Item Details

title

RESISTANCE AND RESILIENCE OF STREAM SALAMANDER POPULATIONS TO DISTURBANCE

author

Price, Steven John

abstract

Urbanization and drought represent two pervasive disturbances that affect animal inhabitants of small, first-order streams. Stream salamanders (Family Plethodontidae) represent the dominant vertebrate group and play important ecological roles in first-order streams, although they have often been neglected in previous studies on the effects of disturbance on system ecosystems. It was hypothesized that urbanization and drought would strongly influence vital rates (e.g., occupancy, abundance, survival, etc.) of salamander populations.

subject

Desmognathus

Drought

Eurycea

North Carolina

Streams

Urbanization

contributor

Browne, Robert A (committee chair)

Pilgrim, Melissa A (committee member)

Anderson, David J (committee member)

Silman, Miles R (committee member)

Zeyl, Clifford W (committee member)

date

2011-09-08T08:35:48Z (accessioned)

2013-09-08T08:30:08Z (available)

2011 (issued)

degree

Biology (discipline)

embargo

2013-09-08 (terms)

identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/36146 (uri)

language

en (iso)

publisher

Wake Forest University

type

Dissertation