2018
Pettitt BA, Bourne GR, Bee MA (in review) Predictors and benefits of microhabitat selection for offspring deposition in golden rocket frogs. Biotropica.
Tumulty JP, Pašukonis A, Ringler M, Forester JD, Hödl W, Bee MA (in press) Brilliant-thighed poison frogs do not use acoustic identity information to treat territorial neighbours as dear enemies. Animal Behaviour.
McGregor PK, Bee MA (in press) Where, who and when? Identifying and keeping distinct the key drivers eliciting territorial responses. Behavioral Ecology.
Dent ML, Bee MA (in press) The principles of auditory object formation in nonhuman animals. In: Human-Generated Sound and Animals (eds. Slabbekoorn H, Dooling RJ, Popper AN, Fay RR). New York: Springer.
2017
Lee N, Schrode KM, Bee MA (2017) Nonlinear processing of a multicomponent communication signal by combination-sensitive neurons in the anuran inferior colliculus. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 203, 749-772.
Tanner JC, Ward JL, Shaw RG, Bee MA (2017) Multivariate phenotypic selection on a complex sexual signal. Evolution, 71, 1742-1754.
Vélez A, Gordon NM, Bee MA (2017) The signal in noise: acoustic information use for soundscape orientation in two North American treefrogs. Behavioral Ecology, 28, 844-853.
Lee N, Ward JL, Vélez A, Micheyl C, Bee MA (2017) Frogs exploit statistical regularities in noisy acoustic scenes to solve cocktail-party-like problems. Current Biology, 27, 743-750.
Zuk M, Tanner JC, Schmidtman E, Bee MA, Balenger S (2017) Calls of recently introduced coquí frogs do not interfere with cricket phonotaxis in Hawaii. Journal of Insect Behavior, 30, 60-69.
Chuang M-F, Kam Y-C, Bee MA (2017) Territorial olive frogs display lower aggression towards neighbours than strangers based on individual vocal signatures. Animal Behaviour, 123, 217-228.
2016
Bee MA, Miller CT (eds) (2016) Psychological Mechanisms in Animal Communication. Series: Animal Signals and Communication (Janik VT, McGregor, PK, series editors), 320 pp. New York: Springer.
Bee MA, Miller CT (2016) Signaler and receiver psychology. In: Psychological Mechanisms in Animal Communication (eds. Bee MA and Miller CT), pp. 1-16. New York: Springer.
Bee MA (2016) Social recognition in anurans. In: Psychological Mechanisms in Animal Communication (eds. Bee MA and Miller CT), pp. 169-221. New York: Springer.
Bee MA, Christensen-Dalsgaard J (2016) Sound source localization and segregation with internally coupled ears: The treefrog model. Biological Cybernetics, 110, 271-290.
Brumm H, Bee MA (2016) A meta-analytic castle built on sand?: A Comment on Roca et al. Behavioral Ecology 27, 1277–1278.
Caldwell MS, Lee N, Bee MA (2016) Inherent directionality determines spatial release from masking at the tympanum in a vertebrate with internally coupled ears. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 17, 259-270.
*Willaert B, Suyesh R, Garg S, Giri VB, Bee MA, Biju SD (2016) A unique mating strategy without physical contact during fertilization in Bombay Night Frogs (Nyctibatrachus humayuni) with the description of a new form of amplexus and female call. PeerJ, 4, e2117.
*Media coverage: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me (Limerick Challenge), NatGeo, Smithsonian, Discover, Science News, Science, EurekAlert!, NBC News, The Guardian, Wired, ABC News, Motherboard, Times of India, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Wissenschaft aktuell...
Bee MA, Reichert MS, Tumulty J (2016) Assessment and recognition of rivals in anuran contests. Advances in the Study of Behavior, 48, 161-249.
Baugh AT, Ryan MJ, Bernal X, Rand AS, Bee MA (2016) Female túngara frogs do not experience the continuity illusion. Behavioral Neuroscience, 130, 62-74.
Chuang M-F, Kam Y-C, Bee MA (2016) Quantitative description of the vocal repertoire of the territorial olive frog, Babina adenopleura, from Taiwan. Bioacoustics, 25, 1-18.
Kershenbaum A, Blumstein DT, Roch MA, Akçay Ç, Backus G, Bee MA, (+37 more) (2016) Acoustic sequences in non-human animals: A tutorial review and prospectus. Biological Reviews, 91, 13-52.
