Title:

Treefrog response data from and assessment of short-term impacts of prescribed fire in Central Florida

Author(s):

Biazzo, Ian N.; Quintana-Ascencio, Pedro F.

Publication Year:

2025

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Biazzo, Ian N.; Quintana-Ascencio, Pedro F. 2025. Treefrog response data from and assessment of short-term impacts of prescribed fire in Central Florida. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2022-0072

Abstract:

This data publication contains tabular data from an assessment of the short-term impacts of prescribed fire on the dynamics of an upland flatwoods specialist, the pinewoods treefrog Dryophytes femoralis, using a replicated before-after-control-impact field experiment in Central Florida. We set PVC pipes as treefrog refugia at 3 meters (m), 6 m, 9 m, and 9+ m in 12 pine trees spread evenly across two treatments: reference trees in units burned in 2020 and trees in units with 2021 prescribed fire. Prescribed fires occurred April 16 and July 21, 2021. Every two weeks between March 5 and September 5 we checked pipes for frogs and assigned them unique color marks. We collected tree and environmental data, frog data, and capture/recapture data. We later modeled abundance (as raw counts), survival, and vertical movement using mark-recapture methods, multi-state, and mixed linear models with a Bayesian framework.

Keywords:

biota; environment; inlandWaters; Ecology, Ecosystems, & Environment; Animal ecology; Environment and People; Urban natural resources management; Fire; Fire ecology; Prescribed fire; Wildland/urban interface; Natural Resource Management & Use; Landscape management; Wildlife (or Fauna); Amphibians; amphibians; treefrogs; Dryophytes femoralis; pinewoods treefrog; mark-recapture; pine flatwoods; canopy; fire effects; Bayesian; single-rope-technique; Joint Fire Science Program; JFSP; Florida; Disney Wilderness Preserve; Polk County; Osceola County; Poinciana

Related publications:

• Biazzo, Ian N.; Quintana-Ascencio, Pedro F. 2022. Canopies, the Final Frog-tier: Exploring responses of a specialist treefrog to prescribed fire in a pyrogenic ecosystem. Fire Ecology. 18(1): 24. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-022-00148-1
• Biazzo, Ian N.; Quintana-Ascencio, Pedro F. 2022. Potential mechanisms of population decline: Anuran responses to prescribed fire. Joint Fire Science Final Report. Project #: 19-1-01-27. (Included in data publication download: \Supplements\JFSP-19-2-01-27_final_report.pdf).

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