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Training

California Tiger Salamander Workshop 2008

Date

Thursday, May 15, 2008
8:30 AM - 3:00 PM


Lunch will be provided

COST: $120.00
Payable by check to Elkhorn Slough Foundation

REGISTRATION FOR THIS PROGRAM IS CLOSED


Instructor Information

Ms. Maureen Ryan
Ph.D. candidate in Population Biology
University of California, Davis

Dr. Peter Trenham
Lecturer and Advisor
Penn State University

Contact

Grey Hayes
grey@elkhornslough.org
(831) 274-8700

Sponsors

Description

See also: California Tiger Salamander, Habitat Restoration

**Please note, your registration will not be finalized until we receive your payment of $120 made out and sent to the Elkhorn Slough Foundation c/o Grey Hayes; 1700 Elkhorn Road; Watsonville, CA 95076. After pre-registering for this workshop, please be sure to pre-register also for ONLY ONE of the two evening sessions (but not both!). On May 14 and 15, 2008, Pete Trenham, Ph.D. will present a workshop in northern Monterey County on the biology and conservation of the California tiger salamander (CTS). Dr. Trenham has published a variety of papers on the ecology and life history of the California tiger salamander and has most successfully taught this same workshop several times. The workshop will consist of a daytime classroom session and a choice of attending a field session either the night prior or the day of the classroom session. Workshop Objectives: This is a great opportunity to gain an understanding of the biology of California tiger salamanders and also how this information can be applied to habitat management for this species. The information conveyed will be useful in large-scale and local conservation planning efforts. Topics discussed will include: the geographic distribution of California tiger salamanders and hybrid populations, upland and aquatic habitats and their management, movements, population and community ecology, survey methods, and methods for assessing potential project impacts and approaches for avoidance and minimization. Participants will receive field training in species identification, sampling techniques, and the habitat requirements of the California tiger salamander. Refund Policy: Please note, we must receive your payment no later than April 30th for us to reserve a spot for you at the workshop. We cannot refund any of your registration fee(s) if you cancel after April 30th, 5 p.m.

Documents and Publications

DOCUMENT AUTHOR / SOURCE
WORKSHOP MATERIALS
Contact List: 2008 California Tiger Salamander Workshop
PDF, 15KB
Grey Hayes
Elkhorn Slough Coastal Training Program
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Amphibian Upland Habitat Use & Its Consequences for Population Viability
PDF, 197KB
Peter C. Trenham & H. Bradley Shaffer
Ecological Applications 15(4):1158-1168
2005
Can California Ranchers Save The Tiger Salamander?
PDF, 134KB
Erik Stokstad
Science 305:1554
September 10, 2004
Distribution of Migrating Adults Related to the Location of Remnant Grassland around an Urban California Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma californiense) Breeding Pool
PDF, 341KB
Peter C. Trenham and David G. Cook
Urban Herpetology, Herpetological Conservation, Mitchell, J.C., and R.E. Jung Brown (Eds.). Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
2008
Hybridization Between a Rare, Native Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma californiense) and its Introduced Congener
PDF, 310KB
Seth P. D. Riley, H. Bradley Shaffer, S. Randal Voss, & Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick
Ecological Applications 13(5):1263-1275
2003
Spatially Autocorrelated Demography and Interpond Dispersal In The Salamander Ambystoma californiense
PDF, 339KB
Peter C. Trenham, Walter D. Koenig and H. Bradley Shaffer
Ecology, 82(12):3519-3530
2001
Terrestrial habitat use by adult California tiger salamanders
PDF, 666KB
Peter C. Trenham
Journal of Herpetology, 35(2):343-346
2001
The Effects of Livestock on California Ground Squirrels (Spermophilus beecheyii)
PDF, 209KB
Jeffrey S. Fehmi, Sabrina E. Russo, James W. Bartolome
Rangeland Ecology and Management 58:352-359
July 2005
The molecular phylogenetics of endangerment: cryptic variation and historical phylogeography of the California tiger salamander
PDF, 280KB
H. BRADLEY SHAFFER; GREGORY B. PAULY; JEFFREY C. OLIVER, and; PETER C. TRENHAM
http://www2.eve.ucdavis.edu/shafferlab/publications.htm
2004
The polytypic species revisited: genetic differentiation and molecular phylogenetics of the tiger salamander Ambystoma tigrinum (Amphibia: Caudata) complex
PDF, 2.8MB
H. Bradley Shaffer; Mark L. McKnight
Evolution, 50(1):417-433
Feb. 1996

Links

Interim Guidance on Site Assessment and Field Surveys for Determining Presence or a Negative Finding of the California Tiger Salamander
http://www.fws.gov/Pacific/ecoservices/endangered/recovery/documents/CalTigerSalamander.2003.protocol.pdf

The Biogeography of the California Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma californiense)
http://bss.sfsu.edu/holzman/courses/Fall%2003%20project/CAtigersalamander.htm

Questions and Answers

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