Biodiv Sci ›› 2023, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (1): 22344.  DOI: 10.17520/biods.2022344

• Original Papers: Animal Diversity • Previous Articles     Next Articles

A dataset on the call characteristics of 43 anuran species in China

Ke Deng1, Xiaoping Wang1,2, Bicheng Zhu Longhui Zhao1, Yue Yang1, Yanlin Cai1, Xiaoqian Sun1, Tongliang Wang1, Jianguo Cui3,*()   

  1. 1. Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041
    2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049
    3. College of Life Sciences, Hainan Normal University, Haikou 571158
  • Received:2022-06-21 Accepted:2022-08-03 Online:2023-01-20 Published:2022-09-25
  • Contact: *Jianguo Cui, E-mail: cuijg@cib.ac.cn

Abstract:

Calls of anuran species (frogs and toads) are generally species-specific. This means that bioacoustics can be used to investigate species diversity and monitor species, but only if the call characteristics are known. In this study, we summarize the call data and sample information of 43 anuran species (from 26 genera in 7 families) recorded in the field with high-fidelity recorders from 2012 to 2020. In addition, we provide a call characteristic dataset with oscillograms and spectrograms of 61 calls (after noise reduction processing). The dataset contains temporal and spectral characteristics of the calls, such as the note number, note duration, inter-note interval, call duration, dominant frequency, fundamental frequency, harmonics, and whether they are monosyllabic or multisyllabic. This dataset is essential for using acoustic techniques to survey species diversity and monitor anuran species in China using their calls.

Key words: frog, toad, temporal characteristic, spectral characteristic, oscillogram, spectrogram