REPRODUCTION AND HABITAT OF TEN BRAZILIAN FROGS (ANURA)

Abstract

INTRODUCTION 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.