The sounds of silence as an alarm cue in túngara frogs, Physalaemus pustulosus

Biotropica

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 380-385

  Dapper, Amy L ^a   Baugh, Alexander T ^b   Ryan, Michael J ^b,c  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Anuran; Chorus; Communication; Panama; Predation; Public information; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; COMMUNICATION; CONSPECIFIC; FROG; NEOTROPIC ECOZONE; PREDATION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SOUND PROPAGATION;

PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

ANURA; PHYSALAEMUS PUSTULOSUS;

EID: 79955119881     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2010.00707.x     Document Type: Article

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