3.2 Amphibians
Te North Carolina Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (NCPARC) program coordinates the North Carolina Calling Amphibian Survey Program (CASP) that provides data to the North American Amphibian Monitoring Program (NAAMP) database. Frog call monitoring conducted by NCWRC biologists, partners, and citizen science volunteers has provided distribution information on many species of anurans, including Oak Toad, Barking Treefrog, and Ornate Chorus Frog. Monitoring results are used to understand occupancy of available wetlands, as well as guide future survey and inventory eforts for target species. Other conservation recommendations for the habitats associated with amphibian species have been incorporated into the natural community descriptions in Chapter 4. Additional management information can be found in a PARC technical publication on habitat man- agement for amphibians and reptiles in the Southeast (Bailey et al. 2006) and is available online: http://separc.fles.wordpress.com/2013/04/se-hmg.pdf. 3.2.4 Knowledge Gaps Inventories of amphibian species have been conducted statewide to help build datasets and improve understanding of population abundance and distribution in North Carolina. Knowledge gained from this work contributes to the design of research and conservation measures that support persistence of all amphibian species.
Studies are needed to assess the efective- ness of specifc actions and application of general adaptation management principles (Shoo et al. 2011) . Eforts should be targeted at high-risk areas and species as well as loca- tions where species are most likely to persist or migrate toward new sites under changing climate conditions (Lawler et al. 2009; Blaustein et al. 2010; Killeen et al. 2007; Klein et al. 2009; Reilly et al. 2009; Shoo et al. 2010, 2011) .
Green Salamander (NCWRC)
In addition to the SGCN listed in Table 3.4, the species for which the Taxa Team determined there are research priorities because of knowledge gaps are identifed in Table 3.6.
44
2015 NC Wildlife Action Plan
Made with FlippingBook - professional solution for displaying marketing and sales documents online