Geographic variation in male sexual signals in strawberry poison frogs (Dendrobates pumilio)

Ethology

Volumn 113, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 825-837

  Pröhl, Heike ^a   Hagemann, Sabine ^a   Karsch, Jan ^a   Höbel, Gerlinde ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOACOUSTICS; BODY SIZE; CALLING BEHAVIOR; CLINE; COLOR MORPH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FROG; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; MATE ATTRACTION; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SIGNALING; TRANSECT;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

ANURA; DENDROBATES PUMILIO; DENDROBATIDAE; FRAGARIA X ANANASSA;

EID: 34547992062     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2007.01396.x     Document Type: Article

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