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Article Dans Une Revue Wildlife Research Année : 2008

Portable PIT detector as a new tool for non-disruptively locating individually tagged amphibians in the field : a case study with Pyrenean brook salamanders (Calotriton asper)

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Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) telemetry has recently been adapted for locating PIT-tagged fish in shallow waters using portable detectors. In the present study, we tested this method for adult amphibians (Pyrenean brook salamanders, Calotriton asper) PIT-tagged with 12-mm transponders in a headwater rocky stream. PIT telemetry performances were compared with a conventional hand-capture method, i.e. visual searching and overturning movable stones in the streambed. The mean efficiency of the portable detector (88.2% ± 5.2, s.e.) was significantly higher than hand-capture (51.1% ± 6.4) and the operator progressed, on average, four times faster. Time efficiencies were, on average, 0.92 (±0.15) and 0.12 (±0.04) adult salamanders per minute with the portable detector and by hand-capture, respectively. The efficiency of the portable detector was negatively correlated with the percentage of large stones on the streambed. The time needed to prospect a section was positively correlated with the abundance of PIT-tagged adult salamanders, spring inlets and undercut banks. Because PIT telemetry is less disruptive than hand-capture for both salamanders and their habitat, it is a promising and non-disruptive method for developing studies on the ecology and management of amphibians in shallow waters.
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Julien Cucherousset, P. Marty, L. Pelozuelo, Jean-Marc Roussel. Portable PIT detector as a new tool for non-disruptively locating individually tagged amphibians in the field : a case study with Pyrenean brook salamanders (Calotriton asper). Wildlife Research, 2008, 35 (8), pp.780-787. ⟨10.1071/WR08074⟩. ⟨hal-01453783⟩
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