Many animals rely on long-range communication for species recognition, mate selection and
territorial defense, but background noise from the environment can constrain their …

There is a growing recognition that animal behavior can affect wildlife conservation, but
there have been few direct studies of animal behavior in conservation programs. However, a …

The sounds produced by animals have been a topic of research into animal behaviour for a
very long time. If acoustic signals are undoubtedly a vehicle for exchanging information …

There are well-understood psychological limits on our capacity to process information. As
information proliferation—the consumption and sharing of information—increases through …

Behavioral Ecology of Tropical Birds, Second Edition provides the most updated and
comprehensive review on the evolution of behavior in tropical landbirds. The book reviews …

The bird dawn chorus has fascinated humans since ancient times, but still today numerous
questions remain unclear. This chapter will explore this puzzling phenomenon, a communal …

Building upon the rich legacies of bioacoustics and animal communication, soundscape
ecology represents a new perspective through which ecologists can use the acoustic …

Acoustic ecology, or ecoacoustics, is a growing field that uses sound as a tool to evaluate
animal communities. In this manuscript, we evaluate recordings from eight tropical forest …

It has been 25 years since the formalization of the Sensory Drive hypothesis was published
in the American Naturalist (1992). Since then, there has been an explosion of research …

Methods that assess patterns of phylogenetic relatedness, as well as character distribution
and evolution, allow one to infer the ecological processes involved in community assembly …