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Braga HSN, Vieira MVSA, Silva TAF, Protázio AS, Protázio AS. Acoustic partitioning explains the coexistence between two Physalaemus species (Anura, Leptodactylidae) in the Atlantic Forest in Eastern Bahia State, Brazil. AN ACAD BRAS CIENC 2023; 95:e20211348. [PMID: 37075350 DOI: 10.1590/0001-3765202320211348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2021] [Accepted: 04/28/2022] [Indexed: 04/21/2023] Open
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In this study we investigate the niche interaction between the frogs Physalameus cuvieri and Physalaemus kroyeri that occur in syntopy in water bodies of the Atlantic Forest located in the eastern Bahia State, Brazil. We investigated the niche width and overlap in the calling activity time, microhabitat use, diet composition, advertisement call, and body size. Both species preferred the same substrate and calling substrate categories, and showed low niche width values and high spatial niche overlap values. The pseudocommunity analysis revealed the absence of competition in space use. Ants and termites were the most important items in the diet of both species with the pseudocommunity analysis indicating an absence of competition in the diet. The two species demonstrate a greater similarity in body proportions and a high overlap in the calling activity time. However, they showed divergence in acoustic parameters, especially in the dominant frequency and call duration. Our results reinforce the role of advertisement call as a relevant attribute for anuran coexistence and highlight the importance of analyzing the various axes of the multidimensional niche for the most reliable description of the existence and magnitude of niche partitioning.
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- Hugo S N Braga
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Rodovia Jorge Amado, Km 16, Salobrinho, 45662-900 Ilhéus, BA, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Rodovia Jorge Amado, Km 16, Salobrinho, 45662-900 Ilhéus, BA, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia, Centro de Ciências Agrárias, Ambientais e Biológicas, Rua Rui Barbosa, 710, 44380-000 Cruz das Almas, BA, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ensino, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Bahia, Rua Vital Brasil, 1394-1908, Pitanguinha, 43700-000 Simões Filho, BA, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia, Centro de Ciências Agrárias, Ambientais e Biológicas, Rua Rui Barbosa, 710, 44380-000 Cruz das Almas, BA, Brazil
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Hernández-Salinas U, Ramírez-Bautista A, Cruz-Elizalde R, Torres-Hernández LA. Feeding Niche and Predator–Prey Size Relationship in the Whiptail Lizard Aspidoscelis lineattissima (Squamata: Teiidae) in Insular and Continental Populations of the Mexican Pacific. ICHTHYOLOGY & HERPETOLOGY 2022. [DOI: 10.1643/h2021062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Uriel Hernández-Salinas
- Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigación para el Desarrollo Integral Regional (CIIDIR) Unidad Durango, Calle Sigma 119 Fraccionamiento 20 de Noviembre II Durango, Durango 34220, México;
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- Laboratorio de Ecología de Poblaciones, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Instituto de Ciencias Básicas e Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Km 4.5 carretera Pachuca-Tulancingo, 42184, Mineral de La Reforma, Hidalgo, México
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- Laboratorio de Ecología y Diversidad Faunística, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Avenida de las Ciencias S/N, Santa Fe Juriquilla, C. P. 76230, Querétaro, Querétaro, México;
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- Laboratorio de Ecología de Poblaciones, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Instituto de Ciencias Básicas e Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Km 4.5 carretera Pachuca-Tulancingo, 42184, Mineral de La Reforma, Hidalgo, México
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Moser CF, Farina RK, Dudczak AC, Tozetti AM, Lingnau R. Feeding ecology of endemic frogs of the Atlantic Forest in southern Brazil. AN ACAD BRAS CIENC 2022; 94:e20210282. [PMID: 35507981 DOI: 10.1590/0001-3765202220210282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2021] [Accepted: 12/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Our objective was to describe and compare the diet of endemic anurans of the Atlantic Forest, as well as to evaluate the influence of biotic factors on the trophic ecology of the species. We conducted the study in Mananciais da Serra (Piraquara-PR), a transition region between mixed and dense ombrophilous forest, between January 2019 and February 2020. In this work, we describe the diet of eight species: Aplastodiscus albosignatus, Boana semiguttata, Bokermannohyla circumdata, Ischnocnema henselii, Leptodactylus notoaktites, Proceratophrys boiei, Rhinella abei and Scythrophrys sawayae. Coleoptera were important prey in the diet of most species, except for B. circumdata and L. notoaktites. All species showed potential selection for some category of prey. We observed a correlation between the size of the individuals and the volume of consumed prey in I. henselii. In general, the niche overlap between species was low, and most species had a broad trophic niche.
