Habitat-dependent transmission of male advertisement calls in bladder grasshoppers (Orthoptera; Pneumoridae)

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 207, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 2777-2786

  Couldridge, Vanessa C K ^a   Van Staaden, Moira J ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Advertisement call; Bladder grasshopper; Habitat; Pneumoridae; Sound transmission; Spectrographic cross correlation

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC SELECTION; GEOGRAPHY; GRASSHOPPER; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; SOUTH AFRICA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; GRASSHOPPERS; MALE; SELECTION (GENETICS); SOUND; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SOUTH AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; ORTHOPTERA; PNEUMORIDAE;

EID: 4344592932     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01092     Document Type: Article

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