Training
Ecology of California Tiger Salamander for CDFW
A rare opportunity for CDFW employees to learn about the California Tiger Salamander
COST: FREE
REGISTRATION FOR THIS PROGRAM IS CLOSED
Instructor Information
Dr. Peter Trenham
Independent Consultant
Contact
Grey Hayes
grey@elkhornslough.org
8312748700
Sponsors
Description
See also: California Tiger Salamander, Habitat Restoration
Overview: This will be a unique opportunity for California Department of Fish and Wildlife staff to participate in a workshop on the ecology and conservation of the California tiger salamander. The workshop will consist of a 7 hour classroom session and a choice of one of two field sessions. We will send out an email to those registered which field session they are assigned to by May 10.
Workshop Objectives: The workshop is designed to provide participants a working understanding of the complex biology of California tiger salamanders including discussion of published research. Participants will gain an understanding for how to identify, survey, conserve and manage habitat for the species. The information conveyed will be useful in large-scale and local conservation planning efforts.
Topics: Specific topics include: the geographic distribution of California tiger salamanders and hybrid populations; replicas relojes upland and aquatic habitats and their management; species movements; population and community ecology; survey methods; methods for assessing potential project impacts, and; approaches for avoidance and minimization. Participants will receive skills-based field training in species identification, sampling techniques, and habitat requirements of the California tiger salamander.
Workshop Format:
May 23 classroom session (8:00am – 3:30pm): Overview of biology and management of the California tiger salamander.
May 23 or May 24 field sessions (site TBD): Your registration includes enrollment in one of the two field training sessions on either May 23 (4:30pm – 8:00pm) or May 24 (9:00am – 1:00pm). In order to reduce the teacher:student ratio, we are limiting these sessions to 12 participants each. We will attempt to accommodate your scheduling preferences but cannot guarantee registration in your preferred choice.
Please Note:
Elkhorn Slough is subsidizing the cost of this workshop to make the event free to Department employees only. If you sign up, please show up. Otherwise, you will be taking the space of another Department employee, wasting funding, materials, etc. Those who do not show up or notify us well in advance of their absence may not be offered priority replica uhren enrollment at future such events.
Due to cost constraints, we will not be serving refreshments or lunch for this event: please bring your own lunch, coffee, water, etc.
Documents and Publications
Contact List
We encourage participants to download the contact list to assist with arranging a rideshare or to get in contact with someone you met at the
workshop. Those interested in sharing a ride to the event are marked on the contact list.
DOCUMENT | AUTHOR / SOURCE |
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WORKSHOP MATERIALS | |
Presentation: California tiger salamander workshop PDF, 18.2MB |
Chris Searcy and Pete Trenham Elkhorn Slough Coastal Training Program May 2023 |
Read Me: Important Preparation Guidelines for CTS Field Practica PDF, 39KB |
Dan Brumbaugh Elkhorn Slough Coastal Training Program 2019 |
Supplemental Materials, Including Bibliography: California Tiger Salamander Workshop PDF, 220KB |
Chris Searcy And Pete Trenham Elkhorn Slough Coastal Training Program May 2023 |
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 |
Calculating Biologically Accurate Mitigation Credits: Insights from the California Tiger Salamander PDF, 415KB |
Christopher Searcy and Bradley Shaffer Conservation Biology 22(4):997-1005 2008 |
Delayed life history effects, multilevel selection, and evolutionary trade-offs in the California tiger salamander PDF, 2.4MB |
Christopher A. Searcy, Levi N. Gray, Peter C. Trenham, and H. Bradley Shaffer Ecology, 95(1):68-77 2014 |
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 |
Effective population size is strongly correlated with breeding pond size in the endangered California tiger salamander, Ambystoma californiense PDF, 500KB |
Ian J. Wang, Jarrett R. Johnson, Benjamin B. Johnson, H. Bradley Shaffer Conserv Genet 12:911-920 2011 |
Effects of tail-clipping on survivorship and growth of larval salamanders PDF, 414KB |
Rebecca L. Polich, Christopher A. Searcy, and H. Bradley Shaffer The Journal of Wildlife Management 77(7):1420-1425 2013 |
Life History and Demographic Variation in the California Tiger Salamander PDF, 101KB |
Peter C. Trenham, H. Bradley Shaffer, Walter D. Koenig, and Mark R. Stromberg Copeia 2:365-377 2000 |
Microhabitat use and migration distance of an endangered grassland amphibian PDF, 475KB |
Christopher A. Searcy, Emilio Gabbai-Saldate, and H. Bradley Shaffer Biological Conservation 158:80-87 2013 |
Movement Patterns and Migration Distances in an Upland Population of California Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma californiense) PDF, 1.1MB |
Susan G. Orloff Herpetological Conservation and Biology 6(2):266-276 2011 |
Retention of low-fitness genotypes over six decades of admixture between native and introduced tiger salamanders PDF, 397KB |
Jarrett R. Johnson, Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick, and H Bradley Shaffer BMC Evolutionary Biology 10:147 2010 |
Short pond hydroperiod decreases fitness of nonnative hybrid salamanders in California PDF, 619KB |
J. R. Johnson, M. E. Ryan, S. J. Micheletti, and H. B. Shaffer Animal Conservation 16:556-565 2013 |
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 |
Sympatry in California tiger salamander and California red-legged frog breeding habitat within their overlapping range PDF, 145KB |
Jeff A. Alvarez, Mary A. Shea, Jeffery T. Wilcox, Mark A. Allaback, Sarah M. Foster, Gretchen E. Padgett-Flohr, and Jennifer L. Haire California Fish and Game, 99(1):42-48 2013 |
Terrestrial habitat use by adult California tiger salamanders PDF, 666KB |
Peter C. Trenham Journal of Herpetology, 35(2):343-346 2001 |
The effectiveness of pond-breeding salamanders as agents of larval mosquito control PDF, 150KB |
Robert Brodman
Ryan Dorton Journal of Freshwater Ecology 21(3):467-474 2006 |
The molecular phylogenetics of endangerment: cryptic variation and historical phylogeography of the California tiger salamander, Ambystoma californiense PDF, 317KB |
H. Bradley Shaffer, Gregory B. Pauly, Jeffrey C. Oliver, and Peter C. Trenham Molecular Ecology 13:3033-3049 2004 |
The origin of tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum) populations in California, Oregon, and Nevada: introductions or relicts? PDF, 544KB |
Jarrett R. Johnson, Robert C. Thomson, Steven J. Micheletti, and H. Bradley Shaffer Conserv Genet 12:355-370 2011 |
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 |
OTHER INFORMATION | |
Ambystoma californiense Gray, 1853, California tiger salamander PDF, 32KB |
Shaffer, H. B., and P. C. Trenham M. Lannoo, editor. Amphibian Declines - The Conservation Status of United States Species. University of California Press, Berkeley 2005 |
Links
California Herps
http://www.californiaherps.com/
Questions and Answers
Submit a question on this subject and we'll provide an answer. coastaltraining@elkhornslough.org