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Papers have been grouped according to research areas as follows:

  • Movement-based signalling: computational analysis & modelling
  • Movement-based signalling: behavioural experiments
  • Motion ecology
  • Other ... (Jack jumper ants)

Movement-based signalling: analysis & modelling
  • New STD & Peters RA (2010) A framework for quantifying properties of three-dimensional movement-based signals. Current Zoology 56, 327-336.

  • Peters, RA (2010) Movement-based signalling and the physical world: modelling the changing perceptual task for receivers. In Modelling Perception with Artificial Neural Networks, Ed. Tosh C & Ruxton G, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

  • Peters, RA, Hemmi, JM & Zeil J (2008) Image motion environments: background noise for movement-based animal signals. Journal of Comparative Physiology A , 194, 441-456.

  • Ord, TJ, Peters RA, Clucas, B & Stamps JA (2007) Lizards speed up visual displays in noisy motion habitats Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B 274 1057-1062 [ Abstract & PDF ]

  • Peters RA & Davis CJ (2006) Discriminating signal from noise: Recognition of a movement-based animal display by artificial neural networks Behavioural Processes, 72, 52-64. [ Abstract & PDF ]

  • Peters RA, Clifford CWG & Evans CS (2002) Measuring the structure of dynamic visual signals, Animal Behaviour, 64, 131-146. [ Abstract & PDF ]

Movement-based signalling: behavioural experiments
  • Peters, RA & Allen SJ (2009) Movement signal choreography unaffected by receiver distance in the Australian Jacky lizard, Amphibolurus muricatus. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, 63, 1593-1602.

  • Peters RA (2008) Environmental motion delays the detection of movement-based signals. Biology Letters, 4, 2-5 [ PDF ]

  • How MJ, Hemmi JM, Zeil J & Peters RA (2008) Claw waving display changes with receiver distance in fiddler crabs, Uca perplexa. Animal Behaviour, 75, 1015-1022 [ PDF ]

  • Peters RA, Hemmi JM & Zeil J (2007) Signalling against the wind: modifying motion signal structure in response to increased noise. Current Biology, 17, 1231-1234. [ PDF ]

  • Peters RA & Evans CS (2007) Active space of a movement-based signal: response to the Jacky dragon (Amphibolurus muricatus) display is sensitive to distance, but independent of orientation Journal of Experimental Biology, 210, 395-402. [ Abstract & PDF ]

  • Peters RA & Evans CS (2003) Introductory tail-flick of the Jacky dragon visual display: signal efficacy depends upon duration. Journal of Experimental Biology, 206, 4293-4307. [ Abstract & PDF ]

  • Peters RA & Evans CS (2003) Design of the Jacky dragon visual display: signal and noise characteristics in a complex visual environment. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 189, 447-459. [ Abstract & PDF ]

  • Peters RA & Ord TJ (2003) Display response of Amphibolurus muricatus to intruders: a semi-Markovian process. Austral Ecology, 28, 499-506. [ Abstract & PDF ]

  • Ord TJ, Peters RA, Evans CS & Taylor AJ(2002) Digital video playback in lizards, Animal Behaviour, 63, 879-890. [ Abstract & PDF ]

Motion ecology
  • Woo KJ, Burke D & Peters, RA, (2009) Motion sensitivity of lizards: random-dot kinematograms reveal the importance of motion noise for signal detection. Animal Behaviour, 77, 307-315.

  • Allen E, Sinclair D, Allen S & Peters RA (2009) Amphibolurus muricatus (Jacky dragon) Avian Predation. Herpetological Review, 40, 82-83. → (natural history note)

  • Hoese, FJ, Peters RA & Evans CS (2008) The effect of variation in prey movement on the predatory response of Jacky lizards (Amphibolurus muricatus). Ethology, 114, 718-727.

  • Carlile PA, Peters RA & Evans CS(2006) Detection of a looming stimulus by the Jacky Dragon (Amphibolurus muricatus): selective sensitivity to characteristics of an aerial predator Animal Behaviour, [ Abstract & PDF ]

Other ...
  • Narendra A, Reid SF, Greiner B, Peters RA, Hemmi JM, Ribi WA & Zeil J (2011). Caste-specific visual adaptations to distinct daily activity schedules in Australian in Australian Myrmecia ants. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 278, 1141-1149.
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RICHARD PETERS

Department of Zoology
La Trobe University
Bundoora VIC 3086
Australia

Tel. +61 3 9479 2234
Email. richard.peters@latrobe.edu.au

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