Insect sounds and communication
Subtitle: physiology, behaviour, ecology, and evolution
By: edited by Sakis Drosopoulos and Michael F. Claridge.
Contributors: Drosopoulos, Sakis.; Claridge, Michael F.
Series: Contemporary topics in entomology series
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9780849320606
Subjects: Insect sounds; Sound production by insects; Animal communication
Notes: The DVD-ROM contains color photographs of many of the insects, acoustic analyses, and also the sound emitted by them. In addition is the full text in French of the contribution of the famous cicadologist, Prof. Michel Boulard, Paris. The DVD-ROM contains QuickTime and .jpg files.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-500) and index.
Table of contents: title: Insect sounds and communication : an introduction / Michael Claridge; title: Sound and techniques in sound analysis / Elias Eliopoulos; title: The auditory-vibratory sensory system in bushcrickets / Wolfgang Rössler, Martin Jatho and Klaus Kalmring; title: Sense organs involved in the vibratory communication of bugs / Andrej Čokl, Meta Virant-Doberlet and Maja Zorović; title: Use of substrate vibrations for orientation : from behaviour to physiology / Meta Virant-Doberlet, Andrej Čokl and Maja Zorović; title: Size-frequency relationships in insect vibratory signals / Reginald B. Cocroft and Paul De Luca; title: Acoustic signals and temperature / Allen F. Sanborn; title: Insect songs - the evolution of signal complexity / Winston J. Bailey; title: Song evolution and speciation in bushcrickets / K.-G. Heller; title: Acoustic communication in neuropterid insects / Charles S. Henry; title: Inheritance of male sound characteristics in Drosophila species / Anneli Hoikkala; title: Vibratory communication and mate searching behaviour in stoneflies / Kenneth W. Stewart and John B. Sandberg; title: Communication by substrate-borne vibrations in cave planthoppers / Hannelore Hoch and Andreas Wessel; title: Partitioning of acoustic transmission channels in grasshopper communities / Maria Bukhvalova; title: Insect species and their songs / Jérôme Sueur; title: Is migration responsible for the peculiar geographical distribution and speciation based on acoustic divergence of two cicadas in the Aegean Archipelago? / Sakis Drosopoulos, Elias Eliopoulos and Penelope Tsakalou; title: Acoustic evolutionary divergence in cicadas : the species of Cicada L. in southern Europe / José A. Quartau and Paula C. Simões; title: Acoustic communication, mating behaviour and hybridisation in closely related, pseudogamic and parthenogenetic species of planthoppers / Sakis Drosopoulos; title: Photoperiodism, morphology and acoustic behaviour in the leafhopper genus, Euscelis / Hildegard Strübing and Sakis Drosopoulos; title: Mutual eavesdropping through vibrations in a host-parasitoid interaction : from plant biomechanics to behavioural ecology / Jérôme Casas and Christelle Magal; title: Vibratory signals produced by Heteroptera - Pentatomorpha and Cimicomorpha / Matija Gogala; title: Vibratory communication in Triatominae (Heteroptera) / Claudio R. Lazzari, Gabriel Manrique and Pabla E. Schilman; title: Vibratory communication in treehoppers (Hemiptera: Membracidae) / Reginald B. Cocraft and Gabriel D. McNett; title: Acoustic characters in the classification of higher taxa of Auchenorrhyncha (Hemiptera) / D. Yu. Tishechkin; title: Acoustic signals, diversity and behaviour of cicadas (Cicadidae, Hemiptera) / Michel Boulard; title: Vibratory communication and mating behaviour in the European lantern fly, Dictyophara europea (Dictyopharidae, Hemiptera) / Hildegard Strübing; title: Vibratory communication in Psylloidea (Hemiptera) / D. Yu. Tishechkin; title: Mating behaviour and vibratory signals in whiteflies (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) / K. Kanmiya; title: Communication by vibratory signals in Diptera / K. Kanmiya; title: Stridulation in the Coleoptera - an overview / Andreas Wessel; title: Vibratory communication in dung beetles (Scarabaeidae, Coleoptera) / Julia Kasper and Petra Hirschberger; title: Vibratory and airborne-sound signals in bee communication (Hymenoptera) / Michael Hrncir, Friedrich G. Barth and Jürgen Tautz.