Biotremology: Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution

Biotremology is a new and emerging discipline in biological sciences that covers all aspects of behavior associated with substrate-borne mechanical waves. This volume provides state-of-the-art reviews and technical contributions from leading experts and invited younger researchers on topics from signal production and transmission to perception in its ecological context. Reviews about the knowledge of well-studied groups are complemented with perspectives on the study of less-explored groups or contexts. Special attention is given to practical issues in measuring substrate-borne vibrations as well as to applied biotremology. The book appeals to all those interested in communication and vibrational behavior.

Auteur

Peggy S. M. Hill studied at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, where she was broadly trained in organismic and environmental biology and specifically trained in community and evolutionary ecology. She taught secondary science for 10 years before returning to the University as an Instructor. She earned her PhD from the University of Oklahoma, specializing in behavioral and physiological ecology, but most importantly began exploring vibrational behavior in molecrickets. Her 2008 book, Vibrational Communication in Animals, helped introduce her to others with interests in what would become the discipline of biotremology and she has supported the biotremology community since then as editor and author. She retired as a Professor of Biological Science in 2018, and continues to write and study as a Professor Emerita of the University of Tulsa. Valerio Mazzoni is responsible for the Plant Protection research unit in the Research and Innovation Centre of Fondazione Edmund Mach in Trentino, Italy. His research activity involves several aspects of behavioral entomology, with emphasis on insect communication and in particular, biotremology. The characteristics of the communication signals, their transmission through plant tissues and the related insect behavior are investigated in the context of agroecosystems. The goal is to invent and develop innovative methods of pest control through behavioral manipulation, such as the vibrational mating disruption to control leafhoppers. In 2016 and 2018 he was convener of the first two editions of the World Symposium of Biotremology, both organized in Trentino region.

NataSa Stritih-Peljhan received her BS, MS and PhD degrees at the University of Ljubljana, after being broadly trained in most sub-disciplines of biology at the undergraduate level. During her MS and PhD studies, she specialised in neurophysiology, neuroanatomy and sensory evolution, in a tight collaboration with Georg-August University in Göttingen. She works at the National Institute of Biology in Ljubljana, focusing her research on various aspects of vibrational behaviour and sensory detection of vibration stimuli, using non-hearing cave crickets as a model. She also has experience in chemical ecology, having contributed to research of pheromone communication in various insect groups. Meta Virant-Doberlet received her PhD from the University of Ljubljana. Having initially trained as an insect neurobiologist at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioural Physiology in Seewiesen, she is now focusing her research on various aspects of arthropod vibrational communication. She has been a Marie Curie fellow at Cardiff University and is now Head of the Department of Organisms and Ecosystems Research at the National Institute of Biology in Ljubljana, where she uses leafhoppers as a model for studying interactions shaping the evolution of the vibrational communication channel. Andreas Wessel was trained in evolutionary and behavioral biology at the University of Vienna and Humboldt University Berlin. He currently works in Berlin, Germany, as an independent researcher and is affiliated with the Museum of Natural History as a guest researcher. His research focus is on cave planthoppers as models for vibrational communication as well as adaptation to extreme environments and rapid speciation. Furthermore, he publishes frequently on the history and philosophy of biology, and writes for various newspapers and magazines.

Contenu

Part I. Studying Vibrational Behavior: Ideas, Concepts and History

1. Peggy S. M. Hill, Valerio Mazzoni, Peter Narins, Meta Virant-Doberlet & Andreas Wessel

Quo Vadis, Biotremology?

2. Peggy S. M. Hill, Meta Virant-Doberlet & Andreas Wessel

What is Biotremology?

3. John A. Endler

Biotremology and Sensory Ecology

4. René-Guy Busnel, Francois Pasquinelly & Bernard Dumortier

[transl. & ed. by Hannelore Hoch, Marie-Claire Busnel & Peggy S. M. Hill]

Body Tremulations and their Transmission as Vibrations for Short Distance Information Transfer between Ephippiger Male and Female (1955)

Part II. The State of the Field: Concepts and Frontiers in Vibrational Behavior

5. Sebastian Oberst, Joseph C. S. Lai & Theodore A. Evans

Physical Basis of Vibrational Behavior: Channel Properties, Noise and Excitation signal extraction

6. Rafael L. Rodríguez

Copulatory Courtship with Vibrational Signals

7. Andrej Cokl, Maria Carolina Blassioli-Moraes, Raul Alberto Laumann, Alenka Zunic & Miguel Borges Stinkbugs

Multisensory Communication with Chemical and Vibratory Signals Transmitted Through Different Media

Part III. Practical Issues in Studying Vibrational Behavior

8. Rok sturm, Jernej Polajnar & Meta Virant-Doberlet

Practical Issues in Studying Natural Vibroscape and Biotic Noise

9. GaSper KorinSek, Tadej Tuma & Meta Virant-Doberlet

Automated Vibrational Signal Recognition and Playback

Part IV. Vibration Detection and Orientation

10. Matthew J. Mason & Léa M. D. Wenger

Mechanisms of Vibration Detection in Mammals

11. Johannes Strauß, NataSa Stritih Peljhan & Reinhard Lakes-Harlan

Determining Vibroreceptor Sensitivity in Insects: The Influence of Experimental Parameters and Recording Techniques

12. Felix A. Hager & Wolfgang H. Kirchner

Directionality in Insect Vibration Sensing: Behavioral Studies of Vibrational Orientation

Part V. Biology and Evolution of Vibrational Behavior in Some Well-Studied Taxa

13. Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell, Xiying Guan & Sunil Puria

Vibrational Behavior in Elephants

14. Peter M. Narins

Seismic Communication in the Amphibia with Special Emphases on the Anura

15. Monika J. B. Eberhard & Mike D. Picker

Vibrational Communication in Heelwalkers (Mantophasmatodea)

16. Felix A. Hager, Kathrin Krausa & Wolfgang H. Kirchner

Vibrational Behavior in Termites (Isoptera)

Part VI. Applied Biotremology

17. Valerio Mazzoni, Rachele Nieri, Anna Eriksson, Meta Virant-Doberlet, Jernej Polajnar, Gianfranco Anfora & Andrea Lucchi

Mating Disruption by Vibrational Signals: State of the Field and Perspectives

18. Shira D. Gordon & Rodrigo Krugner

Mating Disruption by Vibrational Signals: Applications for Management of the Glassy-winged Sharpshooter

19. Jernej Polajnar, Lara Maistrello, Aya Ibrahim & Valerio Mazzoni Can Vibrational Playback Improve Control of an Invasive Stink bug?

20. Richard W. Mankin

Vibrational Trapping and Interference with Mating of Diaphorina citri

21. Richard Hofstetter, Nicholas Aflitto, Carol L. Bedoya, Kasey Yturralde & David D. Dunn

Vibrational Behavior in Bark Beetles: Applied Aspects

Part VII. Outreach and Resources

22. Carrie L. Hall & Daniel R. Howard

Shaking it up in the Classroom: Coupling Biotremology and Active Learning Pedagogy to Promote Authentic Discovery

23. Karl-Heinz Frommolt, Hannelore Hoch & Andreas Wessel

Call for the Establishment of a VibroLibrary at the Animal Sound Archive Berlin

24. Tomas Saraceno, Ally Bisshop, Adrian Krell & Roland Mühlethaler

The Arachnid Orchestras: Artistic Research in Vibrational Interspecies Communication

25. Matija Gogala and BoStjan PerovSek

Bioacoustic Music Inspired by Bio…