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Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

Dr. Jesse Barber joined the Biological Sciences faculty at Boise State University in 2011. Before coming to Boise, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Colorado State University where, in collaboration with the Natural Sounds Program of the National Park Service in Fort Collins, he has been researching the masking effects of anthropogenic noise on predator/prey interactions. Dr. Barber earned both his B.S. and M.S. at the University of Wyoming, and then a Ph.D. in Biology at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Dr. Barber and his students study the behavior, evolution and conservation of predator-prey systems employing bioacoustic, videographic and 3D reconstruction techniques to quantify how animals process sensory input and act on the resulting information to capture prey or evade death.

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About Jesse R. Barber

Dr. Jesse Barber joined the Biological Sciences faculty at Boise State University in 2011. Before coming to Boise, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Colorado State University where, in collaboration with the Natural Sounds Program of the National Park Service in Fort Collins, he has been researching the masking effects of anthropogenic noise on predator/prey interactions. Dr. Barber earned both his B.S. and M.S. at the University of Wyoming, and then a Ph.D. in Biology at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Dr. Barber and his students study the behavior, evolution and conservation of predator-prey systems employing bioacoustic, videographic and 3D reconstruction techniques to quantify how animals process sensory input and act on the resulting information to capture prey or evade death.

Present	Professor, Boise State University ‐ Department of Biological Sciences
Institution Organization Position Type Position Title Time Period to Options Current Position Affiliate my profile with this Institution

Biology

Predator/Prey Interactions, Sensory Ecology, and Animal Behavior

2011 - National Science Foundation Grant, Hawkmoth/Bat Interactions $270,000
2007 - Cocke Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Department of Biology, Wake Forest
2006 - Bat Research News Award for Research Excellence, 36th North American Symposium on Bat Research
2008-2010 - National Park Service, Natural Sounds Program, RM-CESU "The Masking Effects of Anthropogenic Noise on Predator/Prey Interactions" (with Kevin Crooks) $188,000

BIOL 192 General Biology II (Zoology Section)
BIOL 497/597 Sensory Ecology
ZOOL 301 Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy

E-mail: jessebarber@boisestate.edu

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3084-2973

Articles (55)

Effects of Wind Turbine Noise on Songbird Behavior During Nonbreeding Season (Yael Lehnardt, Jesse R. Barber and Oded Berger-Tal) Conservation Biology (2024)

Anthropogenic noise is one of the fastest growing, globally widespread pollutants, affecting countless species worldwide. Despite accumulating evidence of the negative impacts of wind turbines on wildlife, little is known about how the noise they ...

Background Acoustics in Terrestrial Ecology (Clinton D. Francis, Jennifer N. Phillips and Jesse R. Barber) Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics (2023)

The way in which terrestrial organisms use the acoustic realm is fundamentally important and shapes behavior, populations, and communities, but how background acoustics, or noise, influence the patterns and processes in ecology is still relatively ...

Applied Studies of Raptor Sensory Ecology are Rare (Christopher J.W. McClure, Simon Potier and Jesse R. Barber) Journal of Raptor Research (2022)

Light and noise often act as pollutants, but can also be used as tools for managing wildlife (e.g., sensory deterrents). Given that raptors are among the most threatened groups of birds, we expected there to ...

Hidden Phylogenomic Signal Helps Elucidate Arsenurine Silkmoth Phylogeny and the Evolution of Body Size and Wing Shape Trade-Offs (Jesse R. Barber) Systematic Biology (2022)

One of the key objectives in biological research is understanding how evolutionary processes have produced Earth’s diversity. A critical step toward revealing these processes is an investigation of evolutionary tradeoffs—that is, the opposing pressures of ...

Anti-Bat Ultrasound Production in Moths is Globally and Phylogenetically Widespread (Jesse R. Barber, Brian C. Leavell, Krystie A. Miner, et al.) PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2022)

Warning signals are well known in the visual system, but rare in other modalities. Some moths produce ultrasonic sounds to warn bats of noxious taste or to mimic unpalatable models. Here, we report results from ...