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- Camila Fernanda Moser
- Universidade Federal do Paraná - UFPR, Departamento de Zoologia, Jardim das Américas, 82590-300 Curitiba, PR, Brazil
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- Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS, Laboratório de Ecologia de Vertebrados Terrestres, Av. Unisinos, 950, Cristo Rei, 93022-750 São Leopoldo, RS, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Paraná - UFPR, Departamento de Zoologia, Jardim das Américas, 82590-300 Curitiba, PR, Brazil
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- Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS, Laboratório de Ecologia de Vertebrados Terrestres, Av. Unisinos, 950, Cristo Rei, 93022-750 São Leopoldo, RS, Brazil
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- Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná - UTFPR, Linha Santa Bárbara, s/n, 85601-970 Francisco Beltrão, PR, Brazil
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Barros RA, Santos-Costa MC. Resource use and coexistence of three hylid species in temporary ponds of an Eastern Amazonian forest fragment. J NAT HIST 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2022.2026514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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- Rafael A. Barros
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Pará and Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Brazil
- Laboratório de Ecologia e Zoologia de Vertebrados, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal Do Pará, Belém, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia e Zoologia de Vertebrados, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal Do Pará, Belém, Brazil
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Sabagh LT, Neutzling AS, Rocha CF. Phytophagous consumption by frogs inhabiting bromeliads from Atlantic Forest. ETHOL ECOL EVOL 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/03949370.2021.1936652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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- Leandro T. Sabagh
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ecologia, Zoologia e Genética, Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel), Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Faggioni GP, Souza FL, Paranhos Filho AC, Gamarra RM, Prado CPA. Amount and spatial distribution of habitats influence occupancy and dispersal of frogs at multiple scales in agricultural landscape. AUSTRAL ECOL 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/aec.12966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Gabriel P. Faggioni
- Instituto de Biociências Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul Avenida Costa e Silva ‐ Pioneiros Mato Grosso do Sul79070‐900Brazil
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- Instituto de Biociências Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul Avenida Costa e Silva ‐ Pioneiros Mato Grosso do Sul79070‐900Brazil
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- Laboratório de Geoprocessamento para Aplicações Ambientais Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul Campo GrandeBrazil
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- Laboratório de Geoprocessamento para Aplicações Ambientais Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul Campo GrandeBrazil
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- Departamento de Morfologia e Fisiologia Animal Universidade Estadual Paulista Jaboticabal São Paulo Brazil
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Marangoni F, Courtis A, Piñeiro JM, Ingaramo MDR, Cajade R, Stănescu F. Contrasting life-histories in two syntopic amphibians of the Leptodactylus fuscus group (Heyer 1978). AN ACAD BRAS CIENC 2019; 91:e20180507. [PMID: 31365650 DOI: 10.1590/0001-3675201920180507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2018] [Accepted: 08/25/2018] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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We used skeletochronology to compare age, size, reproductive parameters and growth patterns of two related, anuran amphibians from Northern Argentina: Leptodactylus bufonius (n=69) and L. latinasus (n=56), in order to better understand their coexistence in syntopy. Previous studies showed that the two species overlap in their dietary requirements and utilize the same habitats for feeding and breeding. We found that their life-history patterns are significantly different, L. bufonius being larger, and having a higher reproductive output and lifespan, compared to the smaller and shorter-living L. latinasus. Since none of the species exhibited sexual size dimorphism, and both acquired sexual maturity after the first year of life, we suggest that the differences in the observed life-history parameters must appear during early stages of development, during larval and/or juvenile stages.
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- Federico Marangoni
- Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales y Agrimensura, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste/FACENA-UNNE, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Ténicas/CONICET, Av. Libertad 5470, Corrientes, Argentina.,Chelonia Argentina, Virasoro 2804, 3400, Corrientes, Argentina
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- Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales y Agrimensura, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste/FACENA-UNNE, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Ténicas/CONICET, Av. Libertad 5470, Corrientes, Argentina
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- Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales y Agrimensura, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste/FACENA-UNNE, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Ténicas/CONICET, Av. Libertad 5470, Corrientes, Argentina.,Fundación Amado Bompland, San Juan 1182, Corrientes 3400, Argentina
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- Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales y Agrimensura, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste/FACENA-UNNE, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Ténicas/CONICET, Av. Libertad 5470, Corrientes, Argentina
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- Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales y Agrimensura, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste/FACENA-UNNE, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Ténicas/CONICET, Av. Libertad 5470, Corrientes, Argentina.,Chelonia Romania, Pascani 5, sector 6, Bucharest 062082, Romania
