Overview
- A comprehensive collection of expert papers on acoustic communication and sound processing in insects
- Covers recent scientific progress and addresses key points of current research
- Richly illustrated
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Animal Signals and Communication (ANISIGCOM, volume 1)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This volume provides a comprehensive selection of recent studies addressing insect hearing and acoustic communication. The variety of signalling behaviours and hearing organs makes insects highly suitable animals for exploring and analysing signal generation and hearing in the context of neural processing, ecology, evolution and genetics. Across a variety of hearing species like moths, crickets, bush-crickets, grasshoppers, cicadas and flies, the leading researchers in the field cover recent scientific progress and address key points in current research, such as: - How can we approach the evolution of hearing in insects and what is the developmental and neural origin of the auditory organs? - How are hearing and sound production embedded in the natural lifestyle of the animals, allowing intraspecific communication but also predator avoidance and even predation? - What are the functional properties of hearing organs and how are they achieved at the molecular, biophysical and neural levels? - What are the neural mechanisms of central auditory processing and signal generation?
The book is intended for students and researchers both inside and outside of the fascinating field of bioacoustics and aims to foster understanding of hearing and acoustic communication in insects.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Insect Hearing and Acoustic Communication
Editors: Berthold Hedwig
Series Title: Animal Signals and Communication
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40462-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-40461-0Published: 20 November 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-50929-6Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-40462-7Published: 08 November 2013
Series ISSN: 2197-7305
Series E-ISSN: 2197-7313
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 222
Number of Illustrations: 46 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Invertebrates, Animal Genetics and Genomics, Neurobiology, Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics, Acoustics