Anuran accents: Continental-scale citizen science data reveal spatial and temporal patterns of call variability.

ABSTRACT: Many animals rely on vocal communication for mating advertisement, territorial displays, and warning calls. Advertisement calls are species-specific, serve as a premating isolation mechanism, and reinforce species boundaries. Nevertheless, there is a great deal of interspecific variability of advertisement calls. Quantifying the variability of calls among individuals within a species and across species is critical to understand call evolution and species boundaries, and may build a foundation for further research in animal communication. However, collecting a large volume of advertisement call recordings across a large geographic area has traditionally posed a logistical barrier. We used data from the continental-scale citizen science project FrogID to investigate the spatial and temporal

SUBMITTER: Weaver SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7663080 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature