Nature of the Upstate

Spring Rain Brings...Salamanders!


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On chilly, rainy nights, Spotted Salamanders emerge from the forest floor for their annual migration to ephemeral ponds to breed. In this episode, I discuss their life cycle and what I discovered through almost a decade of salamander monitoring.

References: 

https://srelherp.uga.edu/salamanders/spotted-salamander/

https://amphibianx.com/can-you-touch-a-salamander/

Blackwell, E. A., Cline, G. R., & Marion, K. R. (2004). Annual variation in population estimators for a southern population of Ambystoma maculatum. Herpetologica, 60(1), 8-13. https://doi.org/[DOI if available]

Carolina Herp Atlas. (2019). Ambystoma maculatum distribution records in South Carolina. Retrieved from https://www.carolinaherpatlas.org

Kerney, R., Kim, E., Hangarter, R. P., Heiss, A. A., Bishop, C. D., & Hall, B. K. (2010). Intracellular invasion of green algae in a salamander host. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(16), 6497-6502. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1018259108

Mitchell, J., & Gibbons, W. (2010). Salamanders of the Southeast (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books). University of Georgia Press. https://doi.org/[DOI if available] (ISBN: 9780820330358)


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Nature of the UpstateBy lbeltran13