- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Advisory Board
- Contributors
- Preface
- Twenty-Three Houston Toads and Texas Politics
- Twenty-Four Amphibian Conservation Needs
- Twenty-Five Amphibian Population Cycles and Long-Term Data Sets
- Twenty-Six Landscape Ecology
- Twenty-Seven Conservation of Texas Spring and Cave Salamanders (<i>Eurycea</i>)
- Twenty-Eight Lessons from the Tropics
- Twenty-Nine Taxonomy and Amphibian Declines
- Thirty Conservation Systematics: The <i>Bufo boreas</i> Species Group
- Thirty-One Factors Limiting the Recovery of Boreal Toads (<i>Bufo b. boreas</i>)
- Thirty-Two Southwestern Desert Bufonids
- Thirty-Three Amphibian Ecotoxicology
- Thirty-Four Museum Collections
- Thirty-Five Critical Areas
- Thirty-Six Creating Habitat Reserves for Migratory Salamanders
- Thirty-Seven Population Manipulations
- Thirty-Eight Exotic Species
- Thirty-Nine Protecting Amphibians While Restoring Fish Populations
- Forty Reflections Upon Amphibian Conservation
- Introduction
- Anura
- Caudata
- EPILOGUE: Factors Implicated in Amphibian Population Declines in the United States
- Conclusion
- Literature Cited
- Index
Southwestern Desert Bufonids
Southwestern Desert Bufonids
- Chapter:
- (p.237) Thirty-Two Southwestern Desert Bufonids
- Source:
- Amphibian Declines
- Author(s):
Brian K. Sullivan
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
The anuran family Bufonidae is a large, cosmopolitan group comprising of almost 400 species that inhabit a great variety of environments. Three bufonids with relatively limited distribution in the United States are federally listed as “endangered”: Wyoming toads (Bufo baxteri), arroyo toads (B. californicus), and Houston toads (B. houstonensis). Golden toads (B. periglenes) from Central America are perhaps the best known example of an anuran that has recently declined. Twenty-one bufonid species are recognized in the United States, and eleven of these occur in the arid Southwest. Although most of the desert dwelling forms have not been surveyed in any detail, a number have been superficially inventoried. This chapter reviews what is known about the status of bufonids of the arid southwestern United States and draws attention to emerging general patterns regarding their status. It looks at the spring breeding of Arizona toads in perennial streams, as well as the summer breeding of Sonoran green toads in rain-formed pools.
Keywords: Bufonidae, bufonids, United States, spring breeding, summer breeding, Arizona toads, perennial streams, Sonoran green toads, rain-formed pools
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Advisory Board
- Contributors
- Preface
- Twenty-Three Houston Toads and Texas Politics
- Twenty-Four Amphibian Conservation Needs
- Twenty-Five Amphibian Population Cycles and Long-Term Data Sets
- Twenty-Six Landscape Ecology
- Twenty-Seven Conservation of Texas Spring and Cave Salamanders (<i>Eurycea</i>)
- Twenty-Eight Lessons from the Tropics
- Twenty-Nine Taxonomy and Amphibian Declines
- Thirty Conservation Systematics: The <i>Bufo boreas</i> Species Group
- Thirty-One Factors Limiting the Recovery of Boreal Toads (<i>Bufo b. boreas</i>)
- Thirty-Two Southwestern Desert Bufonids
- Thirty-Three Amphibian Ecotoxicology
- Thirty-Four Museum Collections
- Thirty-Five Critical Areas
- Thirty-Six Creating Habitat Reserves for Migratory Salamanders
- Thirty-Seven Population Manipulations
- Thirty-Eight Exotic Species
- Thirty-Nine Protecting Amphibians While Restoring Fish Populations
- Forty Reflections Upon Amphibian Conservation
- Introduction
- Anura
- Caudata
- EPILOGUE: Factors Implicated in Amphibian Population Declines in the United States
- Conclusion
- Literature Cited
- Index
