Conserving Alternative Amphibian Phenotypes: Is There Anybody Out There?; 33. Tiger Salamander Life History in Relation to Agriculture in the Northern Great Plains: A Hypothesis.
- 34. Amphibian Conservation and Wetland Management in the Upper Midwest: A Catch-22 for the Cricket Frog?35. Abandon Not Hope: Status of Repatriated Populations of Spotted Salamanders and Wood Frogs at the Tyson Research Center, S; 36. Aquatic Habitats in the Midwest: Waiting for Amphibian Conservation Initiatives; Monitoring and Applications; 37. Missouri Toad and Frog Calling Survey: The First Year; 38. Monitoring Amphibians in Created and Restored Wetlands; 39. Anurans as Indicators of Wetland Condition in the Prairie Pothole Region of North Dakota: An Environmental Monitoring and.