Gene E. Likens
Institute of Ecosystem Studies

I have a long-term interest in salamanders, dating to my childhood on a small farm in the midwestern US. In the early 1970s one of my graduate students, Thomas M. Burton, did a seminal study on the ecology of the abundant terrestrial salamander, Plethodon cinereus, in the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Using the same techniques as Burton did, I (with the assistance of Phyllis Likens) have been censusing these salamanders in the same locations of the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest on rainy nights. The main objective is to determine if the population of P. cinereus has changed since the early 1970s.

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