@article {349,
	title = {Hemisus marmoratus (Peters, 1854) (Anura: Hemisotidae): Reproduction strategies of a savanna frog},
	journal = {Bonner Zoologische Beitraege},
	volume = {45},
	number = {3-4},
	year = {1995},
	month = {1995},
	pages = {191-207},
	abstract = {<p>Hemisus marmoratus uses a breeding chamber for eggs and early tadpole stages. As some nests are even made before the beginning of the rainy season, Hemisus-tadpoles are the first tadpoles arriving in the temporary ponds. Thus they have a developmental advantage to tadpoles of other species and to predators. The time tadpoles spend in their nest is variable. So they may be able to react on the not forseeable rainfalls of their savanna habitat. Despite the channel theory of Wager (1986) our observations speak for additional strategies of the tadpoles reaching water. These may be transport by the mother, sliding on wet soil down to water or floating of the breeding chambers. The use of a certain strategy may depend on habitat structure. Beside these reproductive observations we give further data on activity, food and larval development.</p>
},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://PREV199698560566},
	author = {R{\"o}del, Mark-Oliver and Spieler, Marko and Grabow, Karsten and Boeckheler, Christoph}
}
