- 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
Reflections Upon Amphibian Conservation
Reflections Upon Amphibian Conservation
- Chapter:
- (p.277) Forty Reflections Upon Amphibian Conservation
- Source:
- Amphibian Declines
- Author(s):
Thomas K. Pauley
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
The author began his fieldwork with amphibians in West Virginia in 1963 at the age of twenty-three, and he has spent most of his time (when not teaching) walking the mountains of West Virginia searching for amphibians and reptiles. His major study sites include the New River Gorge National River, the Bluestone National Scenic River, the Gauley River National Recreational Area, and the high Alleghenies. Animals of particular interest include Cheat Mountain salamanders (Plethodon nettingi) and Cow Knob salamanders (P. punctatus). In this chapter, he draws from these years of experience to reflect on amphibian conservation. In particular, he discusses how habitat disturbances can create amphibian habitats, focusing on West Virginia coal mines and logging roads. He also comments on habitat restoration, the role of subtle forest fragmentation in amphibian population declines, and the possible synergistic effects of multiple sublethal stressors.
Keywords: West Virginia, amphibians, reptiles, salamanders, conservation, habitats, coal mines, forest fragmentation, population declines
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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
