Date of Award
2013
Document Type
Honors Thesis
Department
Biology
First Advisor
Gordon Atkins
Abstract
Variation of cricket calling songs can be attributed to environmental factors, including temperature, humidity, vegetation, season, solar elevation, and geographic location. Recent studies found that latitudinal position affects the calling song of male Gryllus pennsylvanicus. My project evaluates whether longitudinal position influences the calling song of G. pennsylvanicus. Using the predicted values of 4 song features based on a mathematical model (Burden 2009), I evaluated data from 6 locatons along a longitudinal axis. I calculated R2 values to determine how well the model predicted the values in my sample populations. The model was found to be a poor predictor.
Recommended Citation
Danci, Ioana, "Variation in the Calling Song of the Cricket Gryllus pennsylvanicus Across Geographic Longitudinal Change" (2013). Honors Theses. 67.
https://dx.doi.org/10.32597/honors/67/
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/honors/67
Subject Area
Crickets--Behavior--Environmental aspects, Crickets--Effect of sound on, Gryllus
Creative Commons License
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DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.32597/honors/67/