ZO23026Unravelling male advertisement call variability in the brown tree frog (Litoria ewingii) complex by using citizen science
Three species of the brown tree-frog group are remarkably hard to tell apart, hindering our knowledge of them. Advertisement calls collected from the entire range of each species were analysed. We created a call key to reliably tell each species apart on the basis of main differing characteristics, namely note shape, notes per call and the positions of the longest and shortest notes. This makes it significantly easier to map species distributions, aiding conservation efforts. Photograph by Dr Jodi Rowley.
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