How sexual and natural selection interact and shape the evolution of nests and nesting behaviour in fishes

O Svensson, C Kvarnemo - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Among ray-finned fishes that provide parental care, many spawn in constructed nests,
ranging from bowls, burrows and ridges to nests made of algae or bubbles. Because a nest …

Goliath frogs build nests for spawning–the reason for their gigantism?

M Schäfer, SJ Tsekané, FAM Tchassem… - Journal of Natural …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
In contrast to its popularity, astonishingly few facts have become known about the biology of
the Goliath Frog, Conraua goliath. We herein report the so far unknown construction of nests …

Contrasting nidification behaviors facilitate diversification and colonization of the Music frogs under a changing paleoclimate

ZT Lyu, ZC Zeng, H Wan, Q Li, A Tominaga… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
In order to cope with the complexity and variability of the terrestrial environment, amphibians
have developed a wide range of reproductive and parental behaviors. Nest building occurs …

Egg burying behaviour in Pristimantis highlights the link between direct development and specialised parental care

FN Angiolani‐Larrea, L Jindiachi… - Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
One of the most extreme adaptations to terrestriality in anurans is direct development, where
eggs from terrestrial clutches entirely circumvent an aquatic tadpole stage and directly …

[PDF][PDF] Analysis of abiotic factors associated with foam nests of Cuvier's foam froglet (Physalaemus cuvieri) in southeastern Brazil

CL Rodrigues, TB da Silva, W Klein… - Neotropical Biology …, 2020 - neotropical.pensoft.net
Climate change may have significant impacts on amphibian diversity due to alterations in
microhabitat conditions where these species occurs. Understanding the abiotic factors …

Composition of anuran species in Parque Natural Municipal Augusto Ruschi in Paraíba Valley, São Paulo, Brazil

M de Toledo Moroti, M Pedrozo, K Ceron… - Herpetology …, 2019 - biotaxa.org
Herein we characterize the anurans community, including species richness, reproductive
modes, constancy of occurrence and taxonomic distinction of the anurans community of …

Oviposition site selection in two basin-digging Leptodactylus Fitzinger, 1826 (Anura)

AA Giaretta, WR Da Silva, KG Facure - Tropical Zoology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Proper nest site selection can reflect risk avoidance to offspring. We searched for oviposition
site selection and features related to this behavior in the basing-digging foam-nesting …

[PDF][PDF] Analysis of abiotic factors associated

CL Rodrigues, TB da Silva, W Klein… - 2020 - academia.edu
Climate change may have significant impacts on amphibian diversity due to alterations in
microhabitat conditions where these species occurs. Understanding the abiotic factors …