Comparative Hearing: Insects /

This volume on insects introduces the hearing research community and entomologists to the extensive but often unfamiliar literature on the ways that insects detect and process sounds. Each of the chapters is written by a leading expert in the field, and together they comprise the first comprehensive...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hoy, Ronald R.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Popper, Arthur N., Fay, Richard R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint : Springer, 1998.
Series:Springer handbook of auditory research ; 10.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Acute as a Bug's Ear: An Informal Discussion of Hearing in Insects
  • Biophysics of Sound Localization in Insects
  • The Sensory Ecology of Acoustic Communication in Insects
  • Development of the Insect Auditory System
  • Neural Processing of Acoustic Signals
  • The Evolutionary Innovation of Tympanal Hearing in Diptera
  • The Vibrational Sense of Spiders
  • The Sensory Co-evolution of Moths and Bats.