Abstract:
:Individual male and female Bufo woodhousei spent only two or three nights of the several week breeding season in the pond. In spite of the continual arriving and leaving of individuals the operational sex ratio (the number of females available to mate/number of males attempting to mate) varied little, either temporally across the breeding season or spatially between male groups in the pond. Male body size distributions also varied little between nights and between male groups.
journal_name
Oecologiajournal_title
Oecologiaauthors
Woodward BDdoi
10.1007/BF00379020subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1984-05-01 00:00:00pages
240-244issue
2eissn
0029-8549issn
1432-1939pii
10.1007/BF00379020journal_volume
62pub_type
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