Research Interests

We are interested in bioacoustics and auditory sensory ecology, taking an integrative approach that draws on methods from behavioral ecology, neurophysiology, comparative psychology, and evolutionary biology to investigate fundamental questions in animal communication. How do animals encode information in the signals they produce? How do they extract information from such signals perceptually? How do these processes function in “noisy” natural habitats? And, ultimately, what factors shape the evolution of such processes? We study these questions comparatively, and have worked on a variety of bird groups including hummingbirds, owls, and woodpeckers, but focus principally on songbirds as a model for understanding the interplay of signal production, signal perception, and properties of the acoustic channel. PhD STUDENT OPENINGS: The lab has openings for new PhD students interested in the types of research described above.

Selected Classes

Fall 2016	BIOL 480 – Animal Behavior
	BIOL 499 – Undergrad. Lab/Field Rsch
Spring 2016	BIOL 499L – Undergraduate Research Seminar
Fall 2015	BIOL 680 – Animal Behavior
Spring 2015	BIOL 769 – Res Sem:Evol & Ecology
Spring 2014	BIOL 305 – Comp. Animal Physiology
	BIOL 497H – Honors Capstone Course

Intellectual Contributions

Soha, Jill A. Poesel, Angelika Nelson, Douglas A. Lohr, Bernard (2016) Non-salient geographic variation in birdsong in a species that learns by improvisation. 4 vol. 122 343-353 Ethology

Luttrell, Sarah A. M.. Gallagher, Megan E. Lohr, Bernard (2016) Multiple estimation methods suggest similar repertoire sizes for Gulf Coast and eastern marsh wrens with no correlation between repertoire size and migratory distance 3 vol. 153 287-311 Behaviour

Kershenbaum, Arik Blumstein, Daniel T. Roch, Marie A. Akcay, Caglar Backus, Gregory Bee, Mark A. Bohn, Kirsten Cao, Yan Carter, Gerald Casar, Cristiane Coen, Michael DeRuiter, Stacy L. Doyle, Laurance Edeleman, Shimon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Ramon Freeberg, Todd M. Garland, Ellen C. Gustison, Morgan Harley, Heidi E. Huetz, Chloe Hughes, Melissa Bruno, Julia H. Ilany, Amiyaal Jin, Dezhe Z. Johnson, Michael Ju, Chenghui Karnowski, Jeremy Lohr, Bernard Manser, Marta B. McCowan, Brenda Mercado III, Eduardo Narins, Peter M. Piel, Alex Rice, Megan Salmi, Roberta Sasahara, Kazutoshi Sayigh, Laela Shiu, Yu Taylor, Charles Vallejo, Edgar E. Waller, Sara Zamora-Gutierrez, Veronica (2016) Acoustic sequences in animals: A tutorial review and prospectus vol. 91 13-52 Biological Reviews

Sturge, Rachel J. Omland, Kevin E. Price, Jordan J. Lohr, Bernard (2016) Divergence in calls but not songs in the Orchard Oriole complex: Icterus spurius and I. fuertesi. vol. 47 109-120 Journal of Avian Biology

Hewett Ragheb, Erin L. Mezebish, Cody Lohr, Bernard (2015) Probable Interspecific Song Learning in a Florida Grasshopper Sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum floridanus) 2 vol. 127 277-280 The Wilson Journal of Ornithology

Luttrell, Sarah A. M. Gonzalez, Sara T.. Lohr, Bernard Greenberg, Russell (2015) Digital photography quantifies plumage variation and salt marsh melanism among Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia) subspecies of the San Francisco Bay 1 vol. 132 277-287 The Auk

Small, Daniel M. Blank, Peter J.. Lohr, Bernard (2015) Habitat Use and Movement Patterns by Dependent and Independent Juvenile Grasshopper Sparrows during the Post-Fledging Period 1 vol. 86 17-26 Journal of Field Ornithology

Lohr, Bernard Ashby, Sarah Wakamiya, Sarah M. (2013) The function of song types and song components in Grasshopper Sparrows (Ammodramus savannarum) vol. 150 1085-1106 Behaviour

Lohr, Bernard Brittan-Powell, Elizabeth F. Dooling, Robert J. (2013) Auditory brainstem responses and auditory thresholds in woodpeckers: submitted to the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 1 vol. 133 337-342 Journal of the Acoustical Society of America