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mark-recapture (Ambystomatidae)
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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
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Polyphenism predicts actuarial senescence and lifespan in tiger salamanders
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Climate mediates the trade-offs associated with phenotypic plasticity in an amphibian polyphenism
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The effects of cattle derived nutrients on growth rates of Arizona Tiger Salamander hatchlings in pastureland
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Biofluorescence as a Mechanism of Sexual Selection in Ambystoma mavortium nebulosum
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The role of environmental variation in mediating fitness trade-offs for an amphibian polyphenism
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The Impact of Environmental Factors on Arizona Tiger Salamander Larval Growth
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Changes in the biofluorescence of Ambystoma mavortium nebulosum with age
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Biofluorescence in Polymorphic Tiger Salamanders ( Ambystoma mavortium nebulosum)
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Effects of a range-shifting caddisfly on life histories of a top predator in high elevation ponds
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Animal-Driven Nutrient Supply Declines Relative to Ecosystem Nutrient Demand Along a Pond Hydroperiod Gradient
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Temporal Variation of Thermal Microhabitat Use of Tiger Salamanders
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Lifetime Fitness, Sex-Specific Life History, and the Maintenance of a Polyphenism
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Neighborhood Influence on Plant Interactions with Seed-Eating Flies and Pollinating Bees
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A model of inter-cohort cannibalism and paedomorphosis in Arizona tiger salamanders, <i>Ambystoma tigrinum nebulosum</i>
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Natal philopatry varies with larval condition in salamanders
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Larval growth in polyphenic salamanders: making the best of a bad lot
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Salamander cannibalism
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Consumptive and nonconsumptive effects of cannibalism in fluctuating age-structured populations
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Accuracy assessment of skeletochronology in the Arizona tiger salamander (<i>Ambystoma tigrinum nebulosum</i>)
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Foraging tactics in alternative heterochronic salamander morphs: trophic quality of ponds matters more than water permanency
chapter
Conservation and Status of North American Amphibians
chapter
Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands of North America: Ecology and Management
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Growth and foraging consequences of facultative paedomorphosis in the tiger salamander, <i>Ambystoma tigrinum nebulosum</i>
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Seasonal movement patterns in a subalpine population of the tiger salamander, <i>Ambystoma tigrinum nebulosum</i>
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Vascular Plants of the Gothic Area
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