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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials
University of Strathclyde
Sound emission and reception tuning in three cicada species sharing the same habitat
This paper shows how three related cicada that live in the same habitat evolved to share frequency spectrum, such that each animal occupies different bands in the acoustic spectrum. The research relates natural behaviour with engineering principles. The research was by an interdisciplinary, international, team from engineering (Strathclyde) and biology (Prof Robert, d.robert@bristol.ac.uk, Bristol University and Dr Jerome Sueur, sueur@mnhn.fr, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris). This paper was instrumental in engaging the international partners in an EPSRC Cross-Disciplinary Research Fellowship [EP/H02848X/1, Apr 2010 - Mar 2013].