A Stochastic Simulation Model for Assessing the Masking Effects of Road Noise for Wildlife, Outdoor Recreation, and Bioacoustic Monitoring (Cory A. Toth, Benjamin P. Pauli, Christopher J.W. McClure, et al.) Oecologia (2022)

Traffic noise is one of the leading causes of reductions in animal abundances near roads. Acoustic masking of conspecific signals and adventitious cues is one mechanism that likely causes animals to abandon loud areas. However, ...

Natural and Anthropogenic Noise Increase Vigilance and Decrease Foraging Behaviors in Song Sparrows (K. A. Sweet, B. P. Sweet, D. G. E. Gomes, et al.) Behavioral Ecology (2022)

Animals glean information about risk from their habitat. The acoustic environment is one such source of information, and is an important, yet understudied ecological axis. Although anthropogenic noise has become recently ubiquitous, risk mitigation behaviors ...

A Phantom Ultrasonic Insect Chorus Repels Low-Flying Bats, but Most are Undeterred (Jodi L. Sedlock, Dylan G.E. Gomes, Juliette J. Rubin, et al.) Functional Ecology (2021)

The acoustic environment can serve as a niche axis, structuring animal behaviour by providing or obscuring salient information. Meadow katydid choruses occupy the ultrasonic, less studied, realm of this acoustic milieu, form dense populations in ...

Bio-Acoustic Tracking and Localization Using Heterogeneous, Scalable Microphone Arrays (Erik Verreycken, Ralph Simon, Brandt Quirk-Royal, et al.) Communications Biology (2021)

Microphone arrays are an essential tool in the field of bioacoustics as they provide a non-intrusive way to study animal vocalizations and monitor their movement and behavior. Microphone arrays can be used for passive localization ...

Experimental River Noise Alters Arthropod Abundance (Dylan G.E. Gomes, Cory A. Toth, Craig C. Bateman, et al.) Oikos (2021)

Anthropogenic noise has received considerable recent attention, but we know little about the role that sources of natural noise have on wildlife abundance and distributions. Rivers and streams represent an ancient source of natural noise ...

Artificial Night Light and Anthropogenic Noise Interact to Influence Bird Abundance Over a Continental Scale (Ashley A. Wilson, Mark A. Ditmer, Jesse R. Barber, et al.) Global Change Biology (2021)

The extent of artificial night light and anthropogenic noise (i.e., “light” and “noise”) impacts is global and has the capacity to threaten species across diverse ecosystems. Existing research involving impacts of light or noise has ...

Assessing the Vulnerabilities of Vertebrate Species to Light and Noise Pollution: Expert Surveys Illuminate the Impacts on Specialist Species (Mark A. Ditmer, Clinton D. Francis, Jesse R. Barber, et al.) Integrative & Comparative Biology (2021)

Global expansion of lighting and noise pollution alters how animals receive and interpret environmental cues. However, we lack a cross-taxon understanding of how animal traits influence species vulnerability to this growing phenomenon. This knowledge is ...

Natural Noise Affects Conspecific Signal Detection and Territorial Defense Behaviors in Songbirds (Veronica A. Reed, Cory A. Toth, Ryan N. Wardle, et al.) Behavioral Ecology (2021)

Recent research suggests that anthropogenic noise can substantially alter animal behavior. Although there are many sources of natural background noise, the relative influence of these sounds on behavior has received much less attention. Using landscape-scale ...

Adaptive Shifts Underlie the Divergence in Wing Morphology in Bombycoid Moths (Jesse R. Barber) Proceedings of the Royal Society B (2021)

The evolution of flapping flight is linked to the prolific success of insects. Across Insecta, wing morphology diversified, strongly impacting aerodynamic performance. In the presence of ecological opportunity, discrete adaptive shifts and early bursts are ...

Phantom Rivers Filter Birds and Bats by Acoustic Niche (D. G. E. Gomes, C. A. Toth, H. J. Cole, et al.) Nature Communications (2021)

Natural sensory environments, despite strong potential for structuring systems, have been neglected in ecological theory. Here, we test the hypothesis that intense natural acoustic environments shape animal distributions and behavior by broadcasting whitewater river noise ...

