“…Several characteristics make these species excellent subjects for evaluating the effects of urbanization with a landscape genetics approach. For instance, the species have small annual home ranges (spotted salamanders: up to 301 m 2 , Ousterhout and Burkhart, 2017;wood frogs: up to 32,165 m 2 , Blomquist & Hunter, 2010;Groff, Calhoun & Loftin, 2017), relatively short generation times (spotted salamanders: maturity in 2-7 years, Flageole & Leclair, 1992; wood frogs: maturity in 2-3 years, Sagor, Ouellet, Barten, & Green, 1998), and high rates of philopatry (Vasconcelos & Calhoun, 2004). Both species are vulnerable to degradation of the breeding sites they share within their overlapping ranges in the northeastern United States (Harper, Rittenhouse, & Semlitsch, 2008).…”