New occurrence records for Eurycea tonkawae Chippindale, Price, Wiens & Hillis, 2000 (Caudata, Plethodontidae) from an urbanized watershed in Travis County, Texas, USA

Zachary C. Adcock; Andrew R. MacLaren; Nathan F. Bendik; Ryan M. Jones; Alex Llewellyn; Kenneth Sparks; Kemble White IV

doi:10.15560/16.4.1017

New occurrence records for Eurycea tonkawae Chippindale, Price, Wiens & Hillis, 2000 (Caudata, Plethodontidae) from an urbanized watershed in Travis County, Texas, USA

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10.15560/16.4.1017 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 16 (4) ◽

pp. 1017-1023

Author(s):

Zachary C. Adcock ◽

Andrew R. MacLaren ◽

Nathan F. Bendik ◽

Ryan M. Jones ◽

Alex Llewellyn ◽

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Keyword(s):

Water Quality ◽

Endangered Species ◽

New Records ◽

Endangered Species Act ◽

Federally Threatened ◽

Water Quality And Quantity ◽

Occurrence Records

We report two new occurrence records for Jollyville Plateau Salamanders, Eurycea tonkawae Chippindale, Price, Wiens & Hillis, 2000, from an urbanized watershed in Travis County, Texas, USA. Eurycea tonkawae is listed as federally threatened under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 due to threats from urbanization, including degradation of water quality and quantity. These new records fill a distributional gap within its known range, highlight the importance of surveying historically neglected areas, identify unprotected populations, and encourage the discovery of new populations.

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Florida’s Endearing Manatees

Wild Capital ◽

10.5744/florida/9781683401049.003.0006 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 121-139

Author(s):

Barbara K. Jones

Keyword(s):

Water Quality ◽

Land Use ◽

Endangered Species ◽

Public Goods ◽

Economic Value ◽

Endangered Species Act ◽

Assigned Value ◽

Land Use Decisions ◽

The Face ◽

The Commons

By assigning economic value to the manatee, the costs and benefits associated with conserving and protecting them and their habitat can more effectively compete in the marketplace. Just as the Endangered Species Act assigned value to social benefits or Eleanor Ostrom demonstrated how governing the commons could turn public goods into private ones, assessing the measurable benefits of a resource makes both environmental and economic sense. The manatee’s charisma, combined with a recognized economic value, has helped us maintain a better relationship with the species and moved the manatee and its habitat to the frontlines of Florida’s conservation agenda. Their increased numbers and expanding human fan base have made them the face for improving ecosystem biodiversity and water quality, as well as encouraging better land use decisions along Florida’s rapidly developing coastline. Effective branding by well-respected institutions like Save the Manatee Club and The Ocean Conservancy has made saving the manatee a cause that transcends the local and hopefully has made co-existing with the gentle giants in their habitat something each one of us will readily choose to do.

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New records of the Critically Endangered Leptagrion acutum Santos, 1961 (Odonata, Coenagrionidae) from southern Bahia, Brazil

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10.15560/17.1.59 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 59-62

Author(s):

Cintia Santos ◽

Laís R. Santos ◽

Marciel E. Rodrigues

Keyword(s):

Endangered Species ◽

Atlantic Forest ◽

New Records ◽

Red List ◽

Critically Endangered ◽

Natural Heritage ◽

Northern Areas ◽

Southern Bahia ◽

First Time ◽

Occurrence Records

Leptagrion acutum Santos, 1961 is endemic to Brazil and, since 2003, listed as Critically Endangered in the Red Book of Threatened Brazilian Fauna. In this study, L. acutum is recorded for the first time from the state of Bahia, expanding known occurrences of this species to northern areas of the Atlantic Forest. Three males were collected in the Veracel Station Private Reserve of Natural Heritage. Information concerning distributional records of rare or endangered species is essential because it can add to species’ occurrence records and assist in future Red List assessments.

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