Animal Communication and Noise

1. Introduction
Henrik Brumm

Part I. Signal Detection Theory

2. Signal Detection, Noise, and the Evolution of Communication
R. Haven Wiley

Part II. Acoustic Signals

3. Masking by Noise in Acoustic Insects: Problems and Solutions
Heiner Römer

4. Effects of Noise on Sound Detection and Acoustic Communication in Fishes
Friedrich Ladich

5. Anuran Acoustic Signal Production in Noisy Environments
Joshua J. Schwartz, Mark A. Bee

6. Anuran Acoustic Signal Perception in Noisy Environments
Alejandro Vélez, Joshua J. Schwartz, Mark A. Bee

7. Avian Vocal Production in Noise
Henrik Brumm, Sue Anne Zollinger

8. Avian Sound Perception in Noise
Robert J. Dooling, Sandra H. Blumenrath

9. Effects of Noise on Acoustic Signal Production in Marine Mammals
Peter L. Tyack, Vincent M. Janik

10. Effects of Noise on Sound Perception in Marine Mammals
James J. Finneran, Brian K. Branstetter

Part III. Optical, Electric, and Chemical Signals

11. Noise in Visual Communication: Motion from Wind-Blown Plants
Richard A. Peters

12. Neural Noise in Electrocommunication: From Burden to Benefits
Jan Benda, Jan Grewe, Rüdiger Krahe

13. Noise in Chemical Communication
Volker Nehring, Tristram D. Wyatt, Patrizia d’Ettorre

Part IV. Impacts of Anthropogenic Noise

14. Anthropogenic Noise and Conservation
Peter K. McGregor, Andrew G. Horn, Marty L. Leonard, Frank Thomsen

Avainsanat: Life Sciences, Behavioural Sciences, Animal Physiology, Neurobiology, Evolutionary Biology, Noise Control