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The social behaviour of anuran amphibians

Kentwood D. Wells
- 01 Aug 1977 - 
- Vol. 25, Iss: 3, pp 666-693
TLDR
Temporal patterns of anuran reproduction fall into two broad categories: prolonged breeding and explosive breeding, and many aspects of vocal behaviour and chorus organization can be viewed as consequences of intrasexual competition.
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This article is published in Animal Behaviour.The article was published on 1977-08-01. It has received 1501 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Amplexus & Scramble competition.

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Amphibian Declines: Judging Stability, Persistence, and Susceptibility of Populations to Local and Global Extinctions

TL;DR: It is suggested that many amphibian populations may be unable to recolonize areas after local extinction, due to the physiological constraints, relatively low mobility, and site fidelity of amphibians.
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Metapopulation Dynamics and Amphibian Conservation

TL;DR: Future efforts need to determine the mechanisms underlying patterns of abundance and distributional change and patterns in amphibian pop- ulations, and effective conservation strategies must successfully balance metapopulation with careful attention to local habitat quality.
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Lonely hearts or sex in the city? Density-dependent effects in mating systems

TL;DR: Considering density-dependent selection may be essential for understanding how populations can persist at all despite sexual conflict, but simple models seem to fail to predict the diversity of observed responses in nature.
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Parental investment and sexual selection

TL;DR: The p,cnetics of sex nas now becn clarif ied, and Fishcr ( 1958 ) hrs produccd , n,od"l to cxplarn sex ratios at coDception, a nrodel recently extendcd to include special mccha_ nisms that operate under inbreeding (Hunrilron I96?).
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Sociobiology: The New Synthesis

TL;DR: Ressenya de l'obra d'E. O. Wilson apareguda el 1975, Sociobiology. The New Synthesis.The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
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Sex and evolution.

TL;DR: The relationship between various types of reproduction and the evolutionary process is explored, including the evolutionary development of diverse forms of sexuality, such as anisogamy, hermaphroditism, and the evolution of differences between males and females in reproductive strategy.
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Sociobiology: The New Synthesis.