Data/hora: 06/06/2024 02:11:14

Provedor de dados: | 84
País: | Brazil
Título: | Diet of bromeliad-frog Phyllodytes luteolus (Anura, Hylidae) in Atlantic Forest environments: what have the frogs been eating outside sandy coastal plains?
Autores: | Mageski,Marcio Marques; Campinhos,Elaine Costa; Duca,Charles; Stein,Maria Carolina; Oliveira,Melissa Peron de; Clemente-Carvalho,Rute Beatriz Garcia.
Data: | 2019-01-01
Ano: | 2019
Palavras-chave: | Amphibians; Lowland forest; Prey; Restinga; Trophic ecology.
Resumo: | Abstract Knowledge about the diet of anurans in different environments is essential to understanding important aspects of their trophic ecology. The bromeliad-frog Phyllodytes luteolus inhabits tank bromeliads in sandy coastal plains and lowland forests on the mainland, as well as a continental island in southeastern Brazil. In this work, we describe and analyze the diet of P. luteolus in three environments. We obtained the consumed prey items of 92 frogs (32 from sandy coastal plain, 32 from lowland forest and 28 from the island) via a stomach-flushing procedure. We found some variations in consumed prey composition and prey volume across populations, but ants represented the most important consumed prey in all environments. Only ants had a relative importance greater than 50%, which may suggest a specialized diet that transcends the sandy coastal plain environment.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0031-10492019000100229
Editor: | Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo
Relação: | 10.11606/1807-0205/2019.59.29
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia  v.59 2019
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess