Time and place affect the acoustic structure of frog advertisement calls.

ABSTRACT: Acoustic communication signals are important for species recognition and mate attraction across numerous taxa. For instance, most of the thousands of species of frogs have a species-specific advertisement call that females use to localize and discriminate among potential mates. Thus, the acoustic structure of the advertisement call is critical for reproductive success. The acoustic structure of calls will generally diverge over evolutionary time and can be influenced by the calls of sympatric species. While many studies have shown the influence of geography on contemporary call variation in populations of frogs, no study has compared the acoustic structure of frog calls across many species to ask whether we can detect an influence of divergence time and overall geographic overlap on the di

SUBMITTER: James LS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12011477 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature