Updated May
1, 1996
Siera Yellow Legged Frog Bibliography
Compiled
By Yosemite News
Berger,
L., R. Speare, P. Daszak, D. E. Green, A. A. Cunningham, C. L.
Goggin, R. Slocombe, M. A. Ragan, A. D. Hyatt, K. R. McDonald,
H. B. Hines, K. R. Lips, G. Marantelli, and H. Parkes. 1998. Chytridiomycosis
causes amphibian mortality associated with population declines
in the rain forests of Australia and Central America. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 95:9031-9036.
Blaustein,
A. R., and D. B. Wake. 1990. Declining amphibians populations:
a global phenomenon. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 5:203-204.
Blaustein,
A. R., P. D. Hoffman, D. G. Hokit, J. M. Kiesecker, S. C. Walls,
and J. B. Hays. 1994. UV repair and resistance to solar UV-B in
amphibian eggs: a link to population declines? Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences, USA 91:1791-1795.
Blaustein,
A. R., and D. B. Wake. 1995. The puzzle of declining amphibian
populations. Scientific American 272:52-57.
Bradford,
D. F. 1983. Winterkill, oxygen relations, and energy metabolism
of a submerged dormant amphibian, Rana muscosa. Ecology
64:1171-1183.
Bradford,
D. F. 1984. Temperature modulation in a high-elevation amphibian,
Rana muscosa. Copeia 1984:966-976.
Bradford,
D. F. 1989. Allotopic distribution of native frogs and introduced
fishes in high Sierra Nevada lakes of California: implication
of the negative effect of fish introductions. Copeia 1989:775-778.
Bradford,
D. F. 1991. Mass mortality and extinction in a high-elevation
population of Rana muscosa. Journal of Herpetology 25:174-177.
Bradford,
D. F., S. D. Cooper, T. M. Jenkins, Jr., K. Kratz, O. Sarnelle,
and A. D. Brown. 1998. Influences of natural acidity and introduced
fish on faunal assemblages in California alpine lakes. Canadian
Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 55:2478-2491.
Bradford,
D. F., M. S. Gordon, D. F. Johnson, R. D. Andrews, and W. B. Jennings.
1994a. Acidic deposition as an unlikely cause for amphibian
population declines in the Sierra Nevada, California. Biological
Conservation 69:155-161.
Bradford,
D. F., D. M. Graber, and F. Tabatabai. 1994b. Population
declines of the native frog, Rana muscosa, in Sequoia and
Kings Canyon National Parks, California. Southwestern Naturalist
39:323-327.
Bradford,
D. F., C. Swanson, and M. S. Gordon. 1992. Effects of low pH and
aluminum on two declining species of amphibians in the Sierra
Nevada, California. Journal of Herpetology 26:369-377.
Bradford,
D. F., C. Swanson, and M. S. Gordon. 1994. Effects of low pH and
aluminum on amphibians at high elevation in the Sierra Nevada,
California. Canadian Journal of Zoology 72:1272-1279.
Bradford,
D. F., F. Tabatabai, and D. M. Graber. 1993. Isolation of remaining
populations of the native frog, Rana muscosa, by introduced
fishes in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California.
Conservation Biology 7:882-888.
Camp, C.
L. 1917. Notes on the systematic status of the toads and frogs
of California. University of California Publications in Zoology
17:115-125.
Case, S.
M. 1978. Electrophoretic variation in two species of ranid frogs,
Rana boylei and R. muscosa. Copeia 1978:311-320.
Cooke,
A. S., and R. S. Oldham. 1995. Establishment of populations of
the common frog, Rana temporaria, and common toad, Bufo
bufo, in a newly created reserve following translocation.
Herpetological Journal 5:173-180.
Corn, P.
S. 1994. What we know and don't know about amphibian declines
in the West. Pages 59-67 in W. W. Covington and L. F. DeBano,
editors. Sustainable ecological systems: implementing an ecological
approach to land management. USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain
Range Experiment Station, Ft. Collins, Colorado.
