Fascinating dissertation on Rana boylii

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Fascinating dissertation on Rana boylii

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I currently have an increasing fascination with the Rana boylii group (Amerana sub genus). I hope to one day have all of them on my life list.

Anyway, after reading a paper that stated many of our native Rana species often have small populations that are subject to periodic natural extirpation and depend upon migration from similar nearby small populations for genetic diversity and re-population after the periodic natural extirpation events, I started looking for typical population sizes for Rana boylii.

What I found was a doctoral dissertation by Sarah Munro Yarnell from 2005 titled "Spatial Heterogeneity of Rana boylii Habitat: Physical Processes, Quantification and Ecological Meaningfulness"

If you are interested in Rana boylii, read it. It is incredibly fascinating. It's a lot of content, I'm not even a quarter of the way through it yet, but it is incredibly fascinating.

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