TY - JOUR
T1 - Observations of foothill yellow-legged frog predation by a Native Frog, Snake, and Giant Water Bug in a Central California Intermittent Stream
AU - Leidy, Robert A.
AU - Ryan, Rachael
AU - Moidu, Hana
AU - Rodríguez-Lozano, Pablo
AU - Bogan, Michael T.
AU - Carlson, Stephanie M.
N1 - Funding Information:
Coyote Creek is the ancestral homeland of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. We thank Henry Coe State Park for providing access to the study reaches at Coyote Creek. P. Rodríguez-Lozano was supported by a Ramón Areces Foundation Postdoctoral Scholarship; M.T. Bogan was supported by a David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellowship administered by the Society for Conservation Biology; and S.M. Carlson was supported by the Rose Hills Fund from University of California, Berkeley. We thank P.L. Fiedler for review of the manuscript.
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PY - 2019/7
Y1 - 2019/7
N2 - During the summers of 2015 and 2018, we observed predation on Foothill Yellow-legged Frogs (Rana boylii) by a giant water bug (Abedus indentatus), a California Red-legged Frog (Rana draytonii), and a Diablo Range Gartersnake (Thamnophis atratus zaxanthus) adjacent to 3 separate isolated pools along intermittent reaches of Coyote Creek, Santa Clara County, California, USA. To the best of our knowledge, our observations provide the first published record of California Red-legged Frog and giant water bug preying upon Foothill Yellow-legged Frogs. As pool habitat contracts over the course of the dry season, locally abundant Yellow-legged Frogs may be increasingly vulnerable to predation from a suite of aquatic and terrestrial predators.
AB - During the summers of 2015 and 2018, we observed predation on Foothill Yellow-legged Frogs (Rana boylii) by a giant water bug (Abedus indentatus), a California Red-legged Frog (Rana draytonii), and a Diablo Range Gartersnake (Thamnophis atratus zaxanthus) adjacent to 3 separate isolated pools along intermittent reaches of Coyote Creek, Santa Clara County, California, USA. To the best of our knowledge, our observations provide the first published record of California Red-legged Frog and giant water bug preying upon Foothill Yellow-legged Frogs. As pool habitat contracts over the course of the dry season, locally abundant Yellow-legged Frogs may be increasingly vulnerable to predation from a suite of aquatic and terrestrial predators.
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U2 - 10.3398/064.079.0214
DO - 10.3398/064.079.0214
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85087841353
VL - 79
SP - 280
EP - 284
JO - Western North American Naturalist
JF - Western North American Naturalist
SN - 1527-0904
IS - 2
ER -