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Biotremology is a new and emerging discipline in biological sciences that covers all aspects of behaviour associated with substrate-borne mechanical waves. Biotremology: Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution 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 behaviour.
Part I. Studying Vibrational Behavior: Ideas, Concepts and History
1. Quo Vadis, Biotremology? / Peggy S. M. Hill, Valerio Mazzoni, Peter Narins, Meta Virant-Doberlet & Andreas Wessel
2. What is Biotremology? / Peggy S. M. Hill, Meta Virant-Doberlet & Andreas Wessel
3. Biotremology and Sensory Ecology / John A. Endler
4. Body Tremulations and their Transmission as Vibrations for Short Distance Information Transfer between Ephippiger Male and Female (1955) / Rene-Guy Busnel, Francois Pasquinelly & Bernard Dumortier [transl. & ed. by Hannelore Hoch, Marie-Claire Busnel & Peggy S. M. Hill]
Part II. The State of the Field: Concepts and Frontiers in Vibrational Behavior
5. Physical Basis of Vibrational Behavior: Channel Properties, Noise and Excitation signal extraction / Sebastian Oberst, Joseph C. S. Lai & Theodore A. Evans
6. Copulatory Courtship with Vibrational Signals / Rafael L. Rodriguez
7. Multisensory Communication with Chemical and Vibratory Signals Transmitted Through Different Media / Andrej Cokl, Maria Carolina Blassioli-Moraes, Raul Alberto Laumann, Alenka Zunic & Miguel Borges Stinkbugs
Part III. Practical Issues in Studying Vibrational Behavior
8. Practical Issues in Studying Natural Vibroscape and Biotic Noise / Rok Sturm, Jernej Polajnar & Meta Virant-Doberlet
9. Automated Vibrational Signal Recognition and Playback / Gasper Korinsek, Tadej Tuma & Meta Virant-Doberlet
Part IV. Vibration Detection and Orientation
10. Mechanisms of Vibration Detection in Mammals / Matthew J. Mason & Lea M. D. Wenger
11. Determining Vibroreceptor Sensitivity in Insects: The Influence of Experimental Parameters and Recording Techniques / Johannes Strauss, Natasa Stritih Peljhan & Reinhard Lakes-Harlan
12. Directionality in Insect Vibration Sensing: Behavioral Studies of Vibrational Orientation / Felix A. Hager & Wolfgang H. Kirchner
Part V. Biology and Evolution of Vibrational Behavior in Some Well-Studied Taxa
13. Vibrational Behavior in Elephants / Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell, Xiying Guan & Sunil Puria
14. Seismic Communication in the Amphibia with Special Emphases on the Anura / Peter M. Narins
15. Vibrational Communication in Heelwalkers (Mantophasmatodea) / Monika J. B. Eberhard & Mike D. Picker
16. Vibrational Behavior in Termites (Isoptera) / Felix A. Hager, Kathrin Krausa & Wolfgang H. Kirchner
Part VI. Applied Biotremology
17. Mating Disruption by Vibrational Signals: State of the Field and Perspectives / Valerio Mazzoni, Rachele Nieri, Anna Eriksson, Meta Virant-Doberlet, Jernej Polajnar, Gianfranco Anfora & Andrea Lucchi
18. Mating Disruption by Vibrational Signals: Applications for Management of the Glassy-winged Sharpshooter / Shira D. Gordon & Rodrigo Krugner
19. Can Vibrational Playback Improve Control of an Invasive Stink bug? / Jernej Polajnar, Lara Maistrello, Aya Ibrahim & Valerio Mazzoni
20. Vibrational Trapping and Interference with Mating of Diaphorina citri / Richard W. Mankin
21. Vibrational Behavior in Bark Beetles: Applied Aspects / Richard Hofstetter, Nicholas Aflitto, Carol L. Bedoya, Kasey Yturralde & David D. Dunn
Part VII. Outreach and Resources
22. Shaking it up in the Classroom: Coupling Biotremology and Active Learning Pedagogy to Promote Authentic Discovery / Carrie L. Hall & Daniel R. Howard
23. Call for the Establishment of a VibroLibrary at the Animal Sound Archive Berlin / Karl-Heinz Frommolt, Hannelore Hoch & Andreas Wessel
24. The Arachnid Orchestras: Artistic Research in Vibrational Interspecies Communication / Tomas Saraceno, Ally Bisshop, Adrian Krell & Roland Muhlethaler
25. Bioacoustic Music Inspired by Biotremological Research / Matija Gogala and Bostjan Perovsek
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 behavioural and physiological ecology, but most importantly began exploring vibrational behaviour 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 at the University of Tulsa.
Valerio Mazzoni is responsible for the Plant Protection research unit in the Research and Innovation Centre of Fondazione Edmund Mach in Trentino, Italy. His research activity involves several aspects of behavioural 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 behaviour are investigated in the context of agroecosystems. The goal is to invent and develop innovative methods of pest control through behavioural 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 the 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 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 on 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 the vibrational communication channel.
Andreas Wessel was trained in evolutionary and behavioural 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.
