Elliot Love

• Ph.D. Student, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Graduate Program
• B.A., College of St. Catherine , 2008

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My dissertation research will focus on how two closely-related species of gray treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis and Hyla versicolor) with spectrally-overlapping calls partition the available habitat both acoustically and structurally. [Click Here for More]

Beth Pettitt

• Ph.D. Student, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Graduate Program
• M.S., University of Central Florida, 2006
• B.S., College of Saint Benedict, 1995

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My dissertation research investigates the relationship between paternal care and male secondary sex traits used by females in mate choice.  I am examining the extent to which variation in the acoustic traits of male vocalizations is related to the expression of male paternal efforts and can be exploited by females to predict the quality of paternal care a male will provide.   I am investigating this relationship in a wild population of Anomaloglossus beebei , a neotropical frog found only in Kaieteur National Park, Guyana, South America. [Click Here for More]

Katrina Schrode

• Ph.D. Student, Neuroscience Graduate Program
• B.A., Boston University, 2006

Research Interests

I am currently a rotation student in the Animal Communciation Lab. My general research interests involve the mechanisms of animal behavior.

Alejandro Velez

• Ph.D. Student, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Graduate Program
• M.S., Universidad de Los Andes, 2003
• B.S., Universidad de Los Andes, 2002

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My dissertation research investigates the mechanisms by which female frogs exploit spectro-temporal features of background noise to improve their ability to perceive male mating calls amid the cacophony of a chorus environment. Specifically, I am examining the characteristics of the background noise of breeding choruses, the extent to which temporally structured masking noises affect signal perception, and the extent to which the properties of conspecific natural background noise affect mating call perception. [Click Here for More]