Terrestrial Salamanders in southern Appalachain Harwood Forests: Relative Abundance, Nutritional Condition, and Response to Silvicultural Practices

We compared techniques for assessing nutritional condition in 3 groups of terrestrial salamanders. We measured variability in species richness and relative abundance before harvest at 5 sites in the Jefferson National Forest of southwest Virginia and compared the effects of 7 silvicultural treatmen...

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Main Author: Harpole, Douglas N.
Other Authors: Wildlife Sciences
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42710
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05182007-131949/