Ecological Archives E088-081-A2

Dean C. Adams. 2007. Organization of Plethodon salamander communities: guild-based community assembly. Ecology 88:1292–1299.

Appendix B. Species of eastern Plethodon used in this study. For each species, guild assignment (small or large), the number of sites occupied, and the maximum species richness are listed.

Species

Guild

Sites

Max species richness

P. albagula

Large

32

3

P. amplus

Large

8

3

P. angusticlavius

Small

9

2

P. aureolus

Large

45

3

P. caddoensis

Large

5

3*

P. chattahoochee

Large

52

2

P. cheoah

Large

18

2

P. chlorobryonis

Large

109

2

P. cinereus

Small

1887

5

P. cylindraceus

Large

543

5

P. dorsalis

Small

17

3

P. electromorphus

Small

53

3

P. fourchensis

Large

5

3

P. glutinosus

Large

1083

5

P. grobmani

Large

15

1

P. hoffmani

Small

199

4

P. hubrichti

Small

7

3

P. jordani

Large

361

4

P. kentucki

Large

10

4

P. kiamichi

Large

5

3

P. kisatchie

Large

2

1

P. meridianus

Large

9

2

P. metcalfi

Large

280

3

P. mississippi

Large

40

3

P. montanus

Large

154

5

P. nettingi

Small

13

4

P. ocmulgee

Large

8

2

P. ouachitae

Large

13

3

P. petraeus

Large

5

3

P. punctatus

Large

32

4

P. richmondi

Small

147

5

P. savannah

Large

1

1

P. sequoyah

Large

1

2

P. serratus

Small

350

4

P. shenandoah

Small

19

3**

P. sherando

Small

1

2

P. shermani

Large

95

3

P. teyahalee

Large

846

4

P. variolatus

Large

12

1

P. ventralis

Small

43

4

P. virginia

Small

44

4

P. websteri

Small

17

3

P. wehrlei

Large

96

4

P. welleri

Small

13

5

P. yonahlossee

Large

75

5

* Single species site without geographic coordinates present in NMNH collections.

**Single species site identified in Highton (2004).

LITERATURE CITED

Highton, R. 2004. A new species of woodland salamander of the Plethodon cinereus group from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Jeffersoniana 14:1–22.



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