Fauna Impact Statement for Proposed Residential Development at Wanda Avenue Salamander Bay (July. 1995).

Flora Assessment - Proposed Banksia Grove residential subdivision Bundock St Randwick January 2001

This database contains literature citations and associated summaries pertaining to livestock grazing effects on amphibians and their habitats, with an emphasis on the Oregon spotted frog (Rana pretiosa) and other listed/sensitive wetland-breeding amphibians in the western United States. This is not meant to be an exhaustive list, nor did we perform a systematic meta-analysis; rather, literature records were included based on topical relevance.

This database contains literature citations and associated summaries pertaining to livestock grazing effects on amphibians and their habitats, with an emphasis on the Oregon spotted frog (Rana pretiosa) and other listed/sensitive wetland-breeding amphibians in the western United States. This is not meant to be an exhaustive list, nor did we perform a systematic meta-analysis; rather, literature records were included based on topical relevance.

Fauna Impact Statement for Proposed Residential Development Stages 4 and 5 Medowie Park Estate (June. 1995).

Flora and fauna assessment proposed residential subdivision

Flora and fauna impact assessment for the proposed redevelopment and additions to the Residential Aged Care Kemps Creek

Flora and fauna report for Adna Street Plumpton Lot 27, DP 5027 (Proposed residential development)

Forest harvest is one of the primary landscape-scale management actions affecting riparian forests of the Pacific Northwest, U.S, yet the effect of harvest on headwater steam amphibians is largely understudied. Existing information is often limited because of the difficulty separating movement and emigration processes from occupancy and abundance estimates. We designed a before-after control-impact experiment to account for instream movement in the responses of three unique headwater stream amphibians to clearcut logging as part of the Trask River Watershed Experimental Study in the Oregon Coast Range. We captured and marked larval tailed frogs (Ascaphus truei), Coastal giant salamanders (Dicamptodon tenebrosus), and Columbia torrent salamanders (Rhyacotriton kezeri) across 3,915 sampling occasions that spanned 13 study reaches and eight years.

Climate change is substantially impacting earth’s biodiversity, with a massive number of affected species that are difficult to study comprehensively. An “indicator species” approach that generalizes species-specific climate change impacts to broader groups (e.g., ensembles) could theoretically help overcome this challenge and streamline climate-smart conservation planning. We assessed the viability of this approach using four specialist amphibians (Ascaphus montanus, Dicamptodon copei, Plethodon idahoensis, and Plethodon vandykei), which we expected would have similar climate-related trajectories given their shared dependence on a narrow range of groundwater-driven habitats. Using boosted regression trees, we constructed species distribution models (SDMs) for each species and (if appropriate) major intraspecific lineage, then projected changes in environmental suitability under two climate change scenarios (SSP370 and SSP585) and timeframes (mid-century and late-century). Contrary to our expectation, future suitability projections varied widely among species, with small-to-moderate projected gains in suitability for A. montanus, relatively small changes with ambiguous directionality for D. copei, large gains in multiple regions for P. idahoensis, and major losses-in-place for P. vandykei. In addition, lineage-specific SDMs that assumed different niches for coastal and Cascades P. vandykei populations projected climate vulnerability for only the latter, highlighting a need for better genetic and ecological data. Given our collective findings, attempts to generalize climate change projections for purported “indicator species” to larger groups can be misleading, even within narrowly-defined and highly specialized ensembles. Moreover, we found a strong link between recent historical SDM outputs and species-tailored variables (e.g., seep-related variables), but many of these variables lacked future projections under climate change and were thus not directly usable to forecast climate change responses. Lastly, our findings also highlight research and conservation needs for our study species under climate change, such as identifying taxonomic scales of niche variation and protecting in-situ climatic refugia.