Pond Breeding Amphibian Species Distributions In a Beaver-Modified landscape Acadia national Park, Mount Desert Island Maine
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- Cunningham, Jesse
University of Maine Graduate School
In order to maintain pond-breeding amphibian species richness, it is important to understand how both natural and anthropogenic disturbances affect species assemblages and individual species distributions both at the scale of individual ponds and at a larger landscape scale. The goal of this project was to investigate what characteristics of ponds and the surrounding wetland landscape were most effective in predicting pond-breeding species richness and the individual occurrence of wood frog (Rana sylvatica), bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana), and pickerel frog (Rana palusrris) breeding sites in a beaver- modified landscape and how this landscape has changed over time.
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