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The success or failure of communication can depend on physical properties of signals as well as when, and under which conditions, they are produced. Animals use diverse strategies to communicate with each other, with crickets and katydids forming a group of insects that employ sound and (often) substrate-borne vibration to attract the attention of potential mates. I am interested in how properties of these types of signals influence mating success and the resilience of different communication systems.
Symes, L.B., Madhusudhana, S., Martinson, S.J., Kernan, C.E., Hodge, K.B., Salisbury, D.P., Klinck, H., ter Hofstede, H. 2022. Estimation of katydid spatial distribution and calling activity from soundscape recordings. Journal of Orthoptera Research
Symes, L.B, Robillard, T., Martinson, S.J., Dong, J., Kernan, C.E., Miller, C.R., ter Hofstede, H.M. 2021. Daily signaling rate and the duration of sound per signal are negatively related in Neotropical forest katydids. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 2021 Oct 4;61(3):887-899. doi: 10.1093/icb/icab138. PMID: 34137809
Symes, L.B.†, Martinson, S.J.†, Kernan, C.E., and ter Hofstede, H.M. 2020. Sheep in wolves' clothing: prey rely on passive defenses when predator and non-predator cues are similar. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287: 20201212. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.1212. PMID: 32842929
Geipel, I., Kernan, C.E., Litterer, A.S., Carter, G., Page, R.A., ter Hofstede, H.M. 2020. Predation risks of signaling and searching: bats prefer moving katydids. Biology Letters 16: 20190837. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2019.0837. PMID: 32315594