The Breeding Migration of the Mole Salamander, Ambystoma talpoideum, in Louisiana

1980 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence M. Hardy ◽  
Larry R. Raymond

1981 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond D. Semlitsch

The terrestrial activity and summer home range of Ambystoma talpoideum is described in two populations in South Carolina. Emigration of adults from breeding sites occurred from March through May during 1979 and 1980. Adults spent 237–354 days in terrestrial habitats before returning to breeding sites during autumn and early winter. Females spent significantly more time in terrestrial habitats than males. Movement of A. talpoideum into and out of the breeding sites around the perimeter of the Carolina bays was nonrandom. Salamanders used corridors of dense vegetation more frequently than open, grassy shoreline areas. Emigration of individual adults to summer home ranges occurred within several nights and summer home ranges were established 81–261 m from the edge of the bays. Juveniles emigrated significantly shorter distances (12–67 m) than adults. Summer home ranges comprised several focal points of activity or "activity centers." The area of each activity center was relatively constant among individuals (0.02–0.21 m2) when compared with the area of a "minimum polygon" home range (0.11–23.3 m2). Ambystoma talpoideum inhabited burrow systems within each activity center. Burrows ran parallel to the surface of the forest floor and averaged 1.7 cm in diameter and 4.7 cm below the surface.



2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 951-954 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cara N. Love ◽  
R. Wesley Flynn ◽  
Schyler O. Nunziata ◽  
Kenneth L. Jones ◽  
Stacey L. Lance


2001 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark J. Komorosk ◽  
Justin D. Congdon


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Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 397-400
Author(s):  
Zhuo-Lu Ren ◽  
Na-Na Yao ◽  
Li Liu ◽  
Yi Wu ◽  
Zeng-Qiang Qian


Copeia ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 1978 (4) ◽  
pp. 649 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen K. Patterson


Copeia ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 1981 (3) ◽  
pp. 735 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond D. Semlitsch


1991 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry R. Raymond ◽  
Laurence M. Hardy




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2017 ◽  
Vol 183 (3) ◽  
pp. 739-749 ◽  
Author(s):  
Courtney L. Davis ◽  
David A.W. Miller ◽  
Susan C. Walls ◽  
William J. Barichivich ◽  
Jeffrey Riley ◽  
...  


1990 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 684-693 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas B. Noltie

The pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) inhabiting the Great Lakes are unique to their species, the completion of their life cycles occurring entirely in fresh water. This report describes the breeding migration and characteristics of spawners from the Carp River, an eastern Lake Superior tributary 70 km north of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Movement into the stream began at dusk each evening in 1983, seemingly in response to decreasing light levels. Nightly catch numbers varied through the 1983, 1984, and 1985 runs with date, river discharge, wind-generated turbulence, and water temperatures, although the influence of these factors differed with sex and season. Spawners varied in size through the runs each year but not in the same fashion. Spawner size and condition varied yearly in apparent response to prey abundance. Gonad maturation was complete on stream entry more often in males than in females, though this difference was less pronounced further upstream or after time spent in the river. Degree of secondary sexual character development, complete on stream entry in both sexes, differed in even- and odd-year spawners in relation to condition. The recovery rates of spawned-out males and females did not differ. Tagged fish wandered from the Carp River at a rate of at least 7%, many to spawn in adjacent streams. Despite between-year differences in some parameters, much of the breeding ecology of these fish remains comparable to that of anadromous pink salmon.



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