Aim As anuran reproduction is generally linked to the availability of water, frogs and toads
are particularly sensitive to climate. We tested the effect of climate on anuran reproductive …

Soundscape studies are increasingly used to capture landscape‐scale ecological patterns.
Yet, several aspects of soundscape diversity remain unexplored. Although some processes …

The Panamanian golden frog (Atelopus zeteki) is a critically endangered species and
currently is believed to survive and reproduce only in human care. Panamanian golden frog …

The multifaceted ability to produce, transmit, receive, and respond to acoustic signals is
widespread in animals and forms the basis of the interdisciplinary science of bioacoustics …

Accepted: 31 July 2012 larger males (Morris and Yoon, 1989). Previous studies have shown
that some call characteristics of anurans reflect the body size of males (Duellman and Trueb …

Male–male vocal competition in anuran species is critical for mating success; however, it is
also highly time-consuming, energetically demanding and likely to increase predation risks …

Anuran calling behaviour is determined by environmental, endogenous, and social factors.
The effect of these factors usually differs among and within species. We used acoustic …

The acoustic structure of 18 male advertisement calls of the “music frog”(Babina daunchina),
indigenous to the Emei mountain area of Sichuan province in southwest China was …

Anesthesia is known to affect the auditory brainstem response (ABR) in mice, rats, birds and
lizards. The present study investigated how the level of anesthesia affects ABR recordings in …

It is generally thought that for species using vocal communication the spectral properties of
the sender's calls should match the frequency sensitivity of the receiver's auditory system …