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Title: Key roles of paternal care and climate on offspring survival of an amazonian poison frog
Authors: Rocha, Sulamita Marques Correia da
Lima, Albertina Pimentel
Kaefer, Igor L.
Keywords: Allobates paleovarzensis
Aromobatidae
Dendrobatoidea
ENSO 2015-2016
Nurse frogs
Parental care
Issue Date: 2021
metadata.dc.publisher.journal: Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: Volume 93; Number e20210067
Abstract: In poison frogs (Dendrobatoidea), usually the males are territorial, care for terrestrial nests and later transport their offspring to waterbodies where they complete larval development. In some species, mothers care for their offspring or may exhibit flexible care to compensate for father absence. We conducted a multi-season field experiment with the Amazonian species Allobates paleovarzensis, in which it was possible to study the joint impact of paternal care and the El Niño climatic anomaly on offspring survival. The experiment consisted of two treatments: non-removal, and removal of the father from their territories. We observed that parental care was performed exclusively by the father, and none of the mothers of the 21 monitored nests transported the tadpoles. We also observed that the severe drought in a year under the influence of the El Niño event caused such a high mortality in all pre-metamorphic stages, that the role of parental care became irrelevant for offspring survival during that season. We found that pre-metamorphic Allobates paleovarzensis are highly vulnerable to the loss of paternal care. In addition, we showed that paternal care, when present, does not prevent offspring death under these increasingly frequent climatic anomalies. © 2021, Academia Brasileira de Ciencias. All rights reserved.
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: 10.1590/0001-3765202120210067
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