Trade-offs and upper limits to signal performance during close-range vocal competition in gray tree frogs Hyla versicolor

American Naturalist

Volumn 180, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 425-437

  Reichert, Michael S ^a,b   Carl Gerhardt, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Advertisement call; Competition; Energetics; Trade offs; Vocal performance

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; FROG; INTERSEXUAL INTERACTION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MATE ATTRACTION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SIGNAL; TRADE-OFF; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL; ANURA; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MATE CHOICE; PHYSIOLOGY; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANURA; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

HYLA VERSICOLOR; HYLIDAE;

EID: 84866309641     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/667575     Document Type: Article

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