Energetic dynamics and anuran breeding phenology: Insights from a dynamic game

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 429-436

  McCauley, Shannon J ^a,b   Bouchard, Sarah S ^a   Farina, Brian J ^a   Isvaran, Kavita ^a   Quader, Suhel ^a   Wood, Daniel W ^a   St Mary, Colette M ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative mating strategies; Anuran breeding; Breeding phenology; Chorusing; Dynamic optimization modeling; Leks

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENERGETICS; FROG; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; REPTILIA;

EID: 0033946201     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/11.4.429     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Abrams PA, 1983. Functional responses of optimal foragers. Theor Popul Biol 24:22-38.
2. Abrams PA, 1991. Life history and the relationship between food availability and foraging effort. Ecology 72:1242-1252.
3. Arak A, 1988. Callers and satellites in the natterjack toad: evolutionarily stable decision rules. Anim Behav 36:416-432.
4. Bevier CR, 1997a. Breeding activity and chorus tenure of two neotropical hylid frogs. Herpetologica 53:297-311.
5. Bevier CR, 1997b. Utilization of energy substrates during calling activity in tropical frogs. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 41:343-352.
6. Cherry MI, 1993. Sexual selection in the raucous toad, Bufo rangeri. Anim Behav 45:359-373.
7. Donnelly MA, Guyer C, 1994. Patterns of reproduction and habitat use in an assemblage of neotropical hylid frogs. Oecologia 98:291-302.
8. Fairchild L, 1984. Male reproductive tactics in an explosive breeding toad population. Am Zool 24:407-418.
9. Gerhardt HC, 1991. Female mate choice in treefrogs: static and dynamic acoustical criteria. Anim Behav 42:615-635.
10. Gerhardt HC, Daniel RE, Perrill SA, Schramm S, 1987. Mating behavior and success in the green treefrog. Anim Behav 35:1490-1503.
11. Given MF, 1988. Growth rate and the cost of calling activity in male carpenter frogs, Rana virgatipes. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 22:153-160.
12. Grafe TU, 1997. Use of metabolic substrates in the Gray Treefrog Hyla versicolor. implications for calling behavior. Copeia 1997:356-362.
13. Grafe TU, Schmuck R, Linsenmair KE, 1992. Reproductive energetics of the African reed frogs, Hyperolius viridiflavus, and Hyperolius marmoratus. Physiol Zool 65:153-171.
14. Green AJ, 1990. Determinants of chorus participation and the effects of size, weight and competition on advertisement calling in the tungara frog, Physalaemus pustulosus (Leptodactylidae). Anim Behav 39:620-638.
15. Houston AI, McNamara JM, 1987. Singing to attract a mate: a stochastic dynamic game. J Theor Biol 129:57-68.
16. Howard RD, 1988. Sexual selection on male body size and mating behaviour in American toads, Bufo americanus. Anim Behav 36: 1798-1808.
17. Krupa JJ, 1989. Alternative mating tactics in the Great Plains toad. Anim Behav 37:1035-1043.
18. Lance SL, Wells KD, 1993. Are spring peeper satellite males physiologically inferior to calling males? Copeia 1993:1162-1166.
19. Lucas JR, Howard RD, 1995. On alternative reproductive tactics in anurans: dynamic games with density and frequency dependence. Am Nat 146:365-397.
20. Lucas JR, Howard RD, Palmer JG, 1996. Callers and satellites: chorus behavior in anurans as a stochastic dynamic game. Anim Behav 51: 501-518.
21. MacNally RC, 1981. On the reproductive energetics of chorusing males: energy depletion profiles, restoration and growth in two sympatric species of Ranidella (Anura). Oecologia 51:181-188.
