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Response to simultaneous dehydration and thermal stress in three species of Puerto Rican frogs
(Springer: Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology, 1984-11)
The response to simultaneous temperature and dehydration stress was examined in three species of Puerto Rican frogs. Eleutherodactylus antillensis is found primarily in hot, arid grasslands at low altitudes. Eleutherodactylus ...
Male parental care and its adaptive significance in a neotropical frog
(Elsevier: Animal Behaviour, 1984-05)
In the Puerto Rican frog Eleutherodactylus coqui, parental care is performed exclusively by males, and consists of attending the eggs and hatchlings at a terrestrial oviposition site. The two major behavioural components ...
Water balance of terrestrial anuran (Eleutherodactylus Coqui) eggs: importance of parental care
(The Ecological Society of America: Ecology, 1984-02)
The terrestrial eggs of the coqui of Puerto Rico are brooded almost continuously by the male parent from the time of oviposition until the fully metamorphosed hatchlings emerge from the eggs 15-20 d later. The gelatinous ...
Population density of tropical forest frogs: relation to retreat sites
(American Association for the Advancement of Science: Science, 1983)
The forest frog Eleutherodactylus coqui defends specific sites for retreats and nests in the Luquillo Forest, Puerto Rico. The hypothesis that shortages of nest and retreat sites limit population size was tested by placing ...
Internal fertilization in an oviparous frog
(American Association for the Advancement of Science: Science, 1981-04)
Eleutherodactylus coqui, an oviparous frog, undergoes internal fertilization. If this mode of fertilization occurs in other species of anurans, interpretations of anuran reproductive strategies based on the assumption of ...
Physiological basis of habitat partitioning in Jamaican Eleutherodactylus
(Springer: Oecologia, 1977-12)
Rate of evaporation, resistance to drying, temperature selection, and critical thermal maximum were measured for Jamaican Eleutherodactylus acclimated to 20° C and a 12:12 L:D photoperiod. Two introduced species, E. ...