scholarly journals Life-history traits and courtship behaviour of four poorly known endemic bush frogs (Amphibia: Anura: Rhachophoridae) from the Western Ghats of India

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 15916-15921
Author(s):  
A.V. Abhijith ◽  
Shomen Mukherjee

The Western Ghats have a high level of anuran endemism.  Although there has been an extensive focus on their taxonomy, the ecology of most species are poorly known.  In this note we describe the reproductive life-history traits and breeding behavior of four species of endemic bush frogs, Pseudophilautus wynaadensis, Raorchestes akroparallagi, Raorchestes glandulosus, and Raorchestes ponmudi (Amphibia: Anura: Rachophoridae) from Wayanad region of Western Ghats.   

Zoology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 119 (3) ◽  
pp. 216-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neus Oromi ◽  
Eudald Pujol-Buxó ◽  
Olatz San Sebastián ◽  
Gustavo A. Llorente ◽  
Mohamed Aït Hammou ◽  
...  

PLoS ONE ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. e88832 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shomen Mukherjee ◽  
Michael R. Heithaus ◽  
Joel C. Trexler ◽  
Jayanti Ray-Mukherjee ◽  
Jeremy Vaudo

1991 ◽  
Vol 48 (9) ◽  
pp. 1792-1799 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael G. Fox ◽  
Allen Keast

Pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus) inhabiting two shallow ponds that experienced major winterkills matured 1–2 yr earlier and at a smaller size (difference > 20 mm in length) than conspecifics living in an adjacent, nonwinterkill lake. Pond females were more fecund relative to body weight, and their gonadosomatic index was about double that of lake females. Pond males showed a significant, but less drastic increase in gonadosomatic index over lake males. Winterkills occurred in different years in the two ponds, but in both cases, pumpkinseeds showed significantly lower age and size at maturity following winterkill in comparison with a preceding or subsequent nonwinterkill year. These results are consistent with life history predictions for organisms living in fluctuating environments and indicate that reproductive life history traits are very plastic in pumpkinseeds living in high-risk environments. Advanced maturity following winterkill may be the result of abundant food supply to survivors or release from social factors that prevent maturation of small pumpkinseeds.


Copeia ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 (4) ◽  
pp. 714-721 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myra C. Hughey ◽  
David C. Heins ◽  
Howard L. Jelks ◽  
Bridget A. Ory ◽  
Frank Jordan

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda A. Lombardi-Carlson ◽  
Melissa Cook ◽  
Hope Lyon ◽  
Beverly Barnett ◽  
Lew Bullock

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