Luke Larter
@lukelarter.bsky.social
Voss Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society. I study chorusing strategies in frogs and their social and physiological drivers. Personal Website: https://t.co/MUzk1rI1em
How do failures of coordination shape the evolution of collective behavior? 🐸💥 In our new preprint, we use inadvertent call collisions among chorusing frogs as a model for revealing how costly coordination failure events generate selection gradients within animal collectives. (1/3)
Our latest article is out @jexpbiol.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... We show that tungara frogs adjust interaction modes to current collective chorusing dynamics based on how patterns of conspecific stimulation experienced between calls interact with their internal call rhythms
Cadences of the collective: conspecific stimulation patterns interact with endogenous rhythms to cue socially mediated response shifts
Summary: Automated playback experiments reveal that túngara frogs alter each calling response based on conspecific stimulation patterns experienced prior to each call.
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"Males of many #insect and #anuran #species send courtship calls to females from within crowded chorusing aggregations..." @lukelarter.bsky.social & Ryan doi.org/10.1093/icb/... (@animal-prattle.bsky.social ) #science #biology #frogs #ecology #phylogentic #communication #
Our article was just published in Integrative & Comparative Biology! Here, we ponder how different interaction strategies lead to differences in call-timing mechanism functioning, and propose amendments to several prominent frameworks from the chorusing literature. academic.oup.com/icb/article-...
The Variability and Malleability of Frog Call-Timing Mechanisms are Neglected in Traditional Call-Timing Models
Synopsis. Males of many insect and anuran species send courtship calls to females from within crowded chorusing aggregations. Despite large phylogenetic di
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Internship opportunity to work with me (in collaboration with Drs. Matt Fuxjager and Rachel Page) next year to investigate links between physiological performance capacities and call properties in tungara frogs. Please share with those who might be interested! stri.si.edu/academic-pro...
Identifying Physiological Constraints on Call Properties and Calling Strategies in Túngara Frogs
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A recent preprint from us. Tungara frogs use multifaceted cues to social context to guide adaptive flexibility in calling strategies. Cues involve conspecific stimulation patterns experienced between calls, and how these patterns interact with endogenous call rhythms. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Cadences of the Collective: Conspecific Stimulation Patterns Interact with Endogenous Rhythms to Cue Socially Mediated Response Shifts
Many animals form behavioral collectives, and optimal interaction patterns often differ across social contexts. Sensory scenes generated by many interacting conspecifics are complex. Thus, maintaining...
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