Acoustic and morphological differentiation in the frog Allobates femoralis: Relationships with the upper Madeira River and other potential geological barriers

Biotropica

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 607-614

  Simões, Pedro Ivo ^a   Lima, Albertina P ^a   Magnusson, William E ^a   Hödl, Walter ^b   Amézquita, Adolfo ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Bioacoustics; Brazil; Dendrobatidade; External morphology; Madeira River; Phenotypic differentiation; Population distribution patterns

Indexed keywords

BIOACOUSTICS; FROG; ISOLATED POPULATION; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

BRAZIL; MADEIRA RIVER; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANURA; AVES; DENDROBATES AURATUS; EPIPEDOBATES FEMORALIS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 49749137047     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2008.00416.x     Document Type: Article

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