Unraveling territorial behavior in neotropical poison frogs: an integrative natural history approach

Abstract

I approached behavioral hypotheses associated with the role of ecological, phenotypic, genetic, and physiological traits in territorial behavior in Neotropical poison frogs. My approach involved population genetics analyses, ecological and phenotypic comparisons in free-living organisms, detailed behavioral experiments in the field, and the application of behavioral physiology techniques to address the role of natural history traits in the use of space.