Corn, P.
S., and R. A. Knapp. 2000. Fish stocking in protected areas: summary
of a workshop. Proceedings: Wilderness Science in a Time of Change.
Proceedings RMRS-P-00, pages 301-303. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department
of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.
Cory, L.,
P. Fjeld, and W. Serat. 1970. Distribution patterns of DDT residues
in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Pesticides Monitoring Journal
3:204-211.
Datta,
S., L. Hansen, L. McConnell, J. Baker, J. LeNoir, and J. N. Seiber.
1998. Pesticides and PCB contaminants in fish and tadpoles from
the Kaweah River Basin, California. Bulletin of Environmental
Contamination and Toxicology 60:829-836.
Drost,
C. A., and G. M. Fellers. 1996. Collapse of a regional frog fauna
in the Yosemite area of the California Sierra Nevada, USA. Conservation
Biology 10:414-425.
Feldman,
C. R., and J. A. Wilkinson. 2000. Rana muscosa (Mountain
yellow-legged frog). Predation. Herpetological Review 31:102.
Hayes,
M. P., and M. R. Jennings. 1986. Decline of ranid frog species
in western North America: are bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana)
responsible? Journal of Herpetology 20:490-509.
Hobbs, Howard
E.. March 1, 1996. Yosemite's Silent Spring. The Daily Republican
Newspaper,(available online at http://www.dailyrepublican.com/silentspring.html
).
Goodman, J. D. 1989. Langeronia
brenesi, new species (Trematoda: Lecithodendriidae) in the
mountain yellow-legged frog Rana muscosa from southern
California, [USA]. Transactions of the American Microscopical
Society 108:387-393.
Grant,
K. P., and L. E. Licht. 1995. Effects of ultraviolet radiation
on life-history stages of anurans from Ontario, Canada. Canadian
Journal of Zoology 73:2292-2301.
Grinnell,
J., and T. I. Storer. 1924. Animal life in the Yosemite. University
of California Press, Berkeley, CA.
Jennings,
M. R., and M. P. Hayes. 1994. Amphibian and reptiles species of
special concern in California. California Department of Fish and
Game, Inland Fisheries Division, Rancho Cordova, California.
Jennings,
M. R. 1996. Status of amphibians. Pages 921-944 in Sierra Nevada
Ecosystem Project: Final report to Congress. Volume II, Chapter
31. Centers for Water and Wildland Resources, University of California,
Davis (available online at ceres.ca.gov/snep/pubs/v2s3.html).
Jennings,
W. B., D. F. Bradford, and D. F. Johnson. 1992. Dependence of
the garter snake Thamnophis elegans on amphibians in the
Sierra Nevada of California. Journal of Herpetology 26:503-505.
Knapp,
R. A. 1996. Non-native trout in natural lakes of the Sierra Nevada:
an analysis of their distribution and impacts on native aquatic
biota. Pages 363-407 in Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project: final
report to Congress. Volume III, Chapter 8. Centers for Water and
Wildland Resources, University of California, Davis (available
online at ceres.ca.gov/snep/pubs/v3.html).
Knapp,
R. A., and K. R. Matthews. 1998. Eradication of nonnative fish
by gill-netting from a small mountain lake in California. Restoration
Ecology 6:207-213.
Knapp,
R. A., and K. R. Matthews. 2000a. Nonnative fish introductions
and the decline of the mountain yellow-legged frog from within
protected areas. Conservation Biology 14:428-438.
Knapp,
R. A., and K. R. Matthews. 2000b. Effects of nonnative
fishes on wilderness lake ecosystems in the Sierra Nevada and
recommendations for reducing impacts. Proceedings: Wilderness
Science in a Time of Change. Proceedings RMRS-P-15-Vol. 5, pages
312-317. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service,
Rocky Mountain Research Station.
