Anuran communication /
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Washington, DC :
Smithsonian Institution Press,
[2001]
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Table of Contents:
- The importance of taxon-centered research in biology / Mary Jane West-Eberhard
- A history of frog call studies 405 B.C. to 1980 / A. Stanley Rand
- Acoustic communication, endocrine control, and the neurochemical systems of the brain / Walter Wilczynski and Joanne Chu
- Male advertisement calls: behavioral variation and physiological processes / Sharon B. Emerson
- The energetics of calling in frogs / Kentwood D. Wells
- Ectothermy's last stand: hearing in the heat and cold / Peter M. Narins
- Auditory tuning and frequency preferences in anurans / H. Carl Gerhardt and Joshua J. Schwartz
- Feature weighting in signal recognition and discrimination by Túngara frogs / Michael J. Ryan and A. Stanley Rand
- Patterns of differentiation in temporal properties of acoustic signals of anurans / Murray J. Littlejohn
- Visual signaling in anuran amphibians / Walter Hödl and Adolfo Amézquita
- The neuroethology of acoustic communication in Pacific treefrogs / Eliot A. Brenowitz, Gary J. Rose, and Todd Alder
- Producing and perceiving frog songs: dissecting the neural bases for vocal behaviors in Xenopus laevis / Darcy B. Kelley, Martha L. Tobias, and Sam Horng
- History's lessons: a neural network approach to receiver biases and the evolution of communication / Steven M. Phelps
- Call monitoring and interactive playback systems in the study of acoustic interactions among male anurans / Joshua J. Schwartz
- Advertisement call variation and speciation in the Bufo viridis complex / Cristina Giacoma and Sergio Castellano
- Communication and mating in the midwife toads (Alytes obstetricans and Alytes cisternasii) / Rafael Márquez and Jaime Bosch
- Kin recognition, sexual selection, and mate choice in toads / Bruce Waldman.