Diversity and relative abundance of reptiles and amphibians under coverboards, rocks, or logs or on the soil surface on the ROW and in adjacent forest in Centre County, Pennsylvania, 1998-1999.
Species | Coverboards | Miscellaneous | Total | ||
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ROW | Forest | ROW | Forest | ||
Toad | |||||
E. American toad (Bufo americanus americanus) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Salamanders | |||||
Jefferson salamander (Ambystoma jeffersonianum) | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
Redback salamander (Plethodon cinereus) | 31 | 35 | 0 | 5 | 71 |
Spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Snakes | |||||
E. garter snake (Thamnopnis sirtalis sirtalis) | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
E. smooth green snake (Opheodrys vernalis vernalis) | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
Mountain earth snake (Virginia valeriae pulchra) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
N. redbelly snake (Storeria occipitomaculata occipitomaculata) | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
N. ringneck snake (Diadophis punctatus edwardsii) | 11 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 15 |
Total observations | 85 | 39 | 7 | 6 | 137 |