Editing Spring peeper (section)

== Geographic range and habitat ==
The southern spring peeper's habitat includes the Gulf Coast from southeastern [[Texas]] to southeastern [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] and northern [[Florida]], United States. Its northern [[conspecific]] occurs in the entire east of the [[Mississippi]] and ranges to the Atlantic provinces in Canada as far west as Saskatchewan.<ref>Rashleigh, Karen R., & Michael Crowell. “Spring peeper (Pseudacris crucifer) in
Labrador, Canada: An update.” The Canadian Field-Naturalist, vol. 132, no. 2, 1 Jan.
2019, pp. 163–167, https://doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v132i2.2051.</ref><ref name="Opinicon Natural History-2009" /><ref name="NG" /><ref name="GS" /><ref name=Lovett2013>{{cite journal |last1=Lovett |first1=Gary M. |title=When Do Peepers Peep? Climate and the Date of First Calling in the Spring Peeper (''Pseudacris crucifer'') in Southeastern New York State |journal=Northeastern Naturalist |date=June 2013 |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=333–340 |doi=10.1656/045.020.0209 |s2cid=86691153 }}</ref>

Spring peepers live primarily in forests and regenerating [[woodland]]s near [[ephemeral]] or semipermanent [[wetlands]].<ref name="GS">{{cite web|url=http://fl.biology.usgs.gov/herps/Frogs_and_Toads/P_crucifer/p_crucifer.html|title=Spring Peeper|publisher=U.S. Geological Survey|access-date=2009-11-15}}</ref> It frequently occurs in breeding aggregations of several hundred individuals, and commonly breeds in temporary [[pond]]s ([[vernal pond]]s, which eventually dry during the summer months), intermediate ponds that have interchanging periods of being dry and wet every year, ponds customarily filled year-round, swamps, and disturbed habitats, such as farm ponds and [[borrow pit]]s.<ref name="GS" /><ref name=wjj>{{cite web |title=Spring Peeper (Pseudacris crucifer |url=https://nhpbs.org/wild/springpeeper.asp |website=Wildlife Journal Junior |publisher=New Hampshire PBS |access-date=28 April 2022}}</ref> During the breeding season, the spring peeper will be found near bodies of water that are free of fish and pollutants. During actual breeding, their choruses form near where trees hang by bushy plants or secondary forests. Their choruses can also be located within ponds, marshes, or swamps. They will usually resume call activity during warm rain, and are not commonly seen outside of their breeding choruses. During the non-breeding season, they will inhabit dead plant material from trees, shrubs, and other plants in the woods.<ref>{{cite thesis |last1=Stewart |first1=Kathryn |title=Contact zone dynamics and the evolution of reproductive isolation in a North American treefrog, the spring peeper (''Pseudacris crucifer'') |date=4 March 2013 |id={{ProQuest|1886372286}} |hdl=1974/7841 }}</ref>

Although they are able to inhabit multiple types of ponds, spring peepers have been seen to be superior competitors in permanent ponds due to their higher caliber of predation resistance within the environment.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Skelly |first=David K. |date=1997 |title=Tadpole Communities: Pond permanence and predation are powerful forces shaping the structure of tadpole communities |journal=American Scientist |volume=85 |issue=1 |pages=36–45 |jstor=27856689 }}</ref> This [[Amphibians|amphibious]] species requires [[marshes]], ponds, or [[swamp]] regions to support the aquatic environment the eggs and tadpoles need.

In the northern reaches of their range, spring peepers must endure occasional periods of subfreezing temperatures during the breeding season. The species can tolerate the freezing of some of its body fluids, and undergoes hibernation under logs or behind loose bark on trees.<ref name="NG" /> It is capable of surviving the freezing of its internal body fluids to temperatures as low as −8&nbsp;°C (17.6&nbsp;°F).<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Layne |first1=Jr |last2=Lee |first2=Re |title=Adaptations of frogs to survive freezing |journal=Climate Research |date=1995 |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=53–59 |doi=10.3354/cr005053 |jstor=24863316 |hdl=2374.MIA/5875 |bibcode=1995ClRes...5...53L |doi-access=free }}</ref>