▪ Abstract Lentic freshwater habitats in temperate regions exist along a gradient from small
ephemeral ponds to large permanent lakes. This environmental continuum is a useful axis …

Movement is a fundamental process of all organisms that has strong consequences for
individual fitness, gene flow, natural selection, adaptation, population persistence …

Coordinated efforts by ecologists and natural resource managers are necessary to balance
the conservation of biological diversity with the potential for sustained economic …

In some agricultural regions, natural wetlands are scarce, and constructed agricultural
ponds may represent important alternative breeding habitats for amphibians. Properly …

For many species, not all required resources are contained in breeding habitat. Such
species depend on landscape complementation, ie, linking together different landscape …

Landscape-level variables operating at multiple spatial scales likely influence wetland
amphibian assemblages but have not been investigated in detail. We examined the …

From 1988 to 1992 we surveyed the distribution of 14 amphibian species in a set of 37
ponds in southeastern Michigan, USA. Thirty‐two of these ponds had been surveyed …

Amphibians commonly use wetlands for breeding habitat, and given the concern about their
ongoing global declines, the effects of urbanization on the breeding distribution of …

This study examines the influence of forest canopy cover on the breeding pond distributions
of wood frogs (Rana sylvatica), leopard frogs (R. pipiens), and American toads (Bufo …

Vernal pools, broadly defined as ephemeral wetlands that predictably form in permanent
basins during the cooler part of the year but which dry during the summer months, are …