Complex signal function: developing a framework of testable hypotheses

By E. Hebets, D. Papaj. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change

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Female preference for complex/novel signals in a spider (2006, background): “Alternatively, seismic signals may focus a female’s attention on other male traits through cross-modal interactions (Rowe 1999; Candolin 2003; Hebets and Papaj 2005 ).”
Seismic communication and mate choice in wolf spiders: components of male seismic signals and mating success (2008, background): “Signal components in multimodal displays may communicate redundant or entirely different types of information (see reviews by Møller & Pomiankowski 1993; Johnstone 1995; Candolin 2003; Hebets & Papaj 2005; Partan & Marler 2005).”
Intracolony vibroacoustic communication in social insects (2013, methodology): “As a guide for future empirical research on multimodal signaling, Hebets and Papaj (2005) put forward a framework of testable hypotheses.”
Consequences of complex signaling: predator detection of multimodal cues (2007, background): “A growing volume of research has revealed widespread use of complex signals (Candolin 2003; Hebets and Papaj 2005; Partan and Marler 2005), involving simultaneous implementation of multiple signal components in a given mode (multicomponent signaling) or in multiple modes (multimodal signaling) (Pa”
Preferred songs predict preferred males: consistency and repeatability of zebra finch females across three test contexts (2007, background): “acoustic and visual) propagated on different temporal and spatial scales (Candolin 2003; Hebets & Papaj 2005 ).”
Angry Birds Need Not Apply: A Perspective on the Flexible form and Multifunctionality of Avian Vocal Duets (2014, background): “These functions included joint resource defence, signalling commitment, maintaining contact and ensuring reproductive synchrony (Dilger 1953; Payne 1970; Wolf 1977; Huxley & Wilkinson 1979).”
Taking the sensory approach: how individual differences in sensory perception can influence mate choice (2012, positive): “The perceptual variability hypothesis (Hebets & Papaj 2005) proposes that multimodal signals may have evolved to target receivers that differ in their sensory processing (i.e. signallers should be selected for their ability to reach multiple receivers).”
Sharing the motivation to play: the use of signals in adult bonobos (2008, background): “Signals are based on different sensory modalities such as olfactory, acoustic or visual cues (see Hebets & Papaj 2005 for an extensive review).”
Evolution and behavioural responses to human-induced rapid environmental change (2011, background): “Cues vary along many axes (Rowe 1999; Hebets and Papaj 2004), and detection theory provides techniques for assessing different components’ effects on discriminability (Wiley 2006).”
Faux frogs : multimodal signalling and the value of robotics in animal behaviour (2008, background): “…a female’s ability to assign a call to a particular male; thus, multimodal signalling in this system may have evolved as an efficacy trade-off (Hebets & Papaj 2005), whereby the acoustic signal is detectable from a relatively long distance and the visual cue provides for better localization…”
Forget-me-not: Complex floral displays, inter-signal interactions, and pollinator cognition (2011, methodology): “What benefit does a multi-component display offer senders or receivers, when a simpler one might be less costly to produce? Over the past decade, interest in this question has steadily grown among researchers studying communication in a wide variety of different contexts (rev. in Candolin, 2003; Heb”
Multimodal alarm behavior in urban and rural gray squirrels studied by means of observation and a mechanical robot (2010, background): “Multimodal communication (Partan and Marler, 1999; Rowe, 1999; Hebets and Papaj, 2005), involving more than one sensory system, can be difficult to study because multiple signals are emitted and perceived simultaneously, and our equipment is usually designed for one process at a time.”
Multimodal communication and mate choice in wolf spiders: female response to multimodal versus unimodal signals (2009, background): “For example, redundant signals may facilitate detection in multiple sensory environments (Candolin 2003), overcome constraints of receivers’ sensory systems (Rowe 1999), or enforce signal honesty (Hebets & Papaj 2005).”
Multimodal Signaling in Male and Female Foot-Flagging Frogs Staurois guttatus (Ranidae): An Alerting Function of Calling (2007, background): “Ethology 113 (2007) 772–781 ª 2007 The Authors 772 Journal compilation ª 2007 Blackwell Verlag, Berlin 1991) and that each signal component may interact as a functional unit (Candolin 2003; Hebets & Papaj 2005).”