REPRODUCTION AND HABITAT OF TEN BRAZILIAN FROGS (ANURA)

Abstract

Basic data on habitat, behavior, and reproduction are
lacking for most Neotropical frog species and even higher
taxonomic groups (Crump 1974; Haddad and Prado
2005), particularly for those restricted to the Atlantic
Forest. Basic reproductive features are the basis of comparative
studies on evolution of major natural history
features (Harvey and Pagel 1998), such as the interspecifi
c relationship between body size and egg number/
size (Salthe and Duellman 1973, Crump 1974, Stearns
1992). Here, we present data on habitat, reproductive
behavior and quantitative parameters such as adult sizes,
egg numbers/sizes of ten sympatric frogs of an altitudinal
Atlantic Forest site in Southeastern Brazil.