Biotremology: Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution

Part I. Studying Vibrational Behavior: Ideas, Concepts and History.- Chapter 1. Quo Vadis, Biotremology?.-  Chapter 2. Sound Production in True Bugs from the Families Acanthosomatidae and Pentatomidae (1958).- Part II. The State of the Field: Concepts and Frontiers in Vibrational Behavior.- Chapter 3. Vibrational Behaviour and Communication in the New Zealand Weta (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae).- Chapter 4. Energetic Costs of Vibrational Signalling.- Chapter 5. The Hawaiian Planthoppers (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoromorpha) and Their Courtship Songs.- Part III. Practical Issues in Studying Vibrational Behavior.- Chapter 6. Substrate-Borne Vibrational Noise in the Anthropocene: From Land to Sea.- Chapter 7. Research Approaches in Mechanosensory-Cued Hatching and the Iterative Development of Playback Methods for Red-Eyed Treefrog Embryos.- Chapter 8. Inexpensive Methods for Detecting and Reproducing Substrate-Borne Vibrations: Advantages and Llimitations.- Part IV. Vibrational Behavior in Less Explored Contexts.- Chapter 9. Sexual Selection in the Red Mason Bee: Vibrations, Population Divergence and the Impact of Temperature.- Chapter 10. Vibrational Signals in Multimodal Courtship Displays of Birds.- Chapter 11. Blooms and Buzzing Bees: Bridging Buzz Pollination and Biotremology.- Chapter 12. Mechanosensory Behaviour and Biotremology in Nematodes.- Chapter 13. Speleotremology: Ecology and Evolution of Vibrational Communication in Cavernicolous Insects.- Part V. Vibrational Behavior in Some Well-Studied Taxa.- Chapter 14. Ophidian Biotremology.- Chapter 15. Evolution of Communication Systems Underground in a Blind Mammal, Spalax.- Chapter 16. Vibrational Behavior in Honeybees.- Chapter 17. Vibrational Communication Outside and Inside the Nest in Leaf-Cutting Ants.- Chapter 18. Biotremology of Social Wasps: The Next Step to Understand Wasps' Social Life.- Chapter 19. Vibratory Sensing and

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 behavioral and physiological ecology, but most importantly began exploring vibrational behavior 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 of the University of Tulsa.
Valerio Mazzoni is responsible for the Plant Protection research unit in the Research and InnovationCentre of Fondazione Edmund Mach in Trentino, Italy. His research activity involves several aspects of behavioral 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 behavior are investigated in the context of agroecosystems. The goal is to invent and develop innovative methods of pest control through behavioral 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 Trentino region.




Natasa 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 a tight collaboration