2015
Ward JL, Baugh AT, Love EK, Gordon NM, Bee MA (2015) Progesterone and prostaglandin F2α induce species-typical female preferences for male sexual displays in Cope’s gray treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis). Physiology & Behavior, 152, 280-287.
Bee MA (2015) Noise knows no limits. Current Biology, 25, R736-R739.
Schrode KM and Bee MA (2015) Evolutionary adaptations for the temporal processing of natural sounds by the anuran peripheral auditory system. Journal of Experimental Biology, 218, 837-848.
Bee MA (2015) Treefrogs as animal models for research on auditory scene analysis and the cocktail party problem. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 95, 216–237
2014
Buerkle NP, Schrode KM, and Bee MA (2014) Assessing stimulus and subject influences on auditory evoked potentials and their relation to peripheral physiology in green treefrogs (Hyla cinerea). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A, 178, 68-81.
Schrode KM, Buerkle NP, Brittan-Powell EF, Bee MA (2014) Auditory brainstem responses in Cope's gray treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis): effects of frequency, level, sex and size. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 200, 221–238.
Caldwell, MS, Bee MA (2014) Spatial hearing in Cope’s gray treefrog: I. Open and closed loop experiments on sound localization in the presence and absence of noise. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 200, 265–284
Caldwell, MS, Lee N, Schrode KM, Johns AR, Christensen-Dalsgaard J, Bee MA. (2014) Spatial hearing in Cope’s gray treefrog: II. Frequency-dependent directionality of the amplitude and phase of tympanum vibrations. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 200, 285–304.
*Thomas A, Suyesh R, Biju SD, Bee MA (2014) Vocal behavior of the elusive purple frog of India (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis), a fossorial species endemic to the Western Ghats. PLoS ONE, 9, e84809
*Featured in National Geographic News Watch and as one of National Geographic’s Top 10 Weirdest Animal Stories of 2014
2013
Bee MA, Schwartz JJ, Summers K (2013) All’s well that begins Wells: celebrating 60 years of Animal Behaviour and 36 years of anuran social behaviour. Animal Behaviour, 85, 5-18.
Bee MA, Suyesh R, and Biju SD (2013) Vocal behavior of the Ponmudi bush frog: repertoire and individual variation. Herpetologica, 69, 22-35.
Bee MA, Suyesh R, and Biju SD (2013) The vocal repertoire of Pseudophilautus kani, a shrub frog (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from the Western Ghats of India. Bioacoustics, 22, 67-85.
Chuang M-F, Bee MA, and Kam Y-C (2013) Short amplexus duration in a territorial anuran: A possible adaptation in response to male-male competition. PLoS ONE, 8, e83116.
Johnson, M, Tekmen SM, and Bee MA (2013) Hyla chrysoscelis (Cope’s gray treefrog). Breeding activity. Herpetological Review, 44, 495.
Pettitt BA, Bourne GR, and Bee MA (2013) Advertisement call variation in the golden rocket frog (Anomaloglossus beebei): evidence for individual distinctiveness. Ethology, 199, 244-256.
Schwartz JJ and Bee MA (2013) Anuran acoustic signal production in noisy environments. In: Brumm H (ed) Animal Communication and Noise. Springer: New York, pp 91-132.
Vélez A and Bee MA (2013) Signal recognition by green treefrogs (Hyla cinerea) and Cope’s gray treefrogs (Hyla chrysoscelis) in naturally fluctuating noise. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 127, 166-178.
Vélez A, Gu Y, Sun Y, and Bee MA (2013) Pulse number discrimination by females of Cope’s gray treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis) in modulated and unmodulated noise. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134, 3079-3089.
Vélez A, Schwartz JJ, and Bee MA (2013) Anuran acoustic signal perception in noisy environments. In: Brumm H (ed) Animal Communication and Noise. Springer: New York, pp 133-185.
Ward JL, Buerkle NP, and Bee MA (2013) Spatial release from masking in a biologically relevant temporal pattern discrimination task in gray treefrogs. Hearing Research, 306, 63-75.
*Ward JL, Love EK, O’Bryan LR, Vélez A, and Bee MA (2013) Multitasking males and multiplicative females: dynamic signalling in grey treefrogs. Animal Behaviour 86, 231-243.
*Featured as an “In Focus” article by the Editors.
2012
Schrode KM, Ward JL, Vélez A and Bee MA (2012) Female preferences for spectral call properties in the western genetic lineage of Cope’s gray treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 66, 1595-1606.
