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Vernal Pools Vernal Pools

Defined Located in or next to forests or other wooded areas Lie in confined basin with no continuously flowing inlet or outlet Are small and shallow Fill seasonally Have characteristic biological community: fishless; adapted to seasonal drawdown

Amphibia Wood Frog, Rana sylvatica Pickerel Frog, Rana palustris

Spotted Salamanders, Ambystoma maculatum Amphibia Spotted Salamanders, Ambystoma maculatum

Marbled Salamander, Ambystoma opacum

Immature Insects Skimmer Dragonfly

Rotifer Ceriodaphnia

Autotrophs Meridion, a diatom Tribonema, a xanthophyte

Invertebrates Fairy Shrimp

Conservation

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