More bang for your buck: The effect of caller position, habitat and chorus noise on the efficiency of calling in the spring peeper

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 156, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 213-224

  Parris, Kirsten M ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acoustic signals; Amphibians; Animal communication; Bioacoustics; Energetics; Frog calls

Indexed keywords

BIOACOUSTICS; BIOENERGETICS; CALLING BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FROG; HABITAT TYPE;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; PSEUDACRIS; PSEUDACRIS CRUCIFER; PSEUDACRIS CRUCIFER CRUCIFER;

EID: 0036837544     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(02)00170-9     Document Type: Article

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