A comprehensive overview of the effects of urbanisation on sexual selection and sexual traits

AD Cronin, JAH Smit, MI Muñoz, A Poirier… - Biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Urbanisation can affect mating opportunities and thereby alter inter‐and intra‐sexual
selection pressures on sexual traits. Biotic and abiotic urban conditions can influence an …

Individual contributions to group chorus dynamics influence access to mating opportunities in wood frogs

R Calsbeek, FJ Zamora‐Camacho, LB Symes - Ecology Letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A limitation in bioacoustic studies has been the inability to differentiate individual sonic
contributions from group‐level dynamics. We present a novel application of acoustic camera …

Environmental and morphological constraints interact to drive the evolution of communication signals in frogs

MI Muñoz, S Goutte, J Ellers… - Journal of Evolutionary …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Animals show a rich diversity of signals and displays. Among the many selective forces
driving the evolution of communication signals, one widely recognized factor is the structure …

Female preference for song frequency in the cicada Mogannia formosana Matsumura (Hemiptera: Cicadidae)

SH Liang, LL Lee, BS Shieh - Behavioural Processes, 2022 - Elsevier
In chorusing species, sound frequency has been suggested as a decisive cue for male body
size in female mate choice. However, few studies on the female choice of male song …

Adaptive Choice of Reproductive Microhabitat and Its Potential for Sexual Conflict in Túngara Frogs

L de Herder, J Ellers… - Ichthyology & …, 2023 - meridian.allenpress.com
Reproductive habitat selection—deciding where to mate and where to raise offspring—is a
critical component of successful reproduction. Parents selecting sites to signal to or search …

Acoustic Communication in Anurans

S Goutte - Evolutionary Ecology of Amphibians, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
Anurans are highly vocal animals, and acoustic signals are produced in a diversity of social
contexts. This chapter gives an overview of the current knowledge on acoustic …

Amplification of frog calls by leaf substrates: implications for terrestrial and arboreal species

MI Muñoz, W Halfwerk - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Signal detection is a minimum requirement for any communicative interaction. Acoustic
signals, however, often experience amplitude losses during their transmission through the …