Part I. Studying vibrational communication - Ideas, Concepts and History

(1) Rex Cocroft, Matija Gogala, Peggy Hill, Andreas Wessel

Fostering research progress in a rapidly growing field

(2) Peggy Hill

Stretching the paradigm or building anew? Development of a cohesive language for vibrational communication

(3) Matija Gogala

Sound or vibration, an old question in insect communication

(4) Andreas Wessel

Hildegard Strübing - a pioneer in vibrational communication research

(5) Hildegard Strübing

Sound production - the crucial factor for mate finding in planthoppers (Homoptera - Auchenorrhyncha) (Preliminary communication), 1958

[English translation of Lautäußerung - der entscheidende Faktor für das Zusammenfinden der Geschlechter bei Kleinzikaden (1958)]

Part II. The state of the field: concepts and frontiers in vibrational communication

(6) Michael S. Caldwell

Interactions between airborne sound and substrate vibration in animal communication

(7) Meta Virant-Doberlet, Valerio Mazzoni, Maarten de Groot, Jernej Polajnar, Andrea Lucchi, William O.C. Symondson, Andrej Čokl

Vibrational communication networks: eavesdropping and biotic noise

(8) Valerio Mazzoni, Anna Eriksson, Gianfranco Anfora, Andrea Lucchi, Meta Virant-Doberlet Active space and the role of amplitude in plant-borne

(9) Rafael L. Rodriguez, Flavia Barbosa

Mutual behavioral adjustment in vibrational duetting

(10) Andrej Čokl, Maja Zorovic, Alenka Zunič Kosi, Natasa Stritih, Meta Virant-Doberlet Communication through plants in a narrow frequency window

Part III. Practical issues in studying vibrational communication

(11) Axel Michelsen

Physical aspects of vibrational communication

(12) Damian O. Elias, Andrew C. Mason

The role of wave and substrate heterogeneity in vibratory communication: Practical issues in studying the role of vibratory environments in communication

(13) Reginald B. Cocroft, Jennifer A. Hamel, Quang Su, Jeremy S. Gibson

Vibrational playback experiments: challenges and solutions

Part IV. Vibration detection and orientation

(14) Reinhard Lakes-Harlan, Johannes Strauß

Functional morphology and evolutionary diversity of vibration receptors in insects

(15) Jonathan Voise, Jérôme Casas

Echolocation in whirligig beetles using surface waves: an unsubstantiated conjecture

(16) Dusan Devetak

Sand-borne vibrations in prey detection and orientation of antlions

Part V. Biology and evolution of vibrational communication in some well-studied taxa

(17) Axel Michelsen

Mechanical signals in honeybee communic

(18) Michael Hrncir, Friedrich G.

Barth Vibratory communication in stingless bees (Meliponini). The challenge of interpreting the signals

(19) Natasa Stritih, Andrej Čokl

The role of frequency in vibrational communication of Orthoptera

(20) Andreas Wessel, Roland Mühlethaler, Viktor Hartung, Valerija Kustor, Matija Gogala

The tymbal - Evolution of a complex vibration-producing organ in the Tymbalia (Hemiptera excl. Sternorrhyncha)