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http://dx.doi.org/10.17820/eri.2017.4.4.200

Effects of Habitat Environment and Land Use on the Abundance of Japanese Tree Frog (Hyla japonica) in Incheon, Korea  

Park, So Hyun (Department of Biological Sciences, Inha University)
Cho, Hyunsuk (Department of Biological Sciences, Inha University)
Jin, Seung-Nam (Department of Biological Sciences, Inha University)
Cho, Kang-Hyun (Department of Biological Sciences, Inha University)
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Ecology and Resilient Infrastructure / v.4, no.4, 2017 , pp. 200-206 More about this Journal
Abstract
The damage and fragmentation of habitat due to urbanization pose a great threat to amphibians worldwide. To understand the effect of urbanization on the distribution and abundance of Hyla japonica, we measured their population sizes by listening frog calling and investigated the habitat their population sizes and land use in the 18 rice paddy fields located in Incheon and its surroundings. Abundance of H. japonica was 0 - 17 male adults / habitat or 0 - 41 male adults / ha in Incheon. The number of the frog was increased as the distance between the habitat and the road became longer or the ratio of circumstance / area of the habitat increased. Unlike the general prediction, the density of H. japonica showed a negative correlation with the size of the habitat and a positive correlation with the surrounding land use intensity. Our results suggested that H. japonica could be concentrated in a narrow habitat due to the habitat size decrease and the periphery development according to the urbanizaion.
Keywords
Habitat fragmentation; Habitat size; Hyla japonica; Land use; Urbanization;
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