Garcia Lab

Evan has been working with a wide variety of tracking and capture methods to examine the feasibility of studying the terrestrial movement of amphibians. During the Summer of 2014, he explored the use of pitfall traps, visual encounter surveys, and fluorescent powder tracking to approach different aspects of terrestrial movement. And in an effort to tie in past literature, he used a common metric of maximum jump performance alongside a time constrained free movement with tracking powder with three species of native Oregon amphibians. This project was designed to understand how larval environmental conditions affect the jumping performance and movement behavior of newly emergent amphibians. Relating new movement metrics to those in the literature will hopefully provide new insights to understanding amphibian movement.