phenology and environmental determinants of explosive breeding in gliding treefrogs: diel timing of rainfall matters

The influence of abiotic and biotic factors on the temporal pattern of calling and breeding for many temperate anurans is well understood. However, few studies have documented patterns of reproduction in explosive-breeding tropical frogs or incorporated multiple environmental factors in their analyses, especially across multiple breeding seasons. We combine long-term natural history observations and automated data collection methods with boosted regression tree (BRT) analysis to determine the phenology and determinants of explosive breeding in the gliding treefrog, Agalychnis spurrelli. We monitored breeding for a total of 418 days across three breeding seasons and determined the relative importance of several environmental factors on the probability of calling and breeding activity. Our study population of A. spurrelli on Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula forms breeding aggregations up to 11 times per year during 1–2-day long explosive-breeding events, from late May to mid-September. Calling ..., , , This README\_for\_GUELL\_ET\_AL\_DATASET.txt file was generated on 2023-03-15 by BRANDON A. GUELL

GENERAL INFORMATION

1. Title of Dataset: \"Guell&Warkentin.xlsx\" for the manuscript: \"Phenology and environmental determinants of explosive breeding in gliding treefrogs: Diel timing of rainfall matters\" submitted to Behavioral Ecology - manuscript number BEHECO-2023-0089.
2. Author Information
A. Principal Investigator Contact Information
Name: Karen M. Warkentin
Institution: Boston University
Address: 5 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA 02215, U.S.A.
Email: [e-mail]

A. Analyses Contact Information
Name: Brandon A. Guell
Institution: Boston University
Address: 5 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA 02215, U.S.A.
Email: [e-mail]
3. Date of data collection (single date, range, approximate date): 1 March 2018 – 4 December 2021
4. Geographic location of data collection: Shampoo Pond in Piro, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica (8°24´55´´N, 83°20´45´´W)
5. Inform...