North American Amphibian Monitoring Program (NAAMP) anuran detection data from the eastern and central United States (1994-2015)

Publication Date

2017-02-08

Time Period

1994

Time Period

2015

Foreman, T.M., Grant, E.H.C., and Weir, L.A., 2017, North American Amphibian Monitoring Program (NAAMP) anuran detection data from the eastern and central United States (1994-2015): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7G44NG0.

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Data were collected to provide scientifically and statistically defensible, long-term distribution and trends data for calling amphibian populations at the state and regional level in the United States. With almost two decades of data, the USGS NAAMP dataset is the only large-scale dataset of randomly sampled locations for the occurrence and relative population abundance of calling frogs and toads in predominantly unprotected lands, and is therefore a valuable spatial data resource, with the potential to provide the conservation and management communities with valuable long-term information regarding frog and toad population trends and responses. Data can act as baseline comparisons for future datasets and can also be combined with biotic and abiotic datasets to discover potential influences on observed population trends. The dataset is also useful for the development and testing of new data analysis methods for occupancy studies, as well as in-class educational analysis opportunities. Dataset includes observations of 58 species found in the United States including listed, threatened, common, elusive, invasive, and exotic species, and is used by State agencies to understand the distribution and change in populations of amphibians, and is sometimes the only data on this taxonomic group considered in state-wide evaluations of resource condition.

• Eastern Ecological Science Center
• Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
• USGS Chesapeake Bay
• USGS Data Release Products

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