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ArticleJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology2019

Differential effects of sound level and temporal structure of calls on phonotaxis by female gray treefrogs, Hyla versicolor.

Kevin W Christie, Johannes Schul, Albert S Feng

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Article in Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Kevin W ChristieNeuroscience Program and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA. kevin-christie@uiowa.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-3730-3617
Johannes SchulDivision of Biological Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA.
Albert S FengNeuroscience Program and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.

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We investigated how communication distance influenced the efficacy of communication by studying the effects of two attributes of male chorus sounds, namely, reduction in sound level and degradation of temporal sound structure, on attraction and accuracy of female phonotaxis in gray treefrogs, Hyla versicolor. For this, we conducted acoustic playback experiments, using synthetic calls and natural calls recorded at increasing distances from a focal male as stimuli. We found that the degradation of temporal structure had a greater effect on signal attractiveness than did the reduction in sound level, and that increasing sound level preferentially affected the attractiveness of proximally recorded calls, with less temporal degradation. Unlike signal attraction, accuracy of female localization increased systematically with the sound level. These results suggest that the degradation of temporal fine structure from both the chorus and signal-environmental effects imposes a limit for effective communication distances for female treefrogs in nature.

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AcousticsAnimalsAnuraFemaleVocalization, AnimalAcoustic communicationAnuranAuditory signal processingOrientationSound localization

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