Intensity of female preference for call source level in midwife toads alytes cisternasii and a. obstetricans

Behaviour

Volumn 147, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1185-1199

  Márquez, Rafael ^a   Bosch, Jaime ^a   Eekhout, Xavier ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

acoustic communication; Alytes; Anura; playback setpoints; source level

Indexed keywords

ALYTES; ALYTES CISTERNASII; ALYTES OBSTETRICANS; ANURA;

EID: 77954895568     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/000579510X511051     Document Type: Article

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