Yosemite Toad (Anaxyrus canorus) project datasets; climate, disease, predation, and hatching success data
Dates
Start Date
1996-05-01
End Date
2001-08-31
Publication Date
2020-12-14
Citation
Sadinski, W., 2020, Yosemite Toad (Anaxyrus canorus) project datasets; climate, disease, predation, and hatching success data: U. S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9BVZDOP.
Summary
These data are associated with an article published in Global Ecology and Conservation (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e01173) that describes climate's cascading effects on disease, predation, and hatching sucess in the Yosemite toad (Anaxyrus canorus). The Yosemite toad currently is federally listed as threatened under the U.S. Endanered Species Act based upon reported population declines and vulnerability to climate and other global-change factors. The species occurs only in California’s central Sierra Nevada at medium to sub-alpine elevations. Lands throughout its range largely are protected from development, but climate and other global-change factors potentially can limit populations.
Summary
These data are associated with an article published in Global Ecology and Conservation (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e01173) that describes climate's cascading effects on disease, predation, and hatching sucess in the Yosemite toad (Anaxyrus canorus). The Yosemite toad currently is federally listed as threatened under the U.S. Endanered Species Act based upon reported population declines and vulnerability to climate and other global-change factors. The species occurs only in California’s central Sierra Nevada at medium to sub-alpine elevations. Lands throughout its range largely are protected from development, but climate and other global-change factors potentially can limit populations.
We collected and analyzed these data to help us evaluate effects from interactions among exposure to freezing, disease, and predatory flatworms on hatching success in A. canorus in our study area. Other researchers could use them to address various ecological questions related to fitness, reproduction success, recruitment, natural history, and other topics for A. canorus in our study area or elsewhere.
