<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Winston J. Bailey</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Glenn K. Morris</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Confusion of Phonotaxis by Masking Sounds in the Bushcricket Conocephalus brevipennis (Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae)</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ethology</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1986</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dec-01-1986</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/eth.1986.73.issue-1</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">73</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">19 - 28</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Female Conocephalus brevipennis, executing phonotaxis to the call of a conspecific male broadcast from a speaker, were subjected to varying levels of background sound so as to progressively mask the attracting signal. The background consisted of either random noise or the call of a sympatric congener, C. nigropleurum and was delivered from above the orienting female. Disruption of phonotaxis was assayed by monitoring the angular dispersion of the female&amp;#39;s exit path from the arena, relative to the position of the conspecific call. Random noise significantly interfered with phonotaxis when it was within 2 dB of the conspecific call intensity, both signals measured at the centre of the arena. The equivalent effect of the call C. nigropleurum was 5 dB above conspecific call intensity. The implication of signal loss within background noise is discussed as are the possible interactive behaviours of competing sympatric syntopic species.&lt;/p&gt;
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