Use of food resources and electivities in the diet of Chiasmocleis leucosticta (Anura: Microhylidae)

• Grant number: 18/13320-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: November 01, 2018
• End date: October 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Animal Behavior
• Principal Investigator: Jaime Aparecido Bertoluci
• Grantee: William Meurer dos Santos
• Host Institution: Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Piracicaba , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research will verify if the preference for ants and mites as food items in the diet of the frog Chiasmocleis leucosticta shown for the population of the Reserva Florestal do Morro Grande, municipality of Cotia (SP), is actually an electivity. For this purpose, the frequency of each food item observed in stomachs will be compared with the avaibility of arthropods of leaf litter collected at the same place and time that the frogs were collected through the Linear Index of Food Selection.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

MEURER, WILLIAM; GONCALVES, FELIPE G.; BOVENDORP, RICARDO S.; PERCEQUILLO, ALEXANDRE R.; BERTOLUCI, JAIME. iet Electivity and Preferences for Food Resources in Chiasmocleis leucosticta (Anura: Microhylidae. Journal of Herpetology, v. 55, n. 4, p. 325-329, DEC 2021. (09/16009-1, 18/13320-7)