Book Review: Acoustic Communication in Insects and Anurans: Common Problems and Diverse Solutions. By H. Carl Gerhard and Franz Huber. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2002, 531 pp. $100…

By Thomas J. Walker. Copeia, 2003

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Subfields: Developmental Biology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Insect duets: underlying mechanisms and their evolution (2003, background): “As is so often the case, insect and frog mating systems have the advantage when it comes to testing more general hypotheses generated from behavioural studies of higher vertebrates (Gerhardt & Huber, 2002).”
The “Cocktail Party Problem”: What Is It? How Can It Be Solved? And Why Should Animal Behaviorists Study It? (2008, background): “For frogs (Gerhardt & Bee, 2006; Gerhardt & Huber, 2002) and perhaps birds (Klump & Larsen, 1992; Larsen, Dooling, & Michelsen, 2006), the internal coupling of the two inner ears and the operation of pressure-difference systems probably compensate for some of the limitations on directional hearing…”
Plasticity in female mate choice associated with changing reproductive states (2005, methodology): “We examined mate choice plasticity using anuran amphibians because anurans frequently serve as model systems for investigating basic principles of mate choice behaviour (Ryan 1985; Ryan & Rand 2001; Gerhardt & Huber 2002).”
Recognition and Localization of Acoustic Signals (2007, background): “Typically this is accomplished by playback experiments in which the value of one property at a time is varied in a systematic fashion (Wagner 1995; Bush et al. 2001; Gerhardt and Huber 2002).”
Temporal separation of blue whale call types on a southern California feeding ground (2007, background): “Some fish (Fine et al. 1977; Bass et al. 1999), anurans and insects (Gerhardt & Huber 2002) sing to attract mates during specific breeding periods.”
Passive acoustic monitoring as a potential tool to survey animal and ecosystem processes in freshwater environments (2019, background): “At least four animal groups produce detectable sounds underwater in aquatic environments: amphib‐ ians, fish, insects, and crustaceans (Aiken, 1985; Favaro, Tirelli, Gamba, & Pessani, 2011; Fine & Parmentier, 2015; Gerhardt & Huber, 2002).”
The influence of the acoustic community on songs of birds in a neotropical rain forest (2009, background): “…communicate in aggregations, such as frog choruses and avian dawn choruses, that make it especially difficult to discriminate conspecific from similar heterospecific signals (Bremond 1978; Wiley 1994; Pfennig 2000; Gerhardt and Huber 2002; Wollerman and Wiley 2002b; Brumm and Slabbekoorn 2005).”
Male satin bowerbirds, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, adjust their display intensity in response to female startling: an experiment with robotic females (2006, background): “The sexually selected display traits of individual males commonly vary over time (Gerhardt 1991; Gerhardt & Huber 2002 ), but models of sexual selection generally characterize males as having a single trait value (Lande 1981; Kirkpatrick 1982; Grafen 1990; Iwasa et al. 1991).”
On the relationship between, and measurement of, amplitude and frequency in birdsong (2012, methodology): “More contemporary textbooks of bioacoustics (e.g. Bradbury & Vehrencamp 1998; Gerhardt & Huber 2002) offer excellent reviews on spectrogram construction, and of how different window and filter sizes and shapes may affect the resulting output.”
The Evolution, Function, and Meaning of Marmot Alarm Communication (2007, background): “First, as studied so well in some insect and anuran systems (Gerhardt and Huber, 2002), communication mechanisms can evolve quickly: closely related species may have different mechanisms as illustrated by contrasting yellow‐bellied marmots (two call types, rated‐based”
The signal value of birdsong: empirical evidence suggests song overlapping is a signal (2010, background): “…because it is among the best studied traits in the territorial interactions of songbirds, because it is well studied in other taxa including anurans and insects (Grafe 1999; Gerhardt & Huber 2002), and because Searcy & Beecher (2009) discuss overlapping from a perspective we do not share.”
Integrative inventory of Bolivia’s lowland anurans reveals hidden diversity (2011, background): “As pointed out by various authors (e.g. Ryan 2001; Gerhardt & Huber 2002), some of these terms have been used in different ways by different authors leading to some degree of confusions in the literature.”