flatwoods salamander造句

• The frosted flatwoods salamander has a very narrow geographic distribution, occurring only in the southeastern coastal plain of the United States.
• Like the Frosted Flatwoods Salamander, this salamander breeds in ephemeral wetlands with extensive emergent vegetation, probably maintained by summer fires.
• In addition to his research contributions, in 2003 he provided critical testimony about buffer zones and the Flatwoods Salamander on behalf of the Sierra Club.
• Further degradation of remaining frosted flatwoods salamander habitat has occurred as a result of the suppression of natural summer wildfires, allowing native ephemeral wetland communities to succeed to dense tangles of hardwood shrubs.
• The frosted flatwoods salamander breeds in small, shallow, ephemeral ponds, generally characterized by an overstory of pond cypress ( " Taxodium ascendens " ) and black tupelo ( " Nyssa sylvatica " var . " biflora " ) and a diverse understory of native grasses and herbs.
• A number of rare and endangered animals are typical of this habitat including red-cockaded woodpeckers ( " Picoides borealis " ), gopher tortoises ( " Gopherus polyphemus " ), frosted flatwoods salamanders ( " Ambystoma cingulatum " ), and striped newts ( " Notophthalmus perstriatus " ).