Animal Communication and Noise
The study of animal communication has led to significant progress in our general understanding of motor and sensory systems, evolution, and speciation. However, one often neglected aspect is that signal exchange in every modality is constrained by noise,
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Animal Communication and Noise
Animal Signals and Communication Volume 2
Series editors Vincent M. Janik School of Biology University of St Andrews Fife, UK Peter McGregor Centre for Applied Zoology Cornwall College Newquay, UK
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Animal Communication and Noise
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Editor Henrik Brumm Max Planck Institute for Ornithology Seewiesen Germany
ISSN 2197-7305 ISBN 978-3-642-41493-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-41494-7
ISSN 2197-7313 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-642-41494-7 (eBook)
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Preface
Animal communication is not only intriguing, but the scientific study of it has made important contributions to areas such as neurobiology, sensory physiology, ethology, behavioural ecology, and evolutionary biology. Many studies on animal communication have investigated which information is encoded in a given signal and how this information is used by receivers. However, information coding is only one of two crucial steps in communication: before a signal can be detected and recognized it must first be transmit
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