Phantom River Noise Alters Orb‐Weaving Spider Abundance, Web Size and Prey Capture (Dylan G.E. Gomes, Thomas Hesselberg and Jesse R. Barber) Functional Ecology (2021)

1. Novel anthropogenic noise has received considerable attention in behavioural ecology, but the natural acoustic environment has largely been ignored as a niche axis. 2. Using arrays of speakers, we experimentally broadcasted whitewater river noise ...

Using the Past to Understand the Present: Coping with Natural and Anthropogenic Noise (Dylan G.E. Gomes, Clinton D. Francis and Jesse R. Barber) BioScience (2021)

Anthropogenic noise has received significant attention in recent years, and researchers have highlighted the ways in which animals might deal with these noise sources. However, much of our understanding of animal responses to this novel ...

Noise Distracts Foraging Bats (Louise C. Allen, Nickolay I. Hristov, Juliette J. Rubin, et al.) Proceedings of the Royal Society B (2021)

Predators frequently must detect and localize their prey in challenging environments. Noisy environments have been prevalent across the evolutionary history of predator–prey relationships, but now with increasing anthropogenic activities noise is becoming a more prominent ...

Artificial Nightlight Alters the Predator–Prey Dynamics of an Apex Carnivore (Jesse R. Barber) Ecography (2021)

Artificial nightlight is increasingly recognized as an important environmental disturbance that influences the habitats and fitness of numerous species. However, its effects on wide‐ranging vertebrates and their interactions remain unclear. Light pollution has the potential ...

Does Experimentally Quieting Traffic Noise Benefit People and Birds? (Mitchell J. Levenhagen, Christopher J.W. McClure and Jesse R. Barber) Ecology and Society (2021)

Protected natural areas are not free from noise, especially noise generated by traffic within park boundaries. Natural soundscapes are important for maintaining community structure, providing positive visitor experiences, and increasing visitor support for management actions ...

The Phantom Chorus: Birdsong Boosts Human Well-Being in Protected Areas (Danielle M. Ferraro, Zachary D. Miller, Lauren A. Ferguson, et al.) Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2020)

Spending time in nature is known to benefit human health and well-being, but evidence is mixed as to whether biodiversity or perceptions of biodiversity contribute to these benefits. Perhaps more importantly, little is known about ...

Phylogenomics Reveals the Evolutionary Timing and Pattern of Butterflies and Moths (Jesse R. Barber) PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2019)

Butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) are one of the major super-radiations of insects, comprising nearly 160,000 described extant species. As herbivores, pollinators, and prey, Lepidoptera play a fundamental role in almost every terrestrial ecosystem. Lepidoptera are ...

Natural Sounds Alter California Ground Squirrel, Otospermophilus beecheyi, Foraging, Vigilance and Movement Behaviours (My-Lan T. Le, Christopher M. Garvin, Jesse R. Barber, et al.) Animal Behaviour (2019)

Many animals rely on the acoustic environment for functions spanning mate attraction, navigation and predator and prey detection. Growing evidence focused on human-altered acoustic environments suggests that anthropogenic noise can strongly interfere with the reception ...

Phylogenomics Resolves Major Relationships and Reveals Significant Diversification Rate Shifts in the Evolution of Silk Moths and Relatives (J. R. Barber) BMC Evolutionary Biology (2019)

Background: Silkmoths and their relatives constitute the ecologically and taxonomically diverse superfamily Bombycoidea, which includes some of the most charismatic species of Lepidoptera. Despite displaying spectacular forms and diverse ecological traits, relatively little attention has ...

An Improved Method for Utilizing High‐Throughput Amplicon Sequencing to Determine the Diets of Insectivorous Animals (Jesse R. Barber) Molecular Ecology Resources (2019)

DNA analysis of predator faeces using high‐throughput amplicon sequencing (HTS) enhances our understanding of predator–prey interactions. However, conclusions drawn from this technique are constrained by biases that occur in multiple steps of the HTS workflow. ...