Sensory Ecology Of Acoustic Communication In The Tropical Bushcricket Genus Mecopoda : Mechanisms And Evolution Of Synchrony

In this thesis, I characterise five species of the bushcricket genus Mecopoda with respect to their acoustic signals and morphology and investigate the phenomenon of acoustic synchrony in one of these five species: Mecopoda ‘Chirper’. In several bushcricket species, individual males synchronise thei...

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Main Author: Nityananda, Vivek
Other Authors: Balakrishnan, Rohini
Language:en_US
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2005/559