1 INTRODUCTION 1 2 SPECIES INFORMATION 1 2.1 Distribution & Phylogeny 1 2.1.1 Ascaphus spp. 1 2.1.2 Ascaphus montanus 2 2.2 Habitat Associations 3 2.2.1 Lotic Environment 3 2.2.2 Terrestrial Environment 4 2.3 Threats 5 2.4 Status In British 5 2.5 Previous Inventory Studies 5 2.6 Wildlife Habitat Areas 6 3 PROJECT BACKGROUND 7 3.1 Purpose 7 3.2 Objectives 7 3.3 Indicators 8 3.4 Project History & Status 8 4 STUDY AREA 11 4.1 Climate 4.2 Hydrology 4.3 Physiography 5 13 5.1 Study Design 5.2 Field work Effort and Schedule 5.3 Sampling Period 5.4 Rationale for Selection of Sample Reach Length 5.5 Naming Conventions and Locational Data 5.6 Channel and Habitat Condition Sampling 5.6.1 Topographic Surveys 5.6.2 Pebble Counts 5.6.3 Embeddedness Estimates 5.6.4 Pole Photography 5.7 Tailed Frog Abundance Sampling 5.7.1 Basic Rubble Rousing Method 5.7.2 Time Constrained Searches (TCS) 5.7.3 Area Constrained Searches (ACS) 5.7.4 Cohort Classification 5.7.5 Weights and Length Measures 5.7.6 Animal Care 5.8 Pre & Post Ram-Cabin Fire Sampling, 2003-2005. 5.9 Sentinel Samples, 2005, 2007, and 2008. 5.9.1 Site Selection 5.9.2 Tasks conducted each sampling year 5.9.3 Pebble Counts and Embeddedness 5.9.4 ACS animal sampling 5.10 Calibration Samples, 2008-2009. 5.10.1 Site selection 5.10.2 Tasks executed at each site 5.10.3 Pebble counts and embeddedness ranks 5.10.4 TCS and ACS animal sampling 5.11 Stream Thermal Regime, 2008-2009. 5.12 Data Review and Synthesis 5.13 Data Summary Baseline Estimates and Pilot Variance Estimates 5.14 5.14.1 Target population
1 INTRODUCTION 1 2 SPECIES INFORMATION 1 2.1 Distribution & Phylogeny 1 2.1.1 Ascaphus spp. 1 2.1.2 Ascaphus montanus 2 2.2 Habitat Associations 3 2.2.1 Lotic Environment 3 2.2.2 Terrestrial Environment 4 2.3 Threats 5 2.4 Status In British 5 2.5 Previous Inventory Studies 5 2.6 Wildlife Habitat Areas 6 3 PROJECT BACKGROUND 7 3.1 Purpose 7 3.2 Objectives 7 3.3 Indicators 8 3.4 Project History & Status 8 4 STUDY AREA 11 4.1 Climate 4.2 Hydrology 4.3 Physiography 5 13 5.1 Study Design 5.2 Field work Effort and Schedule 5.3 Sampling Period 5.4 Rationale for Selection of Sample Reach Length 5.5 Naming Conventions and Locational Data 5.6 Channel and Habitat Condition Sampling 5.6.1 Topographic Surveys 5.6.2 Pebble Counts 5.6.3 Embeddedness Estimates 5.6.4 Pole Photography 5.7 Tailed Frog Abundance Sampling 5.7.1 Basic Rubble Rousing Method 5.7.2 Time Constrained Searches (TCS) 5.7.3 Area Constrained Searches (ACS) 5.7.4 Cohort Classification 5.7.5 Weights and Length Measures 5.7.6 Animal Care 5.8 Pre & Post Ram-Cabin Fire Sampling, 2003-2005. 5.9 Sentinel Samples, 2005, 2007, and 2008. 5.9.1 Site Selection 5.9.2 Tasks conducted each sampling year 5.9.3 Pebble Counts and Embeddedness 5.9.4 ACS animal sampling 5.10 Calibration Samples, 2008-2009. 5.10.1 Site selection 5.10.2 Tasks executed at each site 5.10.3 Pebble counts and embeddedness ranks 5.10.4 TCS and ACS animal sampling 5.11 Stream Thermal Regime, 2008-2009. 5.12 Data Review and Synthesis 5.13 Data Summary 5.14 Baseline Estimates and Pilot Variance Estimates 5.14.1 Target population