Knapp,
R.A., K.R. Matthews, and O. Sarnelle. 2001. Resistance and resilience
of alpine lake fauna to fish introductions. Ecological Monographs,
in press.
LeNoir,
J. S., L. L. McConnell, G. M. Fellers, T. M. Cahill, and J. N.
Seiber. 1999. Summertime transport of current-use pesticides from
California's Central Valley to the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range,
USA. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 18:2715-2722.
Macey,
J. R., J. Stasburg, J. Brisson, V. T. Vredenburg, M. Jennings,
and A. Larson. 2001. Molecular phylogenetics of western North
American frogs of the Rana boylii species group. Molecular
Phylogenetics and Evolution, in press.
Mao, J.,
D. E. Green, G. Fellers, and V. G. Chinchar. 1999. Molecular characterization
of iridoviruses isolated from sympatric amphibians and fish. Virus
Research 63:45-52.
Matthews,
K. R., and R. A. Knapp. 1999. A study of high mountain lake fish
stocking effects in Sierra Nevada Wilderness. International Journal
of Wilderness 5:24-26.
Matthews,
K. R., and K. L. Pope. 1999. A telemetric study of the movement
patterns and habitat use of Rana muscosa, the mountain
yellow-legged frog, in a high-elevation basin in Kings Canyon
National Park, California. Journal of Herpetology 33:615-623.
McConnell,
L. L., J. S. LeNoir, S. Datta, and J. N. Seiber. 1998. Wet deposition
of current-use pesticides in the Sierra Nevada mountain range,
California, USA. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 17:1908-1916.
Mullally,
D. P., and J. D. Cunningham. 1956. Ecological relations of Rana
muscosa at high elevations in the Sierra Nevada. Herpetologica
12:189-198.
Nagl, A.
M., and R. Hofer. 1997. Effects of ultraviolet radiation on early
larval stages of the Alpine newt, Triturus alpestris, under
natural and laboratory conditions. Oecologia 110:514-519.
Needham,
P. R., and E. H. Vestal. 1938. Notes on growth of golden trout
(Salmo agua-bonita) in two High Sierra lakes. California
Fish and Game 24:273-279.
Pope, K.
L. 1999a. Rana muscosa (Mountain yellow-legged frog).
Diet. Herpetological Review 30:163-164.
Pope, K.
L. 1999b. Mountain yellow-legged frog habitat use and movement
patterns in a high elevation basin in Kings Canyon National Park.
Master's thesis, California Polytechnic State University, San
Luis Obispo. 64 pp.
Stebbins,
R. C. 1985. Western reptiles and amphibians. Houghton Mifflin
Company, Boston, Massachusetts.
Stebbins,
R. C., and N. W. Cohen. 1995. A natural history of amphibians.
Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.
Vredenburg,
V.T. 2000. Rana muscosa (Mountain yellow-legged frog).
Egg predation. Herpetological Review 31:170-171.
Vredenburg,
V.T., G. Fellers, and C. Davidson. 2001. The mountain yellow-legged
frog (Rana muscosa). In Lanoo, M. J. (Ed.), North
American Amphibians: Status and Conservation. Smithsonian Institution
Press, Washington, D.C., USA. In press.
Wright,
A. H., and A. A. Wright. 1949. Handbook of frogs and toads of
the United States and Canada. Cornell University Press, Ithaca,
New York.
Yoon, D.
1977. The effect of introduced fish on the amphibian life in Westfall
Meadow. Yosemite Nature Notes 46:69-70.
Zabik,
J. M., and J. N. Seiber. 1993. Atmospheric transport of organophosphate
pesticides from California's Central Valley to the Sierra Nevada
mountains. Journal of Environmental Quality 22:80-90.
Zweifel,
R. G. 1955. Ecology, distribution, and systematics of frogs of
the Rana boylei group. University of California Publications
in Zoology 54:207-292.