I am studying species-specific hearing ability across taxa in order to better understand the effects of anthropogenic noise on animals. I don't have a background in acoustics or audiology, and I'm looking for something that can get me up to speed on the major structures and differences across all taxa that have ears or other airborne-based-sound hearing structures.
But how do you know ears 'evolved'? I avoid major assumptions like these in my research because it is impossible to prove and prefer to only make comments on shorter term processes or on variation only within a species :-)
Articles on ear evolution:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-07/uotw-eoo071415.php
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22510-ultrasonic-insect-evolved-tiny-mammal-like-ears/
https://phys.org/news/2016-07-computed-tomography-scans-million-year-old-fossil-evolution.html
https://phys.org/news/2014-07-underground-amphibians-evolved-unique-ear.html
https://phys.org/news/2015-07-evolution-mammalian-ancestor-ear-bone.html
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050207/full/news050207-16.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-10/cmon-caa100609.php
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fossil-reveals-ear-evolution-in-action/
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-04/amon-lfm041111.php
https://phys.org/news/2017-02-ears-opossums-echoes-evolutionary-history.html
https://phys.org/news/2016-04-million-year-old-fossil-ear-reveals-dolphin.html
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28244-ears-of-early-humans-could-hear-frequencies-used-in-speech/
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000889
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/bu-brs051313.php
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/tau-tas051313.php
http://www.pnas.org/content/110/22/8847
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-03/acft-omm032707.php
http://newswire.rockefeller.edu/2005/11/18/new-report-bolsters-theory-on-ears-inner-amplifier/
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2006/mar/14/inner-ear-mystery-solved
http://physics.aps.org/story/v17/st8
Regards,
Joachim
Check out the Springer Handbook of Auditory Research. There are numerous volumes on a wide array of hearing-related topics. Here's a link:
http://www.springer.com/series/2506
Check the series of volumes by Springer : Springer Handbook of Auditory Research. There are a number of issues in this series dealing with specific animal groups that should help. A recent issue is devoted to Insect Hearing.
Michael Greenfield CNRS Tours, France
I agree with Michael's answer. In fact, there is one specific SHAR volume entitled: Effects of Anthropogenic Noise on Animals (H Slabbekoorn, RJ Dooling, AN Popper, RR Fay, eds.) Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, which could be very interesting to you.
Peter
Oh, and if you are interested specifically in the effects of the environment on the evolution of hearing then perhaps this will be of interest:
Gridi-Papp M and Narins PM (2009) Environmental influences in the evolution of tetrapod hearing sensitivity and middle ear tuning. Int & Comp Biol 49: 702-716.
I agree with the previous suggestions (Springer series). In particular, I suggest taking a look at the chapters included in the following volume:
Suthers et al. (eds.) 2016. Vertebrate Sound Production and Acoustic Communication. Springer Handbook of Auditory Research 53, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-27721-9_3
Additionally, I suggest the following paper: Ey & Fischer (2009) The ‘acoustic adaptation hypothesis’ - a review of the evidence from birds, anurans and mammals. Bioacoustics 19, 21–48.
Hi Sasha,
We too are very interested in the effects of anthropogenic noise on animals. Here are some of our papers that might be useful for you:
Sun JWC and Narins PM (2005) Anthropogenic sounds differentially affect amphibian call rate. Biological Conservation 121: 419-427.
Kaiser K, Scofield DG, Alloush M, Jones RM, Marczak S, Martineau K, Oliva MA and Narins PM (2011) When sounds collide: The effect of anthropogenic noise on a breeding assemblage of frogs in Belize, Central America. Behaviour 148: 215-232.
Simmons AM and Narins PM (2018) Effects of anthropogenic noise on amphibians and reptiles. In: Effects of Anthropogenic Noise on Animals (H Slabbekoorn, RJ Dooling, AN Popper, RR Fay, eds.) Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg 179–208.
Caorsi VZ, Guerra V, Furtado R, Llusia D, Mirón LR, Borges-Martins M, Both C, Narins PM, Meenderink SWF, Márquez R (2019) Anthropogenic vibrations affect anuran calling activity. Scientific Reports 9: 19456 (2019) doi:10.1038/s41598-019-55639-0.
Please let me know if you have a problem obtaining these papers- I will be happy to send you pdfs. Good luck.
Peter
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