Application of Providing Artificial Cover Method in Monitoring Amphibian Population
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    Amphibians are generally nocturnal and hide under covers in their habitat. Based on their hiding behavior, scientists have developed a standard method to monitor amphibian population in the day time by providing artificial covers made by nature materials for them in the sample sites. By checking and recording amphibians under the covers, the population parameters have been monitored. This method can be used in grassland, wetland, shrub, shallows, and conifer forest in where natural covers are seldom. We have used this method to monitor amphibians in Zoige and found out that this method worked well for tailed and tailless amphibians inhabited in the habitat mentioned above.

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WANG Gang, LI Cheng, XIE Feng, JIANG Jian-Ping. 2012. Application of Providing Artificial Cover Method in Monitoring Amphibian Population. Chinese Journal of Zoology, 47(3): 53-58.

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  • Received:September 28,2011
  • Revised:March 01,2012
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  • Online: June 22,2012
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