CONCLUSIONS
Many reptiles and amphibians are as dependent on terrestrial habitats surrounding or connecting wetlands for some parts of their life cycles as they are on the aquatic habitats for other parts. Vital activities requiring peripheral terrestrial habitat are nesting, hibernating, aestivating, foraging, adult residency, and terrestrial dispersal, which depends on terrestrial connections between neighboring wetlands. Therefore, from a biodiversity standpoint, maintaining the integrity of terrestrial habitats associated with isolated aquatic habitats that routinely dry is arguably important for some organismal groups and biological functions. Because of the assurance of seasonal or annual drying, the terrestrial periphery and corridors are proportionally much more important to species dependent on small, isolated wetlands.