Biosonar Lab

Lehrstuhl Tierphysiologie

Uni Tübingen

Biosonar Lab

Lehrstuhl Tierphysiologie

Universität Tübingen

Auf der Morgenstelle 28, E2A22

D-72076 Tuebingen

Tel. 07071/2974838



The Biosonar Lab is part of the research group Echolocation and behaviour ofs bats and dolphins


Research Focus:

The Biosonar Lab's research focus is an acoustical approach to bat echolocation


Publications:

  • Source levels of echolocation signals vary in correlation with wingbeat cycle in landing big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus); Koblitz J.C., Stilz, P. & Schnitzler H.-U.; J.Exp. Biol. 213, 3263-3268 (2010) PDF
  • What a Plant Sounds Like: The Statistics of Vegetation Echoes as Received by Echolocating Bats; Y. Yovel, P. Stilz, M.O. Franz, A. Boonman, H.-U. Schnitzler; PLoS Comput Biol 5(7):e1000429 (2009) PDF Online
  • Plant Classification from Bat-Like Echolocation Signals; Y. Yovel, M.O. Franz, P. Stilz, H.-U. Schnitzler PLoS Comput Biol 4(3):e1000032 (2008) PDF Online
  • Akustische Untersuchungen zur Echoortung bei Fledermäusen; Peter Stilz, Dissertation (2004) HTML singe file HTML Postscript PDF

    • Projects:

  • Source level reduction and sonar beam aiming in landing Big Brown Bats (Eptesicus fuscus) (Jens Koblitz)
  • Sonar beam in harbor porpoises (Jens Koblitz)
  • Scanning behavior of gleaning bats during prey acquisition and spatial orientation (Johanna Flick)
  • Sonar beam directions of free flying bats (Anna-Maria Seibert)
  • acoustical classification of landmarks for bats with simple parameters (Peter Stilz)
  • acoustical range of bat echolocation (Peter Stilz)
  • acoustical prey detection in cluttered space (Peter Stilz)
  • sonar beam analysis (Peter Stilz)


    • Methods and Machines:

  • the robot sonar system
  • the mobile sonar system
  • the stationary 16-channel-array
  • the mobile 16-channel-array


    • Products:

  • sonarbeam.m - a software package for matlab (Peter Stilz)


    • Staff:

    Jens Koblitz Anna-Maria Seibert Johanna Flick Dr. Peter Stilz
    Personal Homepage
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    jens.koblitz@web.de
    anni.seibert@uni-tuebingen.de
    johanna.flick@uni-tuebingen.de
    peter.stilz@uni-tuebingen.de

    Links:

    Uni Tübingen

    Lehrstuhl Tierphysiologie


    Downloads:

    public download directory

    internal download directory

    webmaster: peter.stilz@uni-tuebingen.de

    Last Change: 2010-10-05 by peter.stilz