Urban sensory conditions alter rival interactions and mate choice in urban and forest tungara frogs.

ABSTRACT: Sexual communication often takes place in networks with multiple competing signalers being simultaneously assessed by mate choosers. Altered sensory conditions, such as noise and light pollution, can affect communication by altering signal production and perception. While evidence of sensory pollution affecting sexual signaling is widespread, few studies assess impacts on sexual signaling during rival interactions as well as mate choice, let alone whether urban and non-urban populations have diverged in their response. Here, we investigate the effects of urban sensory conditions on sexual communication in urban and forest túngara frogs (Engystomops pustulosus). We recorded dyadic vocal rival interactions and assessed mate choice with and without noise and light pollution in the lab.

SUBMITTER: Smit JAH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11558454 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature