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mark-recapture (Ambystomatidae)

Subcategory: demographic monitoring
Standard reference: Lincoln-Peterson index (Southwood, 1978)
Papers: 27 | Mentions: 28

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Description

Annual capture-recapture surveys over 24 years to track individual survival, growth, reproduction and developmental pathways in a polyphenic salamander population. Combines individual marking with detailed morphological and reproductive measurements.

Typical Equipment

  • long handled net
  • Weatherport
  • PIT tags
  • toe clips
  • tag reader
  • measuring board
  • Access database
  • scale

Output Measurements

  • individual identity
  • snout-vent length
  • total length
  • body mass
  • gill health
  • body condition
  • morph
  • sex
  • reproductive status

Papers Using This Protocol (27)

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Effects of elevation on salamander life strategies

2025using
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Polyphenism predicts actuarial senescence and lifespan in tiger salamanders

2024Journal of Animal Ecologyusing
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Climate mediates the trade-offs associated with phenotypic plasticity in an amphibian polyphenism

2024Journal of Animal Ecologyusing
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The effects of cattle derived nutrients on growth rates of Arizona Tiger Salamander hatchlings in pastureland

2024using
student_paper

Biofluorescence as a Mechanism of Sexual Selection in Ambystoma mavortium nebulosum

2024using
article

The role of environmental variation in mediating fitness trade-offs for an amphibian polyphenism

2023Journal of Animal Ecologyusing
student_paper

The Impact of Environmental Factors on Arizona Tiger Salamander Larval Growth

2023using
student_paper

Changes in the biofluorescence of Ambystoma mavortium nebulosum with age

2023using
student_paper

Biofluorescence in Polymorphic Tiger Salamanders ( Ambystoma mavortium nebulosum)

2023using
student_paper

Effects of a range-shifting caddisfly on life histories of a top predator in high elevation ponds

2022using
article

Animal-Driven Nutrient Supply Declines Relative to Ecosystem Nutrient Demand Along a Pond Hydroperiod Gradient

2021Ecosystemsusing
student_paper

Temporal Variation of Thermal Microhabitat Use of Tiger Salamanders

2020using
article

Lifetime Fitness, Sex-Specific Life History, and the Maintenance of a Polyphenism

2019The American Naturalistusing
student_paper

Neighborhood Influence on Plant Interactions with Seed-Eating Flies and Pollinating Bees

2017using
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A model of inter-cohort cannibalism and paedomorphosis in Arizona tiger salamanders, <i>Ambystoma tigrinum nebulosum</i>

2016International Journal of Biomathematicsusing
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Natal philopatry varies with larval condition in salamanders

2016Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiologyusing
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Larval growth in polyphenic salamanders: making the best of a bad lot

2012Oecologiausing
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Salamander cannibalism

2010Bulletin of the Ecological Society of Americausing
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Consumptive and nonconsumptive effects of cannibalism in fluctuating age-structured populations

2010Ecologyusing
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Accuracy assessment of skeletochronology in the Arizona tiger salamander (<i>Ambystoma tigrinum nebulosum</i>)

2007Copeiausing
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Foraging tactics in alternative heterochronic salamander morphs: trophic quality of ponds matters more than water permanency

2007Freshwater Biologyusing
chapter

Conservation and Status of North American Amphibians

2005using
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Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands of North America: Ecology and Management

1999using
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Growth and foraging consequences of facultative paedomorphosis in the tiger salamander, <i>Ambystoma tigrinum nebulosum</i>

1996Evolutionary Ecologyusing
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Seasonal movement patterns in a subalpine population of the tiger salamander, <i>Ambystoma tigrinum nebulosum</i>

1994Canadian Journal of Zoologyusing
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Vascular Plants of the Gothic Area

1993using
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Fluctuation in a Rocky Mountain population of salamanders: anthropogenic acidification or natural variation?

1992Journal of Herpetologyusing