The advertisement calls of Brazilian anurans: Historical review, current knowledge and future directions.
Advertisement calls are often used as essential basic information in studies of animal behaviour, ecology, evolution, conservation, taxonomy or biodiversity inventories. Yet the description of this type of acoustic signals is far to be completed, especially in tropical regions, and is frequently non...
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| author | Vinicius Guerra Diego Llusia Priscilla Guedes Gambale Alessandro Ribeiro de Morais Rafael Márquez Rogério Pereira Bastos |
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| description | Advertisement calls are often used as essential basic information in studies of animal behaviour, ecology, evolution, conservation, taxonomy or biodiversity inventories. Yet the description of this type of acoustic signals is far to be completed, especially in tropical regions, and is frequently non-standardized or limited in information, restricting the application of bioacoustics in science. Here we conducted a scientometric review of the described adverstisement calls of anuran species of Brazil, the world richest territory in anurans, to evaluate the amount, standard and trends of the knowledge on this key life-history trait and to identify gaps and directions for future research strategies. Based on our review, 607 studies have been published between 1960 to 2016 describing the calls of 719 Brazilian anuran species (68.8% of all species), a publication rate of 10.6 descriptions per year. From each of these studies, thirty-one variables were recorded and examined with descriptive and inferential statistics. In spite of an exponential rise over the last six decades in the number of studies, described calls, and quantity of published metadata, as revealed by regression models, clear shortfalls were identified with regard to anuran families, biomes, and categories of threat. More than 55% of these species belong to the two richest families, Hylidae or Leptodactylidae. The lowest percentage of species with described calls corresponds to the most diverse biomes, namely Atlantic Forest (65.1%) and Amazon (71.5%), and to the IUCN categories of threat (56.8%), relative to the less-than-threatened categories (74.3%). Moreover, only 52.3% of the species have some of its calls deposited in the main scientific sound collections. Our findings evidence remarkable knowledge gaps on advertisement calls of Brazilian anuran species, emphasizing the need of further efforts in standardizing and increasing the description of anuran calls for their application in studies of the behaviour, ecology, biogeography or taxonomy of the species. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-258dd78489824541acc6f36e8664634a2022-12-21T19:06:59ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032018-01-01131e019169110.1371/journal.pone.0191691The advertisement calls of Brazilian anurans: Historical review, current knowledge and future directions.Vinicius GuerraDiego LlusiaPriscilla Guedes GambaleAlessandro Ribeiro de MoraisRafael MárquezRogério Pereira BastosAdvertisement calls are often used as essential basic information in studies of animal behaviour, ecology, evolution, conservation, taxonomy or biodiversity inventories. Yet the description of this type of acoustic signals is far to be completed, especially in tropical regions, and is frequently non-standardized or limited in information, restricting the application of bioacoustics in science. Here we conducted a scientometric review of the described adverstisement calls of anuran species of Brazil, the world richest territory in anurans, to evaluate the amount, standard and trends of the knowledge on this key life-history trait and to identify gaps and directions for future research strategies. Based on our review, 607 studies have been published between 1960 to 2016 describing the calls of 719 Brazilian anuran species (68.8% of all species), a publication rate of 10.6 descriptions per year. From each of these studies, thirty-one variables were recorded and examined with descriptive and inferential statistics. In spite of an exponential rise over the last six decades in the number of studies, described calls, and quantity of published metadata, as revealed by regression models, clear shortfalls were identified with regard to anuran families, biomes, and categories of threat. More than 55% of these species belong to the two richest families, Hylidae or Leptodactylidae. The lowest percentage of species with described calls corresponds to the most diverse biomes, namely Atlantic Forest (65.1%) and Amazon (71.5%), and to the IUCN categories of threat (56.8%), relative to the less-than-threatened categories (74.3%). Moreover, only 52.3% of the species have some of its calls deposited in the main scientific sound collections. Our findings evidence remarkable knowledge gaps on advertisement calls of Brazilian anuran species, emphasizing the need of further efforts in standardizing and increasing the description of anuran calls for their application in studies of the behaviour, ecology, biogeography or taxonomy of the species.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5790252?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Vinicius Guerra Diego Llusia Priscilla Guedes Gambale Alessandro Ribeiro de Morais Rafael Márquez Rogério Pereira Bastos The advertisement calls of Brazilian anurans: Historical review, current knowledge and future directions. PLoS ONE |
| title | The advertisement calls of Brazilian anurans: Historical review, current knowledge and future directions. |
| title_full | The advertisement calls of Brazilian anurans: Historical review, current knowledge and future directions. |
| title_fullStr | The advertisement calls of Brazilian anurans: Historical review, current knowledge and future directions. |
| title_full_unstemmed | The advertisement calls of Brazilian anurans: Historical review, current knowledge and future directions. |
| title_short | The advertisement calls of Brazilian anurans: Historical review, current knowledge and future directions. |
| title_sort | advertisement calls of brazilian anurans historical review current knowledge and future directions |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5790252?pdf=render |
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