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.

List of contents

Part I. Studying Vibrational Behavior: Ideas, Concepts and History.- Chapter 1. Quo Vadis, Biotremology?.-  Chapter 2. Sound Production in True Bugs from the Families Acanthosomatidae and Pentatomidae (1958).- Part II. The State of the Field: Concepts and Frontiers in Vibrational Behavior.- Chapter 3. Vibrational Behaviour and Communication in the New Zealand Weta (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae).- Chapter 4. Energetic Costs of Vibrational Signalling.- Chapter 5. The Hawaiian Planthoppers (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoromorpha) and Their Courtship Songs.- Part III. Practical Issues in Studying Vibrational Behavior.- Chapter 6. Substrate-Borne Vibrational Noise in the Anthropocene: From Land to Sea.- Chapter 7. Research Approaches in Mechanosensory-Cued Hatching and the Iterative Development of Playback Methods for Red-Eyed Treefrog Embryos.- Chapter 8. Inexpensive Methods for Detecting and Reproducing Substrate-Borne Vibrations: Advantages and Llimitations.- Part IV. Vibrational Behavior in Less Explored Contexts.- Chapter 9. Sexual Selection in the Red Mason Bee: Vibrations, Population Divergence and the Impact of Temperature.- Chapter 10. Vibrational Signals in Multimodal Courtship Displays of Birds.- Chapter 11. Blooms and Buzzing Bees: Bridging Buzz Pollination and Biotremology.- Chapter 12. Mechanosensory Behaviour and Biotremology in Nematodes.- Chapter 13. Speleotremology: Ecology and Evolution of Vibrational Communication in Cavernicolous Insects.- Part V. Vibrational Behavior in Some Well-Studied Taxa.- Chapter 14. Ophidian Biotremology.- Chapter 15. Evolution of Communication Systems Underground in a Blind Mammal, Spalax.- Chapter 16. Vibrational Behavior in Honeybees.- Chapter 17. Vibrational Communication Outside and Inside the Nest in Leaf-Cutting Ants.- Chapter 18. Biotremology of Social Wasps: The Next Step to Understand Wasps' Social Life.- Chapter 19. Vibratory Sensing and Communication in Caterpillars.- Part VI. Applied Biotremology.- Chapter 20. Exploitation of Vibration Sensing for Pest Management in Longicorn Beetles.- Chapter 21. Subterranean Arthropod Biotremology: Ecological and Economic Contexts.- Chapter 22. Vibrational Communication in Psyllids.- Chapter 23. Potential of Biotremology for Monitoring and Control of Stink Bugs.

About the author

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 InnovationCentre 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.

Nataša 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 thevibrational 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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Peggy S. M. Hill (Editor), Valerio Mazzoni (Editor), Nata¿a Stritih-Peljhan (Editor), Natasa Stritih-Peljhan (Editor), Natasa Stritih-Peljhan et al (Editor), Meta Virant-Doberlet (Editor), Andreas Wessel (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.06.2023
• EAN: 9783030974213
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3097421-3
• No. of pages: 578
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 31 mm x 235 mm
• Illustrations: IX, 578 p. 135 illus., 79 illus. in color.
• Series: Animal Signals and Communication
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology