Correlates of diplopod size include diet, copulation duration, energy expense of copulation, oxygen consumption, precipitation, sex and temperature. Sexual Size Dimorphism (SSD) in …
Walk near woods or water on any spring or summer night and you will hear a bewildering (and sometimes deafening) chorus of frog, toad, and insect calls. How are these calls …
D Bickford, SD Howard, DJJ Ng… - Biodiversity and …, 2010 - Springer
Amphibians and reptiles will be adversely affected by projected rapid changes in climate in the next decades. Here, we review the known and potential impacts of climate change on …
J De Luca, V Zaffaroni-Caorsi, J Bosch, D Llusia… - Journal of Comparative …, 2023 - Springer
Anurans are known to detect vibrations, but few studies explore relationships between vibrations and resultant behaviors. We studied the reaction of calling captive-bred male …
V Zaffaroni-Caorsi, C Both, R Márquez, D Llusia… - Bioacoustics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Anthropogenic noise is widespread in nature and has been shown to produce a plethora of impacts on wildlife. Sounds play a fundamental role in the lives of amphibians, with species …
Vertebrates represent one of the best-studied groups in terms of the role that mating preferences have played in the evolution of exaggerated secondary sexual characters and …
JX Shen, AS Feng, ZM Xu, ZL Yu, VS Arch, XJ Yu… - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
Sound communication plays a vital role in frog reproduction,, in which vocal advertisement is generally the domain of males. Females are typically silent, but in a few anuran species they …
RA Suthers, PM Narins, WY Lin… - Journal of …, 2006 - journals.biologists.com
Most anurans are highly vocal but their vocalizations are stereotyped and simple with limited repertoire sizes compared with other vocal vertebrates, presumably because of the limited …
Ambotuy Favoring males' specific sexual signals, female preferences play a major role in frogs' evolutionary process by selecting traits linked to those signals. However, the factors …