Salamander Biodiversity in Massachusetts' Headwater Streams
- HF-ID: HF2003-18
- Category: Research Files
- Creator: Foster, D.R.
- Date: August 1, 2004 to July 31, 2006
- Location: Massachusetts
- Media: Paper
- Contents:
- Proposal (Massachusetts Environmental Trust)/Project Description/Grant Writing Information Sheets. 1 File Folder. 8.5 inches x 11 inches.
- Keywords: biodiversity, ecology
- Abstract:
- Headwater streams in central Massachusetts are highly variable, exhibiting longitudinal heterogeneity in habitat characteristics, flow regime, and biota from source to outlet, and with great variation among streams even when they are located close to one another. We were able to develop methods for assessing streamflow that can be used by schools, conservation commissions, naturalists, and researchers to understand the variation in flow in individual steams over time, and to link this variation to the animals found in the streams. We would like to hare these methods with watershed associations and environmental education organizations, expanding monitoring of flows and stream salamanders to a larger network of headwater streams across the state, and explicitly evaluating the distribution of stream salamanders, including the state-listed spring salamander and special concern dusky salamander, in relation to historic and present land use and forest cover, road distribution and density, and stream hydrology.
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