Our Faculty
Joshua Schwartz
Professor
Dyson College of Arts and Sciences
Biology
Location
- @Pleasantville
Costello House 202
- Biography
- Publications & Presentations
- Research & Creative Works
- Professional Contributions & Service
Biography
My main interests are vertebrate behavior and sensory ecology with a focus on animal communication. The objective of my research program is to increase our understanding of how both proximate and ultimate factors, including adaptations facilitating the detection and assessment of biologically relevant sensory information, can shape the communication systems of animals.
Education
PhD, The University of Connecticut, 1984
Biology
MFS , Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 1978
Wildlife and Population Ecology
BA, Connecticut College, 1976
Botany
Awards and Honors
1985
- Dobzhansky Prize, Society for the Study of Evolution
Publications
Schwartz, J. J. & Hossain, R. (2017, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 1). Is it one call or two? Perception of inter-pulse and inter-call intervals in the gray treefrog, Hyla versicolor.. Behaviour. Vol 154 , pages 337-356.
Bee, M. A., Schwartz, J. & Summers, K. (2013). All's well that begins Wells: Celebrating 60 years of Animal Behaviour and 36 years of research on anuran social behaviour.. Animal Behaviour. Vol 85 , pages 5-18.
Schwartz, J. & Bee, M. A. (2009). Perception by frogs in the presence of chorus-shaped noise: I. Behavioral measures of signal recognition thresholds. J. Acoust. Soc. Amer.. (Issue 126) , pages 2788-2801.
Schwartz, J. & Freeberg, T. M. (2008). Acoustic Interaction in Animal Groups: Signaling. Journal of Comparative Psychology. (Issue 122) , pages 231-234.
Schwartz, J., Brown, R., Turner, S., Dushaj, K. & Castano, M. (2008). Interference risk and the function of dynamic shifts in calling in the gray treefrog. Journal of Comparative Psychology . (Issue 122) , pages 283-288.
PRESENTATIONS
Schwartz, J. J. (2017, April 23). Northeastern Natural History Conference . Is it One Call or Two? Perception of Inter-pulse and Inter-call Intervals in the Gray Treefrog, Hyla versicolor.. Eagle Hill Institute, Cromwell Ct..
Schwartz, J. (2016, April 23). Northeastern Natural History Conference. Communication in the Cacophony of a Treefrog Chorus. Eagle Hill Institute, Springfield, MA.
RESEARCH INTEREST
My main interests are vertebrate behavior and sensory ecology with a focus on animal communication. The objective of my research program is to increase our understanding of how both proximate and ultimate factors, including adaptations facilitating the detection and assessment of biologically relevant sensory information, can shape the communication systems of animals..
Grants, Sponsored Research and Contracts
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
AAAS
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
American Society of Naturalists
Animal Behavior Society
Ecological Society of America
Herpetologists League
Sigma Xi
Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles
Society for the Study of Evolution