Joshua J. Schwartz

 

Assistant Professor of Biology

 

Contact Information:

Department of Biology
Pace University
Pleasantville, NY 10570

Email:
JSCHWARTZ2@PACE.EDU

Office Phone: 
(914) 773-3507
Fax: (914) 773-3634

 

Education 

 Research Interests  

    My main interests are vertebrate behavior and sensory ecology with a focus on animal communication.  The objective of my research program is to increase our understanding of how both proximate and ultimate factors, including adaptations facilitating the detection and assessment of biologically relevant sensory information, can shape the communication systems of animals.  I work with tropical and temperate zone frogs, which are ideal organisms with which to pursue this goal. Aspects of frog communication biology I have studied include species isolating mechanisms, intraspecific and interspecific territoriality and agonistic behavior, mate choice, call transmission in the environment, calling energetics, communication networks and chorusing dynamics. The Smithsonian Institution, The National Institutes of Health, The Society for the Study of Evolution and The National Science Foundation have funded this research.

 

Recent Publications (Full List of Publications) 

Schwartz, J. J., Huth, K. and T. Hutchin. How long do females really listen? Assessment time for female mate choice in the gray treefrog, Hyla versicolor. Anim. Behav., in press.

 

Schwartz, J. J., Buchanan, B. and H. C. Gerhardt. 2002. Acoustic interactions among male gray treefrogs (Hyla versicolor) in chorus setting. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 53:9-19. (pdf)

Schwartz, J. J., Buchanan, B. and H. C. Gerhardt. 2001. Female mate choice in the gray treefrog (Hyla versicolor) in three experimental environments. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 49:443-455. (pdf) 

Schwartz, J. J. 2001. Call monitoring and interactive playback systems in the study of acoustic interactions among male anurans. Pp. 183-204. In: Anuran Communication (M. J. Ryan, ed.). Smithsonian Institution Press.  

Gerhardt, H. C. and J. J. Schwartz. 2001. Auditory tuning, frequency preferences and mate choice in anurans. Pp. 73-85. In: Anuran  Communication (M. J. Ryan, ed.). Smithsonian Institution Press.  

Gerhardt, H. C., Roberts, J. D., Bee, M. A. and J. J. Schwartz. 2000. Call matching in the quacking frog (Crinia georgiana). Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 48: 243-251. 

Schwartz, J. J., Bee, M. and S. D. Tanner.  2000. A behavioral and neurobiological study of the response of gray treefrogs, Hyla versicolor, to the calls of a potential predator, Rana catesbeiana, Herpetologica 56: 27-37.

 

Courses Taught at Pace University  

General Biology (Bio 101, 102: Lecture and Laboratory)

Animal Behavior (Bio 322: Lecture and Laboratory)

Undergraduate Ecology (Lecture and Laboratory)

Graduate Environmental Science (ENS 611)

Graduate Ecology (ENS 696D)

Graduate Integrative Seminar (ENS 790) 

Courses Previously Taught Elsewhere 

University of Missouri:

 Basic Environmental Studies, Herpetology, Graduate Neuroethology, Community Biology, Behavioral Biology

University of Connecticut: 

Environment and Man, Ecology, Vertebrate Biology  

Brown University: 

Animal Communication, Animal Behavior

                       

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