Differential degradation of antbird songs in a neotropical rainforest: Adaptation to perch height?

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 3263-3274

  Nemeth, Erwin ^a   Winkler, Hans ^a   Dabelsteen, Torben ^b  

^a KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FORESTRY; PHYSIOLOGY; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

AVIAN COMMUNICATION;

ACOUSTICS;

ADAPTATION; BIOACOUSTICS; EVOLUTION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; PERCHING BEHAVIOR; SONG;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BIRD; DEGRADATION; FOREST; HEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND TRANSMISSION; VOCALIZATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; SOUND; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 0035209264     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1420385     Document Type: Article

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