Published January 25, 2014 at 500 × 333 in Salamander Population Size Helps Predict Health of Forest Ecosystems and Inform Forest Management Decisions, MU Study Finds Ray Semlitsch. Semlitsch determined that salamander population size reflects forest habitat quality and can also predict how ecosystems recover from forest logging activity. Image credit: University of Missouri (Visited 20 times, 1 visits today)