Logging in Western Oregon: Responses of headwater habitats and stream amphibians

Corn, Paul Stephen; Bury, R. Bruce

doi:10.1016/0378-1127(89)90055-8

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“…Stream amphibians use the interstitial spaces between rocks in a streambed to lay eggs, forage, and hide. Stream amphibians in the Pacific Northwest decrease in abundance with increasing inputs of fine sediments after logging (Corn and Bury, 1989;Welsh and Ollivier, 1998;Wilkins and Peterson, 2000;Adams and Bury, 2002). Similarly, the spring salamander (Gyrinophyilus porphoryticus) is associated with low sediment levels in New Hampshire (Lowe and Bolger 2002).…”

Section: Sedimentation and Substrate Compositionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In 2001, 160,000 ha of federal forests were thinned to reduce hazardous fuels (USDA and USDI, 2002) and this amount may increase with passage of the Healthy Forests Initiative of 2002. To our knowledge, no studies have directly examined the effects of thinning understory brush or removing coarse woody debris on amphibians, although the effects of logging on amphibians are fairly well documented (Bury and Corn, 1988;Corn and Bury, 1989;Welsh, 1990;Dupuis and Steventon, 1999;Naughton et al, 2000). If thinning understory "ladder" fuels results in increased air temperatures, decreased soil moisture, and lower habitat complexity, amphibian populations could decline in thinned forests (Dupuis and Steventon, 1999).…”

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Fire and amphibians in North America

Pilliod

Bury²,

Hyde³

et al. 2003

Forest Ecology and Management

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Information on amphibian responses to fire and fuel reduction practices is critically needed due to potential declines of species and the prevalence of new, more intensive fire management practices in North American forests. The goals of this review are to summarize the known and potential effects of fire and fuels management on amphibians and their aquatic habitats, and to identify information gaps to help direct future scientific research. Amphibians as a group are taxonomically and ecologically diverse; in turn, responses to fire and associated habitat alteration are expected to vary widely among species and among geographic regions.Available data suggest that amphibian responses to fire are spatially and temporally variable and incompletely understood. Much of the limited research has addressed short-term (1-3 yr) effects of prescribed fire on terrestrial life stages of amphibians in the southeastern United States.Information on the long-term negative effects of fire on amphibians and the importance of fire for maintaining amphibian communities is sparse for the high number of taxa in North America.Given the size and severity of recent wildland fires and the national effort to reduce fuels on federal lands, future studies are particularly needed to examine the effects of these landscape disturbances on amphibians. We encourage studies to address population-level responses of amphibians to fire by examining how different life stages are affected by changes in aquatic, riparian, and upland habitats. Research designs need to be rigorous and credible, yet provide information that is relevant for fire managers and those responsible for assessing the potential effects of various fuels reduction alternatives on rare, sensitive, and endangered amphibian species.

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Section: Sedimentation and Substrate Compositionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Prescription Burningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fire and amphibians in North America

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Hyde³

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Forest Ecology and Management

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“…Hawkins et al [82] found that the densities of salamanders in northwestern United States were correlated with substrate composition, specifically associated with high-gradient sites with coarse substrates. Because stream amphibians often use the interstitial spaces between rocks of the streambed to forage, hide, and lay eggs, sedimentation can reduce habitat and have a strong effect on abundance [83,84]. For instance, spring salamanders in New Hampshire are associated with low sediment levels [85].…”

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“…Clear-cut areas may also contain a lower percent cover of CWD and leaf litter [119]. In addition to decreased abundances, species richness tends to be lower in clear-cut plots compared to control sites [84,121]. Grialou et al [119] noted that Columbia torrent salamanders and Pacific giant salamanders were absent from clear-cut areas.…”

Section: Timber Harvestmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental and Anthropogenic Factors Influencing Salamanders in Riparian Forests: A Review

Clipp

Anderson

2014

Forests

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Salamanders and riparian forests are intimately interconnected. Salamanders are integral to ecosystem functions, contributing to vertebrate biomass and complex food webs in riparian forests. In turn, these forests are critical ecosystems that perform many environmental services, facilitate high biodiversity and species richness, and provide habitat to salamander populations. Due to the global decline of amphibians, it is important to understand, as thoroughly and holistically as possible, the roles of environmental parameters and the impact of human activities on salamander abundance and diversity in riparian forests. To determine the population responses of salamanders to a variety of environmental factors and anthropogenic activities, we conducted a review of published literature that compared salamander abundance and diversity, and then summarized and synthesized the data into general patterns. We identify stream quality, leaf litter and woody debris, riparian buffer width, and soil characteristics as major environmental factors influencing salamander populations in riparian forests, describe and explain salamander responses to those factors, and discuss the effects of anthropogenic activities such as timber harvest, prescribed fires, urbanization, road construction, and habitat fragmentation. This review can assist land and natural resource managers in anticipating the consequences of human activities and preparing strategic conservation plans. OPEN ACCESSForests 2014, 5 2680

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“…Salamanders are limited in mobility due to physiological constraints (e.g., require moisture) and anatomical characteristics (Green and Pauley, 1987) which makes them more desirable for use as bioindicators than animals that exhibit seasonal movements such as fish and invertebrates (Welsh, Jr. and Ollivier, 1998). All of these traits, coupled with the small home ranges of salamanders, suggest that local abundances of stream salamanders should reflect impacts of disturbance (Corn and Bury, 1989). Amphibian monitoring programs use stream salamanders as potential indicators of headwater stream quality (Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, 2002) and densities of stream amphibians in general have been used as indicators of ecosystem stress (Welsh, Jr. and Ollivier, 1998;Lowe and Bolger, 2002).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Streamside Salamanders in Valley Fill and Reference Streams in Southern West Virginia

Williams¹,

Wood²

2004

ASMR

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Abstract. We sampled stream salamanders in southern West Virginia during 2001 in streams below head-of-hollow valley fills and in reference streams to determine if there were differing trends in relative abundance between these treatments. Head-of-hollow valley fill construction can cover headwaters, firstorder, second-order, and higher order reaches with excess spoil materials; valley fills in southern West Virginia are often hundreds of hectares in size. Total salamander captures were higher in 3 reference streams (RS; N=389) than in 4 valley fill streams (VFS; N=289) and mean abundance was significantly greater in reference streams. Number of salamanders captured was positively related to number of rocks in the stream substrate. We suggest that alterations in water chemistry, substrate composition (greater silt cover), and fewer rocks below valley fills all may have contributed to reduced salamander densities in VFS.

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Logging in Western Oregon: Responses of headwater habitats and stream amphibians

Cited by 212 publications

References 25 publications

Fire and amphibians in North America

Fire and amphibians in North America

Environmental and Anthropogenic Factors Influencing Salamanders in Riparian Forests: A Review

Streamside Salamanders in Valley Fill and Reference Streams in Southern West Virginia

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