Effects of traffic noise on the calling behavior of two Neotropical hylid frogs.

ABSTRACT: Anthropogenic disturbance has been pointed to as one of the major causes of the world´s biodiversity crisis. Among them, noise pollution is a potential underestimated threat, projected to increase in the next decades accompanying urban expansion. Rising levels of noise pollution may result in negative impacts on species highly dependent on acoustic communication. Amphibians have long served as model organisms for investigating animal acoustic communication because their reproduction depends on transmitting and receiving acoustic signals. A few studies have investigated the effects of anthropogenic noise on anurans, but there is still limited knowledge on how it affects them. In this study, we test the effect of two intensities of traffic noise on calling males of two Neotropical treefrogs

SUBMITTER: Caorsi VZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5576727 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature