Anurans of the Serra do Caraça, southeastern Brazil: species composition and phenological patterns of calling activity
By M. Canelas, Jaime Bertoluci. 2007
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Annual patterns of calling and breeding activity of 38 anuran species were studied at Serra do Caraca, an 11,233 ha reserve located in a contact zone between Cerrado and Atlantic forest at the southern Espinhaco range, southeastern Brazil. Five patterns were evident: (1) species that call year-round or nearly year-round with larger aggregations generally observed in the rainy months, (2) species with opportunistic calling activity associated with rainfall during the wettest months of the year, (3) winter species, (4) explosive breeders with intense calling activity triggered by heavy rains during the rainy season or only in the beginning of the rainy season, and (5) summer species with variable breeding seasons. Both the monthly number of species with calling males and the monthly number of species that showed the maximum class of calling males were positively correlated with both mean monthly temperature and monthly precipitation.
Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Social Psychology
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- An austral anuran assemblage in the Neotropics: seasonal occurrence correlated with photoperiod (2008, background): “Anuran breeding activity is influenced by climatic factors, mainly rainfall, air humidity, temperature and photoperiod (e.g. Hatano et al. 2002; Conte and Machado 2005; Canelas and Bertoluci 2007; Santos et al. 2007).”