Vélez A, Höbel G, Gordon NM & Bee MA (2012) Dip listening or modulation masking? Call recognition by green treefrogs (Hyla cinerea) in temporally fluctuating noise. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 198, 891-904.
Pettitt BA, Bourne GR, and Bee MA (2012) Quantitative analysis of the vocal repertoire of the golden rocket frog (Anomaloglossus beebei). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 31, 4811-4820.
Bee MA, Vélez A & Forester JD (2012) Sound level discrimination by gray treefrogs in the presence and absence of chorus-shaped noise. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 131, 4188-4195.
Bee MA (2012) Sound source perception in anuran amphibians. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 22, 301-310.
Nityananda V & Bee MA (2012) Spatial release from masking in a free-field source identification task by gray treefrogs. Hearing Research, 285, 86-97.
Miller CT & Bee MA (2012) Receiver psychology turns 20: Is it time for a broader approach? Animal Behaviour, 83, 331-343.
2011
Vélez A & Bee MA (2011) Dip listening and the cocktail party problem in grey treefrogs: signal recognition in temporally fluctuating noise. Animal Behaviour, 82, 1319-1327.
Nityananda V & Bee MA (2011) Finding your mate at a cocktail party: frequency separation promotes auditory stream segregation of concurrent voices in multi-species frog choruses. PLoS ONE, 6, e21191.
2010
Bee MA (2010) Spectral preferences and the role of spatial coherence in simultaneous integration in gray treefrogs (Hyla chrysoscelis). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 124, 412-424.
Vélez A and Bee MA (2010) Signal recognition by frogs in the presence of temporally fluctuating chorus-shaped noise. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 64, 1695-1709.
Love EK and Bee MA (2010) An experimental test of noise-dependent voice amplitude regulation in Cope's grey treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis) Animal Behaviour, 80, 509-515.
Kuczynski M, Vélez A, Schwartz JJ, and Bee MA (2010) Sound transmission and the recognition of temporally degraded call structure in Cope's gray treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis). Journal of Experimental Biology, 213, 2840-2850.
Bee MA, Micheyl C, Oxenham AJ, and Klump GM (2010) Neural adaptation to tone sequences in the songbird forebrain: Patterns, determinants, and relation to the build-up of auditory streaming. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 196, 543-557.
Seeba F, Schwartz JJ, and Bee MA (2010) Testing an auditory illusion in frogs: Perceptual restoration or rule-based sensory biases? Animal Behaviour, 79, 1317-1328.
Bee MA, Cook JM, Love EK, O'Bryan LR, Pettitt BA, Schrode K, and Vélez A (2010) Assessing acoustic signal variability and the potential for sexual selection and social recognition in boreal chorus frogs (Pseudacris maculata). Ethology, 116, 564-576.
2009
Bee MA and Schwartz JJ (2009) Behavioral measures of signal recognition thresholds in frogs in the presence and absence of chorus-shaped noise. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 126, 2788-2801.
Humfeld SC, Marshall VT, Bee MA (2009) Context-dependent plasticity of aggressive signalling in a dynamic social environment. Animal Behaviour, 78, 915-924.
2008
Bee MA (2008) Parallel female preferences for call duration in a diploid ancestor of an allotetraploid treefrog. Animal Behaviour, 76, 845-853.
Bee MA and Micheyl C (2008) The cocktail party problem: What is it? How can it be solved? And why should animal behaviorists study it? Journal of Comparative Psychology, 122, 235-251.
Bee MA and Riemersma KK (2008) Does common spatial origin promote the auditory grouping of temporally separated signal elements in grey treefrogs? Animal Behaviour, 76, 831-843.
Bee MA (2008) Finding a mate at a cocktail party: Spatial release from masking improves acoustic mate recognition in grey treefrogs. Animal Behaviour, 75, 1781-1791.
Bee MA (2008) Guia Sonora De Los Anfibios De Cuba (Sound Guide of the Amphibians of Cuba). Bioacoustics, 18, 98-99.
2007
Bee MA and Swanson EM (2007) Auditory masking of anuran advertisement calls by road traffic noise. Animal Behaviour, 74, 1765-1776.
Bee MA, Buschermöhle M, and Klump GM (2007) Detecting modulated signals in modulated noise: II. Neural thresholds from the songbird auditory forebrain. European Journal of Neuroscience, 26, 1979-1994.
Swanson EM, Tekmen SM, and Bee MA (2007) Do female frogs use inadvertent social information to locate breeding aggregations? Canadian Journal of Zoology, 85, 921–932.
