Basic bioacoustics - MB162P35

• Title: Basic bioacoustics
• Czech title: Základy bioakustiky
• Guaranteed by: Department of Ecology (31-162)
• Faculty: Faculty of Science
• Actual: from 2021 to 2024
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 2
• Examination process: winter s.:written
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited
• Min. number of students: 5
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Note: enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: RNDr. Tereza Petrusková, Ph.D.

Annotation

English

The lecture is planned as an introduction to the bioacoustics with focus on behavioural aspects of vocal communication.
2 hours every second week

Last update: Petrusková Tereza, RNDr., Ph.D. (25.10.2019)

Czech

Přednáška je plánována jako úvod do bioakustiky s detailnějším zaměřením na behaviorální aspekty vokální komunikace. Pro české zájmece o podrobnější přednášku na toto téma je vhodnější Úvod do bioakustiky.

Last update: Petrusková Tereza, RNDr., Ph.D. (25.10.2019)

Literature

English

Owings a Morton: Animal vocal communication

Bradbury a Vehrencamp: Priciples of animal communication

Catchpole a Slater: Bird song

Last update: Petrusková Tereza, RNDr., Ph.D. (25.10.2019)

Requirements to the exam

English

short review on selected topic related to the lecture, followed by a discussion

Last update: Petrusková Tereza, RNDr., Ph.D. (25.10.2019)

Czech

krátká rešerše na téma související s přednáškou následovaní diskusí

Last update: Petrusková Tereza, RNDr., Ph.D. (25.10.2019)

Syllabus

·       General introduction:
history of bioacoustic research, sound characteristics, infra- and ultrasound, sound recording and analysis, practical use of bioacoustics

·       Vocal communication:
general patterns of communication, costs and benefits of acoustic communication, conventional vocal signalling

·       Communication networks and motivation-structural rules:
eavesdropping, audience effect, etc. in communication networks; interspecific vocal communication

·       Variability in intraspecific vocalisation I:
geographic variation

·       Variability in intraspecific vocalisation II:
Temporal variation; Song and territoriality, duetting; Individual recognition

·       Vocal communication in poor visibility:
Ultrasound and underwater vocal communication

 

Last update: Petrusková Tereza, RNDr., Ph.D. (25.10.2019)