This work was funded through a standalone grant(FWF P 31518)from the Austrian Science Fund(FWF);MR was supported by an Erwin Schrodinger Grant(FWF J 3868);a standalone grant(FWF P 33728)from the Austrian Science Fund(FWF).
Animals constantly need to evaluate available external and internal information to make appropriate decisions.Identifying,assessing,and acting on relevant cues in contexts such as mate choice,intra-sexual competition,...
the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China Nos.32170504,31970422,and 31672305 to G.F.
The ability to discriminate species and recognize individuals is crucial for reproductive success and/or survival in most animals.However,the temporal order and neural localization of these decision-making processes h...
SISBIO provided collecting permit(#63297-1);This study was funded in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior—Brasil(CAPES)–Finance Code 001.CESF received a grant from the Fundação de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento do Ensino,Ciência e Tecnologia do Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul(#71/700.136);has been continuously supported by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico(grant#310058/2020-1);C.O.has been continuously supported by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico(grant#304552/2019-4).
Hematological parameters can provide key information to an animal health status.However,this information is usually hard to obtain.Here,we described the hematological parameters of Leptodactylus podicipinus in the Bra...
This work was supported financially by the Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31901099,31800350);Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration(No.SHUES2019B03);Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality(No.18DZ1205000);Institute of Eco-Chongming(No.ECNU-IEC-201902);Shanghai Landscaping and City Appearance Administrative Bureau(No.F131508).
Amphibia ns play a key role in structuring biological assemblages of agricultural landscapes,but they are threatened by global agricultural intensification.Landscape structure is an important variable in flue ncing bi...
Predation is one of the main selective forces in nature, frequently selecting potential prey for developing escape strategies. Escape ability is typically influenced by several morphological parameters, such as morpho...
Vocalizations play a critical role in mate recognition and mate choice in a number of taxa, especially, but not limited to, orthopterans, frogs, and birds. But receivers can only recognize and prefer sounds that they ...
In tungara frogs, female mate choice requires remembering the location and/or calls of preferred males who advertise from fixed positions within a breeding pond. A previous study found that, when solving a place discr...
Identifying the origins of alien species has important implications for effectively controlling the spread of alien species. The black-spotted frog Pelophylax nigromaculatus, originally from East Asia, has become an a...
Acknowledgements We thank Feng XU and Yanping WANG for helping a part of field works and Richard Duncan for comments on the manuscript. This work was supported by a grant from National Science foundation (No. 30870312) and by a grant from the "973" program (No. 2007CB411600).
Native species may decline quickly when confronted with an exotic species to which they are not adapted. The extent of decline may depend on the abundance of an invader and the length of time since it first arrived in...
Morphometric variation ofPelophylax saharicus was analysed using univariate and multivariate statistics, with both traditional and geometric morphometrics, based on 148 specimens from four different geographical local...