As biodiversity decreases worldwide, the development of effective techniques to track
changes in ecological communities becomes an urgent challenge. Together with other …

Undeniably, acoustic signals are the predominant mode of communication in frogs and
toads. Acoustically active species are found throughout the vast diversity of anuran families …

Walk near woods or water on any spring or summer night and you will hear a bewildering
(and sometimes deafening) chorus of frog, toad, and insect calls. How are these calls …

Floodplains are ecosystems which are driven by periodic inundation and oscillation
between terrestrial and aquatic phases. An understanding of such pulsing systems is only …

This book will be a landmark text for all those interested in animal communication. Animal
Vocal Communication explicitly avoids human-centred concepts and approaches and links …

Annual patterns of breeding activity, reproductive modes, and habitat use are described for a
frog community in a seasonal environment, in the southern Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul …

Soundscape ecology aims to use biological, geophysical and anthropogenic sound to
understand natural-human landscape dynamics. The analysis of natural soundscapes with …

The phenology of calling activity and reproduction of a neotropical anuran community in
French Guiana was studied during one rainy season. We investigated the correlation …

Multispecies cicada communities in neotropical rainforests produce a complex and intense
acoustic environment. In a fragment of a Mexican rainforest (Veracruz, Mexico), a cicada …

The efficacy of communication depends on the detection of species-specific signals in
background noise that includes other species' signals. To avoid confusion with each others' …