22. Mangel M, Clark CW, 1988. Dynamic modeling in behavioral ecology. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
23. Maynard-Smith J, 1982. Evolution and the theory of games. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
24. Murphy CG, 1994. Determinants of chorus tenure in barking treefrogs (Hyla gratisosa). Behav Ecol Sociobiol 34:285-294.
25. Murphy CG, 1999. Nightly timing of chorusing by male barking treefrogs (Hyla gratisosa): the influence of female arrival and energy. Copeia 1999:333-347.
26. Obert HJ, 1977. Hormonal influences on calling and reproductive behavior in anurans. In: The reproductive biology of amphibians (Taylor DH, Guttman SI, eds). New York: Plenum Press; 357-366.
27. Passmore NI, Bishop PJ, Caithness N, 1992. Calling behavior influences mating success in male painted reed frogs, Hyperolius marmoratus. Ethology 92:227-241.
28. Perrill SA, Gerhardt HC, Daniel RE, 1982. Mating strategy shifts in male green treefrogs (Hyla cinerea): an experimental study. Anim Behav 30:43-48.
29. Petranka JW, Thomas DAG, 1995. Explosive breeding reduces egg and tadpole cannibalism in the wood frog, Rana sylvatica. Anim Behav 50:731-739.
30. Pough FH, Magnusson WE, Ryan MJ, Taigen TL, Wells KD, 1992. Behavioral energetics. In: Environmental physiology of the amphibians (Feder ME, Burggren WW, eds). Chicago: University of Chicago Press; 395-436.
31. Prestwich K, 1994. The energetics of acoustical signaling in anurans and insects. Am Zool 34:625-643.
32. Schwarte JJ, Ressel SJ, Bevier CR, 1995. Carbohydrate and calling: depletion of muscle glycogen and chorusing dynamics of the neotropical treefrog Hyla microcephala. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 37:125-135.
33. St. Mary CM, 1997. Sequential patterns of sex allocation in simultaneous hermaphrodites: do we need models that specifically incorporate this complexity? Am Nat 150:73-97.
34. Sullivan BK, 1982a. Male mating behavior in the Great Plains toad (Bufo cognatus). Anim Behav 30:939-940.
35. Sullivan BK, 1982b. Sexual selection in Woodhouse's toad (Bufo woodhousei) I. Chorus organization. Anim Behav 30:680-686.
36. Sullivan BK, 1983. Sexual selection in the Great Plains toad, Bufo cognatus. Behaviour 84:258-264.
37. Sullivan BK, 1989. Mating system variation in Woodhouse's toad (Bufo woodhousii). Ethology 83:60-68.
38. Sullivan BK, 1992. Sexual selection and calling behavior in the American toad (Bufo americanus). Copeia 1992:1-7.
39. Taigen TL, Wells KD, 1985. Energetics of vocalization by an anuran amphibian (Hyla versicolor). J Comp Physiol B 155:163-170.
40. Taigen TL, Wells KD, Marsh RL, 1985. The enzymatic basis of high metabolic rates in calling frogs. Physiol Zool 58:719-726.
41. Tejedo M, 1992. Large male mating advantage in natterjack toads, Bufo calamita: sexual selection or energetic constraints? Anim Behav 44:557-569.
42. Wagner WEJ, Sullivan BK, 1992. Chorus organization in the Gulf Coast toad (Bufo valliceps): male and female behavior and the opportunity for sexual selection. Copeia 1992:647-658.
43. Waltz EC, 1982. Alternative mating tactics and the law of diminishing returns: the satellite threshold model. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 10:75-83.
44. Wells KD, 1977. The social behaviour of anuran amphibians. Anim Behav 25:666-693.
45. Wells KD, Bevier CR, 1997. Contrasting patterns of energy substrate use in two species of frogs that breed in cold weather. Herpetologica 53:70-80.
46. Wells KD, Taigen TL, 1989. Calling energetics of a neotropical treefrog, Hyla microcephala. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 25:13-22.
47. Woodward BD, Mitchell S, 1990. Predation of frogs in breeding choruses. Southwest Nat 35:449-450.