Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.7572/jncas-d-22-00004.1
Benny Glasgow
Gall inducing and gall associated arthropods were surveyed in Great Smoky Mountains National Park from 2017 until 2021, to find species presence, diversity, and distribution. Survey results identified 36 species or genera and 11 are new reports for Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Notes on host plants, arthropods, and associated species interactions of galls are presented.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.7572/2167-5880-136.1.1
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.7572/jncas-d-22-00001.1
K. Gianopulos, Jeffrey C. Beane, A. Braswell, Jeff Hall, W. Humphries, Nathan A. Shepard
Wetland condition assessment is often performed by land managers, federal and local governments, and conservation organizations to document current condition and potentially take action to protect or restore valuable wetland resources. These condition assessments often include data collection or surveys of biotic communities such as vegetation, macroinvertebrate, and amphibian communities. Assessment tools for gauging quality of these communities are needed to allow scientists to understand overall condition. To facilitate a better understanding of amphibian communities found in wetlands and associated habitat quality, we created ratings of anthropogenic disturbance sensitivity for wetland and aquatic amphibian species in North Carolina. With adequate surveys of amphibian communities, these ratings can be input into an index of amphibian wetland habitat quality for North Carolina wetlands, the Amphibian Quality Assessment Index (AQAI). Comparison of the AQAI against amphibian species richness in a 3-yr study in 16 wetlands showed the two indices to be correlated but not strongly so. The AQAI has the advantage of providing additional habitat quality information beyond indices based solely on species richness and abundance.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.7572/2167-5880-136.1.6
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.7572/jncas-d-19-00008.1
Alexander Levine, Lori Williams, D. Gillette
The Eastern Hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis) is a large aquatic salamander found in cool, highly oxygenated rivers and streams of the eastern United States. Hellbender populations have been steeply declining over the past century, and they are a protected species in many states, including North Carolina where they are listed as a species of special concern. North Carolina contains over 2,000 waterways that could potentially support hellbender populations. It is vital to survey these waterways to better understand the distribution of the Eastern Hellbender and the environmental factors necessary to support populations. Although small streams could potentially act as refugia for both larval and adult hellbenders, most surveys have focused on large rivers, generally using substrate composition and cover rock presence as site selection determinants. In early summer of 2013, we surveyed Bent Creek, a small (25.3 km2) catchment in the Pisgah National Forest beginning at the confluence with the French Broad River and concluding upstream to the Lake Powhatan dam. We documented four adult Eastern Hellbenders, including two captures and two tactile encounters/escapes. These represent the first records for C. a. alleganiensis in this catchment. In October 2013, we compared the number of cover rocks, water temperature, dissolved oxygen and substrate composition of three occupied and three unoccupied stream reaches. Although temperature and dissolved oxygen did not vary among reaches, occupied stream reaches had coarser substrates and a much higher occurrence of cover rocks than unoccupied reaches. Our findings suggest that commonly used surveying techniques relying on potential cover rocks and substrate composition are effective methods for selecting survey sites. Future research could examine whether the Eastern Hellbender population at Bent Creek is, or has the potential to become, a viable breeding population, as well as assessing population size upstream from Lake Powhatan. Suitability of stream conditions to consistent larval recruitment should also be evaluated. Our findings suggest that smaller streams such as Bent Creek can support viable populations of C. a. alleganiensis, and that restricting surveys to larger watersheds has the potential to miss important populations of this imperiled species.
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Pub Date : 2019-09-01DOI: 10.7572/jncas-d-18-00004.1
J. E. Williams, W. Webster
The woodland jumping mouse (Napaeozapus insignis) is a boreal species that resides in high elevation, mesic habitats throughout the Appalachian Mountains. This species can be identified by its defining characteristics such as its enlarged hindlimbs, long white-tipped tail, and lack of a fourth upper premolar. While conducting an inventory survey on the banks of Lake Jocassee, we captured a single woodland jumping mouse specimen at an elevation of 251 m asl. This captured specimen represents the lowest known elevational observation of the species in the southern Appalachian Mountains.
{"title":"Noteworthy Record of the Woodland Jumping Mouse (Napaeozapus Insignis) in Western South Carolina","authors":"J. E. Williams, W. Webster","doi":"10.7572/jncas-d-18-00004.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7572/jncas-d-18-00004.1","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The woodland jumping mouse (Napaeozapus insignis) is a boreal species that resides in high elevation, mesic habitats throughout the Appalachian Mountains. This species can be identified by its defining characteristics such as its enlarged hindlimbs, long white-tipped tail, and lack of a fourth upper premolar. While conducting an inventory survey on the banks of Lake Jocassee, we captured a single woodland jumping mouse specimen at an elevation of 251 m asl. This captured specimen represents the lowest known elevational observation of the species in the southern Appalachian Mountains.","PeriodicalId":108092,"journal":{"name":"Journal of North Carolina Academy of Science","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124950964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-09-01DOI: 10.7572/jncas-d-135-1.32
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Pub Date : 2019-09-01DOI: 10.7572/jncas-d-135-3.10
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{"title":"In Memoriam Dr. John C. Clamp (1949–2018)","authors":"","doi":"10.7572/jncas-d-135-1.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7572/jncas-d-135-1.8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":108092,"journal":{"name":"Journal of North Carolina Academy of Science","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133971687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gerhard Kalmus Bestowed Honorary Membership","authors":"","doi":"10.7572/jncas-d-135-1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7572/jncas-d-135-1.7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":108092,"journal":{"name":"Journal of North Carolina Academy of Science","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121599623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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