“…Many aquatic and semi-aquatic species adapted to southwestern and Mediterranean ecosystems are similarly at risk from reduced surface water availability, leading to reduced aquatic connectivity, recruitment, and survivorship (Jaeger et al, 2014;Jones et al, 2017;Leidy, Bogan, Neuhaus, Rosetti, & Carlson, 2016;Lovich et al, 2017;Montgomery et al, 2015). For species that burrow and forage in adjacent terrestrial systems, increased drought stress can further affect overwinter survival and prey availability due to reduced soil moisture and associated plant and animal mortality (Lovich et al, 2017;Venturas et al, 2016).…”