Analysis of Breeding Salamanders in the Greater Yellowstone Area

The National Park Service intends to award a single source justified cooperative agreement to The Regents of New Mexico State University for the project "Analysis of Breeding Salamanders in the Greater Yellowstone Area". The project aims to analyze over a decade of amphibian and wetland data from Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, specifically targeting breeding salamander data. The goal is to determine the trend and relevant relationship of breeding salamanders to wetland habitat, hydrological periods, and weather patterns. * The project will provide information on the trends of breeding tiger salamanders in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. * The project will use a multi-state model approach to determine trends in salamander occupancy in association with habitat and weather-related variables. * The project will build off of a recent study that used a multi-state model to measure trends in two other amphibians monitored in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. * The project will include an investigation of the spatial distribution of wetland sites and will be based on 13 years of survey data.