Research Interests

Sensory Ecology, Animal Behaviour, Cognition, Biodiverstiy and Conservation.

Sensory Ecology

• Ecological and environmental drivers of signal evolution
• Diversity, structure and function of acoustic signals in animals
• Communicating in noisy environments: avoidance of acoustic masking interference in crickets
• Effect of anthropogenic change on sensory ecology and behaviour of animals

Animal Behaviour

• Sexual selection: Male-male competition and female choice in crickets
• Sociobiology: Social behaviour and co-operative breeding in birds
• Foraging ecology of fruit bats

Cognition

• Spatial navigation and use of landmarks

Biodiversity and conservation

• Acoustic monitoring of biodiversity
• Diversity and distribution patterns of animals

Past Research

• Bird diversity and reproductive strategies
• Rainforest vegetation structure
• Psychoacoustic monitoring of orthopteran biodiversity
• Microhabitat selection in crickets and katydids
• Bat diversity and echolocation sound library
• Habitat acoustics: signal transmission in natural habitats
• Biophysics of sound perception in ensifera