Vol. 19 No. 1 (2024)
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Effects of traffic noise on calling activity of Aplastodiscus leucopygius (Anura, Hylidae)

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  • Beatriz Azevedo Cezila,
  • Raoni Rebouças,
  • Cybele Sabino Lisboa
Beatriz Azevedo Cezila
Magnani & Paschoal Assessoria Ambiental Ltda ME, Rua Rheda Widenbruck, n°261 - Residencial Samambaia - São Carlos/SP
Raoni Rebouças
Laboratório de História Natural de Anfíbios Brasileiros - LaHNAB, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Cidade Universitária Zeferino Vaz, Campinas - SP
Cybele Sabino Lisboa
Zoológico de São Paulo - Reserva Paulista, Avenida Miguel Stefano, 4241, São Paulo - SP
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/a_h-15334

Published 2024-06-21

Keywords

  • Amphibian,
  • Hylinae,
  • anthropogenic noise,
  • advertisement call,
  • Atlantic Forest

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Azevedo Cezila, B., Rebouças, R., & Sabino Lisboa, C. (2024). Effects of traffic noise on calling activity of Aplastodiscus leucopygius (Anura, Hylidae). Acta Herpetologica, 19(1), 29–39. https://doi.org/10.36253/a_h-15334

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Abstract

Advertisement calls are the main communication form of anurans, and other individuals can use it to evaluate several aspects of the calling individual. In this context, environmental disturbances, such as traffic noise, can potentially affect this recognition. Therefore, this study aims to evaluate the response of Aplastodiscus leucopygius to traffic noise in a fragment of Atlantic Forest within the city of São Paulo. The experimentation consisted of recording the calling individual previously, during and after an exposure to urban noise. After that, individuals were measured to evaluate the Scaled Mass Index (SMI), and individual and environmental temperatures were taken. Also, considering that individuals of this species present harmonic shifting, we tried to evaluate which factors (individual, acoustic, or environmental) are associated with this phenomenon. We observed that the individuals showed an increase in call activity after exposure to traffic noise, but none of the evaluated aspects here could explain the harmonic shifting in their calls. Considering that this increasing on call activity also means an increasing of individual’s expense of energy, traffic noise is potentially harmful to the communication of A. leucopygius and, consequently, to its permanence in the site.

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