A5006658648- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Marine animal studies overview
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Noise Effects and Management
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
- Plant and animal studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Music and Audio Processing
- Impact of Light on Environment and Health
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy
- Underwater Acoustics Research
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Radio Wave Propagation Studies
Boise State University
2016-2025
American Museum of Natural History
2024-2025
Florida Museum of Natural History
2024
University of Florida
2024
Google (United States)
2021
Colorado State University
2009-2010
Wake Forest University
2003-2009
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
2009
Wyoming Department of Education
2003-2008
University of Wyoming
2003
Butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) are one of the major superradiations insects, comprising nearly 160,000 described extant species. As herbivores, pollinators, prey, Lepidoptera play a fundamental role in almost every terrestrial ecosystem. also indicators environmental change serve as models for research on mimicry genetics. They have been central to development coevolutionary hypotheses, such butterflies with flowering plants moths’ evolutionary arms race echolocating bats. However,...
Many authors have suggested that the negative effects of roads on animals are largely owing to traffic noise. Although suggestive, most past studies road noise wildlife were conducted in presence other confounding roads, such as visual disturbance, collisions and chemical pollution among others. We present, our knowledge, first study experimentally apply a roadless area at landscape scale-thus avoiding aspects present studies. replicated sound roadway intervals-alternating 4 days with...
Decades of research demonstrate that roads impact wildlife and suggest traffic noise as a primary cause population declines near roads. We created "phantom road" using an array speakers to apply roadless landscape, directly testing the effect alone on entire songbird community during autumn migration. Thirty-one percent bird avoided phantom road. For individuals stayed despite noise, overall body condition decreased by full SD some species showed change in ability gain when exposed migratory...
DNA analysis of predator faeces using high-throughput amplicon sequencing (HTS) enhances our understanding predator-prey interactions. However, conclusions drawn from this technique are constrained by biases that occur in multiple steps the HTS workflow. To better characterize insectivorous animal diets, we used a diverse set arthropods to assess PCR commonly and novel primer pairs for mitochondrial gene, cytochrome oxidase C subunit 1 (COI). We compared diversity recovered bat guano samples...
In response to sonar-guided attacking bats, some tiger moths make ultrasonic clicks of their own. The lepidopteran sounds have previously been shown alert bats moths' toxic chemistry and also startle unaccustomed sonic prey. moth could interfere with, or "jam," bat sonar, but evidence for such jamming has inconclusive. Using recording high-speed infrared videography bat-moth interactions, we show that the palatable Bertholdia trigona defends against big brown (Eptesicus fuscus) using jam...
Adaptations to divert the attacks of visually guided predators have evolved repeatedly in animals. Using high-speed infrared videography, we show that luna moths (Actias luna) generate an acoustic diversion with spinning hindwing tails deflect echolocating bat away from their body and toward these nonessential appendages. We pit against big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) demonstrate a survival advantage ∼ 47% for versus those had removed. The benefit is equivalent conferred by bat-detecting...
Spending time in nature is known to benefit human health and well-being, but evidence mixed as whether biodiversity or perceptions of contribute these benefits. Perhaps more importantly, little about the sensory modalities by which humans perceive obtain benefits from their interactions with nature. Here, we used a ‘phantom birdsong chorus' consisting hidden speakers experimentally increase audible during ‘on' ‘off' (i.e. ambient conditions) blocks on two trails study role audition...
Mimicry of visual warning signals is one the keystone concepts in evolutionary biology and has received substantial research attention. By comparison, acoustic mimicry never been rigorously tested. Visualizing bat-moth interactions with high-speed, infrared videography, we provide empirical evidence for ultrasonic sounds that tiger moths produce response to echolocating bats. Two species sound-producing were offered successively naïve, free-flying red big brown Noctuid pyralid moth controls...
Negative impacts from anthropogenic noise are well documented for many wildlife taxa. Investigations of the effects on bats however, have not been conducted outside laboratory. Bats that hunt arthropods rely auditory information to forage. Part this acoustic can fall within spectrum noise, which potentially interfere with signal reception and processing. Compressor stations associated natural gas extraction produce broadband 24 hours a day, 365 days year. With over half million producing...
Background The effect of anthropogenic noise on terrestrial wildlife is a relatively new area study with broad ranging management implications. Noise has been identified as disturbance that the potential to induce behavioral responses in animals similar those associated predation risk. This investigated impacts variety human activities and their behavior elk (Cervus elaphus) pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) along transportation corridor Grand Teton National Park. Methodology/Principal...
Silkmoths and their relatives constitute the ecologically taxonomically diverse superfamily Bombycoidea, which includes some of most charismatic species Lepidoptera. Despite displaying spectacular forms ecological traits, relatively little attention has been given to understanding evolution drivers diversity. To begin address this problem, we created a new Bombycoidea-specific Anchored Hybrid Enrichment (AHE) probe set sampled up 571 loci for 117 taxa across all major lineages with newly...
Significance Ultrasound production is one of the most sophisticated antibat strategies in nocturnal insects, yet it has never been thoroughly studied a phylogenetic framework. We conducted high-throughput field assays using playback echolocation attack sequences, laboratory bat–moth interaction experiments, and fossil-calibrated analyses to provide first evidence that multiple unrelated hawkmoth species produce ultrasound jam bat echolocation. Our robust tree demonstrates sonar jamming...
Abstract Anthropogenic noise is a widespread and growing form of sensory pollution associated with the expansion human infrastructure. One specific source constant intense that produced by compressors used for extraction transportation natural gas. Terrestrial arthropods play central role in many ecosystems, given numerous species rely upon airborne sounds substrate‐borne vibrations their life histories, we predicted increased background sound levels or presence compressor would influence...
Artificial nightlight is increasingly recognized as an important environmental disturbance that influences the habitats and fitness of numerous species. However, its effects on wide‐ranging vertebrates their interactions remain unclear. Light pollution has potential to amplify land‐use change, such, answering question how this sensory stimulant affects behavior habitat use species valued for ecological roles economic impacts critical conservation planning. Here, we combined satellite‐derived...
Abstract The extent of artificial night light and anthropogenic noise (i.e., “light” “noise”) impacts is global has the capacity to threaten species across diverse ecosystems. Existing research involving or primarily focused on alone single species; however, these stimuli often co‐occur little known about how co‐exposure influences wildlife if why may vary in their responses. Here, we had three aims: (1) investigate species‐specific responses light, noise, interaction between two using a...
Predators frequently must detect and localize their prey in challenging environments. Noisy environments have been prevalent across the evolutionary history of predator–prey relationships, but now with increasing anthropogenic activities noise is becoming a more prominent feature many landscapes. Here, we use gleaning pallid bat, Antrozous pallidus , to investigate mechanism by which disrupts hunting behaviour. Noise can primarily function mask —obscure spectrally overlapping cue interest,...