Bee MA (2007) Sound source segregation in the grey treefrog: Spatial release from masking by the sound of a chorus. Animal Behaviour, 74, 549-558.
Bee MA (2007) Selective phonotaxis by male wood frogs (Rana sylvatica) to the sound of a chorus. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 61, 955-966.
Gerhardt HC and Bee MA (2007) Recognition and localization of acoustic signals. In: Hearing and Sound Communication in Amphibians (eds. Feng AS, Narins PM, Fay RR, and Popper AN), Springer Handbook of Auditory Research. Springer: New York, pp. 113-146.
2006
Buschermöhle M, Feudel U, Klump GM, Bee MA, and Freund J (2006) Signal detection enhanced by comodulated noise. Fluctuation and Noise Letters, 6, 339-348.
Bee MA (2006) Individual recognition in animal species. In: The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics: Volume 2. (section editor, Naguib M), Elsevier Science: London, pp. 617-626.
2005
Bee MA and Klump GM (2005) Auditory stream segregation in the songbird forebrain: Effects of time intervals on responses to interleaved tone sequences. Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 66, 197-214.
2004
Bee MA and Klump GM (2004) Primitive auditory stream segregation: A neurophysiological study in the songbird forebrain. Journal of Neurophysiology, 92, 1088-1104.
Bee MA (2004) Within-individual variation in bullfrog vocalizations: Implications for an acoustically mediated social recognition system. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 116, 3770-3781.
Bee MA (2004) Sound Ruler: A free, open code, multi-platform sound analysis and graphing package. Bioacoustics, 14, 171-178.
2003
Bee MA (2003) A test of the "dear enemy effect" in the strawberry dart-poison frog (Dendrobates pumilio). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 54: 601-610.
Marshall VT, Humfeld SC, and Bee MA (2003) Plasticity of aggressive signalling and its evolution in male spring peepers (Pseudacris crucifer). Animal Behaviour, 65, 1223-1234.
Bee MA (2003) Experience-based plasticity of acoustically evoked aggressive behavior in a territorial frog. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 189: 485-496.
2002
Bee MA and Gerhardt HC (2002) Individual voice recognition in a territorial frog (Rana catesbeiana). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, 269, 1443-1448.
Bee MA and Bowling AC (2002) Socially-mediated pitch alteration by territorial male bullfrogs, Rana catesbeiana. Journal of Herpetology, 36, 140-143.
Bee MA (2002) Territorial male bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana) do not assess fighting ability based on size-related variation in acoustic signals. Behavioral Ecology, 13, 109-124.
2001
Bee MA (2001) Habituation and sensitization of aggression in bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana): Testing the dual-process theory of habituation. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 115, 307-316.
Bee MA and Gerhardt HC (2001) Habituation as a mechanism of reduced aggression between adjacently territorial male bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 115, 68-82.
Bee MA and Gerhardt HC (2001) Neighbour-stranger discrimination by territorial male bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana): I. Acoustic basis. Animal Behaviour, 62, 1129-1140.
Bee MA and Gerhardt HC (2001) Neighbour-stranger discrimination by territorial male bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana): II. Perceptual basis. Animal Behaviour, 62, 1141-1150.
Bee MA, Kozich CE, Blackwell KJ, and Gerhardt HC (2001) Individually distinct advertisement calls of territorial male green frogs, Rana clamitans: Implications for individual discrimination. Ethology, 107, 65-84.
2000 and earlier
Bee MA and Schachtman TR (2000) Is habituation a mechanism of neighbor recognition in green frogs? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 48, 165-168.
Gerhardt HC, Roberts JD, Bee MA, and Schwartz JJ (2000) Call matching in the quacking frog, Crinia georgiana. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 48, 243-251.
Schwartz JJ, Bee MA, and Tanner SD (2000) A behavioral and neurobiological study of the responses of gray treefrogs, Hyla versicolor, to the calls of a predator, Rana catesbeiana. Herpetologica, 56, 27-37.
Bee MA, Perrill SA, and Owen PC (2000) Male green frogs lower the pitch of acoustic signals in defense of territories: a possible dishonest signal of size? Behavioral Ecology, 11, 169-177.
Bee MA, Perrill SA, and Owen PC (1999) Size assessment in simulated territorial encounters between male green frogs (Rana clamitans). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 45, 177-184.
Bee MA and Perrill SA (1996) Responses to conspecific advertisement calls in the green frog (Rana clamitans) and their role in male-male communication. Behaviour, 133, 283-301.