Agonistic encounters in a cricket frog (Acris crepitans) chorus: Behavioral outcomes vary with local competition and within the breeding season

Ethology

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 335-347

  Burmeister, Sabrina ^a   Konieczka, Jay ^a   Wilczynski, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALLING BEHAVIOR; COMPETITION; FROG; SEASONALITY;

ACRIS CREPITANS;

EID: 0032915509     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.1999.00391.x     Document Type: Article

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