Vibrational Communication Networks: Eavesdropping and Biotic Noise

Abstract

In nature, communication predominantly occurs in a group of several conspecific and/or heterospecific individuals within signaling and receiving range of each other, i.e., in a network environment. Vibrational communication in the context of sexual behavior has been, in the past, usually considered as a private communication channel, free of potential competitors and eavesdropping predators or parasitoids and consequently only rarely studied outside an emitter-receiver M. Virant-Doberlet (&) Á M. de Groot Á J. Polajnar Á A. C ˇ okl