Arik Kershenbaum.
College Lecturer at Girton College, University of Cambridge, and formerly Herchel Smith Research Fellow in Zoology
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Articles in refereed journals (click to download)
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Demartsev V, Kershenbaum A, Ilany A, Barocas A, Weissman Y, Koren L, Geffen E (2019)
Lifetime changes in vocal syntactic complexity of rock hyrax males are determined by social class.
Animal Behaviour
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Kershenbaum A., Owens J.L., Waller S. (2019) Tracking cryptic animals using acoustic multilateration: a system for long-range wolf detection. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
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Walton B., Kershenbaum A. (2018) Heterospecific recognition of referential alarm calls in two
species of lemur. Bioacoustics
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Kershenbaum A., Déaux É.C., Habib B., Mitchell B., Palacios V., Root-Gutteridge H., Waller S. (2017) Measuring acoustic complexity in continuously varying signals: how complex is a wolf howl? Bioacoustics 27:215:229
Demartsev V., Ilany A., Kershenbaum A., Geva Y., Margalit O., Schnitzer I., Barocas A., Bar-Ziv E., Koren L., Geffen E. (2017) The progression pattern of male hyrax songs and the role of climactic ending. Scientific Reports 7:2794
Kershenbaum A., Blumstein D.T. (2017) Introduction to the special column: Communication,
cooperation, and cognition in predators. Current Zoology 63:295-299
Owens J.L., Olsen M., Fontaine A., Kloth C., Kershenbaum A., Waller S. (2017) Visual classification of feral cat Felis silvestris catus vocalizations. Current Zoology 63:331-339
Kershenbaum A., Root-Gutteridge H., Habib B., Koler-Matznick J., Mitchell B., Palacios V., Waller S. (2016) Disentangling canid howls across multiple species and subspecies: structure in a complex communication channel. Behavioural Processes
Kershenbaum A., Garland E. (2015) Quantifying animal sequence similarity: which metric performs best? Methods in Ecology and Evolution 6:1452-1461
Kershenbaum A., Freeberg T.M., Gammon D.E. (2015) Estimating vocal repertoire size is like collecting coupons: A theoretical framework with heterogeneity in signal abundance. Journal of Theoretical Biology 373:1-11
Kershenbaum A., Blumstein D.T, Roch M.A., et al. (2014) Acoustic sequences in non-human animals: A tutorial review and prospectus. Biological Reviews
Kershenbaum A., Bowles A.E., Freeberg T.M., Jin D.Z., Lameira A.R., Bohn K. (2014) Animal vocal sequences: not the Markov chains we thought they were. Proceedings of the Royal Society B
Kershenbaum A. (2014) Entropy rate as a measure of animal vocal complexity. Bioacoustics 23:195-208
Demartsev V., Kershenbaum A., Ilany A., Barocas A., Bar Ziv E., Koren L., Geffen E. (2014) Male hyraxes increase song duration and syntax complexity in the presence of an audience. Behavioral Ecology 25:1451-1458
Kershenbaum A., Blank L., Sinai I., Merilä J., Blaustein L., Templeton A. (2014) Genetic indications of landscape dispersal behaviour: a theoretical model and empirical test using the fire salamander. Oecologia 175:509-520
Kershenbaum A., Sayigh L., Janik V. (2013) The encoding of individual identity in dolphin signature whistles: how much information is needed? PLoS One 8(10): e77671
Kershenbaum A., Roch M. (2013) An image processing based paradigm for the extraction of tonal sounds in cetacean communications. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 134(6):4435-4445
Lameira A.R., de Vries H., Hardus M.E., Hall C.P.A, Mitra Setia T., Spruijt B.M., Kershenbaum A., Sterck E.H.M., van Noordwijk M., van Schaik C., Wich S.A. (2013) Predator guild does not influence orangutan alarm call rates and combinations. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 67:519-528
Kershenbaum A., Ilany A., Blaustein L., Geffen .E. (2012) Syntactic structure and geographical dialects in the songs of male rock hyraxes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279:2974-2981
Kershenbaum A., Spencer M., Blaustein L., Cohen J.E. (2012) Modelling evolutionarily stable strategies in oviposition site selection, with varying risks of predation and intraspecific competition. Evolutionary Ecology 26(4):955-974
Kershenbaum A., Stone L., Ostfeld R., Blaustein L. (2012) Modelling transmission of vector-borne pathogens shows complex dynamics when vector feeding sites are limited. PLoS ONE 7(5): e36730. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036730
Edlund S., Davis M., Douglas J.V., Kershenbaum A., Waraporn N., Lessler J., Kaufman J.H. (2012) A global model of malaria climate sensitivity: comparing malaria response to historic climate data based on simulation and officially reported malaria incidence. Malaria Journal 11(1):331
Kershenbaum A., Kershenbaum A., Blaustein L. (2011) Rock hyrax (Procavia capensis) den site selection: preference for artificial sites. Wildlife Research 38:244-248
Kershenbaum A., Stone L., Kotler B.P., Blaustein L. (2010) Predation risk can drive cycles in zoonotic disease prevalence. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution 56:281-295
Segev O, Mangel M, Wolf N, Sadeh A, Kershenbaum A, Blaustein L. (2011) Spatio-temporal reproductive strategies in the fire salamander: a model and empirical test. Behavioral Ecology 22:670-678
Kershenbaum A., Kershenbaum A., Tarabeia J., Stein N., Lavi I., Rennert G. (2011) Unraveling seasonality in population averages: An examination of seasonal variation in glucose levels in diabetes patients using a large population-based dataset. Chronobiology International 28(4):352-360