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- Chelonia Romania, Pascani 5, sector 6, Bucharest 062082, Romania.,Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Ovidius University Constanta, Al. Universitatii 1, Campus B, lab P43, Constanta 900470, Romania
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Corrêa Nogueira TDA, Ayala WE, Dayrell JS, de Fraga R, Kaefer IL. Scale-dependent estimates of niche overlap and environmental effects on two sister species of Neotropical snakes. STUDIES ON NEOTROPICAL FAUNA AND ENVIRONMENT 2019. [DOI: 10.1080/01650521.2019.1616957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil
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- Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologia das Águas, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Santarém, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil
- Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil
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Brito L, Aguiar F, Cascon P. Diet Composition and Activity Patterns ofOdontophrynus carvalhoiSavage and Cei, 1965 (Anura, Cycloramphidae) from a Humid Tropical Rainforest in Northeastern Brazil. SOUTH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY 2012. [DOI: 10.2994/057.007.0107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Vignoli L, Luiselli L. Dietary relationships among coexisting anuran amphibians: a worldwide quantitative review. Oecologia 2011; 169:499-509. [PMID: 22159990 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-2204-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2010] [Accepted: 11/06/2011] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Anuran amphibians have traditionally been considered suitable model organisms for community ecology studies. In this paper, we review and quantitatively re-analyze the original studies published on dietary relationships among anuran communities worldwide. We re-analyzed 33 independent communities from all continents, including data on prey numbers and/or prey volumes. All datasets underwent null model re-analysis using two randomization algorithms. In addition, logistic regression models were used to identify specific assemblage patterns. We discovered three main patterns: (1) one particular algorithm (RA2, which replaces every cell in the matrix with one randomly chosen, but retains the zero structure of the matrix) performed much better at uncovering community structure; (2) nonrandom structure was more likely to occur in tropical than in nontropical regions; (3) prey volume was a better descriptor of dietary relationships than prey number when attempting to detect nonrandom structure. We showed that: pattern (1) depended on both the overall generalist nature of the anurans in general and on the mathematical properties of RA2; pattern (2) was consistent with theoretical attributes of tropicality; and pattern (3) was due to the intrinsic ecological properties of generalist organisms, which forage more or less opportunistically on prey of very different sizes; hence, when prey number is used as a diet descriptor, there is a risk of approximating different prey taxa that make different relative volume contributions to the overall diet as being of similar relevance .
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- Leonardo Vignoli
- Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, Università Roma Tre, Rome, Italy.
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De-Carvalho CB, Freitas EBD, Faria RG, Batista RDC, Batista CDC, Coelho WA, Bocchiglieri A. História natural de Leptodactylus mystacinus e Leptodactylus fuscus (Anura: Leptodactylidae) no Cerrado do Brasil Central. BIOTA NEOTROPICA 2008. [DOI: 10.1590/s1676-06032008000300010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Aspectos da ecologia de Leptodactylus mystacinus e Leptodactylus fuscus foram investigados em uma área de Cerrado do Brasil Central. O estudo incluiu o uso do microhábitat, padrões de atividade, dieta e morfometria. As observações foram conduzidas entre abril de 2006 a fevereiro de 2007. As espécies são sexualmente dimórficas - fêmeas maiores que os machos - e o tamanho do corpo em L. mystacinus é maior do que o de L. fuscus. Ambas as espécies preferiram a superfície do solo (microhábitat) de hábitats brejosos com vegetação herbácea próximos a corpos lênticos de água. Leptodactylus mystacinus foi mais observado em Outubro e Novembro (20:00-20:59 e 23:00-23:59 horas) e L. fuscus em Novembro e Outubro das 19:00 às 20:59 horas. A dieta destas populações foi baseada em Arthropoda, primariamente Coleoptera, a qual foi a mais importante ordem (IVI). Diferenças nas proporções volumétricas das categorias de presas utilizadas, e nos períodos em que são mais observadas, provavelmente sejam os fatores que mais contribuem para a coexistência das duas espécies na área. Diferenças intersexuais na dieta foram observadas para estas espécies. Estas diferenças estão provavelmente associadas à alocação diferencial de recursos para a produção de gametas ou diferenças ocasionais no uso do espaço pelos dois sexos.
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Wachlevski M, De Souza PHC, Kopp K, Eterovick PC. Microhabitat use and feeding habits ofCrossodactylus bokermanniCaramaschi and Sazima, 1985 (Anura, Hylodidae) at a site in south‐eastern Brazil. J NAT HIST 2008. [DOI: 10.1080/00222930802069070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Almeida-Gomes M, Hatano FH, Van Sluys M, Rocha CFD. Diet and microhabitat use by two Hylodinae species (Anura, Cycloramphidae) living in sympatry and syntopy in a Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest area. IHERINGIA. SERIE ZOOLOGIA 2007. [DOI: 10.1590/s0073-47212007000100005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We analyzed the diet and microhabitat use for two Hylodinae anurans (Cycloramphidae), Hylodes phyllodes Heyer & Cocroft, 1986 and Crossodactylus gaudichaudii Duméril & Bibron, 1841, living in sympatry at an Atlantic Rainforest area of Ilha Grande, in southeastern Brazil. The two species live syntopically at some rocky streams. The two species differed strongly in microhabitat use. Hylodes phyllodes occurred mainly on rocks, whereas C. gaudichaudii was observed mostly on the water. Regarding diet, coleopterans, hymenopterans (ants), and larvae were the most important prey item consumed by both species. Data suggest that microhabitat use appears to be an important parameter differentiating these frogs with respect to general resource utilization.
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