Wildlife Biologist
Email:
abrand@usgs.gov
Office Phone:
413-863-3823
ORCID:
0000-0003-2664-0041
Location
One Migratory Way
P.O. Box 796
Turners Falls
, MA
01376-0796
US
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This data set is comprised of 3 files of information collected on amphibians and vernal pool habitats at Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge from 2004 - 2016.
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The data include concentrations of current use pesticides in tissues of larval wood frog (Lithobates sylvaticus) and spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) and the presence of ranavirus in wood frogs and spotted salamanders from three northeastern National Wildlife Refuges sampled in 2013 and 2014. The data also include estrogenicity, protein phosphatase 2A inhibition and a suite of 15 major and minor elements in sediment screened using portable X-Ray Fluorescence. The data include sediment and tissue samples collected from 16 wetlands at the Patuxent Research Refuge (PRR) in central Maryland, USA, 15 wetlands at the Assabet River and Oxbow National Wildlife Refuges (EMASS) in eastern Massachusetts, USA, and nine...
Tags: Aquatic Biology,
Environmental Health,
Maryland,
Massachusetts,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags...
Water Quality,
Wildlife Biology,
Wildlife Disease,
amphibians,
biota,
endocrine disruption,
frog,
inlandWaters,
metal elements,
pesticides,
salamander,
wetland ecosystems,
wildlife disease, Fewer tags
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Comma-separated values (.csv) file containing data related to amphibian sampling across the United States between 2016 and 2021. Data files contain mercury concentrations in amphibian and dragonfly tissues, mercury concentrations in sediment, as well as amphibian morphometrics, and habitat and climate characteristics where the samples were collected.
Categories: Data;
Tags: Aquatic Biology,
California,
Colorado,
Connecticut,
Ecology, All tags...
Environmental Health,
Louisiana,
Maine,
Manitoba,
Massachusetts,
Montana,
Oregon,
Pennsylvania,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Vermont,
Virginia,
Water Quality,
Wildlife Biology,
Wisconsin,
Wyoming,
biota,
environment,
inlandWaters,
mercury contamination, Fewer tags
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This dataset provides the results of a national survey of the conterminous U.S. for the salamander chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal) conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative from May 2014 to August 2017. Sites were sampled by capturing amphibians by hand or by traps or nets that were then swabbed individually using methods that prevent sample contamination. All swabs were then analyzed using a real-time TaqMan PCR for detection of B. salamandrivorans on the extracted DNA. The data consist of locality information and data on the individual sampled, as well as the result of the test for B. salamandrivorans. No cases of B. salamandrivorans were detected...
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Includes data used to estimate population demographic parameters for an exemplary high-elevation amphibian species, the federally endangered Shenandoah salamander (Plethodon shenandoah). These parameters were entered into a Markov projection model which we used to forecast the future population status of the Shenandoah salamander.
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