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Acoustic Communication in Insects and Anurans: Common Problems and Diverse Solutions

Autor H. Carl Gerhardt, Franz Huber
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 aug 2002
Walk near woods or water on any spring or summer night and you will hear a bewildering (and sometimes deafening) chorus of frog, toad, and insect calls. How are these calls produced? What messages are encoded within the sounds, and how do their intended recipients receive and decode these signals? How does acoustic communication affect and reflect behavioral and evolutionary factors such as sexual selection and predator avoidance?

H. Carl Gerhardt and Franz Huber address these questions among many others, drawing on research from bioacoustics, behavior, neurobiology, and evolutionary biology to present the first integrated approach to the study of acoustic communication in insects and anurans. They highlight both the common solutions that these very different groups have evolved to shared challenges, such as small size, ectothermy (cold-bloodedness), and noisy environments, as well as the divergences that reflect the many differences in evolutionary history between the groups. Throughout the book Gerhardt and Huber also provide helpful suggestions for future research.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226288338
ISBN-10: 0226288331
Pagini: 542
Ilustrații: 5 halftones, 200 line drawings, 6 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.71 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

Notă biografică

H. Carl Gerhardt is the Curators' Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

Franz Huber is a professor emeritus and retired scientific member of the Max Planck Society and former director of the Division for Neuroethology at the Max-Planck-Institute for Behavioral Physiology, Seewiesen.

Cuprins

Preface

1.Introduction

2.Acoustic Signals: Description and Peripheral Mechanisms

3.Neaural Control of Sound Production

4.Acoustic Criteria for Signal Recognition and Preferences

5.Processing of Biologically Significant Acoustic Signals in
the Auditory Periphery

6.Processing of Biologically Significant Sound Signals in
Central Auditory Systems

7.Sound Localization

8.Causes and Consequences of Chorusing

9.Acoustic Competition and Alternative Tactics

10.Female Choice Based on Acoustic Signals

11.Broad-Scale Patterns of Evolution

Appendices

Literature Cited

Index