Executive Director Bert Harris is presenting this talk at the Virginia Herpetological Society Virtual Fall Symposium.

Spotted Salamanders are beautiful and mysterious animals that spend most of their lives underground, emerging only briefly each spring to breed in vernal pools. Spotted Salamanders are long-lived and they have a low reproductive output. Therefore, these salamanders are potentially acutely vulnerable to increased adult mortality, such as roadkill in urban and suburban areas. Clifton Institute scientists, undergraduate researchers, and volunteers partnered to study the effects of urban development on Spotted Salamanders across an urbanization gradient from Arlington to Front Royal.

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Photo by Jessica Meck