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Gerlinde Hoebel

  • Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, LAP S292
  • Graduate Representative, Biological Sciences

Education

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2003-2006
  • Dr. rer. nat. University of Ulm, Germany, 2003

Research Interests

I am interested in the behavioral ecology of anurans, with special focus on 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), with the effects of social interactions on communication behavior, and with the architecture of mate choice decisions.

Selected Publications

Augusto-Alves, G., Feagles, O. S., Toledo, L. F., & Höbel, G. (2025). Visual cues do not function in a multimodal signalling context for mate attraction in eastern gray treefrogs. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 144(4), blae060.
Feagles, O. S., & Höbel, G. (2024). Personality affects female mate choice: frogs displaying more consistent bold behaviors are choosier. Behavioral Ecology, 35(1), arad101.
Stratman, K., & Höbel, G. (2024). Within-population variation in preference functions reveals substantial among-female disagreement in mate assessment. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 37(11), 1278-1287.
Feagles, O., & Höbel, G. (2022). Mate preferences and choosiness are distinct components of mate choice in eastern gray treefrogs (Hyla versicolor). The American Naturalist, 200(4), 506-517.
Höbel, Gerlinde. “Variation in Signal Timing Behavior: Implication for Male Attractiveness and Sexual Selection” Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology65.6 (2011): 1283-1294.
Höbel, Gerlinde, and Gerhardt, H. C.“Reproductive character displacement in the acoustic communication system of green tree frogs (Hyla cinerea)” Evolution57.4 (2003): 894-904.

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