Sound transmission and the recognition of temporally degraded sexual advertisement signals in Cope's gray treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis)

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 213, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 2840-2850

  Kuczynski, Michael C ^a   Vélez, Alejandro ^a   Schwartz, Joshua J ^b   Bee, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b PACE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic adaptation hypothesis; Grey treefrog; Modulation detection; Phonotaxis; Recognition; Sound propagation; Sound transmission

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FROG; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; TIME; VOCALIZATION; RANIDAE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RANIDAE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOUND; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

HYLA CHRYSOSCELIS; HYLA VERSICOLOR;

EID: 77955641876     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.044628     Document Type: Article

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