Gerlinde Höbel Adjunct Assistant Professor / Lecturer Dr. rer. nat. University of Ulm, Germany 2003 Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Missouri-Columbia 2003-2006	Office: Lapham S299 Phone: 414-229-2284 FAX: 414-229-3926 Email: hoebel@uwm.edu Personal Homepage Electronic Reserve Materials:
Behavioral Ecology, Acoustic Communication

Research Interests

I am interested in the evolutionary and behavioral ecology of anurans, with special focus on acoustic communication, social interactions and sexual selection. Most of my research deals with adaptations to communicate in complex and dynamic environments (such as a frog chorus). The main areas of research I am currently working on or developing are: effects of conspecific and heterospecific signal interference on male signaling behavior and female choice the evolution of signal repertoire size and complexity, and its association with the social complexity that arises from mating system structure the frequency of egg retention, cryptic female choice and multiple clutching in anurans, and their effect on the variance of male an female reproductive success effects of life history (explosive-prolonged breeder continuum) on the strength of sexual selection, and on the relative weighting of female choice and male-male competition In the past I have worked on the reproductive biology of neotropical gladiator frogs, the natural history and bioacoustics of rain frogs, and geographic variation of communication signals in tree frogs and dart-poison frogs. For additional information about research in my lab, including information for graduate and undergraduate research, please see my Research Homepage.

Selected Publications

Robillard, T., G. Höbel & H. C. Gerhardt 2006. Evolution of advertisement signals in North American hylid frogs: Vocalizations as end-products of calling behavior. Cladistics 22:533-545. Gerhardt, H. C. & G. Höbel. 2005. Mid-frequency suppression in the green treefrog (Hyla cinerea): implications for the evolution of acoustic communication. Journal of Comparative Physiology A: 191:707-714. Höbel, G. 2005. On the Acoustic Communication System of Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri (Anura: Leptodactylidae). Herpetological Review 36(3):242-244. Höbel, G. & Gerhardt, H. C. 2003. Reproductive character displacement in the communication system of green treefrogs (Hyla cinerea). Evolution 57: 894-904. Höbel, G. 2000. Reproductive Ecology of Hyla rosenbergi in Costa Rica. Herpetologica, 56(4): 446-454. Höbel, G. 1999. Facultative nest construction in the gladiator frog Hyla rosenbergi (Anura: Hylidae). Copeia, 1999(3): 796-800. Höbel, G. 1999. Notes on the natural history and habitat use of Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri (Anura: Leptodactylidae). Amphibia-Reptilia 20:65-72.