Recent Publications
New paper by Ambika Kamath published on the evolution of same-sex sexual behavior in Nature Ecology and Evolution ( 1, 2 )!
New collaborative study published with Noori Choi on wolf spiders in Animal Behaviour!
New collaborative study published on sound production in ghost crabs in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B ( 1, 2 , 3 , 4 )!
New study by Malcolm Rosenthal published on sexual selection and temperature in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B !
New study by Malcolm Rosenthal published on the sensory ecology of wolf spiders in Behavioural Ecology !
New review by Maggie Raboin published on anthropogenic noise and its effects on invertebrates in the Journal of Experimental Biology !
New paper by Ignacio Escalante published on harvestmen biomechanics in the Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society !
New collaborative study published in eLife on underwater sound production in African Clawed Frogs
New paper by Erin Brandt published on the effects of temperature on jumping spider mating behavior in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology!
New study published on peacock spider multimodal signaling in Behavioral Ecology
.New collaborative study published on far field sound detection ("hearing") in jumping spiders in Current Biology ( 1, 2 , 3 , 4 )
New collaborative study published with the Wood lab on the evolution of super fast predatory strikes in trap-jaw spiders in Current Biology (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
New paper published on mating behavior in peacock spiders in the Proceeding of the Royal Society B (1, 2, 3)
New paper published examining the evolutionary forces driving diversification in vibratory signalling in planthoppers from Hawaii in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology
New review published on phenotypic convergence in Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics
New paper published on mate guarding behavior in jumping spiders in Animal Behaviour.
New paper published on orb-weaver spider behavior in urban landscapes in Animal Behavior.
New papers published in the Journal of Experimental Biology on resonant flutter displays in hummingbirds (1,2).
New collaborative study with the Bensmaia lab published on surface waves and the physiology of touch receptors in primate skin in PLos One.
New paper published in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society on courtship behavior in jumping spiders. See video clips of Coecatus group displays
New chapter on "Dynamic Population Structure and the Evolution of Spider Mating Systems" published in Advances in Insect Physiology
New paper published in PLoS One on multimodal courtship behavior in the peacock spider, Maratus volans. See video clip of peacock spider display.
New collaborative study published on novel song production mechanism (aeroelastic flutter) in hummingbirds in Science. Press (1, 2, 3, 4) and video clip about publication
New paper published on the role of resource ownership and contests in Behavioral Ecology.
The new book “Spider Behaviour: Flexibility & Versatility” (M. Herberstein, ed) is now available from Cambridge University Press
The new book “Spider Behaviour: Flexibility & Versatility” (M. Herberstein, ed) is now available from Cambridge University Press
Vibratory communication in the jumping spider Phidippus clarus: new papers published in Ethology and Behavioral Ecology.
“There will be blood”: new paper on female competition in Phidippus clarus published in Behavioral Ecology. Interview and press (1,2,3,4,5) on publication.
