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Effects of UV‐B Radiation on Anti‐Predator Behavior in Amphibians: Reply to Cummins
Author(s) -
Kats Lee B.,
Kiesecker Joseph M.,
Chivers Douglas P.,
Blaustein Andrew R.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
ethology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.739
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1439-0310
pISSN - 0179-1613
DOI - 10.1046/j.1439-0310.2002.00810.x
Subject(s) - criticism , predator , context (archaeology) , ultraviolet radiation , field (mathematics) , ecology , psychology , environmental ethics , biology , predation , political science , philosophy , chemistry , law , mathematics , paleontology , pure mathematics , radiochemistry
Cummins' (2002) criticism of our paper (Kats et al. 2000) (1) displays a lack of understanding of experimental biology, (2) fails to report our results accurately, (3) places our paper in the wrong context, (4) seems unaware of much of the pertinent literature or selectively avoids certain references, and (5) takes the opportunity to criticize other papers examining the effects of ultraviolet radiation (UV, particularly UV‐B) on amphibians in the field. We address these issues below.