Anuran communication /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ryan, Michael J. (Michael Joseph), 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution Press, [2001]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The importance of taxon-centered research in biology / Mary Jane West-Eberhard
  • A history of frog call studies 405 B.C. to 1980 / A. Stanley Rand
  • Acoustic communication, endocrine control, and the neurochemical systems of the brain / Walter Wilczynski and Joanne Chu
  • Male advertisement calls: behavioral variation and physiological processes / Sharon B. Emerson
  • The energetics of calling in frogs / Kentwood D. Wells
  • Ectothermy's last stand: hearing in the heat and cold / Peter M. Narins
  • Auditory tuning and frequency preferences in anurans / H. Carl Gerhardt and Joshua J. Schwartz
  • Feature weighting in signal recognition and discrimination by Túngara frogs / Michael J. Ryan and A. Stanley Rand
  • Patterns of differentiation in temporal properties of acoustic signals of anurans / Murray J. Littlejohn
  • Visual signaling in anuran amphibians / Walter Hödl and Adolfo Amézquita
  • The neuroethology of acoustic communication in Pacific treefrogs / Eliot A. Brenowitz, Gary J. Rose, and Todd Alder
  • Producing and perceiving frog songs: dissecting the neural bases for vocal behaviors in Xenopus laevis / Darcy B. Kelley, Martha L. Tobias, and Sam Horng
  • History's lessons: a neural network approach to receiver biases and the evolution of communication / Steven M. Phelps
  • Call monitoring and interactive playback systems in the study of acoustic interactions among male anurans / Joshua J. Schwartz
  • Advertisement call variation and speciation in the Bufo viridis complex / Cristina Giacoma and Sergio Castellano
  • Communication and mating in the midwife toads (Alytes obstetricans and Alytes cisternasii) / Rafael Márquez and Jaime Bosch
  • Kin recognition, sexual selection, and mate choice in toads / Bruce Waldman.