Frogs flee from the sound of fire

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1495, 2002, Pages 999-1003

  Grafe, T Ulmar ^a   Döbler, Stefanie ^a   Linsenmair, K Eduard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anurans; Bioacoustics; Fire ecology; Hyperolius nitidulus

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; BIOACOUSTICS; FIRE; FROG;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; FIRE; FIRE ECOLOGY; FROG; HEARING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL SELECTION; WHITE NOISE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; FROGS AND TOADS; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMAL; ANURA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ESCAPE REACTION; FIRES; PERCEPTION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; ANIMALS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; HYPEROLIUS; PHRAGMITES; REPTILIA;

EID: 0037157015     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.1974     Document Type: Article

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